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.

Julie Feeney to play Athenry Heritage Centre

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

JULIE FEENEY, the award winning and critically acclaimed vocalist and composer, plays a hometown show in the Athenry Heritage Centre this Saturday at 9pm.

Trad On The Prom's Yvonne Fahy releases new album

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

YVONNE FAHY, the multi-instrumentalist trad musician, and a member of Trad On The Prom, has released her new album Diversity, which contains the No 1 iTunes World Music chart hit, 'Sliabh and Oir'.

Club GASS Pride fundraiser

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

CLUB GASS, the monthly LGBT+ clubnight at the Róisín Dubh returns on Friday September 27 and will be a fundraiser for Galway Pride 2020.

A 90s indie clubnight night for charity

Thu, Sep 19, 2019

TWO OF Galway’s best-loved DJs, Ferg and Foz, join forces for a special night of indie, rock, and dance classics in The Loft, Bridge Street, this Saturday from 10pm, to raise funds for the Galway Hospice.

A night of trad with Donogh Hennessy & Séamus Begley at Monroe’s Live.

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

Irish music fans: Saturday September 28th is a date to mark in the diaries as Donogh Hennessy & Séamus Begley take to the Monroe’s Live stage for what’s sure to be a fantastic night of ceol agus craic.

Just Roll With It.

Tue, Sep 17, 2019

This Saturday September 21st, Monroe’s Live will play host to Roll With It - The Ultimate Oasis Tribute.

Alash Ensemble - Tuvan throat singing returns to the Róísín

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

GALWAY HAS been treated to some superb displays of Tuvan throat singing over the past 18 months, and will be again, when the award winning Alash Ensemble play the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Pixies

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 12, 2019

WHEN YOU have created the albums Surfer Rosa (1987) and Doolittle (1989), seen them achieve classic status, and their songs continue to find new generations of fans via TV, film, and indie clubnights, there can only be one thought: follow that.

Little Hours - debut album, Galway gig

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

LITTLE HOURS, the stage name of Killybegs multi-instrumentalist and songwriter John Doherty, will release his debut album on the same day he plays a headline show at the Róisín Dubh.

Leading women in jazz and improv in concert

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

TRISH CLOWES, a leading member of the new wave of young British improvising jazz musicians, and the pianists Kaja Draksler and Eve Risser, play headline shows at next month's Galway Jazz Festival.

A night of royal rock with Qween

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

SEEING QUEEN tribute band Qween in action is “as close to the real thing as it gets!” according to illusionist Keith Barry, while Radio Nova's Pat Courtenay declared, "Phenomenal. I was left speechless" after one of the their shows.

Galway musicians to celebrate the music of Dolores O’Riordan

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

DREAMING HER Dreams 2 - Remembering Dolores O’Riordan, where songs of the late leader of The Cranberries will be performed by Galway musicians, returns to the Rósín Dubh.

Rodney Owl - new single, Galway gig

Thu, Sep 12, 2019

THE GALWAY singer-songwriter Rodney Owl will launch his new single, 'The Rain On A Wave' with a gig in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 8pm.

Saint Sister return to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

SAINT SISTER, the brilliant Irish "atmosfolk" duo of Belfast's Morgan MacIntyre and Dublin's Gemma Doherty, make a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh this month.

Album review: the strange, the brilliant, and the awful from the 60s counterculture

Music Reviews Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THIS VAST and varied 18 track compilation, spanning 1959 to 1973, and running from the innovative to the period piece curiosity to the 'What were they on?', unearths some overlooked gems worth re-exploring and reconsidering.

Hardanger virtuoso Nils Økland at Galway Jazz Festival

Thu, Sep 05, 2019

THE HARDANGER is a distinctly Norwegian version of the fiddle, but with eight/nine strings instead of four, and decoration, with a carved animal as part of the scroll at the top of the pegbox, and mother of pearl inlay on the fingerboard.

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