Villagers - ‘I don’t feel I’ve reached my creative peak’

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

HOW DO you react to the most successful year of your career, one that has seen you showered with critical praise and more people than every buying your albums and coming to your shows?

“I also feel an ‘impostor syndrome’ about it. I don’t actually deserve all the praise that’s going around,” says Conor J O’Brien, the founder, leader, singer, and songwriter of Villagers. It may sound like a strange reaction, but it is keeping him looking forward and giving him the scope to write songs he believes are his best yet.

The Colleen Bawn - torn between two lovers

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

ALL GOOD girls love a bad boy and Eily O’Connor, the ‘Colleen Bawn’, has two of them - her husband, Hardress Cregan who looks down on her; and local wide boy Myles na Coppaleen who wants to be more than friends.

David Gray to play Galway next month

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

DAVID GRAY is bringing his Sounding Out Tour to Ireland and will conclude the tour with a show in The Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Wednesday December 11.

PASG’s Grease - the one that they want

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE WINTER chill might be starting to bite, but audiences can still enjoy ‘Summer Nights’ – and a slew of other pop classics - at the Town Hall Theatre next week when the Performing Arts School Galway stage Grease.

The sound of Connemara in St Nicholas’

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE MUSIC and musicians of Connemara will gather in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church tomorrow, from 8.30pm, for a major concert.

Brian Kennedy/Ros na Rún charity concert

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

ROS NA Rún cast members and singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy will join forces for a special charity concert for Pieta House.

Award winning Italian film for Town Hall

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

SHUN LI & The Poet, which won Best First Feature at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival and the LUX Prize 2012, will be screened in Galway.

André Rieu live @ The Eye

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

ANDRÉ RIEU’S Home for Christmas concert will be broadcast live via satellite from Maastricht in The Netherlands to the Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

Steve Hughes - catch him while he’s legal

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

STEVE HUGHES, the Australian heavy metal drummer turned hit comedian is coming to Galway with his new show While It’s Still Legal.

Steve takes to the stage of the Róisín Dubh on Monday December 9 at 8pm, where he is set to deliver thoughtful, outspoken, social commentary and caustic anti-establishment humour.

The View to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE VIEW may still look like cheeky young scamps, but the band are fast approaching a decade old, and 2013 finds them looking back and towards the future.

Baile an Salsa to celebrate first birthday in Monroe’s

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

BAILE AN SALSA, the Galway based, international band, who excitingly fuse Irish trad with Latin American music, celebrate their first birthday this weekend.

Lucinda Williams’ guitarist/producer to play Kelly’s

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

HE HAS produced albums by Lucinda Williams and Tom Russell, played guitar for Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle, and he is a solo singer-songwriter.

iRocks band competition @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

FOUR NEW bands will go head-to-head at Monroe’s Live tonight in the second heat of the iRocks competition, in association with iRadio.

Platinum Ray to DJ @ Factory

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

PLATINUM RAY, aka Pauly Martin of Dublin’s Bop Gun night, will be DJing at the Epoch clubnight in Factory this Saturday.

Disconauts @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE DISCONAUTS will hold their monthly ‘Dex & Percussion Party’ in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 10.30pm.

A Band Called Wanda to headline charity gig

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE BRILLIANT Galway ‘folk’n’roll’ group A Band Called Wanda, will headline a charity concert in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow at 9pm, in aid of Galway Hospice.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014 is open for submissions in poetry and fiction from Thursday November 28.

There is a €500 cash prize for the winner in each category. The winners will be published in a Cúirt publication to be launched at the 2014 festival. The judges are poet Martin Dyar and fiction writer Mary Costello.

Award winning Romanian quartet for Galway

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE ARCADIA String Quartet, winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, are coming to Galway.

‘Away with Words’/Over The Edge reading

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

AN OVER The Edge reading, in conjunction with Away with Words, the Galway based creative writing programme for people with intellectual disabilities, takes place next week.

Last weekend of TULCA events

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THIS IS the last weekend of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway city, which means there is still time to explore the wealth of creative and imaginative exhibitions on display.

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