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.
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.
The second Wordhaus event, following a successful launch in January, takes place in the Bierhaus on Wednesday February 19 from 7pm to 8pm.
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.
When I lived in England I found Pakistani shopkeepers and the old lady in the Chinese takeaway preferable to your average Phil Mitchel lookalike down the Nag’s Head.
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.
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.
The auditions will be held in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, tomorrow from 1.30pm to 5.30pm. Males aged from 21 to 30 and over 60 are being sought; females from 24 to 30 and over 35 are needed.
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.
Two winners from this heat will take part in the grand final on February 24 where the overall prize is a slot at the Comedy Tent at this year’s Electric Picnic.
Read more ...Kíla to play Monroe’s
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
KÍLA, THE Irish trad/world music fusion group, are coming back to Galway to play Monroe’s Live on Monday May 5.
Read more ...Slyrydes @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
A B-BOY, a hipster, a teddy boy, and a dude who looks as if he was in the Twilight films walk into a bar...If you see such a gathering you have witnessed Slyrydes.
Read more ...Elaine Mai to release new single
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
ELAINE MAI, the multi-talented singer-songwriter is to release her new single ‘EDC’ on Monday February 10.
Read more ...The Full Outfit’s Elementary Chaos
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
THE FULL Outfit is a Galway supergroup featuring current and former members of The Saw Doctors, The Cabin Collective, and Willow Sea.
Read more ...Arveene to play Electric
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
ARVEENE, the DJ, producer, and one half of the underground dance music duo Arveene & Misk is coming to Galway to play the Electric Garden and Theatre this Saturday at 11pm.
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