Schumann and Brahms - live on screen

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE MUSIC of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms will be heard in The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, tomorrow at 6.30pm. The music will be performed by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, and broadcast via satellite to Galway. For more information and booking see www.eyecinema.ie or call 091 - 780078.

Celebrate the songs of Dolly Parton

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

DOLLY PARTON, a genius songwriter, a magnificent singer, large than life personality, and country music legend, will be celebrated in Galway next week.

Alice clubnight goes monthly

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE ALICE clubnight has been running in various Galway venues for the past two years and hosted international guest DJs like Hunee, Loud-E, and Medlar.

Leading Armies @ The Cellar

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

FUNK-ROCK sextet Leading Armies, who top off their sound with reggae tinged vocals, and six part harmonies, are in The Cellar Bar tonight.

Coyote Factor returns in October

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

THE COYOTE Factor singing competition returns this October with a €10,000 prize fund, EP recording package, digital album release, music video, and more up for grabs.

Trad for Trocaire

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

A TRADITIONAL Irish music session takes place this Saturday at 12 noon in Tigh Coili, as part of the nationwide Trad for Trocaire event.

Guinness Amplify @ The Stock Exchange

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

GUINNESS AMPLIFY gigs will be taking place in The Stock Exchange bar from today through to Sunday.

First up is alternative singer-songwriter Derek Ellard tonight; pop-rock quintet Small Town Heroes tomorrow, followed by DJ Dec; Saturday is Ultimate Party Night with DJs Lisa Brady and Frank playing current chart hits on the second floor and eighties and nineties party anthems on the top floor; there will be trad, bluegrass, and jazz tunes with Joe Casey on Sunday.

Even better than the real thing?

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

U2’S PUBLICITY stunt for their new album Songs Of Innocence has met with, at best, a mixed reaction, but Galway fans will be delighted a leading tribute band to the quartet will play Monroe’s Live.

A Saw Doctor and a Waterboy - live in Clifden

Wed, Sep 24, 2014

THE SAW Doctors’ Leo Moran and Anthony Thistlethwaite - who is also a member of The Waterboys - will perform at a lunchtime event in The Alcock and Brown Hotel this Saturday, as part of the Clifden Arts Festival.

A live music hooley for Pieta House

Wed, Sep 24, 2014

THE HARDCORE Priests Of Yemen, Mikey and the Scallywags, and a host of musicians will be live across three stages and two venues playing everything from Irish trad to world music, in a fundraising concert for Pieta House.

Tommy Tiernan Comedy Carnival tickets selling fast

Tue, Sep 23, 2014

TICKETS ARE selling fast for Tommy Tiernan’s new show, Out Of The Whirlwind, which he is performing at next month’s Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Eddi Reader to play Moycullen

Tue, Sep 23, 2014

EDDI READER, one of Scotland’s great folk-rock singers returns to Galway to play The Forge in Moycullen, in the company of The Alan Kelly Gang on Saturday October 4 at 9pm.

Mark Lanegan to play Galway in January

Mon, Sep 22, 2014

MARK LANEGAN, the American singer-songwriter, former Screaming Trees vocalist, and collaborator with The Afghan Whigs' Greg Dulli and former Belle and Sebastian vocalist Isobel Campbell, returns to Galway in January.

‘Moving to Nashville from Mobile was overwhelming’

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

BETH NIELSEN Chapman, one of Nashville’s foremost singer-songwriters, comes to the Black Box Theatre next week for what promises to be a memorable gig. An accomplished recording artist in her own right, Chapman has also penned numerous hits for Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Bette Midler, Elton John, Neil Diamond, Waylon Jennings, Faith Hill, and Willie Nelson.

What happened to Bridgie Cleary?

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

ONE OF the most notorious crimes in Irish history was the burning to death of Bridget Cleary in 1895 in Tipperary, by her husband Michael.

October laughter and the magic of the Spiegeltent

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

SIMON AMSTELL, David Baddiel, 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, punk poet John Cooper Clarke, and The Faulty Towers Dining Experience are all on their way to Galway to make the end of October the funniest 12 days of the year.

Leading English poet to read in Galway

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

HELEN MORT, described by The Daily Telegraph as “the new star of British poetry”, will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 25 at 6.30pm.

Ilenkus to launch new album at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

THE CROSSING, the second album from Galway progressive metallers Ilenkus, containing ‘Over The Fire, Under The Smoke’, the video for which has gone viral on YouTube, is unleashed this weekend. Containing five songs, ranging from five to 10 minutes in length, it features a variety of moods, tones, pace, and textures.

A bizarre (French) love triangle

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

CHINESE PUZZLE, the French film starring Audrey Tautou, is the opening film of the Galway Film Society’s autumn/winter season.

New book on the work of Joe Boske

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

THE ART of Joe Boske is synonymous with the great Galway Arts Festival posters of the 1980s as well as with a surreal, off-beat way of looking at the west of Ireland.

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