Stompin’ Dave Allen is coming to Galway

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

“HIS STYLE is mesmerising and infectious and he ought to be booked at every festival going,” so said Blues Matters about the English Americana folk/roots musician Stompin’ Dave Allen.

Certainly Blues Matters advice has been heeded by the Glastonbury Festival as he is due to play there for the umpteenth time again this year.

UK Pink Floyd Experience @ Black Box

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

“SO YA thought ya might like to go to the show?” sang Roger Waters on the opening lines of The Wall, and for Galway Pink Floyd fans the answer will be a resounding ‘Yes’.

Norman Jay to DJ at Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

NORMAN JAY, the only DJ to have received an MBE for “deejaying and services to music” returns to Galway to play Kelly’s on Friday April 1 at 11pm.

Norman Jay is an innovative and pioneering British DJ who first came to prominence playing unlicensed or ‘warehouse’ parties in the early 1980s. His diverse musical knowledge, and refusal to be restricted to playing from any single genre distinguished him from his peers.

Win copies of the novel The Dark Fields

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

LIMITLESS, THE new film starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, based on the novel The Dark Fields by Irish author Alan Glynn, is now on in cinemas.

Mary Coughlan to play Moycullen

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

THE GREAT Mary Coughlan, Ireland’s leading jazz/blues singer, will play The Forge in Moycullen on Saturday April 2 at 8.30pm.

Get some soul with Taylor McFerrin

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

TAYLOR MCFERRIN is a singer and musician who is equally influenced by the legends of 1960s and 1970s soul and the modern Beat Generation.

By playing all the instruments on his productions, while also relying heavily on resampling and chopping up his live takes, he has found a sound that bridges these two worlds. Check out his 2007 EP Broken Vibes.

Dublin universities take awards at ISDA festival

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

DUBLIN UNIVERSITIES swept the boards at The Irish Student Drama Association Awards which took place last Saturday in The Ardilaun on Taylor’s Hill.

Little Cinema Club @ Kelly’s

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

THE LITTLE Cinema Club returns to Kelly’s on Tuesday at 9pm, showing short films directed by local and up and coming filmmakers.

Kelly’s Movie Table Quiz

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

KELLY’S WILL host a Movie Table Quiz on Monday April 4 at 8pm.

Craic Attack - New All-Ireland comedy talent search

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

CRAIC ATTACK, the new All-Ireland comedy talent search is coming to Galway and will take place in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Tuesday April 5 at 8pm.

NUIG to host major Baroque music concert

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

BAROQUE MASTERWORKS, a concert featuring the music of Bach, Handel, and Telemann, tales place in NUI, Galway’s Bailey Allen Hall tomorrow at 8pm.

Judith Bernhardt’s debut solo exhibition

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

JUDITH BERNHARDT, the German born, Galway based, artist will hold her first solo exhibition in Mocca Beans café, Dominick Street.

Anne Brennan to launch debut album

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

ANNE BRENNAN of Connemara’s The Brennan Sisters will launch her debut solo album with a gig in The Forge, Moycullen, tomorrow at 8pm.

GMIT art students, exhibition

Thu, Mar 24, 2011

STUDENTS COMPLETING their Level 7 degree in art and design at GMIT Cluain Mhuire will tonight open an exhibition entitled Show and Tell.

Arts Festival hit The Quare Land returns to Town Hall

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

ONE OF the hit shows of last year’s Galway Arts Festival, John McManus’ comedy The Quare Land, returns to the Town Hall next week for two nights only prior to embarking on a national tour.

A feast of Baroque music for Galway

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

CATALAN SOPRANO Nuria Rial, English conductor Matthew Halls, and The Irish Chamber Orchestra are bringing the music of Bach, Handel, and Telemann to Galway.

The concert, entitled Baroque Masterworks, takes place in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI, Galway on Friday March 25 at 8pm.

By Kernan Andrews

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

MAIRTÍN O’CONNOR is one of the greats of the accordion and of Irish trad and he is about to launch a new book of transcriptions of his music.

Lost Chord release new EP

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

THE LATEST instalment of the Lost Chord adventure comes in the form of a new three track EP entitled Canada which is available as a free download.

Cúirt - literary festival gets a new look

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

READINGS IN kitchens, books left in cafés waiting to be browsed, musicians performing poems and prose, and street performers at a literary festival - this is, as Spock might say, “Cúirt Jim, but not as we know it.”

Eleven intimations of genius

Wed, Mar 16, 2011

IT IS extraordinarily difficult nowadays to understand the bombshell caused by the publication of Edna O’Brien’s first novel The Country Girls in 1960.

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