Wallis Bird Monroe's show announced

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Choice Music Award nominee Wallis Bird will return to Galway in spring 2014 with a show at Monroe's Live.

Moon landing at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Lunar Playground’s tag line reads, somewhat ironically,“We don’t do tag lines, we do rock ‘n’ roll”. While the first half of this statement might be dubious, the second is beyond doubt.

Galway Youth Orchestra opens 2014 at NUI Galway

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Bailey Allen Hall in NUI Galway will be the venue for the first Galway Youth Orchestra concert of 2014 on Saturday January 4 at 8pm.

New Year poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Starting in January, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in 2008 also by Salmon Poetry and his poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry. His third collection, Frightening New Furniture, was published in 2010 by Salmon and his work also appears in the generation-defining anthology Identity Parade –New British and Irish Poets.

Going coast to coast with ThereisBear!

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

GALWAY THEATRE company ThereisBear! recently announced details for its ambitious and exciting 2014 programme, which begins in January with two simultaneous productions – Christina Reid’s Joyriders in Galway and Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus in Dublin.

The National to play Galway in 2014

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

THE NATIONAL, the outstanding Brooklyn based rock band, are coming to Galway to play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field in July.

Shuffle’s New Year’s Eve Shindig! .

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

SLIP ON the Oxford shoes, a sharp Italian suit or RAF roundel T-shirt, don your parka, and head off on your moped to the Shuffle’s New Year Shindig!

Kormac’s Big Band to ring in 2014 @ Róisín Dubh

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

KORMAC’S BIG Band will ring in 2014 in style, with its acclaimed mix of DJing, audio-visual shows, and of course the musical and attitudinal exuberance of its 11-piece ensemble.

Galway theatre in 2013 review

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

SO THE curtain comes down on another 12 months of theatre-going and there was no shortage of exciting shows to hold and captivate audiences’ imaginations throughout 2013.

Christy Moore returns in 2014

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway in 2014 where he will play Leisureland, Salthill, on Friday May 16.

For this show, Christy will be joined by a first-rate folk/trad line-up which includes the great Máirtín O’Connor on accordion; fiddler Cathal Hayden; singer-songwriter and guitarist Séamie O’Dowd; and bodhrán player Jimmy Higgins.

New Year’s Eve at The Stock Exchange Bar

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

To mark its first Christmas and New Year at 34 Shop Street, the staff at The Stock Exchange Bar are all set to throw a brilliant New Year’s Eve party.

The Aftermath @ Monroe’s Live

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

THE AFTERMATH have shared the stage with Ian Brown, The Script, The Pigeon Detectives, Keane, The Frames, and Razorlight.

KeyWest to play Róisín Dubh

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

KEYWEST, THE band that started their career busking on Shop Street, returns to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh as part of their December tour.

A Midwinter’s Dream exhibition

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

A MIDWINTER’S Dream, an exhibition of paintings, crafts, and photographs by Yvonne King and Reingard Gahan continues in Clifden until January 4.

‘The panto has always been a gathering for Renmore’

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

ROBIN HOOD and The Babes in The Wood, Renmore’s 35th annual pantomime, which opens in the Town Hall Theatre this Sunday and runs until January 12, promises to be a spectacular adventure of laughter, music, and song for all of Galway to enjoy.

The characterful songs of Michael O’Connor

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

FROM BUTCHERING to balladry might seem like an unusual career arc but it is one that Mayo-born, Galway based, songwriter Michael O’Connor has managed with aplomb.

The Cabin Collective @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

THE CABIN Collective round off a brilliant year with a Christmas concert in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm.

Launched last April at the Cúirt Festival, the Collective went on to release two singles - ‘Lines Are Fading’ and ‘Marrakech’ - which enjoyed national airplay, and play the Westport Festival, Electric Picnic, The Late Late Show, and the Ray D’Arcy Christmas Show.

Music For Galway’s mid-winter festival

Thu, Dec 19, 2013

THE BIRTH of Modern Music is the title for this year’s Music for Galway mid-winter festival which runs from Friday January 17 to Sunday 19 at the Town Hall Theatre.