Galway’s guitar great on stage

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

TOM PORTMAN, the gifted and inventive Galway guitarist, whose music mixes blues, folk, classical, and Asian styles, plays Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow at 9pm.

Clubnights @ Factory

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

BOTH FLOORS at Electric will be taken over by the Bap To The Future clubnight this Saturday, with DJ Sunil Sharpe the main attraction.

American song for the fourth of July

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE USA celebrates its Independence Day on July 4 and in that spirit Galway’s Ignite Gospel Choir will perform two concerts of American song.

Album review: Parquet Courts

Music Reviews Thu, Jun 26, 2014

DO I like Parquet Courts's Sunbathing Animal because it is good on its own merits, or is it because I love Pavement and these guys so obviously do as well?

No Crows - a band of all the talents

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE WATERBOYS violinist Steve Wickham and the acclaimed Mallorcan guitarist Felip Carbonell, are two members of a band called No Crows.

Arts festival shows @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

IRISH TRAD and a bit of jazz will be heard in Monroe’s Live at the shows the venue is hosting as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Funk, Soul & Reggae @ Massimo tomorrow night

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

Vinyl junkie Dave Barry will be spinning funk, soul, reggae, jump blues, latin boogaloo, disco and more tomorrow night in Massimo all on vinyl. Admission is free. Dave will be returning to Massimo on Sunday for his weekly vinyl chill out session ‘Sunday Service’ from 1 to 3pm while the award winning EAT restaurant supply the food.

Galway Cathedral Recitals return next week

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

THE ANNUAL series of summer concerts in Galway Cathedral returns on Thursday July 3 with a performance by Australian-born organist and pianist Tristan Russcher.

Diarmuid Scahill’s A Night Of Song

Thu, Jun 26, 2014

GALWAY SINGER Diarmuid Scahill has been offered a place at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s training academy, and is staging a concert tomorrow.

We Banjo Three - The Essential Songs Playlist

Essential Playlist Wed, Jun 25, 2014

WE BANJO Three, a quartet made of two pairs of brothers, have become something of a phenomenon in the folk/trad world, especially these last six months, which has seen them nominated for an award and play Latin America.

Pierre Bensusan - the master guitarist returns

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

PIERRE BENSUSAN, the genius guitarist, whose “playing [is] so far above average as to approach the supernatural”, according to the New York Times, returns to Galway.

Midlake to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, paving the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.

ZhOra to bring the progressive-metal

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

TAKING THEIR name from a character in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, ZhOra play an original, heavy, aggressive, and progressive kind of metal.

SugarBeat Music festival in August

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

GALWAY, AND Ireland’s, latest outdoor music festival SugarBeat, takes place in Tuam in August, with singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey headlining.

Celebrate the life of Tony Small

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

CHRISTY MOORE, Dolores and Sean Keane, and Pauline Scanlon, are among those who will perform at the Tony Small tribute concert in The Town Hall Theatre.

See the light with Solas

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

INFLUENTIAL, ACCLAIMED, and playing The Galway Sessions festival is Irish-American folk/trad band Solas who take to the Monroe’s Live stage this evening at 8pm.

Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

THE FOLK, soul, and blues husband and wife duo Hat Fitz and Cara Robinson play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.

Metallica tribute @ Kelly’s

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

METALLICA TRIBUTE band Whiplash, named after the debut single from the LA’s band debut album Kill ‘Em All, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Saturday.

Soul and blues @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

SOUL AND blues band Owen Brady & The Blue Shakes bring their vibrant mix of rhythm, horns, tasty guitar, and powerful vocals to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.