A concert for St Patrick’s Day
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
THE CONCERT Coirmcheoil Phádraig - the St Patrick’s Day Concert of Music, Poetry & Song of the Nation takes place in the St Patrick’s Band Hall, Fairgreen, this Sunday 14 at 8pm.
Read more ...My First Time with Leigh Arnold
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
FIRST SEXUAL experiences are one of the few things that almost every single person on this planet has in common, whether you’re Paris Hilton or P Diddy, George Clooney or George Washington, yet we rarely talk about them. Until now...
Read more ...Fuaim Chonamara to hit Ballinasloe
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
FUAIM CHONAMARA, the stage show from the Cunningham family of Connemara, featuring every style and type of Irish dance imaginable, is coming to Co Galway next week.
Read more ...The award winning Tulpan which will be screened the Galway Film Society
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
Asa, together with his boisterous buddy Boni, calls on the only family in the Kazakh steppes with an eligible daughter. She refuses and Asa is further deflated when he proves to be poor at sheep herding. However he refuses to give up on his dreams. This is the award winning Tulpan which will be screened the Galway Film Society in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday at 8.15pm. For tickets contact 091 - 569777.
Read more ...Dutch DJ to prepare Galway for St Patrick’s Day
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
ST PATRICK’S Day is a chance to don the green, but don’t forget there is orange in the flag as well, so for St Patrick’s Eve go a little orange when leading Dutch DJ Marcel Woods hits town on Tuesday March 16.
Read more ...The Bahh Band to release new EP
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
MATTU NOONE left behind a career in playing angst ridden rock bands in Australia when he discovered an exotic instrument in India - the 25 stringed sarod.
Read more ...Followers Of Otis album launch
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
Galway’s folk, blues, gospel, and roots band The Followers Of Otis will launch their debut album And Those To Come Hereafter with a show in the Róisín Dubh on Tuesday at 9pm.
Read more ...Blasterbra
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
Blasterbra (pictured), the excellent Galway punk-pop/grunge band, play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 8pm with Cork indie-popsters Hooray for Humans and Dublin’s Guilty Optics. Pic:- Mike Shaughnessy
Read more ...The Rye
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
There will be two chances to see the exciting modern trad band The Rye (pictured) at The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tomorrow at 9.30pm and at Kelly’s, Bridge Street, at 9pm. Admission to both shows is free. Their debut album will be released in the summer.
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New choral work to be performed at St Nicholas’
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will be the setting for the premiere of Hymn to Gaia by the celebrated Irish contemporary composer, Eric Sweeney, on Saturday March 20.
Hymn to Gaia will be performed by Galway’s Tribal Chamber Choir (directed by Mark Keane), Dublin’s The Lassus Scholars, and Waterford’s’ Christ Church Cathedral Choir. The choirs will be conducted by Eric Sweeney.
Read more ...Tribute night to Breda Lewis
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
THERE WILL be a gathering in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Sunday at 6pm, as family and friends gather to remember the late Breda Lewis.
Read more ...Agus rud eile de Louis De Paor
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
AGUS RUD Eile De/And Another Thing is a collaboration of three different artists working in three different mediums - poetry, art, and music - all contained within a book and CD.
Read more ...Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin in concert in Loughrea
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
MÍCHEÁL Ó Súilleabháin, a major figure in Irish music for his unique compositional style that marries Irish trad with classical, jazz, and world music, will play the Lough Rea Hotel and Spa on Friday March 19 at 8pm.
Read more ...Siobhán Seoighe Bainisteoir Rith2010
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
Cén pearsa stairiúil is mó atá cosúil leat?
Read more ...Cinema Review: Crazy Heart
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
WITH A running time of two hours and 10 minutes the end of this film couldn’t come quickly enough. Although the story of a down and out alcoholic ex-country singing star would normally provide as much inspiration for a film as for songs, this was more boring heart than crazy.
Read more ...New Irish comedy film to be released in cinemas next week
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
IF YOU found a man resplendent in a shiny red space suit and helmet, passed out on the living room floor beside the drinks cabinet, would you believe he was an alien from outer space?
Read more ...Win copies of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Thu, Mar 11, 2010
THE GIRL With the Dragon Tattoo by the late Steig Larsson has become the publishing phenomena of recent years, selling millions of copies around the globe.
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired by a reclusive industrialist to solve a family disappearance. Aided by the mysterious and troubled computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, the two uncover a darker world of brutality, deception, and ritualistic murder.
Read more ...The Mikado
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
THE PATRICIAN Musical Society’s 2010 production sees it take on one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s finest pieces, The Mikado. Fittingly it sees the society take on this show during its 125th anniversary since it was first performed in 1885.
Read more ...What’s in a name when you’re Sweet Jane
Thu, Mar 04, 2010
WITH A name like Sweet Jane and a singer called Lydia Des Dolles, you could be forgiven for thinking this Dublin trio took their moniker from one of The Velvet Underground’s best loved songs and were in thrall to a kind of decadent New York 1970s glamour.
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