A green Galway Jazz Festival with rainbow appeal

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

THE 2019 Galway Jazz Festival takes place this week, and will be officially opened this evening at 6pm in the Kitchen Café of the Galway City Museum by Connemara environmentalist and educator Leo Hallissey.

All Tvvins play major Galway concert this weekend

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

AFTER DELIVERING a fine performance supporting Two Door Cinema Club at the arts festival Big Top this summer, All Tvvins return to Galway this weekend to play the Black Box Theatre.in October, and ahead of that show, release their new single.

Charity concert to remember Seán Henry

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

SOME OF the greatest names in Irish traditional music - Frankie Gavin, Cherish the Ladies, Seán and Matt Keane, Mary Bergin, John Faulkner - will perform at a concert in memory of Portumna publican Seán Henry.

Amazing Apples to release new single

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

AFTER A long hiatus, the Amazing Apples, one of Galway's most popular bands, are back with a new single, 'Mr Mustard', which will be released tomorrow on Spotify, iTunes, and Google Play.

Spitting Nails - German punk/metal for Galway

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

HAMBURG BAND Spitting Nails play a ferocious mix of metal and punk in the style of Naplam Death, Tragedy, and Extreme Noise Terror, and they are coming to Galway this weekend.

A classical crossover concert for Tuam

Thu, Oct 03, 2019

THE TENOR Eoin Hynes and soprano Emer Barry are bringing their show Iconic to Tuam next week, which will feature a programme of well loved songs from both the classical and pop spheres.

Album review: Squarehead

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 26, 2019

HAVING TAKEN some time out for "a much-needed mental health break" after three albums in three years and constant touring, Dublin trio Squarehead pick up, not exactly where they left off.

Galway Street Club - new single, Róisín gig

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

‘BLACK WIDOW of Iron Mountain’, the first single from Galway Street Club's forthcoming second album, will be released on Tuesday October 1, followed by a gig in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday 5 at 8pm.

Saoirse - new work to premiere at Jazz fest

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

SAOIRSE, A work specially commissioned by the 2019 Galway Jazz Festival, which fuses Connemara sean-nós with jazz and improvisational forms, will be premiered performed by vocalist Lauren Kinsella.

Bicurious - a 'heavy dose of mosh ready ferocity'

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

BICURIOUS, THE Dublin experimental heavy rock duo of Taran Plouzané and Gavin Purcell, play the Róisín Dubh next week as part of an Irish tour, ahead of a series of gigs across Britain and the Continent.

Vladimir and Anton - those were the days

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

THE ACCLAIMED Slovakian brothers and violinists, Vladimir and Anton Jablokov, are coming to Galway next week to perform their latest show, Those Were The Days.

Cat Turner releases single, 'Home'

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

CAT TURNER, the Galway 'dark-pop'/‘goth pop’, vocalist, songwriter, and producer, who has won praise from Hot Press and Clash Music, will tomorrow release her new single.

Aussie folk duo play Galway tomorrow

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

USTRALIAN FOLK duo The Maes, currently promoting their new album, will play a double-headline gig in Galway with Scottish folk singer-songwriter Rachel Sermani.

A trip to Spain via ConTempo

Thu, Sep 26, 2019

THE CONNECTIONS between Spain and Galway go back to late mediaeval and Renaissance times, and remain acknowledged in the Spanish Arch and Spanish Parade in the city.

Stars to perform classic indie album in Galway

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

SET YOURSELF On Fire was the album that established Stars as an indie-rock band of note and they will perform that acclaimed work in Galway next month as part of their current European tour.

Album review: Liam Gallagher

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2019

IT IS impossible to read the title of Gallagher jr's second solo album and not hear it as he would say it, delivered, undoubtedly with all the Mancunian cock-sure swagger you would expect.

Inhaler - Bono's son's band for the Róisín

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

INHALER, THE Dublin band fronted by Elijah Hewson, son of Bono and anti-nuclear campaigner Ali Hewson, play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday September 26 at 9pm.

Daniele Di Bonaventura - Galway jazz fest debut

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

THE BANDONEON is a type of concertina that is also an essential instrument in tango ensembles. While the instrument is most popular in Argentina and Uruguay, one of its greatest masters is Italian.

Charity Irish trad concert for Gavin Ralston

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

MUSICIANS FROM the West Kerry Gaeltacht, and others, are coming to Galway to perform at a concert in An Taibhdhearc to raise funds for Gavin Ralston, who has been has been battling cancer since 2014.

Padraig Stevens and Leo Moran for Eclectics

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

TWO TOWERING figures in Galway music, and two of the county's "greatest and most popular singer-songwriters," as this paper has previously described them, play the next Eclectics gig night.

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