Italian opera's impact on the world

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

NEXT WEEK is not simply next week, it is Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo, the Week of the Italian Language in the World, and as part of a worldwide celebration of Italian, NUI Galway will host a talk linking opera with Italian history.

Renegade Brass Band @ The Loft

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

AN EIGHT strong horn section, two percussionists, a scratch DJ, and an MC, the Renegade Brass Band's jazz, funk, and hip-hop fusion deliver "aggressive rhymes, tight horns...riotous, raucous and uninhibited!” according to Edinburgh's Samizdat Press.

Eileen O’Mara Walsh booklaunch in Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

EILEEN O'MARA Walsh will launch her memoir The Third Daughter: A Retrospective, published by The Lilliput Press, in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Thursday October 22 at 6.30pm.

Shuffle! @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

ANDY RHYTHMNBOOZE, who runs Limerick's Rhythm'n'Booze night, playing r'n'b, ska, and soul on original 45s, is the special guest DJ at Dave Barry's Shuffle! in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night.

Róisin O to play the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

RÓISÍN O comes from thoroughbred pedigree in terms of Irish music. Her mother is none other than Mary Black, while her brother, Danny is lead singer in The Coronas, but as a solo singer-songwriter she is her own woman.

Brand New Zeros and Cronin @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

TWO BANDS - Brand New Zeros and Cronin - one English, the other Irish, and who play original music, will both play Monroe’s Live on Sunday October 25 at 9pm.

The Spirit of Smokie @ The Quays

Thu, Oct 15, 2015

THE SPIRIT of Smokie play The Quays on Thursday October 22, performing hits from the 1970s and 1980s, such as 'Living Next Door To Alice', along with new material.

Metal, alternative rock, Dimebag Darrell, and Josh Homme

Wed, Oct 14, 2015

TWO TRIBUTE bands, both celebrating outfits whose music is firmly located at the heavy end of the spectrum, albeit in different ways, come to Monroe's Live this month, for shows that will surely appeal to metal heads and alternative rockers alike.

Sibling harmony to sound at lunchtime concert

Tue, Oct 13, 2015

AN UNCONVENTIONAL musical journey from Russian composer Alexander Borodin to American jazz singer Billy Holliday can be expected at a forthcoming concert from musical siblings Naomi and Matthew Berrill.

Home-grown thrills and terrors in CarnEvil

Tue, Oct 13, 2015

HALLOWEEN FAST approaches, that time of year when ghouls, ghosts and goblins, witches and warlocks, fiends and fright-mongers, of all shapes and sizes emerge to fill mere mortals with dread and horror...and Galway is not immune from their baleful presence.

Baboró children's festival starts today

Mon, Oct 12, 2015

TODAY SEES the opening of the 19th Baboró International Arts Festival for Children opens in Galway, and for the next seven days, children and families can enjoy a creative extravaganza of theatre, puppetry, dance, music, animation, exhibitions and workshops.

Paul Mercier to give actor and directors' classes in Galway

Mon, Oct 12, 2015

PAUL MERCIER, the award winning Irish director and writer, whose debut feature film, Pursuit, premiered at the 2015 Galway Film Fleadh, will give a workshop for actors and film-makers next month.

CoisCéim - dancing with wolves at Baboró

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE BABORÓ International Children's Festival swings into action next week and a must-see highlight will be the world premiere of CoisCéim’s The Wolf and Peter, an exciting new dance interpretation of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.

The Minutes play Strange Brew tonight

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

DUBLIN GARAGE and blues-rock trio The Minutes, who, according to DJ Rob Smith are "one of, if not then the finest rock & roll band to have ever come out of Ireland", play Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight at 10.30pm.

Quirky Acts for the comedy carnival

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

A WOMAN only 3’ 6” tall, who calls herself, the Ferrari of comedy, "low to the ground and kinda racy"; a man known as the 'Whisky Comedian'; and The Two Johns, a duo of the extraordinary Terry Alderton and musician Johnny Spurling - Galway better get ready for them all.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn - the Irishman who loved Japan

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

PATRICK LAFCADIO Hearn is the most famous Irishman you have never heard of, but for people in Japan he is an Irish writer whose stature is rivaled only by WB Yeats and James Joyce - and Galway is about to become aware of him through a celebration of his life and work in the city.

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

TALKING HEADS: Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme's classic in-concert film, capturing the power of te pioneering alternative-rock quartet, and featuring David Byrne in an oversized suit leading idyosyncratic dance routines, is to get a special screening.

Ceramic art exhibition

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

DUALITY OF Function, an exhibition featuring porcelain clay, or 'white gold' as it is also known, and three artists who work in this medium, opens in the Galway Arts Centre tomorrow.

Ways of looking with author Colum McCann

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

COLUM MCCANN, one of Ireland’s finest writers, will read from his new book, Thirteen Ways Of Looking, at an event tomorrow evening [Friday October 9], organised by Cúirt International Festival of Literature and An Taibhdhearc Theatre.

Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

AIDAN STRANGEMAN, the 2014 So You Think You’re Funny Award winner - an award previously won by Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan and David O’ Doherty - will headline the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, in the venue's upstairs bar, tomorrow at 8.30pm.

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