Sign up for tickets for Peter Doherty Galway gig

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

REGISTRATION FOR free tickets to Peter Doherty’s Heineken Green Spheres gig in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 15 is now open.

Galway rock, folk, and indie is Free By The Sea

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

IN THE 1980s and early 1990s Salthill hosted free, live, rock concerts each summer and those days look set to return with the Free By The Sea event as part of the Salthill Community Arts Festival.

Ger Wolfe to play The Crane

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

GER WOLFE, the Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane has described as “the poetic soul of Ireland” and who the Irish Examiner called a “unique creative talent” is playing Galway.

Manuela Riedo Foundation concert

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

SHARON SHANNON, Marc Robedrts, and Mary McPartlan are among some of the acts that will play the Night Of Music concert in aid of the Manuela Riedo Foundation.

Cinema Review - 500 days of summer

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

This film is not just another run-of-the-mill romantic comedy where boy meets girl, boy loses girl and then spends the whole film moaning about it. Well OK there is some of this but it’s done in such a quirky and fresh way that you don’t mind, in fact you are enthralled.

Galway Film Society returns

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

THE Galway Film Society returns for its autumn/winter season, screening a range of international films from September 27 to December 6.

Win Dorian Gray goodies

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

OSCAR WILDE’S classical novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray has been made into a new film and the Galway Advertiser has five Dorian Gray goodie bags to give away.

Get connected to new UHG exhibition

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

CONNECTION, AN exhibition of paintings donated to the Oncology Department at University Hospital Galway by artists from the Paint Box Studios, opens tomorrow.

Enjoy a Purely Piano concert

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

“UNLIKE MANY virtuosos, Haefliger is a musician first and pianist second...Andreas Haefliger is a pianist to watch. More importantly, he is a pianist to listen to.”

Clifden to chime to the sounds of trad and classical

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

CLIFDEN WILL host a series of classical and Irish trad concerts featuring acclaimed acts like Cherish the Ladies, Anúna, Scullion, and Christian Benda and Finghin Collins, during Clifden Community Arts Week.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

THE WRITER, poet, and critic Fred Johnston will hold creative writing classes in NUI, Galway, starting on Thursday October 1.

Over The Edge

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

BRIGHTON POET Bernadette Cremin will be the main reader at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 24 at 6.30pm.

Funny citizen on patrol as Police Academy’s Michael Winslow comes to Galway

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

ONE OF the most successful comedy film franchises during the 1980s was Police Academy. In 1984 Messrs Mahoney, Hightower, Tackleberry and Jones were a group of misfits who unwittingly found themselves recruited as trainee US police officers.

Baboró 2009 programme unveiled

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

DETAILS OF this year’s Baboró International Arts Festival for Children were unveiled at a reception on Monday afternoon and, as ever, a whole host of exciting events feature on what is a packed programme.

This year’s Baboró boasts one of its most exciting line-ups ever - 13 companies and 13 venues to celebrate the festival’s 13th birthday!

Kinky Friedman is coming to Kelly’s

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

OUTRAGEOUS AND irreverent, but always thought-provoking, Kinky Friedman, the crime novelist, songwriter, and ‘Frank Zappa of country music’ is coming to Galway.

Get Clamped at the Town Hall

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

DON’T PANIC! The above headline is not a warning to motorists that parking near the Town Hall has become particularly hazardous.

Julie Feeney @ Town Hall

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

THE ATHENRY vocalist, composer, and conductor Julie Feeney will play the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday September 24.

Julie first came to attention ion 2005 with her debut album 13 Songs. Its mix of pop, avant garde, and classical marked her out as an individual talent on the Irish scene, a fact acknowledged when she won the inaugural Choice Music Prize in 2006.

Mick Lally to perform in Town Hall

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

MICK LALLY will perform in Last Train From Holyhead, a new theatre piece which examines identity and how the past has a habit of re-emerging whether we like it or not.

Croi actors agency

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

THE NEW Croi acting agency’s books are now open and Croi is looking for actors from 20 to 70 for TV, film, and commercial auditions.

Hell raisin’ folk and country with the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

Thu, Sep 10, 2009

THEIR NAME was inspired by an eccentric preacher from Kansas, they play music brought by the Scots and the Irish to the Southern US states, but their view of the world is shaped by the pioneer spirit of Canada.

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