Soul/Americana singer Erisa Rei @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 14, 2016
SOUL, COUNTRY, and blues all originated in the American South and despite a history of racism and segregation, country and soul have often inspired and intermingled with each other.
Read more ...Musical Mayhem
Thu, Jan 14, 2016
MUSICAL MAYHEM, the Galway based gig series night will celebrate six years on the go with a major showcase in Monroe’s on Friday February 5 at 9pm, featuring The Clandestinos, This Side Up, Cula Bula, and the Gabriel G Band.
Read more ...DeFeKT to DJ @ The Loft
Thu, Jan 14, 2016
DEFEKT'S USE use of analog drum machines and modular synths is a breath of fresh air in today’s laptop dominated scene, and it has won him admirers throughout the electronic music community.
Read more ...Little Green Cars - new album and Seapoint concert
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
ONE OF the most anticipated Irish albums of the year, Little Green Cars's Ephemera, will be released on March 11 and ahead of that the band will play Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill on Saturday March 29.
Read more ...Lindi Ortega - country/soul @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
LINDI ORTEGA calls herself a "crazy storm chasin', red lipstick, red boot wearin', guitar slinging, singer songwriter gal!" while The Guardian said her voice "bears comparison with country forebears Dolly Parton, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn".
Read more ...Galway Sings Project Choir seeks new members
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
THE GALWAY Sings Project Choir is seeking new members for the upcoming term and is open to those who want to sing in a group, sing in public, learn how to sing in harmony, or who want to try something different.
Read more ...The Henry Girls @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
THE HENRY Girls, who have won renown for what Songlines magazine calls their "graceful harmonies, charming vocals, and elegant musicianship", return to Monroe's Live on Wednesday January 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Highly Strung at Courthouse Square
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
FOR LITTLE John Nee and The Caledonia Highly Strung Orchestra, the boundaries between fiction and reality are a movable feast, it is hard to tell whether life imitates art or visa versa.
Read more ...Ad Hoc choir voice workshops
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
AD HOC choir will host a series of voice workshops, entitled Free Your Voice, with classes taking place in the GTI, Fr Griffin Road, and in the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street.
Read more ...Duke Special to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
DUKE SPECIAL is an artist who is forever restless, forever on the move. "I don't want to be sounding like I sounded 10 years ago," he has said. "I want to keep adding to what I've learned, keep developing."
Read more ...The High Kings play Seapoint next week
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
THE HIGH KINGS are coming back to Galway to play a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concert at the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Saturday January 16 at 8pm as part of their Four Friends Live national tour.
Read more ...Led Zeppelin tribute @ Monroe's Live
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway based Led Zeppelin tribute act, fronted by the brilliant and flamboyant Steven Sharpe, play Monroe’s Live on Friday January 15 at 10pm.
Read more ...Bagatelle - last chance to see them live
Thu, Jan 07, 2016
BAGATELLE, BEST known from the song ‘Summer In Dublin’, will begin 2016 with a first and last concert at Monroe's Live on Saturday January 16 at 8pm, as part of their Final Year national tour.
Read more ...Remember Phil Lynott at Monroe's Live
Tue, Dec 29, 2015
2016 MARKS the 30th anniversary of the death of the man who remains the most iconic Irish rock musicians of them all - Phil Lynott - and his life and music is to be celebrated in Monroe's live.
Read more ...Giant Sand and Jason Lytle to play Róisín Dubh
Tue, Dec 29, 2015
IT HAS been a decade since Giant Sand, the alt.rock/Americana band led by Howe Gelb, have played Galway, but 2016 sees them return, as part of a co-headline tour with Jason Lytle.
Read more ...Noelie McDonnell @ Monroe's Live
Tue, Dec 29, 2015
ONE OF the west of Ireland's finest songwriters, Noelie McDonnell, has resumed solo duties and will play Monroe’s Live, along with his band, on Thursday January 7 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Thrash Hat - ASIWYFA man goes electro
Tue, Dec 29, 2015
AND SO I Watch You From Afar have, through the albums All Hail Bright Futures and Heirs, rewritten the rule book on post-rock, kicking the genre out of the clichéd straight-jacket it had fallen into, and thrusting it towards new possibilities.
In a change of pace and direction, ASIWYFA leader Rory Friers has begun to explore other interests and musical approaches through his solo side project Trash Hat. Thrash Hat is a collection of songs, photographs and artwork by Rory, featuring recorded and sampled audio, together with electronic syntheses, created in the artist's studio on the north coast of Antrim and while travelling in a van on tour with ASIWYFA. The first fruits of this were heard in August via the track 'Pandaface'.
Read more ...Captive - Music For Galway's multimedia festival
Tue, Dec 29, 2015
A MULTIMEDIA festival of music, film, and discussion will make up Captive, Music For Galway's mid-winter festival, which features music written by inmates of WWI Concentration and POW camps.
Read more ...The best albums, songs, and Galway concerts of 2015
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 17, 2015
Best albums of 2015
1. Ezra Furman - Perpetual Motion People (Bella Union)
Galway Advertiser Galway Musicians of the Year 2015
Thu, Dec 17, 2015
GALWAY BAND OF THE YEAR: The Amazing Apples
One of Galway's most popular bands, The Amazing Apples are also one of it's success stories. Ploughing the independent furrow, their indie-folk stylings and early releases won fans across Ireland, and that hard work paid off this year with the release of their debut album, A Little Sense, produced by Joe Chester (The Coronas, Ryan Sheridan) which reached No 3 on the Official Irish Independent Charts and No 27 in the Official Irish Charts. They also played Electric Picnic in September.