Musicals and opera at The Eye

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

BRECHT AND Weill’s raucous musical The Threepenny Opera and Bellini’s classical bel canto opera Norma are both being staged in London and both will be broadcast live to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

A season of Brahms begins next week

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

SOME OF Johannes Brahms' most iconic pieces of chamber music will be performed by six outstanding musicians as part of the opening concert of a season of music where Brahms is centrestage.

Over The Edge open reading

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

THE POETS Caitríona O’Reilly, Colin Dardis, and James Anthony, will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 29 at 6.30pm.

Irish Comedian Of The Year @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, and Wales have one, but Ireland, despite regularly producing world-class comedians, has never had an Irish Comedian of The Year Competition - not until now that is.

Aimee Banks to give debut concert in Galway Cathedral

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

AIMEE BANKS, the 14-year-old soprano who burst on to the international scene last year after representing Ireland at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, will give her debut Irish concert in Galway.

Claddagh actor Aidan Dooley to launch new book on Tom Crean

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

CLADDAGH BORN actor Aidan Dooley, who has enjoyed international acclaim and success with his show Antartic Explorer, about the life of Tom Crean, will launch his new book, Travels with Tom Crean, tomorrow.

Waze & Odyssey @ Electric

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

WAZE AND Odessey are at the forefront of the contemporary house music scene, and Galway can expect an energetic, explosive, set from the pair at their Electric Garden show.

Naoise Roo kicks off new tour in Galway

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

NAOISE ROO, the Dublin singer-songwriter whose music Horslips drummer Eamon Carr called "atmospheric grunge cabaret", launches her multi-date '#WHORETOUR in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday September 24.

Chicago bands @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

CHICAGO BANDS Dowsing and Ratboys come to Galway next week as part of a European tour, playing the Róisín Dubh, where the bill also includes Irish trio Shrug Life.

A piano played with nuts, bolts, and erasers

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

A PIANO treated with bolts, but also plastic, rubber and a pencil eraser will be played in Druid's Mick Lally Theatre for one of the most 'out there' and experimental shows of the Galway Jazz Festival.

Ex-Portishead member to DJ in Galway

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

ANDY SMITH, the former DJ and sample supplier for Portishead, who has also worked with The Prodigy will be DJing in Galway this evening with Galway's Dave Barry at Shuffle! in The Blue Note from 9pm.

Killer Joe’s Jazz Club @ Monroe's

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

FROM BE-BOP, to laid back instrumentals, to standards by Miles Davis, Art Blakley, Benny Golson, and Grant Green, all will be played at Killer Joe's Jazz Club in Monroe's The Side Bar this Sunday from 8pm.

Druid's The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Theatre Reviews Wed, Sep 21, 2016

LAST WEEK, Druid’s production of Helen and I concluded with the sound of rain pouring down outside the kitchen where the play’s action takes place. The Beauty Queen of Leenane opens with the same sound but where the rain in Helen and I signified release, in Beauty Queen it’s symptomatic of misery and confinement.

Ireland's only adventure film festival comes to Galway

Tue, Sep 20, 2016

LEO HOULDING, whose audacious ascents on epic mountain faces, documented in award winning films like The Asgard Project, The Wildest Dream, and The Last Great Climb, is coming to Galway for the Why Not? Adventure Film Festival.

Eoin Dolan - new song, debut solo album out this week

Tue, Sep 20, 2016

TO SAY The Beachboys Brian Wilson is influential is an understatement, and one of the many who have fallen under the composer's spell is Galway singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan.

'I can only write about immediate horror, like pulling a muscle in your back'

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

SO COW'S last album found him pondering the effect of his thirties, both personal and social, on his life, but his latest opus is full blown self consciousness about middle age, social anxiety, and backaches.

Loner Deluxe - lunar folk and sci-fi sounds

Music Reviews Mon, Sep 19, 2016

"THERE IS abundant evidence that we are being contacted. Civilisations have been visiting us for a very long time. Their appearance is bizarre from any materialist Western point of view..."

Salthill's Burren Mount Hotel inspires epic electronica album

Mon, Sep 19, 2016

THE BURREN MOUNT Hotel in Salthill has long exercised fascination on, and prompted speculation within, the public mind, but also on artists, having been portrayed by painter Jennifer Cunningham, and more recently through a musical interpretation by The Cube Of Unknowing.

Disco Pigs - Enda Walsh's debut play turns 20

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

WHILE NEXT week sees Druid open its 20th anniversary revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 1996 also saw the premiere of another iconic Irish play which launched a stellar writing career; Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs.

Viva Almodóvar, viva Ireland, viva film

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

PEDRO ALMODÓVAR's new film, Julieta; the new Irish film, VIVA, from director Paddy Breathnach; a feast of award winning French films; and movies about dogs needing a new home, kidnappings, women struggling for freedom; and a journey through the Colombian Amazon - this is what is in store from the Galway Film Society.

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