Estel to play Sally Longs tonight

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

DUBLIN QUARTET Estel, who are celebrating 10 years together and have recently recorded an album with The Minutemen’s Mike Watt, will play Sally Longs tonight.

A touch of Nashville at The Crane

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

NASHVILLE IS the home of country music, and one of that city’s most respected producers Jim Rooney is returning to his second home of Galway to play a show at The Crane Bar, Sea Road.

Paddy Casey @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

Paddy Casey (pictured) plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday January 23 at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

Galway musician releases new EP

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

GALWAY MUSICIAN Tenaka - aka Ronan Carroll - will release his debut EP, EPonymously Titled, on Saturday as a free download from www.myspace.com/tenakadrifting

One Day International @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

DESPITE BEING named after a type of cricket match, none of the members of the highly promising Irish band One Day International is actually interested in cricket.

Classes and exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THOSE INTERESTED in getting creative for the New Year or who want to be challenged or provoked by the creativity of others should check out the classes and exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre.

Exhibitions

Flock Dance Company classes

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

CAROL LANGSTAFF’S award-winning Flock Dance Company will hold classes in the Galway Rowing Club and Briget’s Garden.

Kinvara poetry readings

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THE NEW Kinvara Poetry Reading Group will read their own poetry and poems they like by others at Greenes’ pub.

Cold Comfort to be performed in Nuns Island Studio

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

COLD COMFORT by Owen McCafferty will be staged by the Hurricane Theatre Company in Nuns Island Studio from Wednesday January 14 to Saturday 17.

Writing workshops

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

Poetry and creative writing

An Asian flavour to this season’s Galway Film Society screenings

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THERE WILL be a strong Asian flavour to this season’s Galway Film Society screenings, with movies from Iran, Turkey, India, Lebanon, and Israel/Palestine to be shown, all dealing with historical and contemporary political issues.

The Galwayman who crossed the outback

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

In 1861 Robert O’Hara Burke from Craughwell, Co Galway, made history by becoming the first white man to cross Australia. In a major new series, TG4 will re-tell and retrace Burke’s epic journey.

Hail thou poetic spirit

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

GIVEN THE flow of negativity that has permeated our daily lives over the last six months, a book that brings with it a sense of positive and sensible calm could be favourably compared with a refreshing elixir of life.

From Yamana Indians to Desmond Fennell

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

THE GIVEN Note: Traditional Music and Irish Poetry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) by Seán Crosson is a substantial book begun as part of Crosson’s research for his doctoral dissertation at the Centre for Irish Studies in NUI, Galway.

Highly praised new novelist to read at Galway City Museum

Thu, Jan 08, 2009

IT IS 1976. Sean Farrell has been mistakenly linked by the State to IRA activity and Emma Balstead, the daughter of a British military attaché officer, has run away from home.

They fall madly in love, but theirs is a doomed affair, the consequences of which play out for years to come. This is Shooting The Moon, the new novel from Robert Fannin.

Cuckoo Savante leave the nest to spread their wings with new album

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

AMONG BIRDS, the cuckoo is the ultimate survivor. Often orphaned at an early age, the young chick will evict all other eggs from a host nest and encourage the host parents to bring it more food thus reaching maturity at a more rapid rate.

Go Russian and romantic this January

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE MUSIC of such great Russian composers as Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, and Mussorgsky will be celebrated and performed in the Town Hall Theatre from January 23 to 25 at 8pm during Music For Galway’s Russian Romantics chamber music festival.

All three main concerts feature chamber music alongside vocal works. The ConTempo Quartet will perform quartets by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Borodin. One of Tchaikovsky’s most popular works for strings, Souvenir de Florence, in its original version for string sextet will be performed by ConTempo together with the violist and cellist of the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Simon Aspell and Christopher Marwood.

Start 2009 with a laugh with Ian Coppinger

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

THE COMEDY Club at Cuba* roars into life in the New Year when it presents a showcase of the cream of Irish talent on Friday January 2.

Galway theatre 2008

Tue, Dec 30, 2008

AND SO the curtain falls on another year of playgoing and diverse theatrical activity; a year that saw much impressive work from both visiting and locally based companies.