Calamity Jane is coming to the Town Hall

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

THE FIRST Lady of the Wild West, Calamity Jane, will be celebrated in Galway next month when The Patrician Musical Society stage Calamity Jane in the Town Hall Theatre.

Accordionist Gary Quinn plays St Patrick’s Night at Town Hall

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

FOLLOWING THE recent launch of his acclaimed album Keep Her Lit!, the Town Hall Theatre will play host to a concert by the well-known accordion player Gary Quinn on St Patrick’s Night at 8pm.

Drama as Gaeilge in Oranmore

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

DRAMA AT INISH a comedy by Lennox Robinson will be performed as Gaeilge by Bualagh Bos! Oranmore Music & Drama Group from March 10 to 12 in Route 66 (Keanes), Oranmore.

The first production of Drama At Inish took place in the Abbey Theatre in 1933. It deals with the visit of a travelling troupe of actors to an Irish seaside resort. The villagers openly respond to this highbrow entertainment, but soon life begins to imitate art, and this poky seaside town is overcome by farce, scandal, misdemeanour, and crime.

The Cellar gets set to go Deeper

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

THE CELLAR Bar on Eglinton Street is about to become a great centre of live original music, DJ nights, and themed parties, when its basement section is re-launched as Deeper.

Hot Chip DJ set @ Cuba*

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

HOT CHIP will be raiding their record boxes and CD collections this week in preparation for the DJ set they will unleash in Cuba*, Eyre Square, on Saturday.

Hot Chip’s DJ set will kick off a month of events to celebrate Cuba*’s 10 years in business.

It’s Judgement Night for Galway

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

JUDGE JULES, one of the biggest names in dance music is coming to Galway to play Judgement Night in Leisureland, Salthill on St Patrick’s Eve, Monday March 16.

Celebrate Haydn and Mendelssohn with Music For Galway

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

THIS YEAR marks the bicentenary of the death of one master and the birth of another – Haydn, one of the most important composers of the classical period and Mendelssohn, an early Romantic.

An international night of tales

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

A LOCAL storytelling programme called The Community Storytelling Initiative is set to launch the debut performance of a new group of African storytellers next week.

Cinema Review - Gran Torino

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

GRAN TORINO, a film about a grumpy old-timer who begrudgingly becomes the local neighbourhood hero, is surprisingly one of the best films I have seen all year. Clint Eastwood has struck gold again!

Watchmen treats at the Eye Cinema

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

REGARDED AS the greatest graphic novel of all time, Alan Moore’s Watchmen will finally reach the big screen this Friday.

Love, sex, and the revolution

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

I FIRST met Maureen Gallagher in the summer of 1985 on a protest outside Dunnes Stores’ Terryland branch in support of the workers at the Henry Street branch, Dublin, who were on strike because one of them had been sacked for refusing to handle South African goods.

Literary dolmens

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

SLOWLY BUT surely the men and women e writings made Ireland one of the greater global cultural centres from the 1960s to the 1990s are gradually passing on.

Book launches at Sheridan’s

Thu, Mar 05, 2009

TWO DIFFERENT books, both from Salmon Poetry, will be launched in Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

Todd Swift is a leading Canadian poet and poetry activist. Seaway, with an introduction by Kevin Higgins, gathers together 80 poems and is the first full retrospective of a poetry career that spans more than two decades.

John O’Conor returns for family concert at Town Hall

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Renowned pianist John O'Conor is making a welcome return to Galway’s Town Hall Theatre on Friday March 6 as part of Adventures in Music's fifth anniversary celebrations. Known around the world as ‘a true poet of the piano’, John O'Conor is also the professor of piano for the Royal Irish Academy of Music. On this occasion he will be performing a family concert which not only promises to delight the most avid classical music fan but will also be an inspiration to the younger members of the audience.

A double dose of ceól agus craic for Seachtain na Gaeilge

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

SEACHTAIN NA Gaeilge is not really a ‘seachtain’ na Gaeilge, but a dhá sheachtain of events, featuring music, singing, dance, quizzes, speed-dating, heaps of fun, and positive ways to celebrate our native teanga and culture.

Re-live Father Ted at the Laughter Lounge

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

FATHER TED ran from 1995 to 1998 but more than a decade after both the show ended and the tragically early passing of the great Dermot Morgan, it still holds a vice like grip on the Irish psyche.

Krapp’s Last Tape returns to Town Hall Theatre Studio

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

Samuel Beckett’s Krapp's Last Tape returns to the Town Hall Theatre Studio by popular demand following a sell-out run last year. The acclaimed production will be performed from Tuesday March 3 to Saturday March 7 at 8.30pm and on Friday March 6 in a special late evening performance at 10.30pm.

The Importance of Being Earnest at Nuns Island Theatre

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

THE IMPORTANCE Of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated and best loved play. Galway will get to see this classic of mistaken identity when it is staged here next week.

Karen Underwood brings hit Nina Simone show to Town Hall

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

The spellbinding music of Nina Simone is thrillingly recreated in American singer Karen Underwood’s hit solo show The Nina in Me which comes to the Town Hall for one night only next Thursday, March 5.

Turn the magic on with Messiah J & The Expert

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

MESSIAH J & The Expert are on a roll at the moment. Their second album From The Word Go has been nominated for a Choice and Meteor award and they are about to undertake an Irish tour.

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