Free fun for little ones at Roscommon Arts Centre

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

As part of the Bookworms Children’s Literary Festival, Roscommon Arts Centre is hosting a free family show on Saturday, June 10, called ‘The Return of Spring’.

Traditional Irish music from Boithrin at Tack Room

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

Head on down for a fantastic night in one of Athlone’s most welcoming local watering holes this weekend for live music and a great atmosphere.

Athlone poet wins Listowel Writers Week poetry award

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

Athlone poet Jackie Gorman has won the 2017 Listowel Writers Week Single Poem Award.

The Snug has you covered this weekend

Thu, Jun 08, 2017

Looking for a comfy setting with lots of live entertainment and friendly banter? Then The Snug is the ideal venue for you this weekend.

Album review: Saint Etienne

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 01, 2017

THESE last few weeks I've reviewed new albums by Slowdive, The Charlatans, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, while RIDE's comeback, Weather Diaries, awaits a listen. It all leads me to ask: What year is this?

Damien Dempsey plays Black Box next week

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

DAMIEN DEMPSEY, deservedly described by The Guardian as "one of Ireland’s great singer-songwriters" and by The Daily Express as "one astonishingly gifted individual", returns to Galway next week.

Hothouse Flowers - Monroe's Live date for July

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

"ROCK'N'ROLL is not about safety or politeness, it is not about perfection. It is expression and it is spirit." So say the Hothouse Flowers who are coming to next month's Galway International Arts Festival.

Breathe in a Pink Floyd experience

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

PINK FLOYD, the visionary English rock adventurers whose explorations of rock, jazz, folk, prog, psychedelia, and avant garde have inspired Radiohead, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and much of the Krautrock scene, will be celebrated in Galway.

NYC's John Morales to DJ @ Electric

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

NEW YORK DJ John Morales, who played at the Big Apple's legendary and notorious Studio 54 nightclub, will be spinning the decks at Electric this Bank Holiday Weekend, at Get Down Edits clubnight birthday bash.

Icelandic choir to sing in St Nicholas'

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

ICELANDIC CHORAL music will be heard within St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when the Selkórinn choir perform a tea-time concert in the city centre church next week.

Dessie O'Halloran and a trad concert in Salthill

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

SOME OF the finest traditional musicians and singers from the west of Ireland, including the great Inishbofin singer Dessie O'Halloran, join forces for the upcoming Bofin to Burren concert.

June Bank Holiday Weekend@ HALO

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

MIKE SKINNER, Cafolla and Engel, and a host of leading Galway DJs - it's going to be one hell of a weekend for some seriously good music and many hours of dancing at HALO this Bank Holiday Weekend.

Worries Outernational bring the reggae this weekend

Thu, Jun 01, 2017

WORRIES OUTERNATIONAL, one of the leading soundsystems pushing reggae and dancehall music in Ireland, hit Galway this weekend when they take over the Commercial Boatclub in Woodquay.

Saint Sister - new single and GIAF 17 show

Tue, May 30, 2017

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

Mike Skinner to DJ @ HALO

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOR 10 years Mike Skinner was the man behind the musical phenomenon The Streets. In that time he won an Ivor Novello, a Brit, and made a significant impact on British urban music.

Album review: Sea Pinks

Music Reviews Thu, May 25, 2017

SEA PINKS' last album, Soft Days, was solid, but lacked a true stand-out song. Watercourse has no such trouble though, as this new album from the Belfast trio boasts several great moments.

Metal, heft, sludge - and two FEAST debuts

Thu, May 25, 2017

IT IS their first Galway gig in four years, and their debut gig at FEAST. Either way if you have not seen Belfast band Hornets before, this weekend provides you with the excuse to rectify that omission.

American orchestral music at the Town Hall

Thu, May 25, 2017

ICONIC AMERICAN music, such as Bernstein's scores for West Side Story, will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra on their America Tour, which comes to Galway next month.

Mad Dog McRea - rowdy and room shaking

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOLK, ROCK, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music is what Galway can expect when Mad Dog McRea take to the stage of Monroe’s BackStage Bar next month.

US choir to sing at Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 25, 2017

THE SONORAN Desert Chorale from Arizona will give a concert at the Galway Cathedral featuring Renaissance and contemporary Irish compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish songs.

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