Dusty Banjos’ Cleggan weekender
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE FIFTH Dusty Banjos Traditional Music Weekend takes place in Cleggan on Friday June 21 and Saturday 22.
Read more ...Shadows and Dust @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
DUBLIN QUINTET Shadows and Dust are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live Backstage Bar this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Strange Boats @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
“A pair a ‘lectric guitars, drums, bass, flowery language and western harmonies, usually culminating in catchy rock songs.”
Read more ...Shuffle with DJ Dave Barry
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
GALWAY CITY’s Soul Brother No 1 and disciple of vinyl Dave Barry will kick off a new monthly residency at the Róisín Dubh next week.
Shuffle takes place in the Róisín on Friday 21 from 11.30pm where Dave will spin the very best in funk, soul, original r’n’b, northern soul, and the very best in black American music in general.
Read more ...Mikey and the Scallywags
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE UPROARIOUS bluegrass, gypsy, hip-hop, and swing sounds of Mikey and the Scallywags will be heard in the Galway City Youth Café tomorrow.
The band will play the café, in the Fairgreen, opposite the Coach Station, as part of the Pop Up Youth Art Festival.
Read more ...Reggae vibes for The Cellar
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
REGGAE FANS are in for a treat this Saturday at The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, when London’s Channel One Sound System takes to the stage.
Read more ...Bluegrass music @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THEYMAY be named after the tip end of Cornwall, but bluegrass band Land’s End draws members from Gloucester, Liverpool, Munich, Dublin, Cork, and Galway.
The Land's End Bluegrass Band play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 10.30pm. The band formed at the Sore Fingers international bluegrass workshop last year and are led by Galwegian Hugh ‘Blind Boy’ Murray.
Read more ...Kidnap Alice play toinight
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
EAST LONDON folk/bluegrass/soul sextet Kidnap Alice play upstairs at the Róisín Dubh this evening at 9pm, as part of their first Irish tour.
Read more ...Bobby Champs to DJ in Galway
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
BOBBY CHAMPS, the Brighton techno producer, and DJ, plays the Cult club-night in Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Ilenkus - heavy metal thunder
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE GALWAY prog/post-hardcore/metal band Ilenkus will be turning things up to a Nigel Tufnel approved 11 at the Róisín Dubh next week.
Read more ...Deadline for film fleadh Pitching Award
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE DEADLINE for submissions to the Galway Film Fleadh’s Pitching Awards is today.
Read more ...John Waters to attend Galway’s Kavanagh Days
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE POETRY of Patrick Kavanagh will be read, celebrated, and discussed at the fifth Kavanagh Days event, to be held in Galway next week.
Read more ...Galway Sessions gigs @ The King’s Head
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE KING’S HEAD pub will host a series of free concerts of Irish trad next week, each starting at 3pm, as part of the Galway Sessions festival.
Read more ...Choral concert from The Mornington Singers
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE MORNINGTON Singers, the award winning Irish chamber choir, will perform its concert, De Profundis, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...The art of storytelling in Ballymoe
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE SEANCHAÍ Brendan Nolan will tell tales in Eileen’s Pub, Ballymoe, north Galway on Friday June 28 at 8pm.
Brendan’s stories come from across Ireland, Britain, Spain, and Belgium, and his storytelling session is part of a series of cultural events being held in the town.
Read more ...Seán Tyrrell’s Message Of Peace
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
JOHN BOYLE O’Reilly was one of the most fascinating individuals to emerge from 19th century Ireland, and he is the subject of a show by the great Seán Tyrrell.
Read more ...Daithí - the ‘Chameleon Life’ of an electro wunderkind
Thu, Jun 06, 2013
HE HAS been called “the baby faced DJ” and a “hair flicking bundle of energy” but never overlook that Daithí is a young man passionate about music, its creation, and in bending, twisting, and shaping sounds into exciting slabs of electro fused indie-pop.
Read more ...Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!
Thu, Jun 06, 2013
FEAR NOT gentle reader! We have not taken leave of their senses. Nor have we been passing round the mescaline.
The above torrent of vowels and consonants is one of the 100 letter ‘thunderclap’ from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. It also happens to be the title of a new exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Miceál Noone at the Norman Villa Gallery in Salthill.
Read more ...Nanu Nanu - debut album and Galway show
Thu, Jun 06, 2013
NANU NANU, the Irish electro-pop duo, will play Factory in The Electric Garden tomorrow from 10.30pm as part of a nationwide tour promoting their debut album Unit One.
Read more ...I Heart Alice Heart I - ‘Beautiful, human, moving and very, very funny’
Thu, Jun 06, 2013
ONE OF the most acclaimed Irish shows of recent years makes a welcome visit to the Town Hall from Thursday June 13 to Saturday 15 at 8pm.
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