Magda Navarrete to bring Latin sounds to Monroe’s
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
DELICATE BOSSA Nova, flamboyant flamenco, fiery rhythms, and electronic beats will be the order of the day when Polish-Spanish singer Magda Navarrete plays Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Sunday November 6 at 8pm.
Read more ...Nimmo’s, anecdotes, and recipes with Harriet Leander
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
ONE OF the best-loved Galway restaurants of recent years has been Nimmo’s on the Spanish Arch and the eateries’ many devotees will be delighted to learn that Harriet Leander, the genial Finnish chef who did so much to establish its reputation, has just published a wonderful book, entitled Nimmo’s; Anecdotes and Recipes, combining recipes of favourite Nimmo’s dishes with a wealth of great stories and illustrations.
As she recounts in the book’s opening chapter, it was in 1991 that Harriet left her job as a musical archivist in Switzerland and landed at Shannon airport “with two suitcases and ridiculously little money”, little suspecting where her career path would next take her.
Read more ...The passion of Jonathan Swift – in Claregalway Castle
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
JONATHAN SWIFT has lost the love of his life, a love he never acted upon, but one that has left him melancholy.
Read more ...Casting call for actors and extras
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
AWARD WINNING TV company Magdamedia is seeking actors and extras for an upcoming TV drama-documentary In am an Ghátair.
Read more ...Niceol Blue releases debut album
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
OREGON BORN, Galway based singer-songwriter Niceol Blue and her band The Copper Soul release their debut album Rise next week.
Read more ...Maverick Sabre – London-Irish folk-soul hip hop
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
FOR MAVERICK Sabre, it all began with a journey from London to Wexford and hearing Ben E King’s soul classic ‘Stand By Me’ for the first time.
Read more ...Jazz great Martin Taylor @ The Crane
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
MARTIN TAYLOR, one of the world's foremost exponents of solo jazz guitar, will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Monday November 7 at 9pm.
Read more ...De Dannan to play Kinvara
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
DE DANNAN and singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke will play the Share The Harvest charity concert in Kinvara this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Royseven @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
IRISH ROCKERS Royseven return to Galway as part of their current Irish tour, to play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday November 12 at 9pm.
Read more ...Original music night
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
THE CUCKOO Club Galway, a new night promoting original music, opens in De Burgos, Augustine Street, tonight, at 8pm.
Read more ...Nuada play Monroe's tonight
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
FOLK AND early music from France, Ireland, and England will be heard in Monroe's tonight from 9pm when trio Nuada take to the stage.
On stage Ruth Bramley, Sam Burke and Ferris Jay will be in period costume and they will play a wide repertoire of Celtic, Folk and Early Music, as well as original material, on bagpipes, whistles, the hurdy gurdy, lute, and bouzouki.
Read more ...Spirit of Voice festival starts next week
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
OPERA, REGGAE, sean nós, Barbershop, jazz, folk, trad, and hip hop will be performed and celebrated at the 2011 Spirit of Voice festival from Friday November 11 to Sunday 13.
Read more ...Lunctime concert from Berlin soprano
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
THE BERLIN based soprano Doerthe Maria Sandmann will be in NUI, Galway’s CUBE theatre for a lunchtime concert today from 1pm to 2pm.
Read more ...Workshops @ Tulca Festival of Visual Arts
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
THE TULCA festival, which begins today, will feature a range of workshops looking at issues like artist collectives, planning and local government, and a public art clinic.
Contemporary Artist Collectives: Tactics, Models and Imaginative Possibilities, a workshop with artist and writer Gregory Sholette takes place this Monday in Aras na Gael on Dominick Street. Vagabond Reviews’ Public Art Clinic Research in Public: Critical Co-ordinates at the Art-House-Café will happen in a temporary cultural space in a house at the Sliabh Bán housing estate in Ballybane on Monday November 14.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Great health, great company, great weather, great food, great wine, great music, and great stories combined, by the sea.
An alternative ceramics exhibition
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
3X2, an exhibition of contemporary clay artworks and ceramics, is currently on show at The Shed, Middle Pier, in the Galway City Harbour.
Read more ...Earthship To Launch debut EP in Bierhaus
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
EARTHSHIP WILL bring their brand of accessible, groovy, funky, and above all, danceable jazz to the Bierhaus on Thursday November 10 at 9.30pm.
Next week’s show will be the launch gig for the band’s debut EP, The Groove Starts Here. The band are Mark Farrelly (keyboards), Karl Clews (bass), Andrew Collins (saxophone), Blendi Krasniqi (drums), and Eoghan Judge (guitar) and they have played Electric Picnic and the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Their inspirations are Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Miles Davis, Stanley Clarke, and Level 42.
Read more ...Cinema Reviews: Contagion
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
THE BLACK Death of 1347 killed 25 million in Europe; smallpox in the 18th century claimed even more lives with 60 million.
Read more ...The Three Amigos take on the world
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
JIMMY BUCKLEY, Robert Mizzell, and Patrick Feeney are the Three Amigos, who have an interest in country music and enjoy a positive reaction wherever they go.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Nov 03, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set. There will also be a comedy caption contest with the winner getting a prize at the end of the show.
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