Keith McDonald to launch new album
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
JAZZ AND swing singer Keith McDonald releases his new album Vida this month, ahead of shows in the Caribbean, Shanghai in March, and Irish shows in May.
Read more ...The Hive @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THE HIVE clubnight returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11.30pm for a Valentine’s Night of music and dancing.
DJs Cyril Briscoe & Cian Ó Cíobháin will play everything from Roy Orbison to Joy Orbison to Joy Division. Admission is free.
Read more ...Share the Love Masquerade Party
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
DON YOUR masks and disguises for the Share the Love Masquerade Party, taking place in HALO, tomorrow, for St Valentine’s Day.
Read more ...Skeletal rattlings in St Nicholas’
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
SERIOUS GERMANIC utterances, colourful French character pieces, an amusing Danse Macabre, and ‘skeletal rattlings’ from Wagner and Beethoven, the new concert season from St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church has it all.
Read more ...An cat dána and the pirate girl
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
A BADLY behaved cat and a young pirate girl are the main characters in two new books for children from County Galway based publishers Futa Fata.
Read more ...A WhistleBlast through family classics
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
FILM MUSIC, Bizet’s Carmen Medley, Irish tunes, Saint Saen’s Danse Macabre, and a new work by John Buckley, will be entertaining Galway children’s ears next week.
The WhistleBlast Quartet Family Classics Tour is coming to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday February 22 at 3pm, for a ‘Baboró presents...’ show.
Read more ...Tedfest - celebrating all things Fr Ted
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
TEDFEST, THE annual celebration of everything Fr Ted returns at the end of this month with a table quiz and the Toilet Duck Awards 2014.
Read more ...Wordhaus - pioneering conversations
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
ENDANGERED SPECIES, marine biology, poetry, and visual art will be up for discussion in Wordhaus #2.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THE SIXTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny takes place in The King’s Head, High Street, this coming Monday at 8pm.
Read more ...A jump start to changing your lifestyle
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
THIRTY YEARS ago, only Hollywood actors, top athletes, rock stars and crime bosses had personal trainers and these not always necessarily for the improvement of their mental or physical quality of life.
Read more ...Between Kiev and Ireland
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
I HAVE a confession to make: as a group I prefer immigrants to the Irish, and this is not simply a case of inverse racism against my own.
Read more ...I Will Sing My Songs For You
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
IN THE early 1970s, a young musician named Simon is enjoying success with his band The Heartbeats and everywhere he is surrounded by the trappings of a rock-star life style.
Read more ...Finbar Wright - Pavarotti, Arsenal, and me
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
IT IS not everyone who can say they met the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. It is fewer again who can tell of meeting him twice, and fewer still can boast of having received career guidance from the master.
Read more ...The Man In The Woman’s Shoes
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
THE WRITER and performer Mikel Murfi makes a welcome return visit to Galway with his latest play, The Man In The Woman’s Shoes.
Read more ...Neil O’Connor to launch debut solo album
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
NEIL O’CONNOR, the Galway singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, will launch his debut solo album Loose Ends at Monroe’s Backstage this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Jezebel’s sexy, comic permutations
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
FIFTEEN PER cent of Irish people have had a threesome - that is according to Rough Magic’s new play Jezebel, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday February 17.
Read more ...The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
OSCAR WILDE’S greatest and epic poem, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, will be performed at the Bank of Ireland Theatre at NUI Galway, on Thursday February 13 at 8pm.
The event, which is part of the university’s Múscailt Arts Festival, will see the Scottish born storyteller and writer Rab Swannock Fulton recite/perform the poem’s 600 lines, accompanied by subtle props and appearances by co-performer Sandra Coffey.
Read more ...Shepherds and circus on screen
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
ACCLAIMED GALWAY-based documentary maker Dieter Auner is editing his latest film Circus On The Road which offers a ‘behind-the-tent view’ of one of Ireland’s three touring circuses, Circus Gerbola.
Read more ...Actors auditions
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
ACTORS ARE being sought for roles in Fresco Films’ new short film 5 Things You Need to Know About Dying.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny - the final heats
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
SHOW ME The Funny has reached the final two heats, the first of which takes place this Monday at The King’s Head, High Street, at 8pm.
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