Josef Locke – ‘Three times the size of life’

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE COLOURFUL life and remarkable career of singer Josef Locke is celebrated in a new show, Blaze Away!, which comes to the Town Hall this Saturday at 8pm.

Family concert of Javanese music

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE ENTRANCING sound of the Javanese gamelan will fill St Patrick’s Brass Band Hall this Sunday at the next Adventures In Music family concert.

Alone It Stands @ Town Hall

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THOSE DOWNCAST by Ireland’s injuries, defeats, and bad luck in the Six Nations, which sees us out of the running with more games still to play, take heart.

There will be a chance to experience one of the great days of Irish rugby when John Breen’s phenomenally popular play Alone It Stands comes to the Town Hall Theatre from Monday March 11 to Saturday 16 at 8pm.

Children’s show at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

AN TAIBHDHEARC’S Saturday shows for families continues with Graffiti Theatre Company’s Walking Man/An Fear Siúil by Jody O’Neill at 11am and 1pm.

New books from Futa Fata

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE ADVENTURES of a pirate girl, and a tiny tiger in search of his teddy, are two new books for children from An Spidéal based publishers Futa Fata.

What Richard Did winners

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE WINNERS of the DVDs of What Richard Did are Tommie Commins, Ballybane; Claire Finn, Renmore; and Loretta Goff, Riverside.

Underwater Picnic EP launch

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

GALWAY INDIE-rock quartet Underwater Picnic will launch their new EP Atlas tomorrow with a gig in The Cellar Bar.

Poetry reading with Louis DePaor

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

LOUIS DEPAOR and Japanese tanka poet Hisa Kagawa will be reading in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop this Saturday at 6.30pm.

Athenry Musical Society fashion show

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

ATHENRY MUSICAL Society will host a fashion show in aid of its upcoming musical, Sweet Charity, in May.

The cream of indie for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THREE OF the most exciting Irish indie bands - one from Dublin, one from Tuam, the other from Donegal - play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday March 7.

Toy Soldier @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

IRISH ELECTRO-rock trio Toy Soldier combine a dancefloor groove with hard rocking riffs as audiences will hear when they play Monroe’s tomorrow.

Fleetwood Mac tribute

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

IN THE late sixties they played expressive blues and paved the way for heavy metal. In the seventies and eighties they were globe gobbling pop superstars.

Rugby loving folk-rock

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

HERMITAGE GREEN are not only rugby fans who play folk-rock but their vocalist Barry Murphy formerly played for Munster and Ireland.

Nineties indie night @ HALO

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE NINETIES was when indie went from the underground to overground and spawned such genres as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop.

Those who were lucky enough to live through that era or who want to get an idea of what it was like could check out Indie Rocks who play upstairs at HALO tomorrow night.

Éigse an Spidéal 2013 festival

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

MARY BERGIN, Johnny Óg Connolly, and poet Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill are among those who will perform at next month’s Éigse an Spidéal festival.

A highlight will be the performance by Mary Bergin and Johnny Óg Connolly, of the newly-composed suite, written by Mary and Johnny and commissioned by An Gaelacadamh, entitled ‘Sruth’.

Classical concert and album launch

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

A CONCERT featuring Lynda Lee, one of Ireland’s leading sopranos, and an album launch by clarinettist Paul Roe, both take place next week.

Vyvienne Long’s String Collision Tour

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

WHAT HAPPENS when an Irish songwriter, a Romanian virtuoso, and an avant garde string quintet join forces? String Collision, that’s what.

The String Collision tour, featuring Vyvienne Long, and the Balanescu Quartet - making their debut appearance in Ireland - comes to The Druid Lane Theatre on Thursday March 7 at 7.30pm.