City West Side Story - the Musical
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
THE SPECTACULAR rise and traumatic fall of the Celtic Tiger is chronicled in a new comedy musical which will be performed as part of this year’s Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...Afrikan Simba @ Cuba*Live
Thu, Oct 14, 2010
AFRIKAN SIMBA, the award winning Nigerian born, London based reggae MC, will play the next Rootical session at Cuba*Live tomorrow at 10pm.
Read more ...Jimeoin - the world through antipodean eyes
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
FOR MORE than two decades Irish actor and comedian Jimeoin has been a household name in Australia but on Thursday October 21 he returns to Ireland to play The Galway Comedy Festival.
Read more ...The Dubliners to play Galway in aid of An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE DUBLINERS were formed in 1962 by Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Ciaran Bourke, and Barney McKenna and initially were known as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group.
Read more ...Enjoy a double date with Rich Hall
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
AN AMBASSADOR may spoil you with Ferrero Rocher but the Galway Comedy Festival is spoiling us with two shows from the legendary Rich Hall.
Read more ...Hit play Little Gem for Town Hall
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
AFTER SELL-out seasons in New York, London, and Paris and a sold-out seven week run at Ireland’s National Theatre and a run at the Olympia, Gúna Nua and Civic Theatre bring the smash-hit bittersweet comedy Little Gem to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday October 18 and Tuesday 19.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival announces new script readings shortlist
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
FOLLOWING SUBMISSIONS from all corners of the country, the Galway Theatre Festival reading panel has just announced its shortlist for Stage Write, the festival’s rehearsed reading series.
Read more ...Echoa - an 'awe-inspiring' children's dance show
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
AN ELECTRIFYING performance of exhilarating dance and percussion awaits Galway children when the acclaimed show Echoa comes to town.
Read more ...Kri Kra Kro to bring children on amazing journeys
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
TWO FRIENDS go on a fantastic journey, through an unknown space, which starts to fill with images and sounds. This is Kri Kra Kro.
Read more ...New punk/new wave DJ night
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
LOST CHORD guitarist Eoin Reilly and local DJ Byron Yates will start a new weekly punk and new wave DJ night.
It takes place upstairs in the Róisín Dubh, starting this Tuesday. If you want to hear some of the best songs from the 1977 to 1982 era, get yourself along to their sets every Tuesday.
Read more ...Keep a Valentine’s date with Mogwai
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THERE IS a date you have to keep on Valentines Day 2011, a special rendezvous that you cannot afford too miss - it’s in Galway and it’s with Mogwai.
Read more ...O Emperor @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
O EMPEROR have created much excitement since their emergence onto the live scene over the past 12 months, and this month should see them step up to the next level.
Read more ...Mick Flannery @ Kelly’s
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
MICK FLANNERY will play Kelly’s on Thursday October 14 and the show will be broadcast live on Raidió na Gaeltachta’s An Caifé Ceoil.
Support on the night comes from Cork singer-songwriter Mick Flannery and Galway folk’n’roll group A Band Called Wanda. The gig is part of RTÉ’s Big Music Week 2010.
Read more ...The return of Beverly Martyn
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
SHE WAS a friend of Nick Drake, made two albums with her former husband, the late John Martyn, and has worked with Paul Simon - she is Beverly Martyn.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
ELAINE FEENEY, one of the most promising new voices in Irish poetry will read at the North Beach Poetry Nights on Monday at 9pm in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...New Philip Lindey exhibition in Norman Villa
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE INIMITABLE Philip Lindey unveils an exhibition of new paintings at Salthill’s Norman Villa gallery tomorrow evening.
Read more ...Latvian State Choir to celebrate Arvo Pärt in Galway
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
GALWAY CITY will celebrate the 75th birthday of the renowned Estonian classical composer Arvo Pärt with a major concert next week.
Read more ...BULK - a voyage into industry and capitalism
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
DURING APRIL and May, artist Niamh Heery embarked on a 24-day transatlantic voyage on a freighter ship from Buenos Aires to London.
Read more ...The Other Guys
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE OTHER Guys takes the cringy moments from cop movies, and there have been plenty, to produce a laugh-a-minute look at one section of the New York City police where the heroes are worshipped like gods by their bootlicking colleagues and where there is always one idiot, cue Will Ferrell.
Read more ...The Metropolitan Opera season live at The Eye
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THE 2010/2011 season of performances from The Metropolitan Opera will be transmitted live via satellite from New York to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.
The 2010-11 MET Live season features 12 live opera transmissions and opens this Saturday at 6pm with a new production of Wagner’s Das Rheingold by maestro James Levine and director Robert Lepage.
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