Galway Sessions festival - a taste of Connemara

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE GALWAY Sessions festival, the annual celebration of Irish folk, trad, and dance, returns from Monday June 15 to Sunday 21, with a special focus on Connemara's many and magnificent musicians, singers, and dancers.

Jason Byrne returns to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

JASON BYRNE makes a welcome return to Galway on Friday June 19 at 8.30pm when he brings his new show There's A Grand Stretch In The Evenings to the Róisín Dubh.

Venus Sleeps - psychedelic doom metal @ The Cellar

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

VENUS SLEEPS, the Dublin psychedelic doom metal band will launch their new album Dead Sun Worship with a show in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, this Saturday from 8.30pm.

La Bohème at the IMC Cinema

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

PUCCINI'S LA Bohème, one of opera's greatest romances is being staged by Britain's Royal Opera, and Galway will be able to see it when it is broadcast live to the IMC Galway Cinema on Wednesday June 10 at 7.15pm.

Buskers, beggars, and degenerates of every persuasion

Literature Reviews Thu, Jun 04, 2015

IT HAS been said elsewhere, but bears repeating, that Galway city is probably the most important character in Máire T Robinson’s debut novel Skin Paper Stone, published by New Island.

Arthur’s Dig – a play for our times

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

WHEN THE house you are building is falling down around your ears, when all you have worked for is taken away, what will run out first: your money or your wife? Arthur’s Dig is a 21st century drama, exploring the blurred lines that define what it is to be a man in contemporary Ireland.

SOAK - Derry songwriter to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SOAK, THE Derry singer-songwriter whose music has been called "a vivid portrait of teenage deep-thinking," by The Guardian, and as having "snippets of Cat Power and the delicacy of Lykke Li" by the Noisey blog, is coming to Galway.

A troika of Doire Press Poets to read at The Crane

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

DOIRE PRESS will host a reading at The Crane Bar, Sea Road, next Monday June 8, featuring Breda Wall Ryan, John MacKenna and Robyn Rowland, all three of whom have recently had had new collections published by the Indreabhán-based company.

Monroe's to bring Galway a Flavour of Brazil

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

FRIDAY JUNE 12 is Dia dos Namorados in Brazil, the Latin American nation's equivalent of Valentine’s Day, and to mark the occasion, Monroe’s Backstage Bar will host a night of Brazilian music and dance.

A feast of classical music at the arts festival

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ ConTempo Quartet will join forces at the 2015 Galway International Arts Festival for what promises to be a first class series of classical music concerts.

Mary Coughlan in concert at the Town Hall

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

MARY COUGHLAN, one of Ireland's greatest jazz vocalists has just released her new album, Scars On The Calendar, with guitarist Erik Visser, and will be in concert at the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday June 13 at 8pm.

Roisin Dubh Art and Craft market

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft market returns this Sunday to the Dominick Street venue, running from 1pm until 6pm, and hosting more than 20 local artists, craftspeople and designers.

Two chances to see John Statz

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

JOHN STATZ, the Americana singer-songwriter is coming to Galway to play two shows - Monroe’s Live on Thursday June 18 at 11pm and the Róisín Dubh's upstairs baron Friday 19 at 8pm.

The Yeti Suite - singer/songwriter night @ The Loft

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THREE SINGER-songwriters - Felix Sonnyboy, Shaunna McEvilly, and Eoin Dolan - take to the stage of The Loft @ Seven tonight at 9pm for The Yeti Suite.

Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara folk-rock/indie singer-songwriter has seen his second album Redemption reach No 11 in the Irish indie charts, and he will play songs from that record in Monroe's Live on Saturday June 20 at 9pm.

Cantar! - The Marine Institute Singers in concert

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MARINE Institute Singers, winners of the inaugural 2013 ChoirFactor competition will host Cantar!, a night of choral music on Saturday June 13 at 8pm in St Nicholas's Collegiate Church.

Charity concert for Jigsaw this evening

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THIS EVENING at 8pm in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church, a visiting choir of 42 singers from Evansville, Indiana, will perform a charity concert in aid of Jigsaw.

Jazz, folk, and maybe metal - The Underscore Orkestra

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

HE SOUND of New Orleans, Eastern European folk, jazz, and Jewish music will collide in a rambunctious and exciting fashion when Portland, Oregon's The Underscore Orkestra plays the Róisín Dubh on Sunday June 7 at 9pm.

Tír na nÓg to play Gort

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

TÍR NA nÓg, the legendary folk-rock duo of Leo O’Kelly and Sonny Condell have reunited in recent years to great acclaim and they play The Gallery Cafe, Gort, on Sunday June 14 at 8.30pm.

Americana band Midnight Union @ Monroe's

Thu, Jun 04, 2015

THE MIDNIGHT Union Band will bring their Americana/folk sound to Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday June 19 at 10pm for a free show as part of their tour to promote their new album, Of Life And Lesser Evils.

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