Caoimhin Ó Raghallaigh and Cormac Begley in concert
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
HE PLAYS a 10-string fiddle called the Hardanger d'Amore, has recorded 12 albums, and worked with The Gloaming. This month he tours with Cormac Begley, and they will play the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...A tribute night for Mike Arrigan
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
MIKE ARRIGAN, the Galway drummer, music teacher, and mentor, who died last year, will be remembered and celebrated with a major show at the Town Hall Theatre in January.
Read more ...Hudson Taylor to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
THEY LIKE "Katy Perry as much as The Beatles", have played Longitude, Glastonbury, and T in the Park, and have notched up more than six million views - and counting - on YouTube.
Read more ...Keane Family Christmas concerts
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
CAHERLISTRANE'S KEANE Family - Matt, Sean, Noel and Pat - bring their annual Christmas Time Concerts to The Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 6 and Saturday 7 at 8pm.
Read more ...A winter classical concert at St Mary’s
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
THE SOPRANO Lorna Breen and flautist Miriam Kaczor will give a 'Winter Concert in St Mary's College' on Saturday December 17 at 4pm.
Read more ...A night of country music with RIAH
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
HEADFORD COUNTRY music singer-songwriter RIAH, known for her soaring vocals, catchy hooks, and modern take on country music, plays Monroe's BackStage Bar on Wednesday December 21.
Read more ...Seán Keane - live in Moycullen
Thu, Dec 15, 2016
THIS YEAR saw Seán Keane release his first new album in almost a decade and he closes 2016 with a concert in The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday December 30 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Ten Ton Slug and Weed Priest - Galway gig
Mon, Dec 12, 2016
AHEAD OF their performances at the Cleansing Lights Festival in Munich this weekend, Ten Ton Slug and Weed Priest - two of the county's finest metal bands - will play a show in Galway city on Thursday.
Read more ...Album review: The Wedding Present
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 08, 2016
A SLOW, atmospheric, post-rock instrumental is not what a seasoned Wedding Present listener expects to hear, nor a stately and majestic track built around a worldless choir of male and female vocals, nor a sublime movement for string quartet and piano.
Read more ...Citóg Christmas show for AMACH! and Teach Solais
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
STEVEN SHARPE & The Broke Straight Boys headline the second annual Citóg Records Christmas show in the Róisín Dubh, which will raise funds for AMACH! LGBT Galway, and its new resource and support centre, Teach Solais.
Read more ...The Sugarhill Gang - rap pioneers to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
"I SAID a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie, to the hip hip hop, a you don't stop the rockit to the bang bang boogie, say up jumped the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat."
Read more ...The Academic to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
THE ACADEMIC, the Westmeath indie-rock sensation called “one of Ireland’s most exciting new bands” by The Independent, play the Róisín Dubh next week, as part of their December tour of Ireland.
Read more ...A feast of Christmas choral concerts for Galway
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
A FEAST of Christmas choral concerts will take place in Galay over the coming days, featuring many of Galway city and county's leading choirs - The Kiltullagh Community Choir, Coole Harmonies, and Cois Cladaigh.
Read more ...Big Jelly to headline charity concert
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
GALWAY SKA and reggae band Big Jelly will headline a charity concert night, the Haiti Music Project Fundraiser, which will also feature an array of Galway musical talent.
Read more ...St Patrick's Brass Band annual Christmas concert
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
ST PATRICK'S Brass Band holds its annual Christmas concert this weekend, joined by vocalist Nicola McGuire, and the show will also help raise funds for homeless charity COPE.
Read more ...Welsh choir to sing in the Town Hall
Thu, Dec 08, 2016
NORTH WALES' leading male voice choir, Cantorion Gogledd Cymru, will join the Galway Choral Association for a concert in the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday 17 December 17 at 8pm.
Read more ...Paddy Casey - new single and Róisín Dubh show
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
PADDY CASEY closes 2016 with new song, ‘Everything Must Change’, a taster for his forthcoming sixth album, due for release in spring 2017. Before that he plays the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Viral sensation Dan Owen to play Seven
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
THE RISE of singer-songwriter Dan Owen began with a kind gesture. A friend who felt Owen deserved wider exposure for his talent uploaded a video of him performing Bob Dylan's 'The Ballad of Hollis Brown' to Reddit.
Read more ...Julie Feeney to play Moycullen
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
JULIE FEENEY, the award winning and critcally acclaimed Athenry born vocalist and composer, plays her only Galway show this year, at The Forge, Moycullen, on Saturday December 10 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...FEAST brings the metal to the Róisín
Thu, Dec 01, 2016
MARES OF DIOMEDES, the doom/fuzz/sludge metal band are back in Galway this weekend, having just released a new split record with Copenhagen based purveyors of bleak doom, Dreich.
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