Get down to northern soul and ska

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE BEST, and some of the hardest to find, singles in northern soul, early reggae, Latin Boogaloo, Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and 1960s r’n’b will be spun in Galway next weekend.

‘Midnight at the Oasis’ singer to play Galway

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

MOST SINGERS are lucky to make it beyond a handful of gigs, a few more are lucky to get something recorded. Only a handful get to sing a song that becomes a classic.

Donal Dineen @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

DJ, BROADCASTER, photographer, and artist, Donal Dineen has been the renaissance man off the indie/altertnative scene in Ireland for some two decades.

Protobaby to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

PROTOBABY PLAY “clever, epic rocktronica” according to Hot Press and are “the best thing to happen to Limerick music in a long time” say State Of Affairs.

Make your own documentary

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre is seeking Galway county and city community, social and voluntary groups to take part in a project enabling them make a documentary.

The ID Film Project aims to facilitate groups to take an active part in the filmmaking process and develop and create a short documentary. The project is funded principally by The Arts Council, Galway City Council, and Galway County Council.

Gael Garcia Bernal says No

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

MEXICAN FILM star Gael Garcia Bernal takes the lead role in Chilean movie No, to be shown in the Town Hall Theatre this weekend.

Dermot Healy - a man for all seasons

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

TURNING LEFT just after Drumcliffe Church in County Sligo, there is a long twisting road, wending its way to a rocky shore. At the end is a low lying bungalow.

Galway Baroque Singers in concert

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the ConTempo Quartet will perform Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ in the Augustinian Church, Middle Street.

Choral concert in Salthill

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

CHOIRS FROM Alabama and Galway gather in Christ the King church, Salthill, this Sunday at 8pm for a concert embracing all forms of song.

Over The Edge readings

Thu, Mar 21, 2013

TWO FICTION writers and a poet will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday March 28 at 6.30pm.

Ballet gala marks twenty-five years of Regina Rogers school

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet has long been a valued presence on Galway’s cultural landscape and next weekend it celebrates its silver jubilee with three gala dance performances in the Town Hall Theatre.

Conducting the sounds of sacred song

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

A MEDITATION on Christ’s final words on the Cross and a homage to the patron saint of music, St Cecilia, will form part of a pre-Easter concert of sacred contemporary music in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Three chances to see Reginald D

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

REGINALD D HUNTER, a man in “the top rank of stand-up comedians working today,” according to The Times, plays three dates in Galway over the Easter Weekend.

The Fantasist – charting bipolar’s highs and lows

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

AFTER SELL-OUT runs in London and Edinburgh and numerous rave reviews, Theatre Témoin brings its astonishing show, The Fantasist, to the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday March 20 at 8pm.

An Taibhdhearc’s Seoda Phádraig concert

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

SEODA PHÁDRAIG 2013, the annual St Patrick’s Festival of Music and Song of the Nation, takes place in An Taibhdhearc, Middle Street, tomorrow at 8pm.

Dancing to the Pageant of life

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

WALKING A tightrope, jumping through hoops, bending over backwards to please, or dressing in a certain way, there is pageantry in everything we do.

The award winning CoisCéim Dance Theatre will stage David Bolger and Muirne Bloomer’s Pageant, inspired by “the extraordinary of the everyday” and celebrating the “performer in us all”, in the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday March 19 at 8pm.

Acting for film and TV course

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

JOHN DAWSON, the highly respected acting teacher is coming to Galway to give an acting for camera workshops.

Hosted by the Galway Actors Workshop, the classes will look at techniques, skills, and requirements of acting for film, TV, and auditioning. They take place in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill on Saturday March 23 (11am to 6pm) and Sunday 24 (10.30am to 5.15pm).

Pat Shortt - I Am The Band

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

IRELAND’S DANCEHALL and showband days will be relived in the hilarious new show, I Am The Band, by one of Ireland’s best loved comedians, Pat Shortt.

Galway Film Centre script clinic

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre is running a four-day writing course in April, aimed at those with an idea for, or who are working on, a feature script.

The course takes place from April 18 to 21 (9am-5pm) in Cluain Mhuire, Wellpark Road. The tutor is Mark McIlrath, a professional script editor with more than 20 years experience.

Beth Orton to play Strange Brew

Thu, Mar 14, 2013

BETH ORTON has embraced and eschewed the ‘singer-songwriter’ tag throughout her career, never opting solely for the one guitar, three chords, and the truth approach.

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