James Vincent McMorrow - the noises that move soft and low

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

BY THE sea, in a house full of beat up instruments, only one microphone, very little engineering knowledge, and plenty of patience, was where James Vincent McMorrow recorded his songs.

Brad Mehldau to add a jazz touch to the arts festival

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

WHETHER HE is playing original compositions, jazz standards, or offering unique takes on songs by Nick Drake, Radiohead, The Beatles and Neil Young, Brad Mehldau is at the cutting edge of modern jazz.

Po’Girl to bring Canadian folk to the Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

CANADIAN BAND Po’Girl play a kind of music known as ‘Urban Roots’ for the way it mixes folk, country, and jazz.

‘Overwhelming and amazing’ dance show is coming to Galway

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

POLITICAL MOTHER, an extraordinary dance show which has wowed audiences in Britain and earned rave reviews from the critics will be performed in Galway in July.

The Galway Arts Festival will present the Irish premiere of the Hofesh Shechter Company’s critically acclaimed Political Mother in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday July 20 to Saturday 24 at 7.30pm.

What is really {un}familiar?

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

RESEARCHES INTO out-of-body experiences, disengagement from the real self, and having a double, have inspired an exhibition which opens at the Galway Arts Centre today.

{un}familiar features work by Michelle Browne, Benjamin de Búrca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina MacMahon, and Julia Pallone. It is created by the GAC’s visual arts officer Maeve Mulrennan and features works in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, collage and video.

The passion of flamenco on the Town Hall stage

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

SPAIN IN the Middle Ages was Europe’s most advanced society, a cultural melting pot, and the crossroads of great civilisations.

Cinema Review - Sex And The City 2

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

As a ardent fan of the series I was excitingly taken away with the novelty of the first film but was disappointingly let down. However, all is forgiven, as this sequel brings back a little of the girls we love so well while, at the same time, allowing them to evolve.

Rock out and laugh with Dead Cat Bounce

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

COMEDIANS PLAYING guitars are not new, but a comedy sketch group who can play with the panache and skill of a well-honed rock band, and be hilarious at the same time, certainly is.

Such a group is Dublin’s Dead Cat Bounce who play The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday June 9 at 8.30pm.

First Friday with Joe Rooney

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

COMEDIAN, ACTOR, sketch writer, and Arsenal fan, Joe Rooney is a brilliant comedian and one of the most popular of Irish comics on the circuit today.

Charlie McGettigan to play Haiti benefit gig

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

CHARLIE MCGETTIGAN, one of Ireland’s best known songwriters, will play The Crane Bar on Thursday June 10 at 9pm in a fundraising gig for the earthquake devastated island of Haiti.

Get the blues at Kellys

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

ANDRE DE Moller may be a practising barrister, but meeting Ray Charles during his teens led him to his true calling in life - the blues.

Eric’s stolen carefree streets

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

RONAN LEE was born in Galway in 1976 and it is in the Galway of the mid-to-late 1970s that his novel Let Dreams Be Dreams (Trafford Publishing) begins.

Five female poets to read in a field

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

THE POETS Maighread Medbh, Mags Treanor, Susan Millar DuMars, Elaine Feeney and Mary Mullen will be reading in the open air this weekend.

On Saturday at 1pm, the poets will read at the edge of 25 hectares of natural wood, in a field above a turlough in Ballinderreen.

The hunt for Liam and Sam

Thu, Jun 03, 2010

ALTHOUGH SOME matches have already been played in May, it is during June that the campaigns for the Liam McCarthy and Sam Maguire cups really get underway.

Keb Darge - spinning discs and doing flips

Thu, May 27, 2010

HAD KEB Darge not picked a fight with a kid in school he would never have discovered taikwando, which means he possibly would never have heard Northern soul, never searched out for the records, and never got a chance to DJ them.

Moonfish stage Mad Sweeney for Galway Early Music Festival

Thu, May 27, 2010

As part of this weekend’s Galway Early Music Festival, Moonfish Theatre Company are presenting a new stage version of the famous old Irish saga, Mad Sweeney/Buile Shuibhne. The story relates how a cleric puts a curse of madness on the Ulster king Sweeney who, there after, spends his days roaming, bird-witted, through the treetops of Ireland, shunning human company and enduring nakedness, hunger and loneliness. At every stop in Sweeney’s flight through Ireland, he pauses to give a poem on the location and his plight, with his descriptions of the countryside and nature, as well as his pathos, being both vivid and moving.

Female vocals groups to show the devil doesn’t have all the best music

Thu, May 27, 2010

GEORGE HARRISON sang “My sweet Lord”. St Augustine said: “To sing is to pray twice”, while Islamic Sufis and Native American holy men dance and sing themselves into trances, leading to religious ecstasy.

Core Theatre College: First professionally run theatre training in west of Ireland

Thu, May 27, 2010

This year, Galway is going to get its first professional part-time theatre school. Amazingly, Galway does not have such a school despite its international theatrical reputation. Core Theatre College offers a serious 10-week foundation course for actors with 20 hours training per week in core theatre subjects such as voice, movement and acting technique. There will also be masterclasses in skills like Commedia Dell’Arte, mask work, singing, directing and stage combat.

Keb Darge - spinning discs and doing flips

Thu, May 27, 2010

HAD KEB Darge not picked a fight with a kid in school he would never have discovered taikwando, which means he possibly would never have heard Northern soul, never searched out for the records, and never got a chance to DJ them.

Popular London Irish group play at The Crane

Thu, May 27, 2010

THE LONDON Lasses and Pete Quinn have made a significant contribution to the London Irish music scene and they are returning to Ireland to play a gig at the Crane on Tuesday. The internationally renowned traditional Irish band are touring Ireland on the occasion of their 10th anniversary.

The six piece band have built up a solid reputation in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe, and the US in recent years and their popularity continues to grow. The band have thrived in London since mass emigration in the fifties and sixties and they are eagerly awaiting their first Irish tour in more than seven years. Two band members have family living in the Galway region so a warm welcome is most definitly assured.

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