Clifden Traditional Music Festival

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

THE CAPITAL of Connemara will come alive with music at the fifth annual Clifden Traditional Music Festival from Thursday April 10 to Sunday 13.

The festival will be officially opened by Raidio na Gaeltachta’s head of music, Neansai Ní Choistealdbha in the Clifden Station House Hotel at 7pm on April 10, followed by a concert.

La Bohème, live at The Eye

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

PUCCINI’S CELEBRATED opera La Bohème will be broadcast live via satellite from the stage of New York’s Metropolitan Opera to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Aine Doherty exhibition

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

OUGHTERARD BASED artist Aine Doherty is currently exhibiting a mix of new and old paintings in the Renzo Café on Eyre Street.

Raglans to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

LILY ALLEN’S father, actor Keith Allen, who can currently be seen in My Mad Fat Diary, has called Raglans’ “an immensely powerful band!”.

Tae Lane @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

TAE LANE have been described as The Pogues arguing with Warren Zevon, and Galway will see why when they play The Cellar this Saturday.

Tae Lane are a six-piece band of brothers who play original songs with the odd classic thrown in. They will perform songs from their forthcoming EP Not Today, while the video for the song ‘Low Down Pleasures’ can be seen on YouTube. The band has also played the Electric Picnic.

Cúirtin’ in the kitchen

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

CONSCIOUS OF the fact that Galway’s literary festival, Cúirt, was becoming somewhat estranged from the people of Galway, for whom it was inaugurated, it was decided four years ago to organise a number of events in and for local communities, to bring the festival back to the people.

Liz Lochhead: hickies, nappies, and twelve inch tellies

Thu, Apr 03, 2014

I DISCOVERED Scottish poet Liz Lochhead in the 1993 Bloodaxe anthology The New Poetry, and a few years later she came to Galway to read at the 1998 Cúirt Festival.

Craig Davidson - bare knuckle tales of a Canadian writer

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

BARE KNUCKLE boxing and dog fighting in small Canadian cities; the activities are cruel, often barbaric, but the people taking part in them have their reasons, however misguided, however tragic. It’s just not black and white.

Foil, Arms & Hog - the dynamic trio

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

THEY SURVIVED freezing temperatures in America, killer snails ‘down under’, tropical gangsters, and ‘too cool for school’ Californians. Intact and unbowed, they now take on Ireland.

Daithí launches new single ‘Have To Go’

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

ELECTRO WONDERKIND Daithí officially launches his new single ‘Have To Go’ with a gig in the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 11.30pm.

La Casa De Bernarda Alba

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

IN A small Spanish village, domineering matriarch Bernarda Alba imposes an eight-year period of mourning upon her family after the death of her second husband.

Donal O’Kelly back with Little Thing, Big Thing

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

IN NIGERIA, a frightened child puts an old roll of film into the hands of Dublin-bound teacher Sister Martha. In Dublin, Larry, with a wounded backside, has to get out of the city to rob a convent.

While this is taking place, Scarab Oil plans to unleash its new clean fuel of the future. Meanwhile, the film roll Martha is carrying attracts the interest of some very powerful and ambitious people.

Men falling and flying

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

DANCE, ACROBATICS, and physical theatre will combine in The Falling Song, performed by the Junk Ensemble in the Town Hall Theatre on Monday April 7 at 8pm.

Performed by an international, all-male, cast and a local children’s choir, The Falling Song looks at the nature of flying and falling through a set of towering ladders, ropes, and hundreds of apples. Irish Theatre Magazine has described the show as “perfectly executed...adrenalin pumping, and unsettling”.

Bolshoi ballet live @ The Eye

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s staging of Marco Spada, or The Bandit’s Daughter, will be broadcast live from Moscow to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Doom metal night @ The Cellar

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

BELFAST DOOM metallers Nomadic Rituals have been called “sonic terrorists”, “mystical tribesmen”, and “the heaviest band in the world”.

Chart-topper Route 94 @ Electric

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

CHART-TOPPING DJ Route 94 will be in Galway tonight playing the Electric Garden and Theatre from 11pm.

Shuffle! tomorrow night @ Roisin Dubh

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

Vinyl junky Dave Barry is back again for the March installment of Shuffle! This night is gaining momentum and proving to be one of Galway’s more popular nights.

Punk night @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

A PUNK night will be held upstairs in the Róisín Dubh this Sunday from 8pm.

Transatlantic soul with Niall McCabe

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

THERE IS a peculiarly kid of Irish soul music, one which infuses r’n’b, jazz, rock, and folk, and whose original master, if not creator, is arguably Van Morrison.

The 4 of Us announce Monroe’s show

Thu, Mar 27, 2014

THE 4 of Us, who were recently voted No 7 in TV3’s Top 10 Irish Bands of All Time poll, play Monroe’s Live in June.

The Newry band, led by brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy, have seen all seven of their studio albums reach the Irish Top 20. At their Galway show, fans can expect to hear ‘Mary’, ‘Drag My Bad Name Down’, ‘Washington Down’, ‘She Hits Me’, and ‘Sunlight’, as well as material from their new album.

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