Advanced Fiction classes
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THE SHORT-story writer and poet, Susan Millar DuMars, will host a new series of creative writing classes for those serious about writing short or long fiction.
Read more ...KATS seeks actors
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THE KNOCKNACARRA Amateur Theatrical Society is holding auditions for its production of Bernard Farrell’s comedy Say Cheese.
Read more ...Actresses sought for Lorca play
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
HOURGLASS THEATRE Company is seeking actresses for a Spanish language production of Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba.
Read more ...English folk duo to play two Galway shows
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THEY HAVE been praised for “gorgeous vocals...[and]...harmonies complementing each other beautifully” by For Folk’s Sake, while the BBC called them “upbeat and kinda a lot of fun”.
Read more ...Lisa O’Neill to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
SHE HAS played support at David Gray and Glen Hansard’s recent Galway concerts, but next week Lisa O’Neill takes top billing when she plays the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Get ready to Shuffle
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
LEADING SOUL DJ Dave Barry returns with another of his excellent Shuffle nights to the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 21 at 11.30pm.
Read more ...Kygo @ Electric tonight
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
NORWEGIAN PRODUCER and DJ Kygo, who caught the attention with his remix/edit of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’, plays Galway tonight.
Kygo has a knack for taking chart hits past and present, and completely transforming them, applying the ‘Kygo effect’ to songs by The xx, Ellie Goulding, and Ed Sheeran.
Read more ...Keith McDonald to launch new album
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
JAZZ AND swing singer Keith McDonald releases his new album Vida this month, ahead of shows in the Caribbean, Shanghai in March, and Irish shows in May.
Read more ...The Hive @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THE HIVE clubnight returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 11.30pm for a Valentine’s Night of music and dancing.
Read more ...Share the Love Masquerade Party
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
DON YOUR masks and disguises for the Share the Love Masquerade Party, taking place in HALO, tomorrow, for St Valentine’s Day.
Read more ...Skeletal rattlings in St Nicholas’
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
SERIOUS GERMANIC utterances, colourful French character pieces, an amusing Danse Macabre, and ‘skeletal rattlings’ from Wagner and Beethoven, the new concert season from St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church has it all.
Billed as ‘coffee concerts’, the shows will take place in the church from 11am on February 22, March 8, and March 22.
Read more ...An cat dána and the pirate girl
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
A BADLY behaved cat and a young pirate girl are the main characters in two new books for children from County Galway based publishers Futa Fata.
Read more ...A WhistleBlast through family classics
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
FILM MUSIC, Bizet’s Carmen Medley, Irish tunes, Saint Saen’s Danse Macabre, and a new work by John Buckley, will be entertaining Galway children’s ears next week.
Read more ...Tedfest - celebrating all things Fr Ted
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
TEDFEST, THE annual celebration of everything Fr Ted returns at the end of this month with a table quiz and the Toilet Duck Awards 2014.
Read more ...Wordhaus - pioneering conversations
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
ENDANGERED SPECIES, marine biology, poetry, and visual art will be up for discussion in Wordhaus #2.
The second Wordhaus event, following a successful launch in January, takes place in the Bierhaus on Wednesday February 19 from 7pm to 8pm.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny
Thu, Feb 13, 2014
THE SIXTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny takes place in The King’s Head, High Street, this coming Monday at 8pm.
Read more ...A jump start to changing your lifestyle
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
THIRTY YEARS ago, only Hollywood actors, top athletes, rock stars and crime bosses had personal trainers and these not always necessarily for the improvement of their mental or physical quality of life.
Read more ...Between Kiev and Ireland
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
I HAVE a confession to make: as a group I prefer immigrants to the Irish, and this is not simply a case of inverse racism against my own.
When I lived in England I found Pakistani shopkeepers and the old lady in the Chinese takeaway preferable to your average Phil Mitchel lookalike down the Nag’s Head.
Read more ...I Will Sing My Songs For You
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
IN THE early 1970s, a young musician named Simon is enjoying success with his band The Heartbeats and everywhere he is surrounded by the trappings of a rock-star life style.
Read more ...Finbar Wright - Pavarotti, Arsenal, and me
Thu, Feb 06, 2014
IT IS not everyone who can say they met the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. It is fewer again who can tell of meeting him twice, and fewer still can boast of having received career guidance from the master.
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