Candice Gordon @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE MUSIC and songs of Candice Gordon embraces a diverse array of sounds, from Tex-Mex to New Orleans rhythms to Ennio Morricone to Tom Waits.
Read more ...Walpurgis Night II - heavy metal thunder
Thu, May 02, 2013
WALPURGIS NIGHT II, a night of heavy metal by some of the best bands working in that diverse genre, takes place in The Cellar Bar tomorrow night from 7pm.
Read more ...Bressie to play the Radisson
Thu, May 02, 2013
BRESSIE, former front man with The Blizzards, solo vocalist and songwriter, chart topper, and Voice Of Ireland coach, and is coming to Galway.
Read more ...‘There is no such thing as forgetting’
Thu, May 02, 2013
IT IS almost impossible for those lucky enough not to have experienced the savage infliction of Alzheimer’s at first hand, to understand just how devastating this horrible disease can be.
Read more ...Men of absolutely no importance
Thu, May 02, 2013
ALAN MCMONAGLE spectacularly succeeds where most short story writers fail: he creates characters who, however unlikely the scenario may initially appear, by the end of the first page he has the reader convinced such people definitely exist and should, for the most part, be avoided at all costs.
Read more ...GAC creative writing classes
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE GALWAY Arts Centre will host creative writing classes with two of Galway’s leading writers - Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars.
Read more ...Jaime Nanci - singin’ the Nina Simone blues
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
SHE CROONED confidently how ‘My baby just cares for me’; raged against racism and killings of African-Americans in ‘Mississippi Goddamn’, turned a song from a musical, ‘Ain’t Got No, I Got Life’ into a cry of black pride, and penned her own civil rights anthem in ‘To Be Young Gifted, and Black’.
Read more ...Oliver Reed - Wild Thing
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
THE HELLRAISING life and times of Oliver Reed are vividly brought to life in acclaimed Oliver Reed – Wild Thing which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday May 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Romance and villainy at Galway Early Music Festival
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
MONSTERS AND fairies, poets and singers, heroes and villains will all be part and parcel of the Galway Early Music Festival, which runs from May 9 to 12.
The festival will celebrate medieval renaissance and baroque vocal and instrumental music, with a special emphasis on 17th century Italian music, early Irish poetry, and the darker side of fairytales.
Read more ...The long and the short of the short story
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
Acclaimed short story writer Claire Keegan will read at Cúirt this Saturday alongside poet and author Ron Nash.
Read more ...A Fig For A Kiss in Town Hall
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
AFTER ENJOYING a successful run last September with the play The Three Deaths of Eddie, local company Wolf Meets World return to the Town Hall Studio with its latest offering, A Fig For A Kiss.
Read more ...Charlie Byrne’s Cúirt Bookshop @ Town Hall
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
CHARLIE BYRNE’S Cúirt Bookshop is open at the Town Hall Theatre during the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
Read more ...Acting for TV and film course
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
THE IFTA winning Irish actor Martin McCann, who has appeared in Killing Bono, Shadow Dancer, and Clash of the Titans, is coming to Galway for the acting for TV and film course.
Read more ...Robert Newman @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
COMEDIAN AND author Robert Newman hits town this Saturday at the Róisín Dubh, as part of the Cúirt festival, for two shows - one a reading from his new novel, the other his latest stand -up show.
Read more ...Mary Gauthier @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
MARY GAUTHIER, one of the leading Americana singer-songwriters, is coming to Monroe’s Live on Friday May 3 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...The Cyclist @ Electric
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
DERRY DJ Andrew Morrison, aka The Cyclist, plays the Bap to the Future night at The Electric Garden’s Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday at 10.30pm.
Morrison’s music mixes post-punk, disco, and tape noise, and his most recent album Bones in Motion (Stonesthrow Records) has earned praise from Pitchfork. Support will be from Eomac (one half of Dublin techno duo Lakker) on the decks, who has a new record out on killekill records, as well as Bap to the Future residents.
Read more ...Charlie McGettigan/ We Banjo 3 in concert
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
A DISTINGUISHED veteran of the Irish folk/singer-songwriter scene and a rising new force in Irish trad share the stage at The Forge, Moycullen, on Friday May 3.
Read more ...Banjo virtuoso for Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
BANJO VIRTUOSO Dan Walsh has been described by BBC Radio’s Janice Long as “incredibly gifted - if anyone has the opportunity to see him they must”.
Read more ...Thinguma*jigSaw ‘secret’ Galway show
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
THE ECCENTRIC, theatrical, surreal, and imaginative Norwegian folk duo Thinguma*jigSaw will play their final Irish gig in Galway.
Read more ...Poems For Patience X launch
Thu, Apr 25, 2013
THE TENTH Poems For Patience initiative will be launched tomorrow at 11am on the Arts Corridor, off the main foyer, of University Hospital Galway.
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