The Bolshoi’s Giselle - live at The Eye Cinema

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE BOLSHOI Ballet's production of the classic ballet Giselle, directed by Yuri Grigorovich and featuring music by Adolphe Adam, will be broadcast live in HD from Moscow to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Sunday at 4pm.

Zion Train to deliver the dub reggae

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

GOING STRONG for more than a quarter of a century, Zion Train have consistently delivered quality dub reggae, electronica, world, and dance music, as Galway will hear when they play the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.

Over The Edge Fiction Slam

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

SLAM EVENTS provide an opportunity for poets to read their work in public are plenty, but there are fewer opportunities for fiction writers, so the seventh annual Over The Edge Fiction Slam is a welcome event.

Little Hours to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

LITTLE HOURS, the Donegal folk-pop duo who have impressed with the single 'It's Still Love', and whose music has been called "epic and infectious" by Breaking Tunes, play the Róisín Dubh on Saturday October 17 at 9pm.

See Italian film The Wonders

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE WONDERS, the Italian film which won the 2014 Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm in the Town Hall Theatre.

Creative writing classes for young people

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE VARIATIONS Of The Compass: A World Without Maps, is a creative writing course for young people aged between 13 and 17, hosted by Dani Gill, director of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

Classical guitarist in concert at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

PAT COLDRICK, the Irish classical guitarist plays Monroe's Live on Thursday October 15 at 9pm, where he will perform his own arrangements of works in the classical repertoire, as well as original compositions.

Coyote Factor applications still being accepted

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

APPLICATIONS ARE still being accepted for the Coyote Factor competition which offers the winner a €10,000 prize fund, with an EP recording package, digital album release, photo shoot, and music video shoot

Bofin man fights for his rights

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

A TURNING Tide In The Life of Man, a documentary about fisherman John O'Brien, who takes a legal action to Europe to protect his right to fish the waters around his island home of Inisboffin will be screened this week.

Jugendzupforchester in St Nicholas'

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

THE GERMAN Youth Plucked String Orchestra, or Jugendzupforchester, are coming to Galway to perform work by Vivaldi, Bach, Greig, Kuwahara, Balkanski, Desmond, and Bremner.

Seo Linn to play Gorta Self Help Africa gig

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

SEO LINN, the young trad band who have caught the imagination of YouTube viewers with their covers of Avicii’s ‘Wake Me Up’, Macklemore’s ‘Can’t Hold Us’, and Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’, play Monroe's Live this month.

My Fellow Sponges' do something...at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

MY FELLOW Sponges, the Galway prog-folk/indie band will play two nights at An Taibhdhearc Theatre this month - Wednesday October 21 and Thursday 22 - and featuring appearances from Yer Man's Puppets's Tommy Baker and The Gombeens's J-Dog, and others.

Electro-rockers Makings @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Oct 08, 2015

MAKINGS, THE Dublin electro rock band, who have been called "insanely powerful live" by Pure M magazine, play Monroe's Backstage Bar this Saturday at 9pm.

Paddy Cullivan's Solutionism to Ireland's woes

Wed, Oct 07, 2015

PADDY CULLIVAN is a musician and satirist, well known from The Late Late Show and The Camembert Quartet, Callan's Kicks, and Joe Duffy's Funny Friday, but he's bringing his comedic skills to look at the state of Irish politics, economy, and culture, in his new show Solutionism.

Why Not? Adventure Film Festival

Wed, Oct 07, 2015

THE FOURTH annual Why Not? Adventure Film Festival, a day of screenings of documentaries on mountain climbing, trekking in wild and remote corners of the globe, human endurance, extreme sports, and the human thirst for adventure, returns to Galway this weekend.

Music For Dead Birds to open October Citóg gigs

Tue, Oct 06, 2015

CITÓG RETURNS to the Róisín Dubh, not only for a new series of its monthly gigs in the Dominick Street venue, but with the first Galway gig in a number of years from Music For Dead Birds, who have also just released a new EP.

Colum McCann to read at An Taibhdhearc

Mon, Oct 05, 2015

COLUM MNCANN, the Irish author of such acclaimed works as Let The Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, will be in Galway this week to read from his new novel, Thirteen Ways Of Looking.

'Performance is very emotional, it's human expression'

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

FINGHIN COLLINS may declare himself "a musician first and then a pianist", but there is no doubting either his magnificent as a player, or his view of the piano being "a very complete instrument", as he will display in his upcoming Galway concert. Yet his love of, and interest in, other instruments, is genuine, particularly one that is somewhat under appreciated in classical music - the voice.

Hourglass Theatre Co returns with Loose Change

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

AFTER A successful run at the Town Hall Theatre Studio in April, Hourglass Theatre Company return to the venue with a revival of Loose Change, a trio of one acts by Ian Patterson.

Gearóid Farrelly for Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh

Thu, Oct 01, 2015

'START AS you mean to go on' is an old maxim that could be applied to the career of Dublin comedian Gearóid Farrelly, who headlines the next installment of the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh tomorrow at 8.30pm.

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