Two chances to see Tumbling Bones
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
AMERICAN BLUEGRASS, folk, and blues band Tumbling Bones play Foyles Hotel, Clifden, tonight and Kelly’s in Galway city on Wednesday August 1.
Read more ...The Importance of Being Earnest at Monroe’s
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
OSCAR WILDE’S theatrical masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, will be staged in Monroe’s Live today and tomorrow.
Read more ...Classical concert with Galway Sinfonietta
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
GALWAY SINFONIETTA will perform Glazunov’s Saxophone Concerto, Anton Dvorak’s three Slavonic Dances, and ‘Romance’ by Finzi in NUI Galway on Saturday.
Read more ...Deadline looms for submissions to TULCA 2012
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
THE DEADLINE for Irish and international artists working in any media, who wish to submit work for the TULCA 2012 visual arts festival is Monday August 13.
Read more ...An electrician at the edge of madness
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
DARREN KILLEEN of Game of Thrones and Ros Na Rún, stars in the one man show Sparks, in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday at 3pm.
Read more ...Big Whiskey @ HALO
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
BIG WHISKEY will bring their funky bass lines and fiery vocals to the HALO stage tonight followed by Deuces Wild tomorrow.
Read more ...Planet of sound
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
BLUR IS a band I’ve long had a difficult relationship with - from loving their early psychedelic indie pop, then despising their Britpop era, to regaining admiration for the quartet’s late 1990s triumphs.
Read more ...Strange Brew Summer Shindig
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
THE STRANGE Brew Summer Shindig returns to the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 2 with a stellar line-up of some of the best indie acts in Ireland.
Read more ...Fringe Festival Grande Finale @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
A HOST OF some of the best local bands will take to the stage of Monroe’s Live for the Galway Fringe Festival Grande Finale concert this Sunday at 9pm.
Read more ...Citóg @ The Cellar
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
THE LAST Citóg to take place on a Friday night will be held tomorrow when The Souterrain, The West Nile Ramblers, Appian Way, and July Hawk take to the stage.
Come August the night, which supports and promotes independent music, will be held on Thursdays.
Read more ...Ben Reel @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
COUNTY ARMAGH singer-songwriter Ben Reel plays Monroe’s Live tonight at 9pm.
Ben is currently promoting his best of album Ben Reel 10 1999 - 2009 which showcases his Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young influenced roots, blues, and soul songwriting style.
Read more ...Sam Amidon @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
THERE WILL be songs - some sacred, some secular; there will be storytelling, and maybe some field recordings and cartoon videos to watch while you listen.
Read more ...Kormac band leader of Kormac’s Big Band
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Either on-stage with the band or at home, cooking and listening to Newstalk’s Off The Ball.
Either on-stage with the band or at home, cooking and listening to Newstalk’s Off The Ball.
Read more ...Mary Coughlan to play Inishbofin
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
THE GREAT jazz-blues singer Mary Coughlan, will be among the performers taking part in the Inishbofin Concerts series which takes place in the island’s Dolphin Hotel on Tuesdays.
Read more ...Galway Fringe art exhibition
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
ART OF Galway, the main art exhibition at the Galway Fringe Festival, featuring numerous local artists, is on show in the Dominican Hall in The Claddagh.
The exhibition features Human Collage by Ali Raza, exploring in the dark side in an expressionist style; The Insomniac is a cinematic narrative by Enda Burke; Symbiosis series of photos by Lara Luxardi; Tara Breathnach’s Saothair on Iarthar, inspired by the west of Ireland; Deirdre Deegan’s prints examining the process of decay, entitled What’s left Behind; Joanna Kasinska will exhibit conceptual ceramics; and An Spidéal’s Ruth Cadden will display landscape, figurative, and mythological paintings and drawings.
Read more ...Theatre and music on Inis Oírr
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
SINGER-SONGWRITER Juliet Turner and Geraldine Aron’s comic play My Brilliant Divorce can both be seen on Inis Oírr this weekend.
Read more ...Kate Hodmon exhibition
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
PLACE, THE new exhibition by Galway artist Kate Hodmon opens at Padraig’s Restaurant & bar on Dock Road on Monday.
Read more ...Trad lunchtimes at Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
IF YOU love Irish trad and fancy hearing some music during your lunch break then head down to Monroe’s for the Galway Arts Festival Trad Lunchtimes.
Today will see the box and fiddle duo of David Munnelly and John Kilkenny perform. David has performed with the Chieftains on numerous occasions.
Read more ...Stiúideo na Coiríbe exhibition
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
PARTICIPANTS IN the Stiúideo na Coiríbe art school with artist Jim Kavanagh, will host an exhibition of their work at The Oslo Bar, Salthill, this evening at 6.30pm.
Read more ...John Daly to go Deeper @ The Cellar
Thu, Jul 26, 2012
JOHN DALY, the DJ and founder of Feel Music and One Track Records, will be spinning the decks at Deeper in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.
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