Ultan Conlon - new single and Galway gig

Thu, May 29, 2014

‘IN THE Mad’, the second single from Ultan Conlon’s second album Songs Of Love So Cruel is to be released tomorrow as a download.

The Voice/Pop Idol vocal coach comes to Galway

Thu, May 29, 2014

JOSHUA ALAMU, the London based vocal coach, who has appeared on BBC’s The Voice and ITV’s Pop Idol, and who has worked with West Life and Joss Stone, is coming to Galway.

Joshua Alamu is coming to the Connacht Hotel to give his Intensive Style and Performance Workshop on Saturday June 7 and Sunday 8 from 10am to 4pm.

POD - a place to dream

Thu, May 29, 2014

THE POD, a “mobile daydreaming facility for young people” is touring County Galway, and will be in Coole Park this Sunday, and Silver Strand Beach on Saturday May 31.

Major Matisse exhibition @ The Eye

Thu, May 29, 2014

HENRI MATISSE is one of the key figures in 20th century art, and his Cut-Outs, which he began in the late 1930s, are among his best loved works.

Galway Workshop Festival

Thu, May 29, 2014

THE LATEST addition to the city’s festival roster is the Galway Workshop Festival which takes place this Saturday and Sunday.

Over The Edge writing competition seeks entries

Thu, May 29, 2014

THE 2014 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition is seeking entries and is open to poets and fiction writers worldwide.

ConTempo’s ‘Musical Exhibits’

Thu, May 29, 2014

THE CONTEMPO Quartet and saxophonist Gavin Brennan are joining forces to present a family concert of classical music in the Galway City Museum.

Album review - Sharon Van Etten

Music Reviews Thu, May 29, 2014

Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (Jagjaguwar)
SHARON VAN Etten’s world is of dark, late night confessionals of heartbreak, unrequited love, failing relationships, relationships that should have worked, and yearning for better times that may never arrive.

Album review: La Sera

Music Reviews Thu, May 29, 2014

La Sera - Hour Of The Dawn (Hardly Art)
“I WANTED the new La Sera record to sound like Lesley Gore fronting Black Flag. I didn’t want it to be another record of me sad, alone in my room.”

Dancehall days - Jimmy’s Hall and sinful dancing

Tue, May 27, 2014

KEN LOACH, the acclaimed British film-maker and director of The Wind The Shakes The Barley, returns to Ireland for his latest film - Jimmy’s Hall.

Ballyturk - Just where are we?

Thu, May 22, 2014

THE REALISATION that one day we die, and that this existence is over, never to be re-experienced, hits two men one night as they sit at home, sending them on a journey, not into misery, but outrageousness and laughter, and a route whose end, ironically, they cannot even begin to guess.

Moving statues back in town

Thu, May 22, 2014

HIT PLAY, The Year of the Moving Statues, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre. A side-splitting satirical comedy by Kinvara playwright Gerry Conneely, it captures the madness and excitement of summer 1985 when the country’s grottoes began to move en masse.

From Ballinspittle to Ballydehob, from Blanchardstown to Bohola, there was shaking and shuddering, weeping and lamentation. Ireland was transfixed and tens of thousands took to the roads, in pouring rain and driving wind, to witness the supernatural spectacle.

Sir Richard Bonynge to conduct in Galway

Thu, May 22, 2014

SIR RICHARD Bonynge, one of the greatest of all operatic conductors, playS a fundraising concert on Thursday May 29 in the Augustinian Church.

The Importance of Being Wilde

Thu, May 22, 2014

MORE THAN a century after his death in Paris, Oscar Wilde’s work remains as popular as ever while the triumphs and tragedies of his life exert an enduring fascination.

Within the past week alone, it has been reported that a new biopic, The Happy Prince, directed by Rupert Everett, is shortly to begin shooting, while much excitement has also been generated by the news that a copy of The Importance of Being Earnest, inscribed by Wilde to the governor of Reading Gaol, is to be auctioned this summer and is expected to fetch in the region of €70,000.

Postscript’s ‘moving story’ of adoption

Thu, May 22, 2014

THE RECENT success of the movie Philomena highlighted the social and personal impact of adoption in Irish society in times past. This weekend, in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, actor and playwright Noelle Brown’s play, Postscript, visits the same topic through the story of her own life.

Brown was adopted at eight weeks of age in Cork in the sixties. Telling her story in a very humorous way the play describes what it was like growing up as an adopted child in the seventies and the challenges she faced as an adult when she set out to find out about her birth parents.