Dott - new song, Galway show

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

GALWAY INDIE-pop/garage rock band Dott have released a new track, ‘Car Song’, and will play upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday from 11.30pm.

Dead Horse Jive @ Kelly’s

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

DEAD HORSE Jive, the Galway quintet who play AC/DC, Mötörhead, and KISS inspired “dirty rotten rock’n’roll”, play Upstairs at Kelly’s Bar on Friday March 20 at 9.30pm.

The band - Brendan Waldron, Owen O’Shaughnessy, Joycee, Martin Collins, and Phillip Welby - play a mix of blues, punk, and rock’n’roll, with songs about “times we can hardly remember and others we'd love to forget”, with a “neverending quest to have a good time”.

New Music: Different Sounds - a concert series

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

NEW MUSIC by Irish and international composers, performed on a variety of instruments and in a variety of combinations from solo to septet, feature in New Music: Different Sounds.

Cello, piano, and a bit of Beethoven

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

HUNGARIAN CELLIST István Várdai, whose playing The New York Times praised for its “fluidity and virtuosity” and “a fleet-fingered lightness and a rich timbre” is coming to Galway.

Galway to celebrate European Day of Early Music

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

SATURDAY MARCH 21 is European Day of Early Music which Galway will mark with a concert of medieval and renaissance music and a harp workshop.

A world of choral music at St Nicholas’

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

CLASSICAL, FOLK, and sacred music from across Europe will be performed by Cork choir CanTúr tomorrow at 8pm in the Augustinian Church.

Conversations on a Homecoming

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

TOM MURPHY’S Conversations on a Homecoming, will be staged by Kiltimagh’s Clann Machua Drama Group in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday.

A young person’s view on teenage reality

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

LOTUS: A Play in Four Acts, written, produced, and directed by Rosa Jones, and featuring young Galway actors, will be performed in the Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.

Paintings of wine and women

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

ARTIST RUTH Cadden, recently featured in the Galway Advertiser with her article on her ‘Classical women in Penney’s underwear’ paintings, has an exhibition about to open.

Town Hall to screen award winning films

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

THE OSCAR winning Whiplash, which saw JK Simmons take the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, is to be screened in the Town Hall Theatre.

Rossini opera @ The Eye

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

ROSSINI’S OPERA, La Donna Del Lago, will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 5pm.

Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

BEHIND THE Beautiful Forevers, based on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, will be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Finland’s leading comic to play Galway

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

FINLAND MIGHT not be known as a stand-up comedy hotspot, but in Ismo Leikola, they can boast one of the world’s very finest comedians.

A night of cello quintets - tonight

Mon, Mar 09, 2015

CELLO QUINTETS by Mozart, Schubert, and Boccherini will be performed by French cellist Raphaël Merlin and the RTÉ ConTempo Quartet this evening at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.

Cinema review: Kill the Messenger

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 09, 2015

KILL THE Messenger is the remarkable story of how a reporter from the tiny San Jose Mercury News managed to scoop The Washington Post and the New York Times to one the CIA’s biggest controversies of the 1990s.

Wine, women, and song!

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE WORD ‘bespectacled’ is usually preceded or followed by the term ‘mild-mannered’, but there is nothing ‘mild-mannered’ about the bespectacled trio of wild women in sequinned mini-skirts that go by name The Nualas.

Amazing Apples to launch new single in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE AMAZING Apples will launch ‘Lullaby’, the first single from their forthcoming debut album, when they play the Róisín Dubh on Friday March 13 at 9pm.

Paul Durcan and Joseph O’Neill to read at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

The poets Paul Durcan and John Montague, as well as the Booker nominated novelist Joseph O’Neill will read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature which will  run from April 21 to 27 in venues across Galway city and county.

Album review: Bob Marley

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

ROBERT NESTA Marley would have celebrated his 70th birthday this year had he not been cruelly called back to Zion in 1981 at the tragically early age of 36.

Grimm delights with Galway Community Circus and Fidget Feet

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE FOLK and fairy tales gathered by the Grimm brothers have entranced readers and audiences for more than 100 years and the recent movie adaptation of Broadway hit, Into The Woods, attests to the stories’ enduring appeal.

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