Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE WHOSE Line Is It Anyway? gang make a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Story Night to return
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE STORYTELLER Clare Muireann Murphy will be back in Galway to host an annual reunion of Story Night on Friday June 22 at 8pm.
Read more ...Elly O’Keeffe @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
COUNTY CORK singer-songwriter Elly O’Keeffe will play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9.30pm.
Elly’s music moves between ballads, grittier up-tempo songs, acoustic numbers that make use of cello and viola textures and a harder rock sound. Check out her debut album When We Live.
Read more ...The Nitty Gritty @ Massimo
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE NITTY Gritty returns to Galway when DJs Kit Kola and Dave Barry DJ in Massimo on Friday June 22 from 11pm.
Read more ...Ray Davis @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
The great Ray Davis, lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks, who has penned such classic songs as ‘Waterloo Sunset’, ‘Dedicated Follower Of Fashion’, ‘Lola’, and ‘See My Friends’, plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday June 22 at 8pm. Tickets available online at www.roisindubh.net, from the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago), and The Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Thin Lizzy guitarist to play Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE GRACEFUL, melodic solo on ‘Whiskey In The Jar’; the searing, blistering guitar lines on ‘Black Boys On The Corner’; and the wah-wah drenched funk of ‘Ray-Gun’. This is the sound of Eric Bell.
Read more ...David Kitt’s Small Moments tour
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
IN 2000 a Dublin singer-songwriter called David Kitt released his debut album Small Moments which won praise in Ireland and Britain for its mixture of gentle folk-pop and indie/electro.
Read more ...Róisín Dubh to celebrate eighth birthday
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE RÓISÍN Dubh will celebrate its eighth birthday on Sunday with a feast of good music and DJ sets from 8pm.
Read more ...Get ready for Latin Fiesta 2012
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
LOVERS OF all thigns Latin American are in for a treat this weekend with the Latin Fiesta 2012 mini-festival which takes place tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.
Read more ...Calling all composers
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE GALWAY Music Residency is seeking a composer to write a piece of music in celebration of the residency’s 10th birthday.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
The show is open to the public and comedians, and admission is free. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire Daniel Figgis, composer
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Getting ‘it’ right. Followed by a spa break.
Nora Barnacle - a life in song
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
NORA BARNACLE, the Galwegian who was James Joyce’s wife, muse, best friend, and source of strength will be celebrated in a new work by Tom Cullivan.
Read more ...A new look at the misunderstood moth
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
MOTHS ARE generally regarded as pesky little creatures who get into your wardrobe and fly too near lightbulbs. However, one Galway photographer believes they deserve better than the whack of a rolled-up newspaper.
Read more ...126 gets carbonated
Thu, Jun 14, 2012
THE CHEMICAL element carbon is the fourth most abundant element in the universe by mass after hydrogen, helium, and oxygen.
It is the 15th most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and it exists in all known life forms, including the human body, where it is the second most abundant element by mass after oxygen.
Read more ...The Country Girls
Thu, Jun 07, 2012
Edna O’Brien’s classic coming-of-age novel The Country Girls is on its way to the Town Hall in a critically acclaimed staging by Waterford’s Red Kettle Theatre Company.
Read more ...Rhythm Scheme - Unleashing the music
Thu, Jun 07, 2012
FOR SOME a great night out is heading to a club, and hearing and dancing to a DJ cut up, mix, and spin beats and music to the wee small hours. For others there is nothing like watching a band, live on stage, pouring heart and soul into everything they do.
Read more ...Lazik to play Kelly’s next Wednesday
Thu, Jun 07, 2012
Kelly’s will play host to a gig from Lazik on Friday June 13, at 9pm, as part of the Galway Sessions. This enthusiastic and energetic musical combo consists of members from Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Read more ...Bluegrass legend Curtis Blackwell at the Crane
Thu, Jun 07, 2012
The Galway Sessions music festival swings into gear next week and one of the definite highlights is the appearance by bona-fide bluegrass great Curtis Blackwell, one-time sidekick of Bill Monroe and, with his band The Dixie Bluegrass Boys, one of the most popular acts on the US bluegrass scene for over 40 years.
Read more ...Five Ways To Drown @ Town Hall
Thu, Jun 07, 2012
One of Ireland’s most vibrant contemporary dance companies, Junk Ensemble, make a welcome visit to the Town Hall next week with their production Five Ways to Drown.
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