Rising comedy star Roisin Conaty to play Laughter Lounge
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
ROISIN CONATY, the pulchritudinous Co Kerry born, London based comic, described by Time Out as “a seriously talented young lady” is coming to Galway.
Read more ...New documentary on Rossport/Shell struggle to be screened at The Eye
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE PIPE, the award-winning Irish documentary on Rossport’s struggle against the economic might of Shell, will be screened in The Eye cinema in Wellpark on Saturday December 4.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE NEXT screening by the Little Cinema Short Film Club takes place on Tuesday, upstairs in Kelly’s Bar.
The club screens amateur and professional short films. Filmmakers are welcome to submit their films to screen to the public at the club. The director will introduce the film before the screening. There is an entry fee of €3 with the submitter getting in free.
Read more ...The Coronas - foreign adventures and hanging with Macca
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
DECEMBER IS going to be a amazing month for music fans in the city as three of Ireland’s leading bands - Two Door Cinema Club, Villagers, and The Coronas - come to Galway for a series of major ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concerts.
Read more ...Flann O’Brien’s Slattery’s Sago Saga comes to Town Hall
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
ONE OF the highlights of the Town Hall Theatre’s current season takes place next week with Performance Corporation’s uproarious staging of Flann O’Brien’s unfinished comic novel Slattery’s Sago Saga, adapted by Arthur Riordain.
Read more ...Saturday night jazz with the great Chris Potter
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
“ONE OF the best saxophonists on the planet,” is how The Guardian has described American jazz musician Chris Potter who plays Galway this weekend.
Chris Potter’s Underground - which features Potter, Adam Rogers (guitar), and Craig Taborn (Fender Rhodes) - play the Radisson Live Lounge this Sunday at 7pm as part of the Galway Jazz Festival.
Read more ...Huston and O’Toole to collaborate on new film
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE ACTOR Peter O’Toole and director John Huston have been associated with County Galway for more than six decades.
Read more ...John O’Conor to play Town Hall
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
JOHN O’CONOR, the internationally acclaimed Irish pianist, returns to the Town Hall Theatre next week to play the music of Beethoven, Chopin, and Field.
Read more ...Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere comes to the stage
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
GALWAY’S CROI8 Productions will perform the Irish stage premiere of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere at the Town Hall Theatre studio from December 8 to 11.
Read more ...Make a choice with ALâ at Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
SCHOOL BULLYING and a troubled child in the home are the themes of two plays which will be staged under the title Choices by ALâ Community Theatre, in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.
Read more ...Blue Teapot Theatre Co table quiz
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE BLUE Teapot Theatre Company will hold a fund raising table quiz at Lohan’s Bar, Salthill, on Tuesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Daithi Ó Dronaí to headline Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
DAITHÍ Ó Dronaí, the immensely talented fiddle player, who injects Irish trad with a dose of youthful swagger, headlines the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Legendary Nomeansno to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
PUNK AND hardcore fans in Galway are in for a treat at the end of this month when the legendary Nomeansno and Pack a.d play the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Get the reggae vibe with Gussie P
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
LEADING REGGAE producer Gussie P, brass player Matic Horns, and singer Robbie Valentine play Cuba* tomorrow for a night of bass-heavy roots reggae.
Read more ...INTINN live @ Bakers Place, Limerick!
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
Intinn are a six piece Reggae band from the West of Ireland.
Read more ...Electric Danes to jazz up Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
IBRAHIM ELECTRIC, the exciting Danish jazz-funk trio, play Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9.30pm as part of the Galway Jazz Festival 2010.
Read more ...Alex Kidd returns to the GPO
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
WITH A lifelong obsession for fast and furious beats, DJ Alex Kidd is regarded as one of the true innovators of harder-edged electronic music - and he’s coming to Galway.
Read more ...Conor Biggs to sing Schubert in NUIG
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
FRANZ SCHUBERT’S song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin will be performed in Galway next week by the acclaimed Irish bass singer Conor Biggs.
Read more ...Ian Shaw and Phil Ware Trio to jazz it up this weekend
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
“THE PHIL Ware Trio are responsible for repeatedly raising the standard to the piano trio in Ireland.”
Read more ...See an artist at work in Kenny’s
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE ARTIST Ben Maile will give a painting demonstration in The Kenny Gallery, this Saturday at 2pm, with all proceeds going towards Cancer Care West and the GSPCA.
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