Cory Wong - the funk guitarist Prince's band admires
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
“WHEN I was a kid, I got a white Fender jazz bass and I freaked out. I had the most intense goose bumps. It felt liked I’d been given my sword and my journey could finally begin.”
Read more ...Decadent returns with Conor McPherson’s Port Authority
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
THREE MEN confront their lives, examining the significance of loves lost and found, the consequences of big dreams, and the results of even the smallest choices. This is Conor McPherson’s Port Authority.
Read more ...Foil Arms & Hog get Craicling
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
CRACKLING IS fried or roasted in pork fat, or the rind on a roasted pork joint. Combine that word with the Irish term for fun and mischief, 'craic' and you get Craicling.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh seeks short films
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh has opened i's short film submissions for the 31st festival, which runs from July 9 to 14. Entries in drama, documentary, live action, and animation are welcome.
Read more ...Art classes with Gill Christie
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
GILL CHRISTIE, the award winning Galway filmmaker and artist, will hold a 10 week art class, covering painting and drawing, starting on Tuesday February 19.
Read more ...Album review: Calva Louise
Music Reviews Thu, Feb 07, 2019
IT MAY be housed inside one of the most terrible album sleeves in living memory, but past the ghastly graphics lies a 30 minute treat of 10 fast and furious indie-pop/garage-rock songs.
Read more ...Wake - a story of sisterhood and the sea
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
THE WORLD premiere of Wake, a feminist retelling of Hans Christian Anderson’s beloved story 'The Little Mermaid', and written by the award-winning author Deirdre Sullivan, will be staged by NoRopes Theatre Company in the Town Hall Theatre studio.
Read more ...Edwin Sammon headlines the Comedy KARLnival
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
EDWIN SAMMON, best known for his role as Fr Gabriel in the award winning sitcom Bridget and Eamon, and as co-presenter on Republic Of Telly, will headline the next Comedy KARLnival.
Read more ...Rhythm nation - Galway Drum Show 2019
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
CHAD WACKERMAN, who recorded 26 albums with Frank Zappa; and Darren Beckett, drummer for The Killers' Brandon Flowers; are coming to Galway as part of a major new event - the Galway Drum Show.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus Valentine's party
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
A TASSEL swinging show, full of naughtiness, decadence, and glamour, awaits Galway when The Dirty Circus brings its saucy Dirty Valentine's show to the Róisín Dubh next weekend.
Read more ...Green Book - outstanding performances outweigh a flawed script
Films Reviews Thu, Feb 07, 2019
THE GREEN Book was a guide for black people in America who were traveliing south in the 1960s, containing names of hotels and restaurants that were friendly for the 'Negro Traveller'.
Read more ...Éadaín’s captivating Odyssey Of A Hare
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
IN HIS poem 'The Allansford Pursuit', based on witches’ chants, Robert Graves wrote: "Oh, I shall go into the hare/With sorrow and sighing and mickle care/And I shall go in the Devil’s nam/Aye, till I be fetchèd hame."
Read more ...Electric Eel Shock - the wild men of metal return
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK, the Japanese metal, classic rock, and punk trio, whose music and stage shows are a wild, outrageous, and high energy filled celebration of the guitar, loud music, and a catchy chorus, are back.
Read more ...Love, death, Shergar, and Arlene Foster
Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 07, 2019
FROM 'MAYA'S Soliloquy to Pablo [Picasso]’, the striking opening of the first poem of White Horses, it is clear Northern Irish poet Jo Burns is in control of what she is doing with her poetry in a way most debut collection poets simply are not.
Read more ...Joe Rooney to play Show Me The Funny
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
THE LAST two places for the 'Show Me The Funny' grand final will be up for grabs when the fifth heat takes place this Monday, February 11, at The King's Head, High Street.
Read more ...US and Galway choirs to sing for Enable Ireland
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
MICHIGAN'S OXFORD High School Chorale, and Claregalway's Coláiste Bhaile Chláir School Choir, will give a concert next week to raise funds for Enable Ireland.
Read more ...Jim Rooney to play his annual Galway gig
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
JIM ROONEY, the Grammy winning producer best known for his work with John Prine, Nanci Griffith, Iris DeMent, and Hal Ketchum, is coming back to Galway for his annual gig in the city.
Read more ...3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music returns
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
MARIA RYAN and Lucia McPartlin of contemporary Irish music ensemble Strung will play at the first concert of the new season of 3 Saturdays: 3 Kinds of Music at The Mick Lally Theatre.
Read more ...Johnny Duhan - Last of the wandering minstrels
Literature Reviews Thu, Feb 07, 2019
JOHNNY DUHAN'S newly published book, The Voyage, has something of a confessional feel to it, the black dustjacket with Johnny in profile as if in prayer, sets the tone for what follows.
Read more ...ORBITAL to play Galway International Arts Festival
Thu, Feb 07, 2019
Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh are delighted to announce that legendary live dance act ORBITAL will headline the Heineken Big Top at Galway International Arts Festival this July in what will be their only Irish gig of the summer.
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