Cahoots’ Pied Piper goes operatic

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

ONE OF the more intriguing shows at this year’s Baboró festival for children is The Musician from Northern Ireland’s Cahoots Theatre Company.

Laughing ladies

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

“I’D MUCH rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.”

Galway Theatre Festival unveils programme

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

GALWAY’S SECOND annual theatre festival takes place from October 20 to 25 and details of this year’s programme were announced at its press launch recently in Massimo’s Bar.

McAleer and Capurro added to Galway Comedy Festival bill

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

KEVIN MCALEER and Scott Cappuro have been added to the line-up of the Galway Comedy Festival which takes place from October 21 to 25.

The brilliant Scott Capurro will bring his conversational style of deadly and daring comedy to The Ruby Rooms at The King’s Head on Saturday October 24 at 6pm. The show, Scott Capurro’s Uncensored Position will see Scott interview a roster of guests in pursuit of the most personal revelations, the most intimate insights, and two hours of guaranteed hilarity.

Help Pio tell her story for Baboró

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

PIO IS determined to tell a story, she has it all in her imagination but finds it difficult to get it out of there. She needs the audience to help her tell her fabulous tale.

Athenry Musical Society auditions

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE ATHENRY Musical Society is seeking actors, actresses, singers, dancers, volunteers, and helpers for its forthcoming production All Shook Up.

Imelda May plays the ‘Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

Dublin’s queen of rockabilly Imelda May (pictured) plays a ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ show at the Black Box Theatre on Wednesday October 28 at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and the Town Hall. She will also play the TF Royal Theatre Castlebar on Friday October 30 at 7.30pm. Tickets are available on www.ticketmaster.ie as well as from the Royal Theatre Box Office on 0818 300 000.

Enter the world of Richmond Fontaine at Kelly’s

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

RICHMOND FONTAINE, the Portland, Oregon, Americana band led by vocalist, songwriter, and novelist Willy Vlautin, play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday October 16 at 8.30pm.

The return of Jinx Lennon

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

JINX LENNON, the agit-folk singer-songwriter and social commentator, returns to the Róisín Dubh next Monday at 9pm, where he will be joined by solo singer Miss Paula Flynn.

The Saw Doctors’ Hallowe’en concert

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE SAW Doctors will play the Warwick Hotel, Salthill, on Hallowe’en night, Saturday October 31 to promote the upcoming release of The Best of The Saw Doctors.

Jonathan Richman and a silent disco

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

The legendary Jonathan Richman (pictured) will bring his world music influenced rock’n’roll to Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight at 8pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago. Straight afterwards Gugai and the Gigantic DJs will host s silent disco. It’s free in to those who go to the show or €5 including pint of Bavaria to others.

Celebrate Haydn with Music For Galway

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THIS YEAR marks the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Haydn, one of the giants of classical music. To mark this occasion, Galway will hear Haydn’s music performed by The Haydn Trio Eisenstadt.

Sheridan’s to host Ireland’s first Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

POETRY SLAMS, where poets recite works from memory and deliver them in a theatrical style, have been taking place for years, but a new phenomenon is coming to town - The Fiction Slam.

Galway will introduce people to this new style of literary event when the Over The Edge fiction slam takes place on Friday October 16 at 8pm in Sheridan’s Wine Bar.

Sacred music from Resurgam

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE RESURGAM chamber choir will explore the world of the spirit and the sacred with Anglican, Russian Orthodox, and devotional music and song in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Sunday at 8pm.

Junior Galway Film Fleadh seeks scripts from budding young writers

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

GALWEGIANS AGED between 13 and 18 and who are interested in film and writing are being sought to take part in the Junior Galway Film Fleadh/SpunOut.ie annual story pitch competition.

The Metropolitan Opera is live at The Eye

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

THE EYE Cinema in Wellpark in association with Opera Ireland will host The Metropolitan Opera, New York, to its screens this weekend.

The bigger they come, the harder they fall

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

DESPITE IT’S somewhat dramatic opening, “On 18 August 1588 a barque of Southampton was fishing about 36 miles southeast of Sumburgh Head, Shetland, when the crew sighted the Spanish Armada approaching from over the horizon to the south,” The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland by Ken Douglas, published by Gill & Macmillan, begins where the romance and the glory of that most colourful of invasions ended and the inevitably tragic and sordid debacle began.

De Valera, the pragmatist hero

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

DURING REFERENDA on European treaties - such as during the recet Lisbon Treaty campaign - you will meet the odd excitable type who’ll tell you that he’s voting No because some closet member of Youth Defence or the Communist Party of Ireland told him the treaty would end Irish neutrality.

Poetry inspired by angles and The Claddagh

Thu, Oct 08, 2009

LIFE, LOVE, loss, angels and overcoming adversity are the themes of a new collection on poetry from The Claddagh’s Seán Connolly.

Steve Earle - set to celebrate Townes Van Zandt in Galway next month

Thu, Oct 01, 2009

THROUGHOUT THE 1980s Steve Earle was the poster boy of the Outlaw Country Music scene. Taking inspiration from Gram Parsons, Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and Waylon Jennings his music had a harder edge than the pop-oriented Nashville sound of the time.

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