Creative Days Work- shops

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE CREATIVE Days Workshops, with artist and designer Sinéad McKiernan, will take place in Galway city, An Spidéal, and Clifden these coming months.

Stage- coach Galway taster sessions

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

STAGECOACH GALWAY has announced a two week taster session for new students this Saturday at 10am in St Mary’s College.

The Hive @ Roisin Dubh

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

110th Street’s The Hive is back tomorrow night spinning the best tracks, from across the genres and across the eras, in the name of having a decent party.

Johnny Duhan – the sorrow and solace of winter

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

SINGER-SONGWRITER Johnny Duhan has been plying his trade for almost 50 years now and his new album, Winter, released in CD + DVD format, eloquently attests to the fact that his muse burns as bright as ever, undimmed by the passing decades.

Barrio Populo to bring French flair to Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

BARRIO POPULO “sing of freedom, release the joy, build the revolt, cry and shout about love, keep our feet on the ground, and heads in the clouds”.

The Bolshoi Ballet @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s performance of George Balanchine’s Jewels is to be broadcast live via satellite from The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to The Eye Cinema in Galway.

The ‘absolutely wonderful’ Zervas & Pepper

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

“I CAN think of nothing better than lying in a field listening to Zervas & Pepper. Perfect festival music.” So declared the BBC’s Mark Radcliffe.

Zervas & Pepper, the English duo of Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper, are coming to Galway. While, unusually for the city, it is not a festival period, nor is lying in a field in January to be recommended, Galwegians looking to check out the pair’s “sunny cosmic folk rock” can do so within the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday January 22 at 9pm.

County music at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

MAX T BARNES, the country and western singer-songwriter and writer of numerous hit singles, will play Monroe’s Live on Friday February 28 at 9pm.

Floyd and Zeppelin tribute nights

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

PINK FLOYD and Led Zeppelin will be celebrated at two different nights with tribute acts playing Monroe’s Live this month.

Whitewater @ The Quays

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

IRISH ROCKERS Whitewater are coming to Galway to play The Quays Music Hall tonight.

Colm O’Regan - Mammy’s boy

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

COLM O’REGAN, the man whose Book Of Irish Mammies and its original Twitter page has become phenomena, is coming to Galway.

New sean-nós dancer for NUIG

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

CONNEMARA’S GEARÓID Ó Dubháin has been appointed sean-nós dancer in residence for 2014 at NUI Galway’s Centre for Irish Studies.

Over The Edge

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2014 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 23 at 6.30pm.

Deadline approaches for Cúirt New Writing Prize

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE DEADLINE for submissions to the Cúirt New Writing Prize, open to poets and fiction writers, is January 30 at 5pm.

Róisín Dubh Art and Craft Market

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft Market returns this Saturday from 1pm to 6pm and will feature 24 stalls over two floors.

The market is a platform for local artists and craftspeople to showcase their talents and is devoted to handmade good quality art fashion, photography, textiles, woodcraft, jewellery, ceramics, and crafts, with 24 stalls over two floors.

The Birth of Modern Music

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

MUSIC FOR Galway marks its 10th midwinter festival with a bold and exciting programme - The Birth of Modern Music - put together by its new artistic director, Irish pianist Finghin Collins.

Winter and spring with the Galway Film Society

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

WITH THE New Year upon us it is time for Galway film buffs and those looking for movies with a difference to consider what the Galway Film Society has on offer in its winter and spring schedule of screenings.

James Vincent McMorrow’s tropical return

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

TOMORROW SEES the much anticipated release of James Vincent McMorrow’s second album Post Tropical, with the Dubliner also heading west to play Galway city later this month.

Beyond Therapy with Orion’s Belt

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

KINVARA’S ORION’S Belt Theatre Company visit the Town Hall Theatre studio next week with Christopher Durang’s terrific madcap comedy, Beyond Therapy.

Galway Arts Festival show gets London production

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

RIVERRUN, OLWEN Fouéré’s imaginative and acclaimed stage interpretation of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, which premiered at last year’s Galway Arts Festival, is to be staged in London.

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