New director for Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

GALWEGIAN AND NUI Galway graduate Kate Costello has been appointed as the new director of the Galway Theatre Festival.

The songs of Edith Piaf

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THIS YEAR marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest singers of the 20th century - Edith Piaf - and her music is to be celebrated in the Town Hall Theatre.

Colours Fringe Festival launch

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THE LAUNCH of the fourth Colours Fringe Festival takes place upstairs in the Townhouse this Saturday at 7pm.

Between the Lines @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

GALWAY ALTERNATIVE metal band, Between the Lines, formerly known as Black Tooth, play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 10pm.

Baile an Salsa - a Latin-Celtic fusion

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

IRISH TRAD and alsa join forces in the exciting musical fusion of Galway band Baile an Salsa who play The Crane Bar on Friday June 14 at 9pm.

Baile an Salsa perform original material, in Irish, Spanish, and English, with traditional Irish tunes, with lead singer, Andres Martorell, originally from Uruguay, bringing in melodies from salsa, rumba, flamenco, and sean nós.

Galway Sessions gigs @ The Crane

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

IRISH MUSIC has travelled around the world, influencing American and Canadian folk and popping up throughout the European continent.

Bluegrass bands @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

BLUEGRASS MUSIC will be heard this Sunday in Monroe’s Live when The Paperboys and The Blind Dead McJones Band take to the stage.

DJ John Heckle @ Factory

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

LIVERPOOL’S JOHN Heckle is coming to Epoch at The Factory this Saturday to perform a House and techno DJ set.

On the night, Heckle will be selecting records while knockING out rhythms on a TR-707 drum machine. Support is from Colin Finnegan. Admission is €5 before midnight and €8 after. Doors open at 10.30pm. See facebook.com/epoch.galway

Walking on Cars @ Monroe’s

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

WALKING ON Cars bring their anthemic indie pop to Monroe’s Backstage Bar tonight from 10pm.

Galway band releases new single

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

GALWAY BASED band Earthship have this week released their debut single ‘Anyway’, through their own White Elephant Recordings, on iTunes and Amazon.

Earthship’s sound, influenced by Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, and Return To Forever, mixes funk-inflected dance grooves, fiery improvisation, and pop hooks. They have played the Cork Jazz Festival, Electric Picnic, and Body & Soul.

Cara Luft @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

AWARD WINNING Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Cara Luft will play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 9pm.

Paul Foot returns to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

PAUL FOOT has a distinctive hairstyle located somewhere between the mod look and the mid-1970s. He also boasts a comedic style that is “inspired, surreal and incomprehensibly funny,” according to Chortle.co.uk.

Paul Foot makes a welcome to return to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 8pm. He is the winner of the Best Of The Fest award at this year’s Sydney Comedy Festival and won the Best International Act at the Perth Comedy Festival.

Uptight! is back @ Massimos

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

This Friday night see the return of the most soulful night in town. Uptight @ Massimos Galway. Joining DJ Dave Barry this month is Andy Rhattigan who runs the Smoove Groove soul club in Dublin. Expect to hear an eclectic mix of funk, soul, disco, boogaloo, Jamaican ska, dancefloor jazz to name a few of the genres.

Tommy Tiernan’s World Tour of the Islands

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

IRELAND IS not just an island, it is an island surrounded by many other tiny islands within its territory and Tommy Tiernan is about to undertake a tour of them.

Banned book to be relaunched in Galway

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THE FIRST book to be banned by the Irish Free State was written by a County Galwayman who was also one of the finest Irish writers of the 20th century.

By Kernan Andrews

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

GALWAY TEENS who love writing and telling stories should take note of Fighting Words, a new writing session taking place in Galway city this month.

Summer art courses for teens

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

YOUNG PEOPLE who enjoy painting and drawing and who would like to enhance their skills should check out the Art as Expression classes.

Award winning Galway artist and designer Denise Hogan is running the classes which will cover basic drawing skills, painting, abstract art, and a section entitled ‘Personal Journal – Writing and Art’.

Robert Ballagh and daughter at Kenny’s

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

ONE OF Ireland’s finest and most distinctive artists Robert Ballagh, and his daughter Rachel, will hold their new exhibition in The Kenny Gallery.

John O’Connell to Dig @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

THE GALWAY Arts Centre is set to be transformed into a “dreamlike, intimate environment” by artist John O’Connell, for his debut solo exhibition Dig.

John is a multimedia and multi-discipline artist from Dublin. His work encompasses drawing, installation, sculpture, sound, and space. His installations seek to evoke extinct ages and post-apocalyptic wastelands, straddling the line between reality and fiction.

Words, words, words....and more words

Thu, Jun 06, 2013

WHEN MY granduncle Paddy, a farmer with a small holding about five miles outside of Mohill, County Leitrim, on the Ballinamore Road, heard something he thought was extraordinary or unusual, he would slap his knee simultaneously stamping his foot on the ground with great glee and exclaim “By the hokey, that bates Banagher!”

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