Crane to host new trad album launches

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

THE CRANE Bar will host a double album launch from musicians Claire Keville and Kathleen Loughnane on Saturday at 6.30pm.

Claire has just released her new album The Daisy Field and Kathleen has released The Harpers Connellan. Both women will play tracks from the albums as the gig.

Sumbrellas headline charity gig for Peru

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

GALWAY BLUEGRASS and folk-rock band The Sumbrellas are among the acts playing the Atlantic Language Galway charity concert in aid of Hogar San Francisco de Asis on Monday at 8pm.

Recession-busting exhibition at White Room Gallery

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

THE WHITE Room Gallery, in the Liosban Industrial Estate will tomorrow open an exhibition entitled 10x10. It will feature 10 new pieces by 10 artists, each measuring 10 inches by 10 inches, and each piece is for sale for €100.

This is an amazing opportunity to buy a piece of art by some of the most exciting artists around at an unbelievable price. At only €100 per piece of work, this is a rare chance for art lovers with a tight budget to get their hands on new and captivating work.

Celebrate Christmas with ConTempo

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

THE BRILLIANT ConTempo will perform a series of Christmas concerts from Tuesday December 8 to Wednesday 16, at a variety of venues in Galway.

Abbey actor to read at Loughrea book launch

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

ABBEY ACTOR Declan Conlon will read from the Loughrea Creative Writing Group’s new edition of its yearly anthology Razzle Dazzle.

Cinema review: 2012

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

FROM THE director of The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, and Godzilla, Roland Emmerich again lives up to the reputation of his previous works and blows us away with his vast selection of unbelievable special effects in his latest release; 2012.

My book of the year

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

WHILE THE new technical innovations have made books much easier and more convenient to access, and while some of these innovations may even threaten the very future of the physical book as we know it today, they have not yet managed to compromise the element of surprise and sheer delight that an unexpected book find will bring, or replicate in any way the full ‘Book Buying Experience’.

All poetry’s children

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

A NEW series of poetry collections - In Sight of Home by Nessa O’Mahony, Pluto’s Noon Sky by Gary King, and Playing Poohsticks on Ha’Penny Bridge by Edward Lee - illustrate that there is no right way and no wrong way to write poetry.

Galway launch for new book on CIE and GAA links

Thu, Dec 03, 2009

FOR MANY people getting to the big GAA matches over the years there was only one option - take the train or get the bus, now the links between CIE and THE GAA are explored in a new book.

Lisa Hannigan - out from the shadows, into the spotlight

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

JUST UNDER 10 years ago Lisa Hannigan drifted into the public consciousness as the otherworldly backing vocalist in Damien Rice’s band and featured prominently on Rice’s chart-topping debut album O.

Giveamanakick - Galway made them

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

GIVEAMANAKICK, the Limerick duo who have blazed a trail across Ireland with their ferocious hardcore/punk/heavy rock and incendiary live shows are calling it a day.

London-Irish violinist to perform Handel in Galway

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

MUSIC BY the great Georg Friedrich Händel will be performed by the classical duo Gandolpho in a concert entitled Handel 250 Years/Joyful Mystery on Wednesday December 2 at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.

Merchant of Venice in Black Box

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

GALWAY’S ONE Shot World Productions bring their dark version of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice to the Black Box Theatre shortly in a run that will see the hard-working cast present 10 performances in just four days from December 7 to 10, with starting times of 11am, 2pm, and 8pm.

Come dance with The Mulkerrin Brothers

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

THE MULKERRIN Brothers, winners of the first RTÉ All-Ireland Talent Show, are about to embark on their first Irish tour which takes in dates in Galway and Castlebar.

Annie at Town Hall

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

THE MUCH loved musical Annie will be performed at the Town Hall Theatre by the Performing Arts School Galway next month.

NUIG Orchestra concert for Zikomo

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

THE NUI Galway Chamber Orchestra will hold a fundraising concert for Zikomo in the upper Aula Maxima, NUIG, on Monday at 8pm.

Athenry Musical Society’s cabaret night

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

THE ATHENRY Musical Society will host its popular annual cabaret in the Raheen Woods Hotel, De Burgo Suite, tomorrow evening.

The cabaret will feature a candle lit supper followed by songs from the musicals performed by past and present musical cast members.

Telling truths with Laura Izibor

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

AT JUST 15 Dublin schoolgirl Laura Izibor won the 2FM/Jacob’s Song Contest and her winning song ‘Compatible’ received significant airplay. Hotpress chose her as its ‘Hot for 2006’ artist and she became the first unsigned artist to win a Meteor Award.

Adrian Crowley to headline folk-rock night @ Kelly’s

Thu, Nov 26, 2009

THREE SUPERB folk-rock singer-songwriters - Barna’s Adrian Crowley and Scots James Yorkston and Alasdair Roberts - play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday December 4 at 9pm.