Art exhibitions in the city

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

EXHIBITIONS, RANGING from traditional landscapes to experimental installations, can be seen in galleries throughout Galway city this month.

Music For Galway concerts return

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

THE RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and ConTempo’s Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu join forces for a concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI, Galway on Tuesday at 8pm.

Entitled Strings Alive! this is the opening concert of Music for Galway’s 31st International Concert Series. The programme features Mozart’s String Quartet in C major, ‘dissonance’ K 465, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 8, in C minor, Op 110, and Brahms’ String Sextet No 1, Op 18.

New poetry collection from Amit Mediratta

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

POET AND VISUAL artist Amit Mediratta will launch his new collection of poetry, Ecstatic Flights/Manhattan Nights in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.

For the last number of years, Amit has been best known as a visual artist, having exhibited widely in Galway and around Ireland. His paintings can be seen at The Kenny Gallery.

The Kanyu Tree - brothers in harmony

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

IT HAS been a long time since a Galway band has made a major impression outside of its hometown - close to 20 years in fact, back in the heady days of the early 1990s.

B for Baby at Town Hall

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

MRS C wants a baby, not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser’s scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and “a big head of dirty auld curls”. All of them want their own place in the world, and if they can’t find it, they will create one of their own.

Peggy Seeger @ The Crane

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THE LEGENDARY folk singer Peggy Seeger plays The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday October 14 at 9pm.

Peggy is considered one of America’s finest singers of traditional songs and she is best known for her musical collaborations with her late partner Ewan MacColl.

Fawlty Towers - now opening in Galway

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

FAWLTY TOWERS is not your average hotel. It is known that one guest had cream poured over his head simply for being mistaken for a hotel inspector while the dead body or another resident was dumped in a laundry basket.

Globe’s heart-pumping fusion of music, dance, and percussion

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

AMONG THE highlights of the upcoming Baboró children’s festival is the pulsating music and dance production Globe which has been put together by bodhrán-virtuoso Robbie Harris and Dave McFarlane.

Competition winners

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THE WINNERS of copies of John le Carré’s classic novel Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy are: Anne Marie Loughnane, Athenry; Catherine Mohan, Caherlistrane; Dennis Connolly, Rahoon; Will O’Connor, Knocknacarra; and Francis J Dempsey, Tuam.

Citóg @ The Cellar

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THREE INDIETRONIC bands - Milan Jay, Toy Soldier, and The Great Balloon Race - play Citóg at The Cellar on Eglinton Street tomorrow at 10pm.

Roisín Dubh Comedy

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

TANYALEE DAVIS may only be three feet, six inches high, but she will show Galway why she is known as “the little lady with a lot of BIG laughs” next week.

TanyaLee Davis plays the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm. The Canadian comic has been the recipient of the 2003 Norman G Brooks Comedy Contest award and has been described by The Scotsman as “a punch-packing stand-up”.

Jeffrey Lewis - new album and Kelly’s show

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

JEFFREY LEWIS - singer, songwriter, comic book illustrator, and spoken word artist - in short, indie rock’s renaissance man, returns to Galway to play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Sunday at 8.30pm.

Jamie Lawson plays Monroe’s

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

IRELAND HAS a track record of taking British and American singer-songwriters to its heart long before the singer’s native soil does.

Lúnasa to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

IRISH TRAD supergroup Lúnasa make a welcome return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this Monday at 9pm.

Galway Jazz Festival takes place this weekend

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

“RICK MARGITZA is simply a great tenor player.” This verdict, on the saxophonist who plays Galway this weekend, was passed by no less a person than Miles Davis.

A jazz odyssey

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

SCHIPHOL AIRPORT, one of the busiest airport hubs in Europe has witnessed many a bizarre journey but perhaps fewer stranger than the personal odyssey that began during a lay-over in 2002.

Wandering through the airport shops, which were of a higher quality than usual, three jazz CDs caught my eye - Lionel Hampton’s Mai 1956, Eddy Louis’s Bohemia After Dark, and Art Blakey’s 1958 Paris Olympia. All three were part of a series called Jazz in Paris, a distinctive feature of which was the cover image - a black and white photograph of a contemporary Parisian scene.

Breaking Bad and X-Files writer is coming to Galway

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

VINCE GILLIGAN, the writer/producer on The X-Files, and creator and writer of cult hit TV series, Breaking Bad, is coming to Galway next month.

New season of world cinema for Seanscoil Sailearna

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

MY AFTERNOONS With Marguerite, starring Gérard Depardieu, will be the opening film for the autumn season of World Cinema in Club Scannan Sailearna, Indreabhán.

This French feel good film from 2010, stars Depardieu as Germain who lives a quiet life until the day he meets Margueritte, an old lady whose work as a scientist took her all over the world. Before long a true bond of affection unites them, and Germain realises he has the right to take control of his destiny.

Galway Omniplex Facebook competition

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THE GALWAY Omniplex has set up its own Facebook page, www.facebook.com/galwayomniplex. Liking the page will give you access to movie news, trailers, competitions, and information on upcoming releases.

To celebrate the launch of the new Facebook page, the Galway Omniplex is offering Galway Advertiser readers a pair of tickets to a film of their choice to one lucky winner in this week’s competition. To enter, simply answer the following question:

Oceans of frequency set Jape on new voyages

Thu, Sep 22, 2011

WHEN YOU have created two of the best and most memorable Irish albums of recent years, won awards, had Brendan Benson play your songs at his DJ sets, and had people singing your words back at you in concert, the question must arise: How do I follow that?

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