Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - the mad genius of Jamaican music

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

ASKING “WHO is Lee Perry?” is like asking “What is literature?” or “What is colour?” The question is too big. He is the Muhammad Ali of Jamaican music. A pint sized genius with purple hair.

A concert of Jewish themed music

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

SHOSTAKOVICH’S VISIT to Ireland in 1972 and ‘Jewish themed’ works by him andf Aaron Copeland will be the centerpieces of a Music For Galway event.

On the road with A Skull In Connemara

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

“I’M STANDING here and my car has just been clamped!” Garret Keogh informs me when I ring him on Monday afternoon to chat about Decadent Theatre Company’s production of Martin McDonagh’s A Skull In Connemara which comes to the Town Hall Theatre this month.

Memento Morte in Town Hall

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

JACK THE Ripper’s reign of terror forms the backdrop to a new tragi-comedy, Memento Morte, which runs in the Town Hall studio next week.

Perm Ballet masterclasses in Galway

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

RUSSIA’S PRESTIGIOUS Perm State Ballet is sending one of its leading teachers, Olga Salimbaeva, togive a masterclass in Galway.

Claregalway Drama Festival

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE 32ND Claregalway Festival of Drama opens on Thursday March 13 and runs until Friday 21, and will include works of Irish and international theatre.

The opening play will be Compántas Lir’s production of Eclipsed by Patricia Burke Brogan, while the closing event will be Arthur Miller’s A Room With A View by the Thurles Drama Group.

Comedy with Maxwell and Bishop

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

ANDREW MAXWELL and Des Bishop, two of Ireland’s greatest comics, bring their new stand-up shows to the Róisín Dubh this month.

Award winning Mexican film for Town Hall

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

NEWLY ARRIVED in Mexico City, Roberto opens a restaurant, while daughter Alejandra quickly makes friends with the popular kids in school. It seems a great start to a new life.

However, when a drunken sexual experience gets recorded and circulated, Alejandra becomes the object of vicious bullying, and she keeps it a secret from her father, who still grieves after his late wife.

Conal Gallon’s A Bit On The Side

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

A BIT On The Side, the phenomenally successful debut play by Donegal comedian Conal Gallon, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday March 15 at 8pm.

A trio of Indie brilliance @ Strange Brew

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

STANLEY BRINKS and The Wave Pictures are not a singer and his band, but a collaboration between and English group and a French musician.

David Burke’s cycling tour reaches Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IRISH SINGER-songwriter David Burke is seeking to play 32 shows across the 32 counties in 32 days, all on his bicycle.

Mojo GoGo @ Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

“THE MUSIC world is Mojo GoGo’s for the taking. Their live show has already become the stuff of legend,” said Hot Press.

New clubnight starts in Factory

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GET BOOGIE! is the name of a new clubnight for Galway, and it kicks off tomorrow from 11pm in The Factory on Abbeygate Street.

Forde brothers to represent Galway @ IYMAs

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GALWAY ROCK duo Keagan & Evan Forde will represent Galway in the Irish Youth Music Awards final in the Aviva Stadium on April 12.

Cover bands @ The Stock Exchange

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

COVERS BAND Badly Stocked Jukebox take to the stage of The Stock Exchange tomorrow night, followed by Kensey 3 for the Sunday session.

As well as cover bands, there will also be DJs playing chart music, soft rock, cheesy pop, and favourites from the eighties, nineties, and noughties.

Máirtín O'Connor Band to play An Spidéal

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE MÁIRTÍN O’Connor Band, featuring the titan talents of Cathal Hayden, Seamie O’Dowd, and Jim Higgins, and the great man himself, play the Éigse an Spidéil festival this weekend.

The beauty in forgotten places

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

GERAGH IN County Cork is the only ancient post glacial alluvial forest in Western Europe and the subject of a new photographic exhibition, entitled Lost.

Calling Galway schools for poetry slam

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

THE BRAVE New Words Schools Poetry Slam comes to the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday April 8 and could eventually see young Galway poets performing on HBO.

Poetry made of dark material

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

WHILE STILL a teenager, Caoilinn Hughes was a featured reader at the first Over The Edge Open Readings in the Galway City Library.

The storytelling revival

Thu, Mar 06, 2014

IN IRELAND, there is an extremely strong tradition of storytelling. However, in recent years this rich aspect of our indigenous inheritance is disappearing.

Thankfully these wonderful stories have not totally disappeared, as is evident from the new series, the first volume of which has recently been published by the History Press.

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