Syrias Vibes Fundraiser @ Electric

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THE DISCONAUTS, Shake!, Gigantic, 110th Street, Graham Dolan, and other leading Galway and Irish DJs hit the decks at Electric tomorrow from 8pm, to raise funds for Syrias Vibes.

Galway writer nominated for prestigious literary award

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

Fred Johnston, the Belfast-born, Galway based, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, has been nominated for a prestigious Pushcart Prize by the literary magazine, The Luxembourg Review.

Seán Keane's Town Hall Christmas show

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

THIS YEAR saw Seán Keane release his first new album in almost a decade and he closes 2016 with his Christmas By The Hearth show in the Town Hall Theatre on December 9 and 10.

Frank Naughton's A Vintage Christmas

Thu, Dec 01, 2016

FRANK NAUGHTON, one of Galway's best loved singers, host shis annual yuletide concert, A Vintage Christmas, in the Town Hall Theatre, where he will be joined by soprano, Sandra Oman.

Do you want to be TG4’s next soap star?

Wed, Nov 30, 2016

TG4’s hit TV soap opera Ros na Rún is searching for an actress over 50 to join its cast and fluent Gaeilge is required for the role in Ireland’s only Irish language soap.

Rusangano Family - music for a new Ireland

Tue, Nov 29, 2016

THE RUSANGANO Family are from Zimbabwe, Togo, and County Clare; they are based in Limerick; their bass-led sound fuses hip-hop and world music; Nialler 9 said they "continue to impress everywhere they play"; and they are coming to Galway.

Richie Egan to play final Nocturne of 2016

Tue, Nov 29, 2016

RICHIE EGAN, the solo artist best known as JAPE and also as the bassist for the pioneering Irish post-rock band The Redneck Manifesto, will play the final Nocturne concert of 2016 this weekend.

John Bishop - Winging It all the way to Galway

Mon, Nov 28, 2016

JOHN BISHOP, Liverpool's favourite son and one of the best loved comedians in the business, will play two nights in Galway as part of his Winging It Around Ireland tour which takes place throughout September 2017.

Daniel O’Donnell - Galway concert in 2017

Mon, Nov 28, 2016

DANIEL O'DONNELL will tour Ireland for the first time in four years when he takes his Back Home Again tour on the road in August 2017, and Galway will be among the first ports of call to play a concert.

Things going swimmingly for Lisa Hannigan

Thu, Nov 24, 2016

LISA HANNIGAN comes to Seapoint next week on the crest of a wave with her new album, At Swim, enjoying universal critical acclaim. Produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, the record follows her double-platinum, Mercury, and Choice Music Prize-nominated debut Sea Sew, and 2011’s chart-topping Passenger.

A fresh take on Pygmalion

Thu, Nov 24, 2016

A NEW staging of GB Shaw’s Pygmalion, at the Town Hall studio, re-imagines this classic 1912 comedy about gender, class, and identity for the present day and in the theatrical style of Bertolt Brecht. The play, the inspiration of the hit musical My Fair Lady, sees the arrogant Professor Higgins transform common flower seller Eliza into a genteel lady, for a bet.

Beardyman - DJ improv king @ The Loft

Thu, Nov 24, 2016

“A CROSS between a DJ, a comedian, and a human sound-sample library," is how The Guardian described Beardyman. It could have also added front-rank improv artist and entertainer to that description.

Artist Elena Dova - at the crossroads of three cities

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

ITALIAN ARTIST Elena Dova is currently exhibiting her striking new paintings at the Town Hall Theatre bar in a show, Crosbhóthar, that imaginatively blends the three cities in her life; Turin, Rome, and Galway.

‘It brings out the child in every audience member’

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

BALLET IRELAND brings the perfect flavour of Christmas to the Town Hall Theatre with its touring production of The Nutcracker on Tuesday November 29 and Wednesday 30 at 8pm. This timeless classic, with beautiful costumes and Tchaikovsky’s beloved and sumptuous score, takes audiences on a wondrous adventure of full of the quintessential Christmas magic.

The Low Anthem - foward thinking indie-folk

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

AFTER A four year hiatus, American indie-folk and roots band The Low Anthem released their long awaited new album in June, and this month they tour Ireland and Britain, including a show in Galway.

Sensory friendly screening of Storks

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

STORKS, THE hit animated family film will receive a special sensory friendly screening, for children on the autism spectrum, at the IMC Cinema, on Tuesday November 22 at 10.30am.

See Chris Kent @ Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

CHRIS KENT, who has appeared on Russell Howard's Stand Up Central, and who "breathes new life into anecdotal comedy" according to The List, is the next comic to play the Róisín Dubh Comedy Club.

Album review: Body/Head

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 17, 2016

IN HIS despair MacBeth chastised humans, and thereby life, as "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". Kim Gordon's music has long been driven by "sound and fury" but is certainly not meaningless.

Wyvern Lingo - new sounds, supporting Hozier, and supporting refugees

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

IT HAS been an extraordinary 12 months for Wicklow trio Wyvern Lingo. They have re-invented their sound and struck out on a new musical path, played to their largest audiences to date by supporting Hozier and James Vincent McMorrow on their British tours, and began the preparations for their highly anticipated debut album.

It's magic for Mike as he scoops prestigious Goldsmiths Prize

Thu, Nov 17, 2016

MIKE MCCORMACK, the novelist and NUI Galway English lecturer is celebrating this week after he won the £10,000 Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction for his third novel Solar Bones, triumphing over a shortlist which also included Irish writer Eimear McBride and Irish-Canadian writer Anakana Schofield.

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