Galway Jazz Festival takes place this weekend
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
“RICK MARGITZA is simply a great tenor player.” This verdict, on the saxophonist who plays Galway this weekend, was passed by no less a person than Miles Davis.
Read more ...A jazz odyssey
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
SCHIPHOL AIRPORT, one of the busiest airport hubs in Europe has witnessed many a bizarre journey but perhaps fewer stranger than the personal odyssey that began during a lay-over in 2002.
Wandering through the airport shops, which were of a higher quality than usual, three jazz CDs caught my eye - Lionel Hampton’s Mai 1956, Eddy Louis’s Bohemia After Dark, and Art Blakey’s 1958 Paris Olympia. All three were part of a series called Jazz in Paris, a distinctive feature of which was the cover image - a black and white photograph of a contemporary Parisian scene.
Read more ...Breaking Bad and X-Files writer is coming to Galway
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
VINCE GILLIGAN, the writer/producer on The X-Files, and creator and writer of cult hit TV series, Breaking Bad, is coming to Galway next month.
Read more ...New season of world cinema for Seanscoil Sailearna
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
MY AFTERNOONS With Marguerite, starring Gérard Depardieu, will be the opening film for the autumn season of World Cinema in Club Scannan Sailearna, Indreabhán.
This French feel good film from 2010, stars Depardieu as Germain who lives a quiet life until the day he meets Margueritte, an old lady whose work as a scientist took her all over the world. Before long a true bond of affection unites them, and Germain realises he has the right to take control of his destiny.
Read more ...Galway Omniplex Facebook competition
Thu, Sep 29, 2011
THE GALWAY Omniplex has set up its own Facebook page, www.facebook.com/galwayomniplex. Liking the page will give you access to movie news, trailers, competitions, and information on upcoming releases.
To celebrate the launch of the new Facebook page, the Galway Omniplex is offering Galway Advertiser readers a pair of tickets to a film of their choice to one lucky winner in this week’s competition. To enter, simply answer the following question:
Read more ...Oceans of frequency set Jape on new voyages
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
WHEN YOU have created two of the best and most memorable Irish albums of recent years, won awards, had Brendan Benson play your songs at his DJ sets, and had people singing your words back at you in concert, the question must arise: How do I follow that?
Read more ...Fight Night - ‘exhilarating and cathartic’
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
AONGHUS ÓG McAnally brings his award-winning one-man show Fight Night to the Town Hall Theatre next Wednesday at 8pm as part of a nationwide tour.
Written by Gavin Kostick and winner of both Best Actor and the Bewley's Little Gem Award at last year’s Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival, Fight Night is a gripping journey charting the comeback of Dan Coyle jr, a failed amateur boxer from a long line of accomplished fighters.
Read more ...Sam Amidon - a journey into rural America and the head
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THERE WILL be songs - some sacred, some secular; there will be storytelling, and field recordings, and cartoon videos to watch while you listen.
Read more ...Get your head in the clouds at Baboró
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
AWARD-WINNING Spanish dance company Aracaladanza are among the star attractions at next month’s Baboró festival with their latest production, Nubes (Clouds), inspired by the work of surrealist painter René Magritte.
Read more ...Frank McGuinness’ Baglady at Town Hall
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
BAGLADY IS a rarely performed play from one of Ireland’s leading playwrights, Frank McGuinness. It has not been seen on an Irish stage for 25 years but its story is as relevant now as when it was first written.
The play comes to the Town Hall Studio next week in a welcome new production featuring Maria McDermottroe in the title role.
Read more ...Galway Musical Society open night
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THE GALWAY Musical Society will hold an open night tomorrow at 8pm in Massimo when details of its upcoming production will be announced.
Read more ...Creative writing course
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THE WESTERN Writers’ Centre is offering a creative writing course in The Galway People’s Resource Centre Training Room, Hynes Building, St Clare’s Walk, Merchants Road.
Read more ...IMRO Showcase Tour @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
GALWAY AND Derry talent will play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm as part of the 20th IMRO Showcase Tour.
Read more ...Rory Gallagher tribute @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
RORY GALLAGHER fans are in for a treat when England’s Shinkicker bring their salute to the great Irish blues-rock guitarist to Monroe’s Live this Sunday.
Shinkicker, fronted by the electrifying and charismatic lead guitarist and vocalist Chris Stuckey, are annual headliners at the Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival in Ballyshannon and over the past 12 months have completed three tours of Europe and five tours of Ireland. They have also played support to Walter Trout, Peter Green, and Wilco Johnson.
Read more ...Mexican musicians @ The Crane
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
MEXICAN FOLK band Tacumba, who worked with The Chieftains on their San Patricios album, play The Crane on Tuesday at 8pm.
This six piece band are one of the most respected traditional groups in Mexico and the special guests on the night will be Matt Molloy. The show is part of a weekend long commemoration of the San Patricio Brigade.
Read more ...Irish-Malaysian dub duo to launch new album in Galway
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
MADU, THE Dublin-based band, fronted by Irish-Malaysian siblings Salim and Aminah Dastan, will launch their new album in Galway this weekend.
Read more ...A weekend of Javanese music and dance
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
GALWAY WILL be treated to a night of song and dance from the Island of Java at a concert in the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday October 1 at 8pm.
Read more ...A weekend of literature in Clifden
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
THE CLIFDEN Arts Week is currently under way and among the events taking place will be a host of literary events and a Sunday Miscellany broadcast.
Events on today include Allegra Huston, reading from her highly acclaimed Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found at 4.15pm today in the Alcock and Brown Hotel.
Read more ...Three women go Over The Edge
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
MOYRA DONALDSON, Davnet Heery, and Aileen Armstrong will read from their work at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.
The reading takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 29 at 6.30pm and will also see the announcement of the winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year.
Read more ...Norman Villa Gallery exhibition
Thu, Sep 22, 2011
BELFAST ARTIST Micky Donnelly will open his new exhibition Recent Works, in the Norman Villa Gallery in Salthill tomorrow at 6pm.
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