Earth Star returns to Monroe’s Live
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
EARTH STAR returns to Monroe’s Live on Thursday October 14 from 9pm for a night of trad and ambient from live bands and DJs.
Read more ...Zion Train rolls into town
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
ZION TRAIN, the dub/dance pioneers and undisputed leaders in the genre for more than 15 years, play Cuba*Live this Saturday at 9pm.
Read more ...Rusted Rail night @ Cítog
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
THREE ACTS on the independent Galway label Rusted Rail will play Cítog at The Cellar, Eglinton Street, tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Johnny Duhan @ Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
JOHNNY DUHAN will perform his latest album, the critically acclaimed The Burning Word, in the Galway Arts Centre on Friday October 15 at 8pm.
Read more ...Back In The Day
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
After the phenomenal response to their first house classics party earlier this year, Disconauts Padraic & Keith are going back to their roots again this Saturday 9 October in Deeper with a selection of house, disco, proto-house (and perhaps even pop) anthems from the vaults that have helped form the Disconauts' sound and indeed the sound of today's house music.
Read more ...The bird is the word @ The Laughter Lounge
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
RADIO BIRDMAN might have sung about ‘More Fun’ but Markus Birdman can promise plenty of it when he comes to Galway next week.
Read more ...Poetry with a Galway accent
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
TAKING US from the harsh realities of Baile Crua to the cautious serenity of the Spiddal bogs, Rita Ann Higgins’ new book Hurting God - part essay, part rhyme (Salmon) is a short but intense spiritual autobiography.
Read more ...Hawaii Five-O and streams of consciousness
Thu, Oct 07, 2010
DRIFTING UNDER The Moon, published by Dedalus Press, is the second book by Westport’s Ger Reidy. Unlike most poets, Reidy has a proper job – he is a civil engineer with the Mayo County Council.
This perhaps accounts for the long gap between the publication of his debut in 1998 and this book’s appearance. Reidy’s territory is the smalltown nearly rural landscape that was most of Ireland until the 1970s.
Read more ...MET Opera star to join Music for Galway for its anniversary gala and concert
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
MUSIC FOR Galway is proud to announce that Metropolitan Opera star Rodion Pogossov has agreed to come to Galway to celebrate MFG’s 30th Anniversary Season on Saturday October 16, at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Get sprung out with The Rubberbandits
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
LIMERICK COMEDY/hip-hop duo The Rubberbandits first came to prominence when their prank phone calls were featured on Irish and international radio.
Read more ...The Very Hungry Caterpillar at Baboró
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
ERIC CARLE’S The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of the world’s best-loved children’s stories, having sold some 30 million copies internationally since it was first published in 1969.
Now Nova Scotia’s Mermaid Theatre Company have brought Carle’s classic story to the stage in a stunningly beautiful blacklight puppet production which is sure to be one of the highlights of this year’s Baboró festival.
Read more ...Galway actresses perform in US theatre festival
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
GALWAY BASED Jasango Theatre has been invited to take part in the Celtic Classic Festival in Pennsylvania, USA.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival fundraising event
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
A MUSIC Bingo, Spelling Bee, and Yes No Interlude will be held to raise funds for the Galway Theatre Festival which runs from October 25 to 31.
These fun events will take place on Thursday October 7 from 8pm in the Galway Arms, Dominick Street, and finger food will be provided.
Read more ...A promise of great songs from Marc Roberts
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
SINGER, SONGWRITER, DJ, and broadcaster, Marc Roberts grew up listening to American country classics and British and Irish pop in his native Crossmolina, County Mayo.
Read more ...English folk legends for The Crane
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
FORMER MEMBERS of Pentangle, as well as Beverly Martyn and Mary Coughlan are part of a very exciting line-up of gigs in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, in the coming weeks.
Read more ...Guitar, farewells, and French flair @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
OCTOBER STARTS tomorrow and is a feast if you are a comedy and/or theatre fan with both the Galway Comedy Festival and Galway Theatre Festival taking place.
Read more ...General Fiasco to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
NORTHERN IRELAND is on a musical roll these days, with Two Door Cinema Club, Not Squares, and Japanese Popstars - showing that some of the best Irish bands right now are from up north.
Read more ...DJ Shadow plays Radisson on Saturday
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
DJ SHADOW, one of the world’s leading and most innovative DJs, will play the Live Lounge in the Radisson Blu Hotel this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...The best of world cinema for Indreabhán
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
THE GIRL With The Dragon Tattoo will kick start an impressive season of European films to be shown in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, this autumn.
Read more ...Jinx Lennon @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
JINX LENNON, the Co Louth agit-folk troubadour, will bring his hard hitting and witty rants against mediocrity, racism, and the current state of society, to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow.
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