Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

MOZART’S REQUIEM and three works by Handel will be performed by the Galway Baroque Singers in Galway Cathedral on Friday April 25 at 7.30pm.

The GBS, with director Audrey Corbett, will be joined by the National Sinfonia Orchestra; soloists Colette Boushell (soprano), Stephen Wallace (counter tenor), Stuart Kinsella (tenor), Geoffrey Ledwidge (bass); and conductor Proinnsias O’Duinn,

TULCA announce curator for 2014 festival

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

AISLING PRIOR, a co-founder of the Galway Film Centre, has been appointed as curator of the 2014 TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which runs from November 7 to 23.

Lucite Fall and mineral processes

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

LUCITE FALL is the moment when crystal and acrylic bind. It is the name of a remote outcrop overlooking the Opinnagau River in Canada.

Róisín Dubh Art and Craft Market

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft Market returns this Saturday from 1pm to 6pm and will feature 24 stalls over two floors.

Berlin Philharmonic - live @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

The Berlin Philharmonic, under conductor Sir Simon Rattle, will perform music by Elgar, Ligeti, and Wagner.

Karl Spain @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 17, 2014

KARL SPAIN will headline a night of leading and emerging Irish comedians at the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

‘Befriending chickens and crushing cans’

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

A STORY of love, beauty, chicken-chasing, daisy chains, cat-killing, French singing, dress-wearing, en-suite bathrooms, and the day at the pond. These are the ingredients of Pondling, written and performed by Genevieve Hulme-Beaman.

Jon Kenny in The Matchmaker

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

ONE OF Ireland’s greatest comic talents, Jon Kenny, joins much-loved Irish actor Mary McEvoy in a new revival of Michael Scott’s iconic production of John B Keane’s The Matchmaker which comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

A night of Palestinian dance

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

YOUNG, VIBRANT, proud, and engaging, the Lajee Dabka Dancers, will bring the traditional dance styles of Palestine to Monroe’s Live next week.

Stories, songs, craic, and Cúirt

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

WILD STORIES, outrageous incidents, music, and irreverent shenanigans will take place in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday, to bring the Cúirt festival to a high spirited close.

Diarmuid de Faoite agus An Gobán Saor

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

DIARMUID DE Faoite continues his Seacht Scéal/Seven Sagas series of interactive storytelling for all ages, with another lunchtime show at An Taibhdhearc.

Theo Dorgan to launch

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

POET, NOVELIST, and broadcaster Theo Dorgan will launch Galway University Hospitals Arts Trust’s latest series of Poems for Patience.

The launch will take place tomorrow at 11am in the Arts Corridor of UHG and is a part of the Cúirt festival. The theme for this year, the 11th in the series, is ‘We are not separate from the world’, and will see Mr Dorgan introduce 21 poems he has selected by Galway poets Moya Cannon, Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O’Malley, Patrick Deeley, as well as Samuel Green, Carol Ann Duffy, and Sharon Olds.

What is that singer’s favourite book?

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

FROM THE lieder tradition in Germany to bands like Iron Maiden setting Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ to music, there has long been a connection between literature and song.

Musicians talking about their favourite books and writers, and the way in which literature influences their songs, will be at the heart of The Music Bookclub in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 3pm.

Galway short film gets festival screenings

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

THE WEATHER Report, the Galway Film Centre/RTÉ short film, received its premiere at the recent Belfast Film Festival and will be screened at the Limerick Film Festival tomorrow.

High voltage rock’n’roll

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

AC/DC TRIBUTE act Whole Lotta Voltage will bring a fearsome slice of ‘rock’n’roll damnation’ to Monroe’s Live tomorrow night from 10pm.

The band will perform a three-hour stage show, covering both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras, complete with costumes, and high voltage renditions of such AC/DC classics as ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’, ‘Whole Lotta Rosie’, ‘Highway to Hell’ and ‘Thunderstruck’.

Reggae vibes with Murray Man

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

MURRAY MAN, one of the leading reggae singers and producers in Britain, is coming to Galway to headline a Rootical Sound System concert.

Rockabilly night @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

THE IRISH rockabilly trio The Screamin’ Bluecats are coming to play Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 10pm.

The band - Shiny Jimmy Fingers, Rockin’ Sammy Strongbow, and The Chief - have released an album, entitled Too Hot to Rock and Roll, featuring Waterboys’ saxophonist Anto Thistlethwaite, and a blistering mix of original tracks and rockabilly classics.

Norman Villa Gallery exhibition

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

ARAN ISLAND artist Seán Ó Flaithearta will host his new exhibition, Sioda Móna/Bog Silk, in the Norman Villa Gallery in Salthill.

Award winning young Galway animators

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

GALWAY ANIMATORS, Aoibhinn Ní Choille and Cian MacCoille, have won the Animation Award at the recent Fresh Film Festival in Limerick.

No Limbs No Limits

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

A DOCUMENTARY film about a remarkable young Irish woman, born without limbs, opens at the IMC Galway tomorrow.

No Limbs No Limits - The Joanne O’Riordan Story centres on Corkonian Joanne, one of only seven people in the world living with the medical condition Total Amelia, which resulted in her being born without limbs - yet she has never let this hold her back.

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