Kitchen Table to take over The Shed
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
THE GALWAY based Kitchen Table Artist Collective will take up residence in The Shed gallery space in the harbour, from next week.
The collective are the artists Judith Bernhardt, Helen Caird, Anne Harkin-Petersen, Jean MacSorley, Cormac O’Neill, Terri Mitchell, and Eithne Ryan, and they will be exhibiting new work, in a wide range of media, responding to the word ‘shed’.
Read more ...Get intimate with Matt Cardle
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
MATT CARDLE, the 2010 X-Factor winner, will play an intimate acoustic concert in Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Sibling folk singers @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
THE PRISTINE, three-part harmonies, and delicate roots-folk melodies of Donegal’s The Henry Girls will be heard in Monroe’s Live tonight at 10pm.
Read more ...Win tickets to Blur @ HALO
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
GALWAY BLUR fans take note, HALO is holding a raffle this Saturday for tickets to see Blur live at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin on Thursday August 1.
Read more ...Detroit and Dutch DJs @ Factory
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
LEADING DETROIT house DJ Marcellus Pittman and Amsterdam disco don Loud-E will be spinning the decks at Factory in The Electric Garden this weekend.
Read more ...Hardcore Priests of Yemen to launch debut album
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
THE GALWAY funk, ska, reggae, and trad sevenpiece The Hardcore Priests of Yemen will launch their new album in Galway this weekend.
Read more ...Shuffle with DJ Dave Barry
Thu, Jul 25, 2013
DAVE BARRY, one of Galway’s leading northern soul and ska DJ returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow for his SHUFFLE DJ night. With Imelda May in the Big Top earlier this promises to be a packed one. The policy at Shuffle is good time music aimed at the feet from a range of genres with a lot of soul being a prerequisite.
Read more ...Tale of a Tiger from Malawito Galway
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
WHILE THE Galway Arts Festival may be taking most of the headlines these days, the Galway Fringe Festival is also doing itself proud with a programme bursting at the seams with music, exhibitions, theatre, and much more besides.
Among the featured theatre shows is one all the way from Malawi, via China, Italy, and Germany; the Dario Fo play The Tale Of A Tiger which runs at the Townhouse Bar for 10 performances next week, from 1pm to 2pm, commencing Sunday July 21.
Read more ...Julie Feeney - a little Bird told me
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
OSCAR WILDE’S bittersweet story of love, loyalty, charity, and selflessness, The Happy Prince, has served as an inspiration to many musicians over the decades.
Read more ...Frankie Gavin & De Dannan - Galway Arts Festival concert
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
FRANKIE GAVIN & De Dannan will play one of the major concerts at this year’s Galway Arts Festival when they take to the stage of the Radisson Live Lounge tonight at 8pm.
Read more ...New show from ThereisBear! Theatre
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
BALLYKILLDOWNA, A play by the award-winning Galway poet Shaun Leonard, is being staged by ThereisBear! Theatre as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.
Read more ...Trad gig with Lonndubh
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
GALWAY TRAD music band Lonndubh - Irish for blackbird - play The Crane Bar tomorrow at 9.30pm as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus cabaret
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
A NIGHT of decadent glamour and the era of the Berlin cabarets and burlesque will be recreated at The Dirty Circus in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday July 26.
Read more ...Kylemore Abbey Summer Festival
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
FROM IRISH folk songs and Latin Vespers, the Kylemore Abbey Summer Festival, promises a feast of music throughout the summer in Connemara.
Read more ...The poetry of Patrick Kavanagh
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
N EVENING of poetry, talks, theatre re-enactments, music, and readings celebrating the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh takes place this Saturday.
Read more ...Gorges release new cassette album
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
IF THE vinyl revival was a surprise, than the resurrection of the cassette is something nobody saw coming.
Read more ...Workshops for actors
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
TWO INTENSIVE weekend workshops for actors will take place during July and August with leading Galway theatre practitioners - actress Sarah O'Toole and actor/director Max Hafler.
Read more ...Cabin Collective winners
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
THE WINNERS of a pair of tickets to The Cabin Collective show in Kelly’s tomorrow, along with a signed CD of the band’s new single ‘Lines Are Fading’, were:
Read more ...Trad Lunchtimes @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
ALEXANDER NUT and dBridge will be delivering the DJ sets at Factory on Eglinton Street this weekend night as part of the Galway Fringe Festival.
Read more ...The Kilkennys @ The Quays
Thu, Jul 18, 2013
THE KILKENNYS, the modern Irish folk band who have shared the stage with Shane McGowan and Finbar Furey, play three shows at The Quays Music Hall.
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