'Alright' - Anna Mullarkey releases new single
Tue, Oct 13, 2020
'ALRIGHT', THE new single from Galway vocalist and composer Anna Mullarkey is released today, Tuesday October 13, via the independent Galway based label, Strange Brew.
Read more ...Les Misérables; a tension filled look at France's uneasy problem
Films Reviews Mon, Oct 12, 2020
Little did I know when I had left my recliner seat in screen seven at Omniplex Salthill on Thursday October 1 that it would be my last cinema experience for the foreseeable future as a level three lockdown was enforced the next Tuesday. But like most things in life, it is always good to go out with a bang and Les Misérables certainly provides plenty.
Read more ...John O'Conor - a Beethoven concert for Galway
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
AS THE year marking the 250th anniversary the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven begins to draw to a close, John O'Conor, one of Ireland's greatest pianists, will give a concert pertforming piano sonatas by Beethoven.
Read more ...The Law Is A White Dog - TULCA 2020
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
A REFUSAL to be restricted by categorisation; the invention of new languages and forms of expression; and developing affinities with others is at the heart of TULCA 2020.
Read more ...New exhibition at Renzo Café
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
THE WORK of two very different Galway artists - Geraldine O'Rourke and Sacha Hutchinson - is currently on display at the Renzo Café on Eyre Street.
Read more ...'I picked up the guitar and rediscovered my own acoustic based music'
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
IT HAS been a long time since we have heard new music by Galway's Neil O'Connor, but lockdown - the original one, not the Level 3 currently in force - resulted in Frank Zappa-esque levels of productivity, with Neil set to releasing three new albums this week.
Read more ...Album review: Future Islands
Music Reviews Thu, Oct 08, 2020
IT BEGINS with the call of birds in the wild and concludes with the sound of a cassette tape being switched off - a journey from the natural to the mechanical? More from the wilds to the security of a safe space.
Read more ...A song recalling days at the Claddagh Palace
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
FOR MANY Galwegians, the Claddagh Palace in Salthill was "the first cinema we went to...a place of wonder, a doorway to everywhere", and a place still fondly remembered.
Read more ...'Getting To Know...'
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A sunny day, a huge studio, good coffee, and lots of great people to collaborate with.
Ceiliúradh Eilís Dillon - celebrating a prolific Galway writer
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
Eilís Dillon, one of Galway’s most prolific and versatile writers, who published some 50 titles, for children and adults, between 1948 and 1992, will be celebrated and remembered in a series of virtual events this year.
Read more ...Collective Whisper release new single
Thu, Oct 08, 2020
GALWAY-POLISH duo Collective Whisper return after a long hiatus with a new single, 'Some 1' which will be released tomorrow, Friday October 9.
Read more ...Film review: Trial Of The Chicago 7
Films Reviews Tue, Oct 06, 2020
THIS WAS originally a Steven Spielberg project a decade ago. He had a personal interest in the story and asked writer Aaron Sorkin for a screenplay.
Read more ...Life will be different - Rita Ann Higgins' Covid poems
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
ONE OF the most direct and immediate responses to the Covid crisis from any Irish artist, has come from the pen of Galway poet, Rita Ann Higgins.
Read more ...48 Hour Film Challenge goes virtual for 2020
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
LITTLE CINEMA and Galway City of Film's 48 Hour Challenge is taking place again this year, but in a virtual fashion instead of a physical screening at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Compassion and empathy, wrapped in shoegaze
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
IT BEGINS with a reversal of linear time - with a sunset, and sees the encroaching darkness, not as forbidding, but as a moment to take stock and be glad of what has been, and what is.
Read more ...Galway Cartoon Festival 2020
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
AN EXHIBITION featuring more than 100 cartoons, taking in every aspect and angle of the Covid-19 pandemic, will be the centrepiece of the 2020 Galway Cartoon Festival.
Read more ...‘We are determined and we will continue to work’
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
IT IS, as Stephen Fry noted at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, “a very dark time for the performing arts”, and just as venues re-opened and shows were taking place once more - albeit on a small scale - Galway stands on the brink of a county wide lockdown.
Read more ...Virtual Galway band release debut single
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
A BAND, whose members have never met, are about to release their debut single. It would sound implausible were it not taking place during these strange times of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...Baboró 2020 starts on Monday
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
Monday October 5 marks the start of the Baboró International Arts Festival For Children, two weeks of creative, theatrical, musical and artistic events for children to share with families, friends, and classmates.
Read more ...Tom O'Mahony to headline the Comedy KARLnival
Wed, Sep 30, 2020
TOM O'MAHONY, described by the late, very grate Rik Mayall as "psychotically funny", and Jo Caulfield, “one of the finest female comics at work” according to The Observer, play the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.
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