Éigse an Spidéil 2009

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

ÉIGSE AN Spidéil 2009, the annual festival of traditional music, dance, sean-nós singing, art, and poetry, takes place from Thursday March 5 to Wednesday 11.

The festival, which is part of Seachtain na Gaeilge, begins at 8pm in the Park Lodge Hotel with an arts show by students in the traditional arts course at NUI, Galway. There will also be music and song, finishing with a session in Hughes Pub in the village.

Ibsen classic Enemy Of The People gets innovative new Galway production

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

ONE OF Galway’s brightest young theatre companies, Moonfish, have teamed up with An Taibhdhearc to present a new staging of Namhaid don Phobal - an Irish-language version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People. The production will have English subtitles.

Imelda May takes the liberty of following her own path

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

WHEN OTHER girls her age were listening to Wham, A-Ha, and Bros, Imelda May was extolling the virtues of Elvis, Eddie Cochrane, and Gene Vincent.

The Revellions to bring their sixties sound to Bar903

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE REVELLIONS are inspired by 1960s rock and make garage rock that sounds fresh and original. What’s more they are coming to Galway this weekend.

Conscience Of The King in Town Hall studio

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

VERSAILLES 1670. Louis XIV, King of France, has fallen madly in love with Madame de Montespan. He discovers, to his horror, that she has betrayed him and everything he stands for.

John O’Conor to play Town Hall

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE GREAT Irish pianist John O’Conor will play the Town Hall Theatre as part of Adventures in Music’s fifth year anniversary celebration.

KATS to stage Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE PILLOWMAN, by the award-winning dramatist and Golden Glode and BAFTA winning screenwriter Martin McDonagh, will be performed in Galway next week.

Dr Suess’ characters in Athenry

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE CAT In The Hat, Horton the Elephant, Mayzie LaBird, and Yertle the Turtle are in Athenry for Seussical The Musical.

Some country-blues with Charlie Parr

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

CHARLIE PARR is, for some, the alternative Seasick Steve, the man for whom Steve is, in a sense, making the paths straight.

See ‘Nashville’s best kept secret’

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE MUSIC journalist and author Vic Garbarini has described American songwriter and guitarist Dana Cooper as “one of Nashville’s best kept secrets”.

Rarely Seen Above Ground @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

RARELY SEEN Above Ground is quite unusual because he takes the entire notion of ‘the one man band’ into extreme and unusual places.

If the shoe fits... at Halo

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

HALO WILL hold a special themed night on Friday March 6 at 11pm entitled If the shoe fits... inspired by the story of Cinderella.

Start the St Patrick’s Day celebrations early at Campbell’s

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

TG4’S TRAD music programme Geantraí, returns to Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, tomorrow to record a night of music and craic, which will be broadcast on St Patrick’s Day.

Patrick Kavanagh Award Winner for Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE PATRICK Kavanagh Poetry Award 2008 winner Geraldine Mitchell will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.

The event takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 26 at 6.30pm with Geraldine Mitchell, Hajo Quade, and Marie Cadden.

You having a laugh?

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

For one night only on March 1, the Comedy Club at Cuba* reverts to its traditional Sunday night slot with a show from the dynamic and hilarious Jason Byrne (pictured), a master of improvisation and madcap buffoonery. There will be a full support bill and Gerry Mallon is the MC. Tickets are available in advance at Bar 903, The Cellar Bar, and at the door which opens at 8.30pm

Leading vocal coach to give classes in Galway

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

WENDY PARR, one of only eight speech level singing master voice teachers, will be coming to Galway to give classes later this month.

Auditions

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

Theatre auditions

Charity night for Australian bushfire appeal

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

LOCAL DANCE club Galway Swing will hold a charity night this month to raise vital funds for those affected by the Australian bushfire disaster.

The cream of comedy from Neil Delamere

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

THROUGHOUT THE past decade Offaly’s Neil Delamere has been one of the top comics on the Irish comedy circuit. After graduating from DCU in the late 1990s he decided programming computers wasn’t for him and instead he began to do open mic slots in Dublin circuit.

Tommy Tiernan to play The Comedy Club in Cuba*

Thu, Feb 12, 2009

A PHENOMENON, a force of nature, and possibly the greatest comedian to ever come out of Ireland, Tommy Tiernan will headline the Comedy Club at Cuba* on Friday February 20.

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