Atalante - Roman laments and ethereal sounds
Thu, May 02, 2013
ERIN HEADLEY and her award-winning pan-European ensemble Atalante are coming to Galway to perform a concert which aims to “transport the soul and elevate the spirit”.
Read more ...For Love - ‘like a dirty pop song’
Thu, May 02, 2013
NEW YORK’S Irish Repertory Theatre comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday May 7 and Wednesday 8 at 8pm, with Laoisa Sexton’s much-acclaimed ‘dark blue comedy’, For Love.
Read more ...Celebrating Irish songwriters
Thu, May 02, 2013
IRISH SONGWRITERS and composers will be celebrated at a show, from the Galway Percy French Society, in An Taibhdhearc this month.
Read more ...Blazing Bows - fiddle masters unleashed
Thu, May 02, 2013
THREE OF the best trad fiddlers in the country - Cathal Hayden, Dezi Donnelly, and Tóla Custy - have joined forces to become Blazing Bows.
Read more ...War Against Cliché writing workshop
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE WAR Against Cliché: A writing and editing workshop for intermediate writers and blocked writers is coming to the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Cinderella - After The Ball
Thu, May 02, 2013
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Cinderella and Prince Charming after they got married? Fairy tales answer it was ‘happily ever after’, but Ballet Ireland begs to differ.
Read more ...Kenny’s to launch new book on Seán Keating
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE FIRST exhibition to be held in The Kenny Gallery in Salthill in July 1968 was by Sean Keating, one of Ireland’s major 20th century artists.
Read more ...Colin Murphy @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 02, 2013
One of Ireland’s leading comics, Belfast man Colin Murphy (pictured) brings his inspired stand-up comedy to the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 10 at 8.30pm. Support is from Fred Cooke and Joe Rooney. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, from the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago), and The Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Fang Island to play Strange Brew
Thu, May 02, 2013
FANG ISLAND’S music is celebratory, ecstatic, joyful, and anthemic, combining the playfulness of indie-rock with the big guitar riffs and licks of classic rock.
Read more ...Candice Gordon @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE MUSIC and songs of Candice Gordon embraces a diverse array of sounds, from Tex-Mex to New Orleans rhythms to Ennio Morricone to Tom Waits.
Read more ...Walpurgis Night II - heavy metal thunder
Thu, May 02, 2013
WALPURGIS NIGHT II, a night of heavy metal by some of the best bands working in that diverse genre, takes place in The Cellar Bar tomorrow night from 7pm.
Read more ...Bressie to play the Radisson
Thu, May 02, 2013
BRESSIE, former front man with The Blizzards, solo vocalist and songwriter, chart topper, and Voice Of Ireland coach, and is coming to Galway.
Bressie will play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents concert...’ at the Radisson Live Lounge on Thursday May 9 at 8pm.
Read more ...‘There is no such thing as forgetting’
Thu, May 02, 2013
IT IS almost impossible for those lucky enough not to have experienced the savage infliction of Alzheimer’s at first hand, to understand just how devastating this horrible disease can be.
Read more ...Men of absolutely no importance
Thu, May 02, 2013
ALAN MCMONAGLE spectacularly succeeds where most short story writers fail: he creates characters who, however unlikely the scenario may initially appear, by the end of the first page he has the reader convinced such people definitely exist and should, for the most part, be avoided at all costs.
Read more ...GAC creative writing classes
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host creative writing classes with two of Galway’s leading writers - Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars.
Daytime creative writing classes with Susan Millar Du Mars, starts on May 13 and runs for eight weeks, each Monday from 2pm to 3.30pm. The classes are suitable for beginners and continuing creative writing students in poetry or fiction.
Read more ...Jaime Nanci - singin’ the Nina Simone blues
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
SHE CROONED confidently how ‘My baby just cares for me’; raged against racism and killings of African-Americans in ‘Mississippi Goddamn’, turned a song from a musical, ‘Ain’t Got No, I Got Life’ into a cry of black pride, and penned her own civil rights anthem in ‘To Be Young Gifted, and Black’.
Read more ...Oliver Reed - Wild Thing
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
THE HELLRAISING life and times of Oliver Reed are vividly brought to life in acclaimed Oliver Reed – Wild Thing which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday May 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Romance and villainy at Galway Early Music Festival
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
MONSTERS AND fairies, poets and singers, heroes and villains will all be part and parcel of the Galway Early Music Festival, which runs from May 9 to 12.
The festival will celebrate medieval renaissance and baroque vocal and instrumental music, with a special emphasis on 17th century Italian music, early Irish poetry, and the darker side of fairytales.
Read more ...The long and the short of the short story
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
Acclaimed short story writer Claire Keegan will read at Cúirt this Saturday alongside poet and author Ron Nash.
Read more ...A Fig For A Kiss in Town Hall
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
AFTER ENJOYING a successful run last September with the play The Three Deaths of Eddie, local company Wolf Meets World return to the Town Hall Studio with its latest offering, A Fig For A Kiss.
Written and directed by Adrian Lavelle, the play brings together Michael, a vengeful, enigmatic, gambler, and Jezabelle, an alluring hooker, and watches them embark on a drug-fuelled spiral that brings their dark pasts to light. This tale of drugs, sex, violence, and rock’n’roll also touches on religion, atheism, rock, and the arts.
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