Conducting the sounds of sacred song
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
A MEDITATION on Christ’s final words on the Cross and a homage to the patron saint of music, St Cecilia, will form part of a pre-Easter concert of sacred contemporary music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Three chances to see Reginald D
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
REGINALD D HUNTER, a man in “the top rank of stand-up comedians working today,” according to The Times, plays three dates in Galway over the Easter Weekend.
Read more ...The Fantasist – charting bipolar’s highs and lows
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
AFTER SELL-OUT runs in London and Edinburgh and numerous rave reviews, Theatre Témoin brings its astonishing show, The Fantasist, to the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday March 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...An Taibhdhearc’s Seoda Phádraig concert
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
SEODA PHÁDRAIG 2013, the annual St Patrick’s Festival of Music and Song of the Nation, takes place in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street, tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Dancing to the Pageant of life
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
WALKING A tightrope, jumping through hoops, bending over backwards to please, or dressing in a certain way, there is pageantry in everything we do.
Read more ...Acting for film and TV course
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
JOHN DAWSON, the highly respected acting teacher is coming to Galway to give an acting for camera workshops.
Read more ...Pat Shortt - I Am The Band
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
IRELAND’S DANCEHALL and showband days will be relived in the hilarious new show, I Am The Band, by one of Ireland’s best loved comedians, Pat Shortt.
Read more ...Galway Film Centre script clinic
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
THE GALWAY Film Centre is running a four-day writing course in April, aimed at those with an idea for, or who are working on, a feature script.
The course takes place from April 18 to 21 (9am-5pm) in Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark Road. The tutor is Mark McIlrath, a professional script editor with more than 20 years experience.
Read more ...Beth Orton to play Strange Brew
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
BETH ORTON has embraced and eschewed the ‘singer-songwriter’ tag throughout her career, never opting solely for the one guitar, three chords, and the truth approach.
Read more ...Wingnut Records night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
PRIVATE UNDERGROUND Residence have been compared to Battles, Fugazi, Slint, and The Melvins, and they play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...A feast of DJs for Electric Garden
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
THE INNOVATIVE Detroit DJ Dabyre is coming to Galway to play the Bap To The Future night at the Electric Garden this Saturday.
Read more ...Art exhibitions
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
FROM DIFFERENT views of Galway, to Icelandic landscapes, to the work of GMIT students, a host of exhibitions in Galway city and county open, or have just opened, this week.
Read more ...Classical and trad concert for Coláiste Iognáid
Thu, Mar 14, 2013
THE JES Choir and the NUI Galway Medical School Orchestra join forces with Frankie Gavin and Cora and Breda Smyth for a major concert on the university campus.
Read more ...The day Munster beat the All Blacks
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
IT IS one of the legendary days in Irish rugby. In Thomond Park, Limerick, on Tuesday October 31 1978, Munster took on one of the greatest New Zealand sides of all time - and beat them, 12 - 0. Afterwards All Blacks wing Stu Wilson said : “We were lucky to get nil.”
Read more ...Vickers Vimy take flight
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWAY FIVE-piece Vickers Vimy take their name from the aircraft in which Alcock and Brown made the first transatlantic flight. Their music also spans the Atlantic in its influences, exuding a warm and mellow flavour of rootsy Americana.
Read more ...Benny Boot and Neil Delamere @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE GREAT Tin Minchin has described fellow Aussie comic Benny Boot as “the real thing. Charming, disarming, and proper f**king funny”. Galway will see why soon.
Read more ...Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience returns
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
ONE OF the big hits of the last two Galway Comedy Festivals was the brilliant and uproarious Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience.
Here Galwegians could experience all the mayhem, madness, hilarity, and brilliance of seeing and being served by Basil, Sybil, and Manuel. Everything that can go wrong, does, in some beautifully controlled chaos and featuring all the best gags from the legendary TV series.
Read more ...Galway Musical Society to stage Jekyll & Hyde
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
THE MUSICAL of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic tale, Jekyll & Hyde, will be performed by the Galway Musical Society, in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday March 19 to Saturday 23 at 8pm.
Read more ...Be the first to see Our Children
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
GALWEGIANS WILL be among the first in Ireland to see the multi-award winning Belgian/French film Our Children at a special screening in the city this weekend.
Read more ...Theatre workshop
Thu, Mar 07, 2013
A WORKSHOP exploring the Chekhov and Lecoq techniques for actors, directors, and teachers, takes place from March 25 to 29.
The classes, which will be given by actor/director Max Hafler and performer/director Judith Higgins, will cover the story and themes of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circlle.
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