Galway African Film Festival

Tue, May 13, 2014

FROM EGYPT to Morocco, from Nigeria to Burkina Faso, the best new African movies will be on screen at he seventh Galway African Film Festival.

Midlake to play Róisín Dubh in June

Tue, May 13, 2014

ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, which paved the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.

Pleased to see the folk queen

Thu, May 08, 2014

SHE USED to think folk music was “old and boring”, but a little persistence and some tough advice from an American duo she once roadied for, set Maddy Prior on her way to becoming one of Britain’s greatest post-war folk singers.

The Radioactive Grandma @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE RADIOACTIVE Grandma, the Cavan trio have been described as “Brit pop crossed with guitar driven new wave”, by Music Review Unsigned.

Scottish composer to lead young Galwegians in concert

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE ACCLAIMED Scottish pianist and composer James Ross and students from the Galway Music Education Partnership will be in concert this Saturday from 7pm.

The Deans - new single and Róisín Dubh show

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE DEANS, the roots-rock trio, are set to release their award winning song, ‘Lonely Like Me’, as a single with a show in the Róisín Dubh.

JOLT: Volition – a theatrical selection box

Thu, May 08, 2014

ON SATURDAY May 17 at the Town Hall Theatre, eight short new theatre pieces will be presented by eight individual artists, as part of the theatre development project, Volition.

Don Wycherley to start in After Sarah Miles

Thu, May 08, 2014

DON WYCHERLEY, one of Ireland’s foremost actors, will take to the stage in After Sarah Miles, which comes to Galway from Monday May 19 to Thursday 22.

Jimmy Magee - different class

Thu, May 08, 2014

IRELAND’S FOREMOST sports broadcaster, ‘the memory man’, and is coming to the Town Hall Theatre to share a lifetime of sporting memories.

Get ready to be magnetised

Thu, May 08, 2014

MAGNETIC, A dance show from John Scott which is constructed like a movement symphony, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

Gypsy jazz and bellydance

Thu, May 08, 2014

AN ORCHESTRA playing Eastern European folk and a bellydance group will share the stage at Kelly’s Bar tonight from 9pm.

The Underscore Orkestra, from Portland Oregon, play Balkan folk, Klezmer, Gypsy jazz, and swing on violin, guitar, accordion, horns, clarinet, bass, sousaphone harmonica, piccolo, ukulele, and bambazoo. They have toured Europe and the Americas over the past seven years.

Heathers @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 08, 2014

THEYPLAYED the prestigious South by Southwest Festival in Texas for the first time in March; they also toured Malaysia this year, and now they are coming home.

GMIT students exhibition

Thu, May 08, 2014

CERAMICS AND sculptures by GMIT students go on display in Traces Remain, an exhibition at the Fairgreen Building, from tomorrow.

The exhibition features new work by 27 students from the GMIT‘s Centre for Creative Arts and Media, studying for a BA art and design.

Renmore girl wins national singing final

Thu, May 08, 2014

CLARE QUINN, a 14-year-old from Renmore, has won the National All Ireland Schools Talent Final, which took place recently in Limerick Concert Hall.

Mozart’s Mass in Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 08, 2014

NEW YORK soprano Marcy Richardson and English soprano Denise Leigh will perform Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor in Galway Cathedral on Thursday May 15 at 8pm.

Southern choir to sing for Simon

Thu, May 08, 2014

A CHOIR from North Carolina is coming to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church to perform a fundraising concert for Galway Simon.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, May 08, 2014

THREE POETS, a fiction writer, and a celebration of the poems of by the late Tom Duddy, will make up the May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering.

The event takes place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Saturday May 17 at 6pm.

Music for Celts and Romans to battle to

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE CELTS and the Romans were never bosom buddies. The Celts sacked Rome in 390 AD and Caesar conquered Gaul in the Fifties BC.

TULCA seeks artists for 2014 festival

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is inviting artists to submit their work for consideration for this year’s festival which runs from November 7 to 23.

Submission is open to artists from Ireland and abroad working in any visual art practice and in design (graphic, furniture, textile, and domestic scale industrial design), architecture, crafts, web-based work, and social media as an artform.

Dimitra Xidous - keeping bees and meeting Leonard Cohen

Thu, May 08, 2014

THERE WAS a fine turnout The Crane Bar last Saturday afternoon for the launch of Dimitra Xidous’s debut poetry collection, Keeping Bees, published by Doire Press.

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