Hermitage Green @ Monroe’s

Thu, Oct 04, 2012

LIMERICK FOLK-rock band Hermitage Green are heading to Galway to play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Thursday October 11 at 10pm.

Maeve Higgins @ NUIG

Thu, Oct 04, 2012

THERE WILL be plenty to laugh about at NUI Galway next week when comedians Maeve Higgins and Fred Cooke take to the stage.

LARRY AND Sophie have a thing goin’ on, but when you are a person with intellectual disabilities, finding love, expressing your sexuality, and forming romantic relationships are fraught with difficulty, and perhaps prejudice.

Heathers’ new Kingdom for the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

LIKE THE Cranberries’ ‘Dreams’ in a previous age, the thumping guitar of Heathers’ ‘Remember When’ has become entwined with Ireland’s tourism industry. Since Heathers’ twins Ellie and Louise McNamara began playing music in 2007, their career has had a meteoric rise.

Solar Taxi @ The Factory

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

WATERFORD ELECTRO-POP band Solar Taxi release their debut album, Broken Brother’s Secret Bells, tomorrow, and they play The Factory, Abbeygate Street, tonight.

Samuel Beckett short plays at Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

FIVE SHORT plays by Samuel Beckett, including one translated into Gaeilge, will be staged as part of the Galway Theatre Festival.

Colin Flack exhibition in Clifden

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

AN EXHIBITION of new works by the artist Colin Flack, will be officially opened tomorrow at 7.30pm in the Zetland Country House Hotel, Clifden.

In the company of Haydn

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

PIANO SONATAS and flute quartets by the great Austrian composer Jospeh Haydn, a friend and teacher to both Beethoven and Mozart, will be performed in NUI Galway’s Aula Maxima.

The piano sonatas in G major, D major, and E-flat major, along with the flute quartets in D major and G major will be performed by flautist Madeleine Staunton, pianist Peter Tuite, and The ConTempo Quartet on Tuesday October 2 at 8pm.

Moonfish’s Tromluí Phinocchio

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

FOLLOWING ITS successful run at the ABSOLUT Dublin Fringe, Tromluí Phinocchio/Pinocchio – A Nightmare by Moonfish theatre company is coming back to Galway.

Vagabond double bill at Galway Theatre Festival

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

VAGABOND THEATRE will premiere two one-act plays from local writers during the Galway Theatre Festival.

Wheelchair On My Face

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

FRESH FROM winning a Fringe First Award at Edinburgh, Sonya Kelly’s acclaimed one-woman show, The Wheelchair on My Face, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week for one night only.

Part memoir, part theatre, part stand-up comedy, The Wheelchair on My Face relates the hilarious and poignant story of Kelly’s myopic childhood.

Michael Faherty to launch new poetry collection

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

POEMS, THE debut collection of Michael Faherty, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday October 5 at 6pm, by the Galway city arts officer James Harrold.

Strange Brew’s 500th Night

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

STRANGE BREW, the Róisín Dubh’s celebration of all things indie, Irish, and up and coming, will celebrate its 500th night with a line up of some of the finest emerging bands in Ireland.

David Kitt to perform Small Moments

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

DAVID KITT will perform his 2000 debut album Small Moments in the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday October 4 at 8pm.

Rachel Sermanni @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

SHE IS just 19. She comes from a village in the Scottish Highlands called Carrbridge, and the Herald Scotland has compare her vocals to Joni Mitchell.

Garrett Phillipps Ros na Rún

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Driving, listening to the small people singing in the back.

Driving, listening to the small people singing in the back.

The seductive enigma of jazz

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

TRYING TO write about jazz is a bit like trying to paint Connemara. The subjects are so elusive that to describe it conclusively is nigh near impossible and the writer or artist is reduced to focusing on an individual moment that most responds to or echoes their personal or artistic talent.

In both cases this is due to their elemental nature and their absolute refusal to be artificially moulded into a definite entity.

Galway Jazz Festival returns for eighth year

Thu, Sep 27, 2012

THE GALWAY Jazz Festival returns from Tuesday October 9 to Sunday 14 for its eighth year, with an expanded programme which includes Irish-French trio Pinto.