Galway Early Music Festival returns next month

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE SIXTEENTH Galway Early Music Festival returns to the mediaeval streets of Galway city from May 19 to 22.

Martin Staunton & The Lost Parade @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

MARTIN STAUNTON & The Lost Parade will bring their folk-rock styled sound to Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 8pm.

The band is centred around Martin and his sister Emma. Although they are originally from East Galway, they are based in Dublin and regularly play venues like Whelans, The Button Factory, and Vicar Street. The Monroe’s show will be their debut Galway city gig.

Mickey Finn on Wikipedia

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE LEGENDARY Galway fiddler Mickey Finn died on Spy Wednesday 1987 and to mark the 24th anniversary of his passing, a Wikipedia page on the man has been set up.

Do you haiku?

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE JAPANESE haiku is a poetic form which many poets enjoy the challenge of trying to write and now Galway haiku poets have a place to share their work.

Squarehead - bringing the surf-rock vibe to town

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

SIXTIES STYLED vocal harmonies and upbeat, chirpy, and melodic old skool indie combine in the nicest way in the music of Dublin band Squarehead.

The Walls @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE WALLS were originally a band centred on brothers Joe and Steve Wall, but this year finds them in a new incarnation.

The Walls play Monroe’s Live on Friday April 29 at 9.30pm and the audience will be treated to a very unusual spectacle - the two brothers playing a variety of instruments in front of a projection screen where the rest of their band will appear to accompany them in perfect sync.

Community Skratch Games 2011 @ 126

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE COMMUNITY Skratch Games 2011, celebrating turntable manipulation and sample culture, opens this evening at 8pm at the 126 Gallery, Queen Street.

The opening will see the launch of Deviant & Naive Ted’s Send In The Hounds 12”. This is an Irish folk based record, created from a box of dusty old records, performed, compiled and arranged by hand with minimal digital manipulation.

Nonceptual exhibition at 126

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

YOU HAVE heard of conceptual art, but have you ever heard of the nonceptualists? No? Then take a look at the exhibition in the 126 Gallery on Queen Street.

Exhibition at Ard Bia

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE ARD Bia restaurant at the Spanish Arch will host an exhibition of paintings of the west coast of Ireland by José María Yagüe Manzanares.

Submissions sought for art exhibition

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

OUTSIDE: INSIGHT, an outdoor exhibition for Brigit’s Garden, in co-operation with Galway Arts Centre, takes place from July 10 to September 4. The organisers are seeking submissions and are inviting artists to create or submit work that responds to the natural and architectural landscape of the site. For descriptions and photographs of the gardens see www.brigitsgarden.ie

Anne Mangan exhibition @ Renzo Café

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE ARTIST Anne Mangan is currently exhibiting her paintings, largely inspired by the beauty of nature, as well as quaint images of the home, in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Apr 21, 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.

Capriccio live from New York @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

RICHARD STRAUSS’ Capriccio, starring American soprano Renée Fleming, will be broadcast live from The Metropolitan Opera, New York, to The Eye Cinema in Wellpark.

Hip hop comedy from Abandoman

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

HIP HOP comedy duo Abandoman do not turn up to a show with prepared songs. They create songs based solely on audience suggestions.

Thirty Minute Film Festival

Thu, Apr 21, 2011

THE THIRTY Minute Film Festival, involving 30 short films, each one minute in length, is a new strand which will form part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh.

This new festival, a collaboration between the Galway Film Centre and Input Media, is seeking films to screen. Two winners will be chosen from the selected entries.

Stephen Murray - from battered wives’ home to a House of Bees

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

THIS SUNDAY at the Druid Lane Theatre, Salmon Publishing will launch House of Bees, the striking debut collection of poetry by Galway based writer Stephen Murray.

Laura Sheeran - witches, harps, and Gothic lullabies

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

LAURA SHEERAN has two reasons to celebrate this month. On April 19 she celebrate sher birthday and two days earlier, on Sunday April 17, she will launch of her debut album - The Fresh Blood/Lust Of Pig.

Jape and O’Death to rock Galway for Coors Light Live

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

GALWAY WILL be rocking out to the music of leading Irish and American indie acts when the Coors Light Live event comes to Galway next month.

Dear Frankie returns to Town Hall

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

FOR MORE than 20 years, agony aunt Frankie Byrne ruled supreme on Irish airwaves with her iconic radio show, The Women’s Page.

Micheal O’Loughlin to launch new book

Thu, Apr 14, 2011

THE POET Micheal O’Loughlin will launch his new collection In This Life in this Town Hall Theatre bar this Saturday at 5pm.

The launch is part of the Cúirt international Festival of Literature and the guest speaker will be City Arts Officer James C Harrold.

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