Erin McKeown and Steve Cooney @ Campbell’s

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FROM THE quirky, clever, songs of Erin McKeown, to the rousing, imaginative Irish trad of Steve Cooney, Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, will be bursting with great music this Halloween.

The nautical but nice sounds of Port O’Brien

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

VAN PIERSZALOWSKI was born in California, but spent his summers on Kodiak Island in Alaska, where his father works as a commercial salmon fisherman.

Every summer Van goes up north to work on his father’s boat, The Shawnee. The work is intense - 20 hour days, weeks without touching land, no showers or toilets, and stormy seas - yet this young songwriter finds the money is good and that there is inspiration in the natural beauty he sees around him.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The house to myself, the couch to myself, a great book, a glass of wine and chocolate.

The house to myself, the couch to myself, a great book, a glass of wine and chocolate.

Enjoy the magic of the viola

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

A BRITISH viola player, a Latvian cellist, and an Israeli pianist will join forces for Music For Galway’s Viola Magic concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, on Thursday November 6 at 8pm.

Tulca returns

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

TULCA, GALWAY city’s festival celebrating the visual arts returns in November and to whet appetites, the programme of events for this year’s festival will be launched tonight.

Augustinian Church Choir release new album

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

“TO SING is to pray twice,” said St Augustine and whether it is through Gregorian chant or music by classical composers, God and music itself has been richly served by Christian song.

St Augustine’s motto is also the title of the new album by Galway’s Augustinian Church Choir. The album was recorded in St Augustine’s Church, Middle Street, on May 11 this year.

Irish Times critic to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE IRISH Times critic John Kenny will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday October 30 at 6.30pm.

Poetry Slams @ The Ruby Room

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE GALWAY Art Centre’s next poetry slam is on Tuesday at 7pm in The Ruby Room, upstairs in The King’s Head.

Puppet show at Ballybane Library

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE DOG and String Puppet Show will present The Wishing Tree, a magical puppet show in the Ballybane Library next week.

The show is aimed at five to 10 year olds and will be performed son Wednesday October 29 at 2.30pm

Spoof spy thriller is less than the sum of its parts

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

A new film from the Coen brothers is always greeted with deserved anticipation, and their latest, Burn After Reading is no exception, as evidenced by a packed cinema last Friday.

Dark kiddie toon is mature but still enjoyable for all ages

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

If Tim Burton made children’s cartoons, the end result would probably look a lot like Igor.

Junior Film Fleadh is back in November

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

FILMS FROM Germany, France, South Africa, Canada, Ireland, and Britain, will be screened at the 14th Junior Film Fleadh which takes place from November 12 to 14.

Films include the celebrated cartoon Perseoplis, which charts one girl’s experience of growing up in Iran, first under the brutal dictatorship of the western backed Shah, and then under the hardline and oppressive ayatollahs.

Sean Keane’s The Scattering

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

THE SCATTERING is Sean Keane’s musical journey along the Rhine with St Columbanus, across Australia, and onto the barricades of labour protest in the United States - told through the songs of Irish emigrants.

Ardvarna release new album The Lakeshore Town

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

IRISH TRAD and folk enjoy an unprecedented worldwide popularity, but it is easy to forget where it all began in the late 1960s and 1970s and the great debt owed to an earlier generation of ballad and folk singers.

The songs and contributions of Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Johnny Moynihan, Andy Irvine, and the late Joe Dolan, should be celebrated and command an important place in the repertoire of contemporary Irish folk musicians

Fionn Regan returns

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Fionn Regan, the Irish singer-songwriter with the colourful turn of phrase and a plethora of endearing folk-pop melodies, returns to play the Róisín Dubh on Friday November 21 at 8pm.

Telling Tales at City Museum

Thu, Oct 23, 2008

TELLING TALES, a free audio-visual storytelling event, featuring original stories from leading Galway writers, and musicians, takes place next week.

The event will be officially launched by the Mayor of Galway Cllr Padraig Conneely on Friday October 31 at 3pm. Dubray Books will also be giving prizes for the best children’s costumes.

Howl at the moon on Halloween night with Andrew Maxwell and friends

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

ANDREW MAXWELL is a regular face on RTÉ’s The Panel alongside Dara O’Briain, Colin Murphy, Ed Byrne, and Neil Delamare. The cheeky chap from Kilbarrack draws chuckles whether ranting about D4s and their SUVs or making sexual advances towards Grainne Seoige.

Although Maxwell has based himself in London since the mid 1990s it wasn’t until in 2005 that Channel 4 awarded him the title ‘King Of Comedy’ that things really started to take off for him.

‘Duelling Banjos’ star Eric Weissberg to play The Crane

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

THE 1972 John Boorman-directed movie Deliverance is one probably one of the most hard-hitting on the subject of the battle between man and nature.

Steve Albini to bring Shellac to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

STEVE ALBINI must rank as one of the most significant figures in rock music over the last 30 years. Through his own bands like Big Black and in his production work he has shaped and brought to life countless important alternative music albums.

‘WAG on a Hot Tin Roof’ as Corn Exchange re-imagine Tennessee Williams’ classic

Thu, Oct 16, 2008

FRESH FROM an acclaimed run at the Dublin Theatre festival, Corn Exchange - one of Ireland’s most innovative theatre companies - come to the Town Hall next week with their bold reworking of Tennessee Williams’ 1950s’ classic, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof.

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