Baile an Salsa launch debut album @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

BAILE AN Salsa, the Irish trad/Latin music fusion band led by singer Andres Martorell, launch their new album Tribu at Monroe’s Live on Saturday December 6.

My Darling Clementine @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

MY DARLING Clementine are not American, but they rival any American act when it comes to creating classy, down home, country’n’western.

Printer Clips - a different guise for Bell X1’s Paul Noonan

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

PRINTER CLIPS, the new solo project from Bell X1’s Paul Noonan, have released a new charity single ‘Hole In Her Heart’ and play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday December 7 at 8pm.

Handel’s Messiah comes to St Nicholas’

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

HANDEL’S MASTERPIECE and one of the great works of classical and Christian music, Messiah, will be performed in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Sunday December 7 at 6.30pm.

Leading Galway folk musicians release charity single

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

SOME OF GALWAY’S greatest folk musicians, like Sean Keane, Sean Tyrrell, Mary McPartlan, and Johnny Duhan, have joined forces to create The Claddagh Band.

Frank Naughton’s A Vintage Christmas

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

ONE OF GALWAY’S finest and most popular singers, tenor Frank Naughton, will present his show, A Vintage Christmas, at the Town Hall Theatre, on Thursday December 18 at 8pm.

Call Super to make debut Irish appearance

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

CALL SUPER - aka DJ JR Seaton - will make his debut Irish appearance when he plays Bap to the Future this Saturday in Factory, Abbeygate Street.

ConTempo to play as part of charity Christmas concert

Thu, Nov 27, 2014

NUI GALWAY will hold a Christmas concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Monday December 1 at 8pm, to raise funds for GamBLE.

The Henry Girls - heavenly folk harmonies

Wed, Nov 26, 2014

THE PRISTINE, three-part harmonies, delicate roots-folk melodies, and Irish folk with Americana sounds of Donegal’s The Henry Girls will be heard in Monroe’s Live on Thursday December 4.

Theatre review: No Show (Thereisbear! Mick Lally Theatre)

Theatre Reviews Wed, Nov 26, 2014

UP-AND-coming Galway ensemble Thereisbear! launched Druid’s emerging artists FUEL residency programme in fine style on Tuesday night at the Mick Lally Theatre with the premiere of No Show, written and directed by Peter Shine.

Citóg - three nights of left-field music for December

Tue, Nov 25, 2014

CITÓG, THE Galway music night which supports original, emerging, and alternative rock, pop, electro, and folk artists, returns in December for a second instalment of Wednesday night gigs at the Róisín Dubh.

HamsandwicH to play Róisín Dubh this week

Tue, Nov 25, 2014

A CHANGE is as good as a rest they sometimes say, and HamsandwicH certainly believe in the truth of that old chestnut, employing it as the rule of thumb for their forthcoming album.

Cinema review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Films Reviews Mon, Nov 24, 2014

DESPITE REALLY enjoying the first two Hunger Games films I was apprehensive about this one. The third Hunger Games book is by some distance the worst of the trilogy and with the end of this incredibly lucrative franchise in sight the makers have taken the, no doubt purely artistic, decision to split the final book into two films.

‘It’s fierce, it’s dark, it’s full of conflict, but it’s actually all about love’

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

ON MONDAY February 2 1959, The Listowel Drama Group presented the premiere performance of Sive, John B Keane’s debut play, thus launching the career of one of Ireland’s most popular writers.

Tracy Bruen to launch debut EP

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

TRACY BRUEN, the indie-folk singer-songwriter the Electric Picnic festival described as possessing “a stunning vocal range and a theatrical bent” launches her debut EP next week.

Brendan O’Carroll’s The Course on tour

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

BRENDAN O’CARROLL’S riotous comedy play The Course will be performed in An Taibhdhearc by Mountbellew drama group The Malthouse Players.

Bernard Canavan - painting a lost generation

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

AT A time when some Irish painters came to the west of Ireland and depicted a rural idyll, Bernard Canavan was, like many other people his age in the 1950s, boarding a boat to England.

The Barber of Seville @ The Eye

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

THE BARBER Of Seville, one of opera’s best known and loved works, will be broadcast live from The Met in New York to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 6pm.

Album review - Ariel Pink

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 20, 2014

IF NOEL Fielding had such a thing as an evil twin, then LA’s Ariel Pink just might be it, for in pom pom, he has just unleashed possibly the strangest album of 2014, and certainly the year’s most eccentrically uninhibited.

The show (band) must go on

Thu, Nov 20, 2014

IT IS all systems go at the Mick Lally Theatre this week as Thereisbear! gear up for No Show, Peter Shine’s zestful showband-themed drama which starts previewing at the theatre from tomorrow and opens on Tuesday November 25.

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