Leading vocal coach to give classes in Galway

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

WENDY PARR, one of only eight speech level singing master voice teachers, will be coming to Galway to give classes later this month.

Auditions

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

Theatre auditions

Charity night for Australian bushfire appeal

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

LOCAL DANCE club Galway Swing will hold a charity night this month to raise vital funds for those affected by the Australian bushfire disaster.

The charity swing night takes place on Saturday in The Victoria Hotel, and kicks off at 9pm with a free swing dance class for beginners. Music from the 1920s to the 1950s will be played from 10pm.

The cream of comedy from Neil Delamere

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THROUGHOUT THE past decade Offaly’s Neil Delamere has been one of the top comics on the Irish comedy circuit. After graduating from DCU in the late 1990s he decided programming computers wasn’t for him and instead he began to do open mic slots in Dublin circuit.

Tommy Tiernan to play The Comedy Club in Cuba*

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

A PHENOMENON, a force of nature, and possibly the greatest comedian to ever come out of Ireland, Tommy Tiernan will headline the Comedy Club at Cuba* on Friday February 20.

The unstoppable force that is Eddi Reader

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

EDDI READER is something of an unstoppable force. Despite repeated injuries to her back and ribs, the celebrated Scottish folk-rock singer is touring Ireland this month and has a new album set for release in April. As far as she is concerned, life is very good indeed.

Opera Theatre Company presents Handel’s Xerxes

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

WITH ITS instantly recognisable opening aria sung to a tree (‘Ombra Mai Fu’) and a storyline bristling with thwarted passions, Xerxes is arguably Handel’s greatest opera.

Breakdown Rambler to launch debut album in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

GALWAY FOLK-rock band Breakdown Rambler will launch their debut album Witness By Moonlight in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.

Jenny Mulvey to launch new album at The Crane

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

JENNY MULVEY is something of a Renaissance woman. She brought ladies’ Gaelic football into Trinity College, has been a teacher, has travelled the world, and is also a very fine singer.

Vibe For Phil Lynott in Cuba*

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE LATE, very great, Phil Lynott will be remembered and celebrated at the Vibe For Phil Lynott show in Cuba*, Eyre Square, tomorrow at 8pm.

Phil Lynott is one of the titans of rock. He was the leader, bassist, songwriter, and vocalist with Thin Lizzy. He passed away on January 4 1986 aged 37. On the night there will be music by Remembering Lizzy. Phil’s mother Mrs Philomena Lynott will be guest of honour.

Colin Devlin to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

COLIN DEVLIN will be performing songs from his new album Democracy Of One when he plays an acoustic show upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday at 8pm.

The Three Tenors return to Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE THREE Tenors, now known as ‘The Three Tenors-Le Voci’ - le voci being Italian for ‘the voices’ - return to Galway to perform at the Town Hall on Friday February 20 at 8pm.

The tenors - John Scott, David Martin, and Declan Kelly - have sung to sell-out crowds all over Ireland and abroad. The tenors have also released a new album entitled Il Mondo.

Celebrate Beethoven in NUIG

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE MUSIC of Beethoven will be celebrated when Music For Galway presents the Emily Anderson Annual Memorial Concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Friday February 20 at 8pm.

Galwegian Emily Anderson carved a reputation for herself in the world of music by translating the correspondence of Mozart and Beethoven into English. She lectured in German at NUIG and as the daughter of the then university president, grew up within the very walls of the Aula Maxima.

Johnny Duhan’s voyage continues in the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

IN THE late 1980s, Johnny Duhan wrote a song that would make his name widely known, become a hit single for Christy Moore, and be sung at countless weddings across the world.

New plays at the Nuns Island Theatre

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THE FIRE Testament and Dog, two short plays by Daniel Keene, will be performed by Zelig Theatre in the Nuns Island Theatre from Tuesday February 24 to Sunday 28.

Mali benefit gig

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

The Crane Bar, Sea Road, will host a gala night of trad music on Thursday February 19 at 9pm with Jackie McCarthy (pictured), Marion McCarthy, Garry O’Briain,Mary McPartlan, Breda and Claire Keville, Mary Staunton, and Jimmy Higgins to raise funds for volunteer projects in Mali. For tickets contact The Crane on 091 - 587419 or go to www.thecranebar.com

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

I’ve never had much luck or patience when it came to three hour long epic movies - there’s either far too much to take in or not enough. It takes a brave director, a great screenplay writer, and a few not too shabby actors to pull it off and I have to say Benjamin Button just about did just that.

Curioser and curioser

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

AT A time when our public servants are coming under the microscope it is perhaps appropriate to remember the important contribution the majority of them make to the fabric of Irish life.

Slumdog Millionaire

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

A QUIZ show seems like an unusual premise to build a novel around, but Vikas Swarup managed to cram quite a backstory around India’s fictional version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in his debut novel.

The missing steering wheel and poems to grieve with

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

PATRICK MORAN grew up in Templetuohy, Co Tipperary, where he still lives. In poem after poem in his new collection Green (Salmon Poetry) he brings absolutely to life the vanished world of small town and rural Ireland.

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