Tudor Cinema Club - better than the real thing?

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

THE RÓISÍN Dubh does not normally book tribute bands so it is surprising to see Tudor Cinema Club, a tribute band to County Down's Two Door Cinema Club on their way to the Dominick Street venue.

Young Galway musicians are put to the test in youth music competition

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

YOUNG GALWAY musicians will be among the finalists in this year's Irish Youth Music Awards, which takes place in Dublin next month. The Irish Youth Music Awards is a competition where teams and youth centres from all over Ireland pick a representing act and an original song.

Daring vocals and pumping rhythms

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

CLASSICAL MUSIC goes clubbing next month when opera singer Salome Kammer, the Vogler Quartet, and DJ Cyril Briscoe join forces for a show at the Electric Garden & Theatre on Friday April 8 at 8pm.

The lively Celtic sound of Scythian

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

AMERICAN TV show, Nashville's Music City Roots, has called Scythian "what happens when rock star charisma meets Celtic dervish fiddling", as Galway will see when they play Monroe’s Live on Thursday April 7.

Dominick Street Sessions starts in April

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

PADRAIG STEVENS may originally be from Sligo but he is a legend within the idiosyncratic and brilliant music community of Tuam, and will headline a new music night in Galway.

Scoops @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

SCOOPS, THE Dublin band whose debut EP Scenes Of Joy went straight in at Number 2 in the iTunes Album charts behind Adele, play Monroe’s Live on Friday April 29 at 9pm.

Classical lunchtime with ConTempo

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

CLAUDE DEBUSSY'S String Quartet in G minor, Op 10, a watershed in the history of chamber music, will be performed in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Tuesday April 5 at 1.10pm.

SHUFFLE! but this time in Seven

Thu, Mar 31, 2016

SHUFFLE! DAVE Barry's nothern soul, funk, ske, rock'n'roll, blues, and reggae clubnight is back the Saturday of the May Bank Holiday weekend, but this time in The Loft @ Seven.

Children of the Revolution

Wed, Mar 30, 2016

REBELS AND patriots, soldiers for king and country, all kinds of political opinions and actions could be found among the students of University College Galway during the turbulent years of 1913-1919.

Paddy Cullivan - asking the big questions about 1916

Tue, Mar 29, 2016

FOR ITS own reasons, the State chose to celebrate the 1916 Rising a month shy of the actual date of the event itself, which took place in April 1916, not March.

Exmagician - Cashier No 9 duo's new venture

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

"LIKE EARLY Beefheart meets Add N To X" is how Belfast duo Exmagician describe their music, and Galway has a chance to hear that claim up close and personal when the band play the Róisín Dubh.

An Klondike looks to strike Gold for Galway at the IFTAs

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

AN KLONDIKE, the critically acclaimed Galway made western will be looking to strike gold next month having been nominated for nine awards at the upcoming Irish Film and Television Awards.

Album review: The Goon Sax

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 24, 2016

THE ESSENTIALS of Indie music - a sense of the fey and jangly; an appreciation for DIY punk, but softened by the melodicism of The Beatles and The Smiths; a regard for the slacker ethos; nerdy preoccupations, sometimes ambiguous sexuality; and always a deep strain of melancholy.

Maloney’s Dream - a story of the 1916 Rising accessible for children

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

SET DURING Easter Week 1916, Maloney’s Dream, the exciting new show for children from Galway-based theatre company Branar Téatar Do Pháistí, receives its world premiere at the Town Hall Theatre, with performances from Wednesday April 6 to Saturday 9.

Rita Ann Higgins - new book and Cúirt readings

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

LANGUAGE IS sometimes called a tongue, and language can impress, inspire, taunt, hurt, and frighten. Given the latter power, Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins has coined a new word, 'Tongulish'.

Swing into the Town Hall with Fishamble

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

INTERNATIONAL HIT play, Swing, a beguiling comedy about dance, music and love hits the Town Hall Theatre on Friday April 1 at 8pm. Produced by Dublin’s Fishamble Theatre Co, it won the Bewley’s Little Gem Award at the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival, and has been performed in New York, Paris, Edinburgh, and New Zealand, and is scheduled to go to Australia after its current Irish tour.

Bry to play all ages show at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

BRY, THE Irish singer-songwriter, YouTuber, and blogger, plays an all ages show in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday April 23 at 6pm, and he remains determined to play every country in the world.

Jane Clarke to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

THE POET Jane Clarke, winner of the 2014 Listowel Writers' Week Poetry Collection Award and the 2014 Trocaire/Poetry Ireland Competition, will be reading at the Over The Edge: Open Reading on Thursday March 31 at 6.30pm.

Under Milk Wood - with an all male cast

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

UNDER MILK Wood, Dylan Thomas’s celebrated radio play of 1954, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday March 29 at 8pm in a production for the stage by Blood In The Alley.

Tracy Bruen to get 'Dubhsexy'

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

TRACY BRUEN, the Galway singer-songwriter and Galway Advertiser Solo Artist of the Year 2015, will headline Dubhsexy, the next Steve Sharpe curated night in the Róisín Dubh, on Thursday March 31 at 9pm.

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