Je ne regrette rien - the songs of Édith Piaf

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

EDITH PIAF, the great voice behind the immortal song ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien’ and an icon of French song, will be celebrated in the Róisín Dubh.

Indie-rock heaven @ Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

LEADING GALWAY indie band Dott will headline a gig at the Galway Arts Centre, Dominick Street, this Saturday.

Van Morrison’s bassist for Monroe’s

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

DAVID DEE Moore, the former bass player for Van Morrison’s band, plays a solo show at Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 10pm.

Disconauts house party

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

THE DISCONAUTS return to the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 28 at 11pm for ‘Gonna Have A House Party’, featuring deck spinning and live instruments.

Mike O’Connor to launch new album

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

MIKE O’CONNOR, the Mayo born, Galway based, singer-songwriter launches his new album, I’m Not Myself In Character, in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tonight at 9pm.

Mike will perform songs from this, and his debut album Octopus Tattoo, accompanied by Rory Stephens, Denis Mockler, and Padraig Jack. Mike’s music draws on his theatre background as well as Van Morrison, Credence Clearwater Revival, BB King, The Pogues, and Queen. Mike’s songs have been featured on John Creedon’s Radio 1 programme as well as on Midwest Radio and Galway Bay FM.

A little night Mozart music

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

THE MUSIC of Mozart, with a little Bach for good measure, will be performed by the Jag Trio at Music For Galway’s annual Emily Anderson Memorial Concert.

Portraits of Galway’s characters

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

BUSKERS, STREET performers, local characters, and men in hats are the images which dominate a new exhibition, currently on show in the Galway City Museum.

Dutch artist ‘brings’ her ancestors to Ireland

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

FOR DUTCH artist Noor Poppers, studying at the GMIT inspired her to explore her family history and the lives of relatives who lived before the Holocaust.

I Never Met You by Noor Poppers, opens at the Town Hall Theatre this Saturday at 5.30pm. The artist was born in Naarden, northern Holland, in 1950, but has been living in Ireland since 1975, moving to Galway in 1988.

Over The Edge reading

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

THREE GALWAY based writers, Alvy Carragher, Kate Ennals, and Michael Farry, will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 27 at 6.30pm.

New exhibition @ 126

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

An exhibition of new work by Siobhan McGibbon, Ciara Healy, and Karl Musson opens at the 126 Gallery on Flood Street this Saturday at 7pm.

Live music @ Stock Exchange

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

CHART HITS and pop/rock classics will ring out in The Stock Exchange, Shop Street, this weekend with an array of cover bands and DJs on musical duty.

Tomorrow, covers band Small Town Heroes will play a party set, while DJ Declan will spin chart hits; On Saturday it is the ‘Ultimate Party Night’ with DJ Dec playing cheesy pop and floor-fillers, and DJ Frank on the top floor playing the best from the eighties to the noughties. Sunday is the Super Sunday Session with The Easy Peas rock and pop.

Mike Denver to play Salthill Hotel

Thu, Feb 20, 2014

LEADING IRISH country and western singer Mike Denver will play The Salthill Hotel this Sunday at 8pm.

Springtime for Hitler

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

HOW TO perpetrate a theatrical get-rich-quick scheme: Find the worst play ever written; hire the worst director and worst actors in town; raise $2 million, officially to ‘stage the show’, but in reality for the producers to pocket; see the play close after opening night; then take the money and run for Brazil.

Broadway producer Max Bialystock and his accountant Leo Bloom believe this is a fail-safe plan to make them very rich men. They are certain Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden written by Franz Liebkind, a Nazi hiding out in New York, cannot but fail to insult Jews, the gay community, and anybody who isn’t a Nazi or a Homophobe.

Remembering Seamus Heaney

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

ALMOST SIX months have passed since the death of the much-loved poet Seamus Heaney and Galway will commemorate his life and work in a gala event at NUI Galway’s Bailey Allen Hall on Wednesday February 26.

Gift Grub Live 3 is coming to Galway

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

MARIO ROSENSTOCK, one of Ireland’s greatest satirists, impersonators, and comedians is bringing his new show Gift Grub Live 3 to Galway.

The Rising, And By Way Of Interludes World War I

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

THE GALWAY City Council’s bulging-at-the-seams title of a new play - The Rising, And By Way Of Interludes World War I - bulges at the seams with some of the key events from Irish history.

What’s D’Scéal at An Taibhdhearc?

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

ROS NA Rún’s Macdara Ó Fatharta and Anne-Marie Horan will launch An Taibhdhearc’s 2014 programme at What’s D’Scéal at An Taibhdhearc?, on Monday February 17 at 6pm.

The event will feature live music and performances, and see the official naming of An Taibhdhearc’s new patron, the internationally acclaimed playwright Tom Murphy.

The Dirty Circus - a saucy Valentine’s party

Thu, Feb 13, 2014

A VALENTINE’S night of burlesque and cabaret, set to tease, titillate, and delight, comes to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow night, in the form of The Dirty Circus.