Galway acts to play Westport Festival

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

DOTT AND Boyfights are among the Galway acts playing this year’s Westport Festival of Music & Food on June 28 and 29 at Westport House, Mayo.

Live music at The Stock Exchange

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

KENSEY 3, Small Town Heroes, Crosstown, Keith McDonald & The Schmooze Brothers, 3 Legged Dog, and Badly Stocked Jukebox are among the bands playing The Stock Exchange Bar.

The bar, on Shop Street, hosts live music from Wednesdays to Sundays. Badly Stocked Jukebox play tomorrow and 3 Legged Dog on Sunday. As well as cover bands, DJs play current chart-toppers and pop party anthems, favourites from the eighties to the noughties. Karaoke is offered on request for group bookings.

A classical trio concert with a difference

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

THE VIOLIN, accordion, and double bass will be played by Katherine Hunka, Dermot Dunne and Malachy Robinson, in the Mick Lally Theatre at Druid Lane.

Galway Choral Association to sing for Croí

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

MOZART’S ‘CREDO’ Mass in C Major will be among the works performed by the Galway Choral Association at its winter concert this weekend.

Sacha Brudell’s Fine Lines

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

FINE LINES, the debut solo exhibition from Sacha Brudell, is currently running in the Renzo gallery and café.

Mosaic children’s classes

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

MOSAIC, A creative arts class which seeks to promote critical and creative thinking in children through education and artistic instruction, will be held in the Galway Art Centre.

The classes, aimed at five to 12-year-olds, takes a hands-on approach to learning with a focus on problem solving and self-expression. Pupils will also engage with the group exhibition, Nine, which opens this weekend at the Galway Arts Centre, and which looks at what it is like to be nine years old.

Nine by four in one

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

ONE VENUE, the Galway Arts Centre, will host the work of four artists - Aideen Barry, Alan Butler, Maeve Clancy, Oonagh Young, and Sam Keogh - in an exhibition entitled Nine.

The Pearly Whites @ The Quays

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

THE PEARLY Whites, a 10-piece modern showband, are coming to Galway to play The Quays Music Hall this Saturday from midnight.

Gloria - searching for Mr Right

Thu, Jan 23, 2014

GLORIA IS divorcée who has no interest in being alone or letting her age stop her from going to a whirl of singles’ parties on the hunt for gratification.

Subtitle

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

RICHARD COOKE is a man of many impressive hats. A founder and co-director of the Lisa Richards Agency, representing stage and screen talents, he is also the guiding light behind the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Comedy Festival and Kilkennomics.

His most recent venture is Subtitle, a festival of smash-hit European films, most of which have not been seen in Ireland before. Subtitle premiered in Kilkenny in November 2012 to great success and had its second outing in the same city just two months ago. Now it is hitting the road and bringing a showcase of nine of its most popular titles to Galway’s Town Hall Theatre from Friday January 31 to Sunday February 2.

British comedy to kick start new GFS season

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

JIM BROADBENT, best known for roles in Only Fools and Horses and Cloud Atlas, stars in Le Weekend, which is to be screened by the Galway Film Society.

Ready... Steady...Sing!!

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

READY...STEADY...Sing!!! is a new series of singing and vocal classes for children and adolescents in the Cappagh Park Community Centre, Knocknacarra.

Super 8 Festival at Galway City Museum

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE SUPER 8mm Film Festival, celebrating the Super 8 motion picture format, first released in 1965, and which has made a comeback in recent years, takes place in the Galway City Museum this Saturday.

The Three Tenors return to Town Hall

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

A GREAT night of song is in store for Galway when The Three Tenors return to the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday January 25 at 8pm.

The Two Loves Of Gabriel Foley

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

GABRIEL FOLEY is a middle-aged bachelor farmer, who lives with his elderly mother. He has been unlucky in love many times, much to his mother’s frustration.

Creative Days Work- shops

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE CREATIVE Days Workshops, with artist and designer Sinéad McKiernan, will take place in Galway city, An Spidéal, and Clifden these coming months.

Stage- coach Galway taster sessions

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

STAGECOACH GALWAY has announced a two week taster session for new students this Saturday at 10am in St Mary’s College.

The Hive @ Roisin Dubh

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

110th Street’s The Hive is back tomorrow night spinning the best tracks, from across the genres and across the eras, in the name of having a decent party.

Johnny Duhan – the sorrow and solace of winter

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

SINGER-SONGWRITER Johnny Duhan has been plying his trade for almost 50 years now and his new album, Winter, released in CD + DVD format, eloquently attests to the fact that his muse burns as bright as ever, undimmed by the passing decades.

Barrio Populo to bring French flair to Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

BARRIO POPULO “sing of freedom, release the joy, build the revolt, cry and shout about love, keep our feet on the ground, and heads in the clouds”.

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