Five chances to see Phill Jupitus at the comedy festival
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
By Kernan Andrews
PHILL JUPITUS is talking over Galway for the October Bank Holiday weekend as there will be no fewer than five chances to see him during the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival.
PHILL JUPITUS is talking over Galway for the October Bank Holiday weekend as there will be no fewer than five chances to see him during the Bulmer’s Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...Tig Cóilí presents Cherish The Ladies at the Town Hall
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
IT IS simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” said The Boston Globe about Cherish The Ladies who play Galway next week.
Read more ...Comedy festival stand-up showdown
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
A COMEDIAN stands on stage, alone with a microphone. There are a hundred or so strangers in the room and the comic has two minutes to make them laugh. Can s/he do it?
Read more ...Disco don makes Galway debut
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
GREG WILSON, the legendary disco don and edit master, will make his Galway debut when he plays the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11pm.
Read more ...Ultan Conlon to launch new album
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
ULTAN CONLON, the acclaimed Loughrea singer-songwriter, is about to launch his new album, and begin an Irish tour, starting in the Róisín Dubh next week.
Read more ...John Smith to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
ENGLISH GUITARIST and singer-songwriter John Smith returns to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh as part of his current Irish tour.
Read more ...Free gigs in the Latin Quarter
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
FOUR NIGHTS of free gigs take place in Galway city’s Latin Quarter, from tonight until Sunday, for the Guinness Live music festival.
Read more ...Track Dogs @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
AN IRISHMAN, an Englishman, and two Americans, all based in Madrid, make up the band Track Dogs, who play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Their positive, uplifting, music, mixes pop, folk, reggae, and flamenco, and eschews traditional instrumentation, opting for a cajón instead of drums and a trumpet in place of lead guitar. Their eponymous 2012 album was described as having “a touch of class” and being “well worth investigating” by The Sunday Business Post.
Read more ...Hidden rhythms at the Galway Jazz Festival
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
THERE ARE times when people cannot be blamed for wondering if the plethora of annual Galway festivals is really of any lasting benefit to the city. Outside of the arts festival, Cúirt, the races, and the film fleadh, do any of them bring anything more tangible to Galway than a good time?
Read more ...TULCA to journey to Golden Mountain
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
THE TULCA Festival of Visual Art returns from November 8 to 24 with an array of sculpture, video, paint, photography, and performance art, under the theme ‘Golden Mountain’.
Read more ...Over The Edge at the Autumn Gathering
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
THE OVER The Edge: Open Readings will be stepping outside its usual venue of the Galway City Library to take part in this year’s Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering in Gort.
Read more ...Love/Hate team to come to Galway TV seminar
Thu, Sep 26, 2013
Actors, writers, and directors of RTÉ’s acclaimed crime drama Love/Hate come to Galway next month for a major seminar on television.
Read more ...Flying to the moon with Marie Jones
Theatre Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2013
TOWN HALL Theatre audiences should be in for a treat next week when Marie Jones’s most recent play, Fly Me To The Moon, arrives for a four night run at the venue.
Read more ...Portumna Shorelines Arts Festival starts today
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
ODAY SEES the opening of the Shorelines Arts Festival, which will be held throughout this weekend, in Portumna, selected as County Galway’s first Village of Culture.
Read more ...Norwegian punk for Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
“HONNINGBARNA ARE so good they could have been genetically modified to be the voice of a modern punk generation,” according to The Fly.
Read more ...Moving statues and the rural vernacular
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE MOMENTOUS Irish summer of 1985, with its spate of religious apparitions, is revisited in Gerry Conneely’s new comedy, The Year of Moving Statues, which comes to Druid Theatre next week.
The play has already enjoyed a sell-out run in Conneely’s hometown of Kinvara, and over a weekend chat, he filled me in on its details, beginning with his recollections of 1985.
Read more ...Scottish composer to work with young Galway orchestras
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE SCOTTISH composer James Ross has been appointed the first Composer in Residence to the Galway Music Education Partnership and he will be working with youth orchestras and composers in Galway.
Read more ...From Norway to Galway
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
A POTENTIALLY fascinating play awaits theatre goers to An Taibhdhearc on Saturday September 21 at 8pm, when a Norwegian theatre company takes to the stage.
Amor Plays Piano by Meg Skjelmerud, will be performed by Oslo’s Teater Vildenvei.
Read more ...Power Performance Academy enrols for new term
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
THE POWER Performance Academy is taking enrolments for its new term this Saturday and those aged between four and 17 are invited to go along.
The academy teaches drama, dance, singing, and other disciplines. It also offers different class times for different age profiles. Classes are held every Saturday in Lake View School, Renmore (formerly The Holy Family School).
Read more ...New Galway film wraps up shooting
Thu, Sep 19, 2013
A Galway Film Centre/RTÉ funded short film, The Weather Report, has wrapped and post-production work on it has now begun.
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