Salthill Hotel jazz nights
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
GALWAY JAZZ fans can look forward to a new series of jazz concerts at the Salthill Hotel every Thursday over the coming weeks.
There will be forthnightly shows from the Strictly Dixie Jazz Band and The West Coast Big Band in the hotel’s Blackrock Cafe from 9pm. Admission is free. For more information contact the Salthill Hotel on 091 - 522711 or see www.salthillhotel.com
Read more ...Backyard Devils @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
CANADIAN ROCKABILLY band Backyard Devils are bringing their award winning sound to Monroe’s Live tonight at 10pm.
Read more ...Indie Rocks @ HALO Live
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
THE NINETIES saw indie go from the underground to overground as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop ruled the charts.
Read more ...Eddie Stack to read at Charlie Byrne’s
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
EDDIE STACK, one of Ireland’s leading short story writers, launches a new collection, Quare Hawks, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...Traidphicnic 2013 in An Spidéal
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
THE SECOND Traidphicnic festival, celebrating Irish music, culture, and traditions, takes place in An Spidéal on Friday July 5 and Saturday 6.
Read more ...Five Ways to Say Your Prayers
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
FIVE WAYS To Say Your Prayers is a new exhibition by various artists, an academic researcher, and the PS? artist initiative from Belfast.
The exhibition opens this evening at 7pm in The Shed, Galway Harbour. The sculptures and installations on show will feature everything from a cinema caravan to a ping-pong table to an ironing board, seeking to allude to religious demands in a secularised art context.
Read more ...Galway Cathedral Summer Concerts 2013
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
THE GALWAY Cathedral Recitals summer concerts return from July 4 to August 8 with performances taking place each Thursday at 8pm.
Read more ...Carbon raises funds for Multiple Sclerosis Ireland
Thu, Jun 27, 2013
CARBON NIGHTCLUB in Eglinton Street raised more than €2,000 for Multiple Sclerosis Ireland through its Zoology night.
Read more ...‘I’ve had some of the greatest moments of my life in Galway’
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
IDAHO SONGWRITER Josh Ritter has long had an ardent following in this part of the world and his Galway Arts Festival show at the Big Top promises to be a highlight of this year’s music programme.
Read more ...These Halcyon Days
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
COMING TO the Town Hall Theatre next week is Landmark Production’s staging of Deirdre Kinahan’s acclaimed new play, These Halcyon Days, nominated for Best New Play in the 2012 Irish Times Theatre Awards.
Read more ...The ‘mesmerising’ Grizzly Bear to play Big Top
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
BEYONCÉ AND Jay-Z are fans, so too is Paul Simon, while Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood called them “Mesmerizing...nobody makes music quite like this.”
Read more ...Emily Cullen and the poetry of transitions
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
TRANSITIONS OF many kinds - be they in relationship status, becoming a mother, eras and generations, to the dizzying speed of digital and technological developments - are at the heart of a new poetry collection by Emily Cullen.
Read more ...Film fleadh opening and closing films
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
A SPANISH film starring Fionnuala Flanagan and Stephen Rea, and an adaptation of a John Banville novel open and close this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Irish fantasy film to be screened at fleadh
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
GALWAY WILL host the world premiere of the new Irish Fantasy film The Shadows when it is screened in the IMC Cinema on Saturday July 13 at 2.15pm as part of the Galway Film Fleadh.
Read more ...Galway Actors’ Workshop courses
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
THE GALWAY Actors’ Workshop will run its midsummer drama courses with workshops for beginners and experienced actors.
Read more ...Little Cinema’s third birthday
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
THE LITTLE Cinema Club will celebrate its third birthday with a special night in Kelly’s Bar this Tuesday at 9pm.
Read more ...Róisín Dubh ninth birthday party
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
THE RÓISÍN Dubh celebrates its ninth birthday with a variety of events this weekend, including a gig this Saturday from 8pm with Boyfights and guests.
Read more ...The Cabin Collective - new single and concert
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
THE CABIN COLLECTIVE, featuring the Saw Doctor’s Leo Moran and former Waterboy Anthony Thistlethwaite, launch their debut single with a gig in Galway city.
Read more ...Flirt FM - on stage and on air
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
TONIGHT FLIRT FM, Galway’s student and community radio station, hosts a gig at Monroe’s and tomorrow, on air, it marks National Music Day.
Read more ...The Appian Way @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 20, 2013
THE APPIAN WAY was a famous road connecting Ancient Rome to southern Italy. It is also the name for an up-and-coming Mullingar quintet.
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