O Emperor and Adebisi Shank for FMC Tour
Thu, May 19, 2011
FROM MAJESTIC, melodic, pop/rock to outrageous, fret burning, post-rock workouts, the FMC Tour, featuring Adebisi Shank and O Emperor, has it and the tour is coming to Galway.
Read more ...Seán Tyrrell & friends @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 19, 2011
THE GREAT folk-singer-songwriter Seán Tyrrell, fiddle player Kevin Glackin, and uilleann piper Ronan Browne have joined forces to produce a new album and they are taking it on the road.
Read more ...Sharon Shannon @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 19, 2011
SHARON SHANNON will play a special charity show in aid of the Animal Heaven Animal Rescue in Monroe’s Live on Wednesday June 22.
Read more ...Appalachia and Ireland mix in I Draw Slow
Thu, May 19, 2011
FANS OF roots, Irish trad, Americana, folk, and old-time music, will be looking forward to Irish quintet I Draw Slow, who will launch their new album in Galway this weekend.
Read more ...Rita Ann Higgins to read at Over The Edge
Thu, May 19, 2011
RITA ANN HIGGINS, one of Galway’s greatest and most outspoken poets, will read at the May Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, on Thursday May 26 at 6.30pm.
Rita Ann first came to national attention in 1986 with her collection Goddess on the Mervue Bus. Her most recent book Hurting God – Part Essay Part Rhyme was published last year by Salmon.
Read more ...Galway Early Music Festival starts today
Thu, May 19, 2011
TODAY, TOMORROW, Saturday, and Sunday, the narrow streets of Galway city centre’s mediaeval past will come alive with mediaeval music for the 16th annual Galway Early Music Festival.
Read more ...Murray & Falkenau to launch debut album
Thu, May 19, 2011
ANNA FALKENAU is from Germany and lives in Galway and across Ireland she has won acclaim for her Irish traditional fiddle playing.
Read more ...Who dares imitate Jack Sparrow at The Eye?
Thu, May 19, 2011
IF YOU are going to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark to see Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, you could be in with a chance to win some swashbuckling presents.
The Eye has teamed up with Disney Ireland to give movie goers a chance to win some Pirates of the Caribbean goodie bags. To be in with a chance of winning, go to The Eye, put on Captain Jack Sparrow’s legendary wig (available at the cinema) and give your finest impression of the most popular pirate of the seven seas!
Read more ...Super8 Shots Film Festival calls for submissions
Thu, May 19, 2011
GALWAY CITY and Inis Óirr set the stage for this year’s Super8 Shots Film Festival, an independent festival promoting small medium format film-making.
Read more ...Garvey’s comedy open mic night
Thu, May 19, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.
Read more ...Galway Baroque Singers’ summer concert
Thu, May 19, 2011
THE GALWAY BAROQUE SINGERS’ summer concert takes place in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Saturday May 28 at 8pm.
The Baroques, under director Audrey Corbett, will perform choral music of different moods, rhythms, and harmonies, as well as perform works from the more light-hearted side of their repertoire. They will be joined by violinist Eamon Rabbitte and pianist Morgan Cooke.
Read more ...The Pride of Parnell Street
Thu, May 12, 2011
FISHAMBLE THEATRE Company brings its hugely successful revival of The Pride of Parnell Street to the Town Hall Theatre for one night only on Friday May 20.
Read more ...Go Panda Go - dare to think, dare to act
Thu, May 12, 2011
GO PANDA Go began life as a duo in County Donegal before relocating to Galway where they became a quartet, and then come the New Year, they expanded to a quintet.
Read more ...Get Up Close & Personal with Frankie Gavin
Thu, May 12, 2011
FRANKIE GAVIN “is a true fiddle-playing genius, one who continues to inspire and dumbfound in equal measure,” so said The Scotsman about the Galwayman.
Read more ...And now for something completely different... DoDo Theatre Company’s The Pump
Thu, May 12, 2011
FOR THE third week of the JOLT season of new work at the Town Hall Studio, newly-formed Galway theatre company, DoDo Theatre present The Pump.
Read more ...Here We Are Again Still at Town Hall
Thu, May 12, 2011
PADDY SITS on a bench by a soccer pitch. He sits there every night because he cannot sleep and he is still grieving for his wife who has passed away.
Read more ...Burke & Scott to perform Irish Session Suite at Town Hall
Thu, May 12, 2011
KEVIN BURKE and Cal Scott, along with RTÉ Vandbrugh String Quartet, are bringing their Irish Session Suite, featuring traditional tunes arranged in the classical style, to the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Lee Evans to play Black Box
Thu, May 12, 2011
THE HUGELY popular English comedian Lee Evans will play The Black Box Theatre on Wednesday June 15 and Thursday 16.
Read more ...Michelle Conroy exhibition
Thu, May 12, 2011
THE PAINTER, sculptor, and soprano singer, Michelle Conroy, will host her new exhibition Whispers in The Painter's Palette Moycullen.
Michelle’s work is influenced by her home environment which is within sight of the Partry Mountains in Co Mayo.
Read more ...Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 12, 2011
IDLEWILD’S LEAD singer Roddy Woomble is taking time out from his duties with his band to tour and promote his new album The Impossible Song & Other Songs.
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