Ghetto disco to bring ‘tha funk’
Thu, May 09, 2013
GHETTO DISCO, a new clubnight of funk/soul retro classics with DJs Will Softly and Slick Normal, starts this weekend.
Read more ...Kenny’s Vibrant Synchronies
Thu, May 09, 2013
VIBRANT SYNCHRONIES, a group exhibition, will officially open in The Kenny Gallery, Liosbán, tomorrow at 3pm.
The show consists of the paintings and sculpture by 13 artists from 11 different countries, many of whom have previously been selected to exhibit their work in Estense Castle in Ferrara, Italy. They have come together under the professional guidance and curatorial skills of Paola Trevisan.
Read more ...Painting and drawing workshops
Thu, May 09, 2013
ONE OF Galway’s leading young artists, Jennifer Cunningham, will hold her ‘One Day Painting and Drawing’ workshops in Newcastle.
Read more ...Adventures in Music with Sonic Strings
Thu, May 09, 2013
TEENAGE ORCHESTRA Sonic String will perform music from across the world at the final Adventures In Music gig of the season.
Read more ...Celebrating Adrian Frazier
Thu, May 09, 2013
WATCHING MY Hands At Work, an anthology of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays honouring NUI Galway’s Prof Adrian Frazier is to be launched.
Read more ...Contemporary dance classes
Thu, May 09, 2013
CONTEMPORARY DANCE classes with Elena Giannotti, take place in the Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay, today (Thursday May 9), Monday 13, and Monday 20.
The classes, organised by the Galway Dance Project, will be held at 11am (advanced/professional level) and at 2pm (beginners/intermediate)
Read more ...The guitarist and the cellist
Thu, May 09, 2013
A CONCERT of guitar and cello music, with ConTempo’s Adrian Mantu and John Feeley, takes place in the Druid Lane Theatre tomorrow at 1pm.
The concert, which is part of the Galway Early Music Festival, is entitled Lost Innocence: Pastoral Music and Poetry Throughout the Ages. It will see cellist Mantu and guitarist Feeley perform music by Bazelaires, Marais, Bach and others, interspersed with pastoral themed poetry.
Read more ...OTC’s ‘dramatically re-imagined’ Carmen
Thu, May 02, 2013
WITH ITS instantly recognisable score and a love story bristling with thwarted passions, Georges Bizet’s Carmen is undoubtedly among the most popular operas in existence.
Read more ...Sonnets For The Cradle and the dark side of fairytales
Thu, May 02, 2013
GALWAY EARLY Music Festival takes place from Thursday May 9 to Sunday 12 and among the highlights is Sonnets For The Cradle, a multi-media event based on classic fairytales.
Read more ...New exhibition of film and artwork
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE ARTISTS Cecilia Danell and Emmet Kierans and the youth group Red Bird, will host a new art exhibition, Remember Me (When I Forget), at the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Basswax @ The Cellar
Thu, May 02, 2013
BASSWAX RETURNS to The Cellar Bar on Eglinton Street, this Saturday at 10pm for more electronic mischief.
Headlining is Planet Mu’s The Host, better known as Boxcutter. Support is from Galway drum’n’bass producer Furian; techno DJ Deletia; and old school jungle from Sean Doohan. The DJs will be playing through a SubVersion sound system.
Read more ...Atalante - Roman laments and ethereal sounds
Thu, May 02, 2013
ERIN HEADLEY and her award-winning pan-European ensemble Atalante are coming to Galway to perform a concert which aims to “transport the soul and elevate the spirit”.
Read more ...For Love - ‘like a dirty pop song’
Thu, May 02, 2013
NEW YORK’S Irish Repertory Theatre comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday May 7 and Wednesday 8 at 8pm, with Laoisa Sexton’s much-acclaimed ‘dark blue comedy’, For Love.
Read more ...Celebrating Irish songwriters
Thu, May 02, 2013
IRISH SONGWRITERS and composers will be celebrated at a show, from the Galway Percy French Society, in An Taibhdhearc this month.
With A Tear and A Smile: A Repertoire of Music and Song by celebrated Irish Songwriters and Composers Through the Centuries takes place on Saturday May 11 at 8pm.
Read more ...Blazing Bows - fiddle masters unleashed
Thu, May 02, 2013
THREE OF the best trad fiddlers in the country - Cathal Hayden, Dezi Donnelly, and Tóla Custy - have joined forces to become Blazing Bows.
Read more ...War Against Cliché writing workshop
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE WAR Against Cliché: A writing and editing workshop for intermediate writers and blocked writers is coming to the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Cinderella - After The Ball
Thu, May 02, 2013
WHATEVER HAPPENED to Cinderella and Prince Charming after they got married? Fairy tales answer it was ‘happily ever after’, but Ballet Ireland begs to differ.
In the company’s new ballet Cinderella - After The Ball, choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple presents the not quite so ‘happily ever after’ couple back from honeymoon and having to face Buttons and the Ugly Sisters; Cinderella’s struggles as a working class woman now living as a royal; and the bankrupt Prince’s plans to auction off The Glass Slippers. Looks like it’s fairy Godmother to the rescue again.
Read more ...Kenny’s to launch new book on Seán Keating
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE FIRST exhibition to be held in The Kenny Gallery in Salthill in July 1968 was by Sean Keating, one of Ireland’s major 20th century artists.
Read more ...Colin Murphy @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, May 02, 2013
One of Ireland’s leading comics, Belfast man Colin Murphy (pictured) brings his inspired stand-up comedy to the Róisín Dubh on Friday May 10 at 8.30pm. Support is from Fred Cooke and Joe Rooney. Tickets are available at www.roisindubh.net, from the Ticket Desk at OMG, Shop Street (formerly Zhivago), and The Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Fang Island to play Strange Brew
Thu, May 02, 2013
FANG ISLAND’S music is celebratory, ecstatic, joyful, and anthemic, combining the playfulness of indie-rock with the big guitar riffs and licks of classic rock.
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