Wille and the Bandits @ Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
BRITISH ROOTS-rock band Wille and The Bandits have been hailed as “the new Seasick Steve,” by The Kaiser Chiefs and one of the UK’s “best live acts” by The Daily Telegraph.
Read more ...The Cabin Collective play debut show for Cúirt
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
THE CABIN Collective, featuring The Saw Doctors’ Leo Moran and singer-songwriter Noelie McDonnell, play their debut gig at this month’s Cúirt festival.
Read more ...Mephisto bring Grenades to Inis Oírr
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
NUALA KELLY is a nine-year-old living with her mother, brother, and grandfather in conflict torn Northern Ireland in 1979.
Read more ...Music making from tree to note
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
WHAT GOES into the making of an instrument? What are the processes, skills, materials, and equipment necessary to make a violin, a flute, or a guitar?
Read more ...Niall Connolly returns
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
SINGER-SONGWRITER Niall Connolly makes a welcome return to Galway city to play a show promoting his new album Sound.
Read more ...Vinnie’s TV @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
LED BY New Jersey singer-songwriter Wade Lynch, Vinnie’s TV play folk/roots rock inspired by Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and Nick Drake.
The Cork based band play Monroes Live on Saturday April 27 at 9pm. The music incorporates Americana rock with Irish trad. Lyrically, Lynch’s main influence is John Steinbeck and the songs deal with love, loss, displacement and heartache. Check out their debut EP St Ouen and the album The Grapes and Ghosts.
Read more ...Innovative new drama from THEATREclub
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
“SO THEATRE is a safe, middle-class thing, and young people think it's boring? THEATREclub beg to disagree. They’re taking conventional notions of theatre and shoving them back in our faces.
Read more ...Digital Chaos @ The Cellar
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
DIGITAL CHAOS returns to the Cellar Underground this Saturday for another night of techno grooves.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
CORKONIAN BILLY Ramsell will be performing his poetry at the next North Beach Poetry Nights this Monday in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Pete Mullineaux’s acting classes
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
THE ACTOR, poet, and singer-songwriter Pete Mullineaux will host his popular acting classes for adults at Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Birds Of Chicago - US folk duo to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
“TAKE SOME melodies, arrange them in interesting ways (soul, folk, country, doo wop, samba, gospel) and the crowning glory – put two of the best voices in popular music over the top.”
Read more ...Galway Arts Centre’s GAC(h) Duine music festival
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
GAC(h) DUINE, the Galway Arts Centre’s first music festival, runs from this evening until Saturday at the centre on 47 Dominick Street.
Read more ...Low Mountain @ Monroe’s
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
A STRIPPED down, nowhere-to-hide acoustic set with a strong emphasis on vocals and subtle instrumentation is the approiach of LOWmountain.
Read more ...Kevin McAleer @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
SINCE HIS appearances on Nighthawks in the early 1990s, Kevin McAleer has enjoyed the status of a founding father of modern Irish stand-up and a a much loved comic.
Read more ...Noise rock night @ The Cellar
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
ABRASIVE NOISE-ROCK, alternative rock, and punk will be the order of the night at a show in the Cellar Underground this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...110th Street’s Hive Party @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
110THE STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.15pm.
Read more ...Hear Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
GEORGE GERSCHWIN’S ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, one of the great orchestral works of the 20th century, fusing jazz and classical, will be performed in Galway.
Read more ...Hear the songs of Schubert
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
THE SONGS of Franz Schubert, one of the leading composers of the Romantic era, will bring the curtain down on Music for Galway’s 32nd International Concert Season.
The ‘Softly Shall You Sleep...’ concert takes place in the ballroom of the Hotel Meyrick on Tuesday at 8pm, with bass-baritone Conor Biggs, pianist Michel Stas, and the ConTempo Quartet.
Read more ...Cúirt events and exhibition
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
READINGS, ART exhibitions, tree planting, and a plaque unveiling will all take place as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature from April 23 to 28.
Read more ...Choral concert in St Nicholas’
Thu, Apr 18, 2013
VOCI NUOVE, a new young choir from Cork will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, and Arvö Part in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm.
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