The Bolshoi Ballet @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s performance of George Balanchine’s Jewels is to be broadcast live via satellite from The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow to The Eye Cinema in Galway.

The ‘absolutely wonderful’ Zervas & Pepper

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

“I CAN think of nothing better than lying in a field listening to Zervas & Pepper. Perfect festival music.” So declared the BBC’s Mark Radcliffe.

County music at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

MAX T BARNES, the country and western singer-songwriter and writer of numerous hit singles, will play Monroe’s Live on Friday February 28 at 9pm.

Floyd and Zeppelin tribute nights

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

PINK FLOYD and Led Zeppelin will be celebrated at two different nights with tribute acts playing Monroe’s Live this month.

Irish Pink Floyd tribute band Green Floyd play tomorrow at 10pm. The full Waters/Wright/Gilmour/Mason/Barrett experience can be expected with a massive stage set-up containing walls, a circular screen, lasers, intelligent lighting, moving heads and scanners.

Whitewater @ The Quays

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

IRISH ROCKERS Whitewater are coming to Galway to play The Quays Music Hall tonight.

Colm O’Regan - Mammy’s boy

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

COLM O’REGAN, the man whose Book Of Irish Mammies and its original Twitter page has become phenomena, is coming to Galway.

New sean-nós dancer for NUIG

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

CONNEMARA’S GEARÓID Ó Dubháin has been appointed sean-nós dancer in residence for 2014 at NUI Galway’s Centre for Irish Studies.

Over The Edge

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE FIRST Over The Edge: Open Reading of 2014 takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday January 23 at 6.30pm.

Deadline approaches for Cúirt New Writing Prize

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE DEADLINE for submissions to the Cúirt New Writing Prize, open to poets and fiction writers, is January 30 at 5pm.

Róisín Dubh Art and Craft Market

Thu, Jan 16, 2014

THE RÓISÍN Dubh Art and Craft Market returns this Saturday from 1pm to 6pm and will feature 24 stalls over two floors.

The Birth of Modern Music

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

MUSIC FOR Galway marks its 10th midwinter festival with a bold and exciting programme - The Birth of Modern Music - put together by its new artistic director, Irish pianist Finghin Collins.

Winter and spring with the Galway Film Society

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

WITH THE New Year upon us it is time for Galway film buffs and those looking for movies with a difference to consider what the Galway Film Society has on offer in its winter and spring schedule of screenings.

James Vincent McMorrow’s tropical return

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

TOMORROW SEES the much anticipated release of James Vincent McMorrow’s second album Post Tropical, with the Dubliner also heading west to play Galway city later this month.

Beyond Therapy with Orion’s Belt

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

KINVARA’S ORION’S Belt Theatre Company visit the Town Hall Theatre studio next week with Christopher Durang’s terrific madcap comedy, Beyond Therapy.

Beyond Therapy is a fast-paced, deliriously funny play revolving around the worlds of dating, romance and psychoanalysis. It centres on the fraught romance between single, straight, Prudence and bisexual Bruce -whose male lover Bob is miffed by the affair

Galway Arts Festival show gets London production

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

RIVERRUN, OLWEN Fouéré’s imaginative and acclaimed stage interpretation of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake, which premiered at last year’s Galway Arts Festival, is to be staged in London.

Stagecoach Theatre classes

Thu, Jan 09, 2014

STAGECOACH THEATRE Galway will hold a number of two week taster sessions for four to 17-year-olds on Saturdays January 11 and 18 in St Mary’s College.