Red Bird Let Go at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
THE CREATION of a video piece, where poetry, moving image, and sound work together, is the basis of a new exhibition at Galway Arts Centre from Red Bird Youth Collective.
Read more ...GUMS to stage classic seventies musical Pippin
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
PIPPIN, THE 1972 musical by Stephen Schwartz, best known for the musical Wicked, for the writing lyrics for the films Pocahontas and Enchanted, as well as composing the music and lyrics for The Prince of Egypt, will be performed in Galway.
Read more ...Danny O'Brien - Lock-In at the Róisín
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
AT FIRST glance, you might think this is a show about after-hours drinking. It is not. Danny O'Brien's Lock-In is about the time - or rather times, three to be exact - that the comedian was in prison.
Read more ...Cherym - pop-punk hooks with a tough edge
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
"THREE CHEEKY, loud mouthed, girls from Derry" is how CHERYM, the brilliant young garage/punk band, describe themselves. Brim full with attitude and pop hooks with a tough edge, they are set to release a new single and play Galway.
Read more ...Cúirt 2019 - looking beyond the Anglo-sphere
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
ITALIAN MULTIMEDIA poet Antonella Bukovaz, Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku, and French novelist Sylvain Prudhomme, winner of the Prix de la Porte Dorée, are among the writers who will be reading at Cúirt 2019.
Read more ...EP Review: Jealous Of The Birds
Music Reviews Thu, Jan 31, 2019
When JOTB - aka County Armagh's Naomi Hamilton - emerged with her 2016 debut album Parma Violets, it was clear that an exciting and hugely talented indie singer-songwriter had arrived.
Read more ...A 'playful meditation' on mortality
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
THE IRISH funeral is one of the great, if solemn, social occasions in our culture. The keening women and boisterous games that marked funerals in pre-Famine times have vanished, but the funeral remains one of those signal events where a community gathers together to observe familiar, and comforting, rites and customs of remembrance.
Read more ...Over The Edge Poetry book showcase
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
THE 2019 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring a host of leading Galway based poets, takes place at Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday February 8 at 6pm.
Read more ...Steve Bennett headlines the Comedy KARLnival
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
STEVE BENNETT, the bearded wonder, the ukulele wielding comic, and the first winner of the Irish Comedian of the Year award, headlines the next Comedy KARLnival at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Bale is brilliant, but Vice is patronising and over stylised
Films Reviews Thu, Jan 31, 2019
WITH ALL the attention on the current White House administration, comes Vice, a full blown Hollywood blockbuster about Dick Cheney, the vice president of the USA from 2001 to 2009.
Read more ...'Galway Rocks for Hospice' at The Kings Head
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
Some of Galway's favourite bands, including Pyramid, Tightrope, KIF, FYC, and The Converse Allstars, will play The King's Head on Friday February 8, in aid of Galway Hospice.
Read more ...Dark Joy - from a studio in Galway to the world
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
DARK JOY are the most unlikely, yet uplifting, success story in Galway music. A classic rock/heavy metal band, they are an entirely studio bound creation, do not play live, and have no plans to either.
Read more ...Padraig Jack - new single, Róisín Dubh gig
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
PADRAIG JACK, the Aran Islands singer-songwriter, has just released his new single 'Oiche Gheal', and plays the Róisín Dubh's upstairs bar next week.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny penultimate heat
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
THE PENULTIMATE heat of Show Me The Funny, the competition for new and emerging comics, takes place this coming Monday [February 4] at The King's Head Bar, High Street.
Read more ...Galway Dance Project workshops
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
GALWAY DANCE Project will hold a new series of professional development classes, on the first Saturday of the month, starting this Saturday, at St Nicholas’ School, Waterside.
Read more ...The Eskies - 'rip-roaring party tunes for cowboys'
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
THE ESKIES, "the internet generation's answer to the Dubliners," according to Goldenplec, who play what Whisperin' and Hollerin' called "rip-roaring party tunes for cowboys, sailors, chain gangers, and rag timers", are coming to Galway.
Read more ...Bernard Casey - online comic on stage at the Róisín
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
BERNARD CASEY has been described as "a wonderfully well crafted performer with a great old school style of storytelling," by no less a comedian than Tommy Tiernan.
Read more ...Dylan Murphy releases new single
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
WE ARE used to Dylan Murphy's music having a strong blues feel or grunge edge, but his latest single 'A Little Rain' provides a different perspective on the Galway based singer-guitarist.
Read more ...Rodney Owl - new single
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
RODNEY OWL, the Galway singer-songwriter will today release his new single, 'A Life Misleading', which features contributions from a number of the city's leading musicians.
Read more ...An Italian lunchtime with ConTempo
Thu, Jan 31, 2019
THE SOUNDS of Italy will fill St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, when the ConTempo Quartet performs works by Scarlatti, Donizetti, and Puccini, at the next From Europe With Love concert.
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