Tradiohead in concert tomorrow
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
TRADIOHEAD, THE Galway band who take the music of Radiohead and reimagine it as Irish trad and folk, are in concert tomorrow night.
Read more ...Galway artist wins RDS Printmaking Award
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
GALWAY ARTIST and GMIT graduate Patrick Augustus Furey has won the RDS Printmaking Award in recognition of excellence.
Read more ...When Ireland voted against black babies
Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 07, 2014
OONA FRAWLEY was provoked to write her debut novel, Flight, by the atmosphere surrounding the Citizenship Referendum in 2004, which removed from Irish-born children of asylum seekers the automatic right to citizenship.
Read more ...An Taibhdhearc seeks new writers
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
AN TAIBHDHEARC is seeking new writers for the stage through its Walter Macken Award which has prize money of €1,000.
Read more ...Zeppelin tribute to touch down in Galway
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
NO STAIRWAY, the Galway based Led Zeppelin tribute band will be bringing a heavy dose of ‘Rock and Roll’ to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Friday August 15.
Read more ...Galway author’s new book on environmental justice
Literature Reviews Thu, Aug 07, 2014
GLOBAL CONCERNS about environmental risks, climate change, and threats to the planet from industry have resulted in new movements challenging those putting profits before the planet.
Read more ...Seamus Walshe - new album
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
IT HAS taken nearly 20 years, but Galway accordionist Seamus Walshe is getting ready to launch his new album, Turas (Journey), with a gig in The Crane Bar.
Read more ...Enter the electronic soundscapes of Tailor Birds
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
TAILOR BIRDS are an electronic neo-folk band whose members hail from the Netherlands and Australia and tonight they play Galway.
Read more ...DeFeKT to make Galway debut @ Factory
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
IRISH ELECTRO powerhouse DeFeKT will make his Galway debut at the Get Boogie night in Factory tomorrow.
Read more ...Cruinniu na mBad trad singing event
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
JOHNNY MOYNIHAN, formerly of Sweeney’s Men and a titan of Irish folk music, will take to the stage as part of An t-Amhran Beo this weekend.
Read more ...Dave Barry @ Massimo tomorrow night
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
DJ Dave Barry (Shuffle!) will take people from Studio 1 to Studio 54, the barrios of New York to the the soul clubs of Detroit with a packed box of 7” vinyl and Lps.
Read more ...Indie disco @ Blue Note
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
PANIC! THE indie disco, returns to The Blue Note, William Street, tomorrow night at 9pm.
Read more ...Free classical music concert
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will give a lunchtime concert in the Hardiman Building at NUI Galway on Friday August 8 at 1pm.
Read more ...Arctic Monkeys tribute night @ Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
ARCTIC MONKEYS’ fans in Galway are in for a treat when tribute act Favourite Worst Nightmare play Monroe’s Live tomorrow night.
Read more ...Galway to go Ska and blues mad tomorrow night
Wed, Aug 06, 2014
SKA WILL be the order of the day when seven-piece outfit Big Jelly take to the stage of Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow [Thursday August 7] for the next Musical Soup night.
Read more ...Beth Nielsen Chapman - the Essential Songs Playlist
Essential Playlist Wed, Aug 06, 2014
BETH NIELSEN Chapman, the twice Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter, is a woman of many talents, commitments, and achievements.
Read more ...Weed Priest’s new EP reviewed and streamed
Music Reviews Tue, Aug 05, 2014
IF THERE was a musical sound to denote heavy, dense, flows of molten lava, slowly burning everything under its wake, then the opening riff to Weed Priest’s ‘Possessed’ would be it.
Read more ...The timeless magic of Peter Pan
Thu, Jul 31, 2014
THE CLASSIC Broadway musical Peter Pan is set to light up the Town Hall Theatre ’s August programme and captivate Galway audiences in a new staging from Twin Productions.
Read more ...‘The nooks and crannies of the human condition’
Thu, Jul 31, 2014
WHERE DO you start when representing the human figure? This is the question six artists explore in a new exhibitionin the Galway Arts Centre.
Read more ...Beth Nielsen Chapman to play Galway
Thu, Jul 31, 2014
BETH NIELSEN Chapman, the twice Grammy-nominated Nashville singer-songwriter, who has written songs for Willie Nelson, Bette Midler, and Faith Hill, is coming to Galway.
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