City girl wins place in All-Ireland schools final

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

CLARE QUINN, a young classical singer from Renmore, has reached the finals of the All-Ireland Schools Talent Search national final.

Bluegrass in Kilcolgan

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

BLUEGRASS MUSIC will be heard throughout the weekend in Rafftery’s Rest, Kilcolgan.

Bluegrass group Southern Welfare, who are based in Waterford, will be playing throughout Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. All are welcome to the session.

Tumbling Bones - on tour in Galway

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

AMERICAN FOLK/ROOTS trio Tumbling Bones are promoting their debut album Loving A Fool with an Irish tour, including two County Galway dates.

Lunchtime gigs @ Cúirt

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

GALWAY FOLK and American roots will be heard at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature at two different gigs from two fine Galway acts.

Eighties night @ Kelly’s

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

BIG HAIR, leg warmers, ra-ra skirts, mullets, and ten years of hit music will be the order of the day at a charity eighties night in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street.

Scott Maher @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

JUDY COLLINS, the legendary British singer, best known for her interpretations of Leonard Cohen, is an admirer of Irishman Scott Maher.

Film festival wins for Trading Faces

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

TRADING FACES Film School students have appeared in two different films, both of which have won acclaim at the recent Fresh Film Festival in Limerick.

Connemara in oils

Thu, Apr 10, 2014

OIL PAINTINGS of the Cois Fharraige area in Connemara - from Bearna to Indreabhán - make up a new exhibition at NUI Galway.

The exhibition, entitled Siar, by Mayo’s Áine Uí Ghrádaigh and New Yorker Elaine Conneely, will be held in the university art gallery in the Quadrangle. The official opening is tomorrow at 7pm. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. Siar will also be on view on Saturday from 12 noon to 4pm. Admission is free. See www.aineart.ie and www.elaineconneely.com.

Kevin Higgins - taking on Left and Right with poetry and humour

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

THERE WAS a time when a photograph of Mick Wallace must have marked the bull’s eye of the dartboard in Justice Minister Alan Shatter’s office. That dartboard must be overcrowded these days with pictures of political foes and the Minister running out of enough darts to throw at them all.

Hugo Hamilton remembers Nuala O’Faolain

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

HUGO HAMILTON, the author of acclaimed novel, The Speckled People, will read at this year’s Cúirt literature festival.

Hamilton - along with fellow Dubliner Roddy Doyle - will read from his new book, Every Single Minute, in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday April 10 at 8.30pm. Published in February, the book details Hugo’s trip to Berlin with his friend Nuala O’Faolain, who passed away only 10 days after their holiday.

Album review: Arc Iris

Music Reviews Thu, Apr 03, 2014

AFTER TWO barely noticed albums in the mid-noughties, Rhode Island folk-rock/indie-folk trio The Low Anthem struck creative gold with 2009’s Oh My God, Charlie Darwin.To hold their own and not be outdone by the considerable shadow cast by Fleet Foxes’ magical debut was some achievement, as was the band’s ability to balance the rabble rousing, beer’n’brawling side of folk, with the genre’s sensitive, introspective, side, showing in the process, an emphatic understanding and love for the heritage of this Hiberno-British-American strain of music.

A trio of plays for Cúirt

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

THE ANNUAL and much-loved literary jamboree of Cúirt swings into gear next week and among its many attractions are two plays - The Monster in the Hall and The Merchant of Venice.

Beardyman @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

BEARDYMAN – DJ, producer, and entertainer – brings his Eat Sleep Shave Repeat Irish Tour to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight.

Beardyman, who has been called the “king of sound, ruler of beats,” by BBC1 Breakfast, and “like Bobby McFerrin on Speed” by the Evening Standard, is promising audiences a rip roaring, beat filled and lavishly improvised gigs.

Noir By Noirwest - dark fiction from Irish writers

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

FROM CRIME on Galway city streets to violence in trenches of WWI, the dark side of human nature is explored by 30 Galway writers in a major new short story collection.

Two Patrick Kavanagh plays on Galway stage

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

GALWAY DEVOTEES of the poet Patrick Kavanagh are in for a treat next week when two stage plays based on his life and work come to town.

Stones In His Pockets

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

STONES IN His Pockets, the theatre phenomenon, returns for another naitonwide run, which includes the Town Hall Theatre from Monday April 7 to Saturday 12 at 8pm.