Galway Arts Centre visual art programme for 2014

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

2014 promises to be an exciting year for Galway Arts Centre’s visual art programme. Despite funding cuts to the arts for five consecutive years, the Dominick Street gallery is still working with a superb mix of Irish and international artists in solo and group exhibitions. The visual art education programme is also reaching new levels with major projects for young people and older people in 2014.

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days will feature as part of the Town Hall’s January to March programme

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Town Hall recently unveiled its programme for the early months of the new year and it contains some real gems for theatre-goers to look forward to. There are plays featuring Beckett, Joyce, Martin McDonagh, and Pat McCabe, the Rough Magic and Decadent Theatre Companies, to name but a few in a line-up combining classics with exciting new works.

Galway Film Society’s new season opens with Le Week-End

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

As the New Year approaches it is time for Galway to look ahead towards new resolutions and experiences. For those searching for something different on a Sunday evening, the Galway Film Society has announced its winter and spring schedule of screenings taking place in the Town Hall Theatre from January 19 to March 23.

Keane Brothers’ Christmas Time Concert

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Keane brothers (Citizens Keane) from Caherlistrane, Matt, Sean, Noel, and Pat, will play the Claregalway Hotel on Friday January 3, in what has become an annual event.

This is the sixth consecutive Christmas concert at the Claregalway venue, and has become one of the rare occasions when the brothers perform together. Sean Keane is taking a night off from his winter Irish tour, ‘Christmas by the Hearth’ promoting his new CD collection Never Alone, to join the family for this special event.

Andrew Maxwell announces new Irish tour

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Double Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee, Andrew Maxwell, will return to Ireland touring his new show Banana Kingdom. With this blissfully funny show, Andrew will cover most of Ireland taking in 27 venues across the country, and will visit Galway on Saturday March 15 at the Róisín Dubh.

Packed full of fearlessly intelligent topical observations, delivered in his animated and inclusive style, Banana Kingdom recently completed a sell-out run in one of the Edinburgh Fringe's biggest venues (playing to more than 10,000 people) and a hit run in London's Soho Theatre.

Fight Like Apes at Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Ahead of their UK album release and tour, the nation's most intrepid sonic stevedores will be delivering their own brand of inimitable electro-punk at the Róisín on January 23.

Lindi Ortega @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Tennessee-based Canadian singer songwriter Lindi Ortega has been making very subtle waves of late with her alternative folk rock sound and an impressive background of major festival appearances and critically acclaimed albums.

Since 2001 Ortega has been hard at work releasing five albums and three EPs, including three very successful albums recently under the Last Gang Records label. In 2011, the Toronto artist made the move to Tennessee where she compiled and recorded her two breakthrough albums Little Red Boots and Cigarettes & Truckstops, which have both been nominated for Juno Awards and longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Her output did not stop there however, with the release of her new album Tin Star in April of this year which has already sparked attention and excitement at her potential.

Wallis Bird Monroe's show announced

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Choice Music Award nominee Wallis Bird will return to Galway in spring 2014 with a show at Monroe's Live.

Moon landing at Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Lunar Playground’s tag line reads, somewhat ironically,“We don’t do tag lines, we do rock ‘n’ roll”. While the first half of this statement might be dubious, the second is beyond doubt.

Galway Youth Orchestra opens 2014 at NUI Galway

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

The Bailey Allen Hall in NUI Galway will be the venue for the first Galway Youth Orchestra concert of 2014 on Saturday January 4 at 8pm.

New Year poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 02, 2014

Starting in January, Galway Arts Centre is offering aspiring poets a choice of three poetry workshops, all facilitated by poet Kevin Higgins, whose best-selling first collection, The Boy With No Face, published by Salmon Poetry, was short-listed for the 2006 Strong Award for Best First Collection by an Irish poet.

Kevin’s second collection of poems, Time Gentlemen, Please, was published in 2008 also by Salmon Poetry and his poetry is discussed in The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry. His third collection, Frightening New Furniture, was published in 2010 by Salmon and his work also appears in the generation-defining anthology Identity Parade –New British and Irish Poets.

Going coast to coast with ThereisBear!

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

GALWAY THEATRE company ThereisBear! recently announced details for its ambitious and exciting 2014 programme, which begins in January with two simultaneous productions – Christina Reid’s Joyriders in Galway and Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus in Dublin.

The National to play Galway in 2014

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

THE NATIONAL, the outstanding Brooklyn based rock band, are coming to Galway to play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field in July.

Shuffle’s New Year’s Eve Shindig! .

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

SLIP ON the Oxford shoes, a sharp Italian suit or RAF roundel T-shirt, don your parka, and head off on your moped to the Shuffle’s New Year Shindig!

The very best in soul, r’n’b, Jamaican ska, funk, 60s R&B, Latin boogaloo, Northern Soul and anything else that would make you want to cut some rug - will be spun at Shuffle’s New Year Shindig! in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, on Tuesday December 31 from 9pm.

Kormac’s Big Band to ring in 2014 @ Róisín Dubh

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

KORMAC’S BIG Band will ring in 2014 in style, with its acclaimed mix of DJing, audio-visual shows, and of course the musical and attitudinal exuberance of its 11-piece ensemble.

Kormac’s Big Band, along with the multi-talented musician and producer Daithí play the Róisín Dubh’s New Year’s Eve Party on Tuesday December 31 from 8pm.

Galway theatre in 2013 review

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

SO THE curtain comes down on another 12 months of theatre-going and there was no shortage of exciting shows to hold and captivate audiences’ imaginations throughout 2013.

Christy Moore returns in 2014

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

CHRISTY MOORE is coming back to Galway in 2014 where he will play Leisureland, Salthill, on Friday May 16.

New Year’s Eve at The Stock Exchange Bar

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

To mark its first Christmas and New Year at 34 Shop Street, the staff at The Stock Exchange Bar are all set to throw a brilliant New Year’s Eve party.

The Aftermath @ Monroe’s Live

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

THE AFTERMATH have shared the stage with Ian Brown, The Script, The Pigeon Detectives, Keane, The Frames, and Razorlight.

However on Friday December 27 at 10pm the Leeds-Irish group led by the Cronin brothers, Johnny and Michael, play their own headline show at Monroe’s Live.

KeyWest to play Róisín Dubh

Fri, Dec 27, 2013

KEYWEST, THE band that started their career busking on Shop Street, returns to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh as part of their December tour.

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