Fred to play last Galway show
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AFTER 15 years, four albums, critical acclaim, and awards and nominations, Cork indie-pop band Fred are calling it a day.
Read more ...Rap and alien pop
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
NANU NANU, the ‘alien pop’ duo, and US West Coast rapper Steve Liriks, take to the stage of Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 10pm.
Read more ...Declan O’Rourke @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
PAUL WELLER declared Declan O’Rourke’s ‘Galileo’ as the one song he wished he had written, while Chris Rea, John Prine, and Paul Brady have sung O’Rourke’s praises.
Read more ...Exhibitions - from Berlin to Galway
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
IRISH ARTISTS living in Berlin, a host of major names in the Irish art world, and numerous emerging young talent are exhibiting across Galway city.
Read more ...Spirit of Voice Festival 2013
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE 10TH Spirit of Voice Festival which celebrates the human voice through folk singing, sean-nós, spoken word, poetry, and rap, takes place in The Townhouse Bar on Friday December 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Over The Edge reading
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THREE POETS and a short story writer will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in Galway City Library on Thursday December 19 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Tommy Fleming to play Galway in January
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
TOMMY FLEMING is coming to Galway in the New Year where he and his band will take to the stage of the Radisson Blu Hotel on Friday January 31.
Read more ...Funk & Soul @ Massimos
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
VINYL junkie Dave Barry will be spinning funk, soul, reggae, latin boogaloo, disco and more tomorrow night in Massimo Bar, Williams Street. Admission as always is free.
Read more ...A Galway Christmas book hamper
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
AT THE risk of milking a cliché to death, rumours of the demise of the book are greatly exaggerated if the amount of books published in Galway over the last 12 months is any indication.
Read more ...A Galway guide to living foolishly
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
THE SCUM Gentry Guide To Living Foolishly: Essays, Arts & Fiction From The Depths Of Jesuits’ Hell, is the outrageous title of a new book being launched this evening.
Read more ...Creative writing workshops
Thu, Dec 12, 2013
CREATIVE WRITING workshops, with the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars, take place in the New Year in the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...A double helping of dance
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
TWO OF Galway’s foremost dance companies - Corrib Dance Academy and Youth Ballet West -- take to the Town Hall Theatre stage in the coming weeks with exciting end-of-year shows.
Read more ...Kamal Ibrahim and the magic of Aladdin
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
SINCE THE 1700s, when a Syrian storyteller told the tale of Aladdin and His Magic Lamp to French writer Antoine Galland, the story has enchanted and delighted generations the world over.
Read more ...Clive Francis returns with A Christmas Carol
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
MAKING A welcome return to the Town Hall Theatre, after a sell out performance last year, is eminent British actor, Clive Francis, with his superb one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Read more ...Hallelujah - Galway Baroque Singers to perform Messiah
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
ALTHOUGH GEORGE Friederich Handel’s Messiah is one of the most universally loved of all choral works, its popularity has an extra intensity in Ireland as the country feels a certain ownership of it.
Read more ...Renmore Panto to stage Robin Hood
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
ROBIN HOOD and his band of merry men will fight the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham in this year’s Renmore Pantomime.
Read more ...Andrew Maxwell’s Banana Kingdom
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
ANDREW MAXWELL will undertake his most extensive Irish tour to date in 2014, taking in 27 venues across six weeks.
Read more ...Three Galway bands - one venue
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
CITÓG RECORDS present Harrison & The Devil, The Depravations, and Fellow Strangers in the Róisín Dubh tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Paddy Casey @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
PADDY CASEY began his musical career busking on Galway’s streets, but since that apprenticeship he has become one of Ireland’s best established singer-songwriters.
Read more ...Galway Gospel Choir charity concerts
Thu, Dec 05, 2013
THE GALWAY Gospel Choir will perform two charity concerts in the city, one tomorrow for MADRA, the other on Sunday for COPE.
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