Merriment and What Not

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

MERRIMENT AND What Not’ will be the jolly and joyous theme of this year’s Múscailt, NUI Galway’s on campus arts festival, for both students and the Galway public.

West End’s phantom to teach vocal classes

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

RICHARD HALTON, who performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of The Opera in London’s West End for six years, is coming to Galway.

Americana and bluegrass @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

EXPECT HIGH energy bluegrass, Americana, and harmony vocals when Rackhouse Pilfer play Monroe’s Live this Sunday at 11pm.

Basswax @ The Cellar

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

A NIGHT OF knee-lifting, fist-pumping, neck-stretching jungle and electronic music madness can be expected when the Basswax collective play The Cellar Bar this Saturday.

Martha Wainwright to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, the Canadian-American singer-songwriter, daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, and sister of Rufus, is coming to Galway.

Princeton ‘Tigressions’ @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

IT IS extraordinary to think that Princeton, one of the world’s most prestigious university’s, only admitted women onto its campus in 1969.

Cult sci-fi film to be shown in Galway Arts Centre

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

SCIENCE-FICTION film Born In Flames, made in 1983 by the American director Lizzie Borden, will be screened in the Galway Arts Centre this Saturday at 2pm.

Win an original artwork

Thu, Jan 24, 2013

THE COLLECTION is the title of the current exhibition by Galway artist PIXI which is currently running in Anton’s Café on Fr Griffin Road.

Sara Watkins - striking out on her own

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

MUSICALLY, SOUTHERN California is associated with hip hop, punk, hippy singer-songwriters, and sleaze rockers, not bluegrass, country, and folk, but Sara Watkins and her family prove an exception.

Beethoven

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

THESE JANUARY days may be cold and wet, grim and grey, but Music for Galway’s aptly named Midwinter Festival can be relied upon to spread cheer and warmth on the weekend of January 25 to 27.

Sponsored by DERI and NUI Galway, this year’s festival is entitled Beethoven: Genius, Passion, and the Irish connection, and sees MfG celebrate the great composer and his connections to Ireland and Galway, with a series of concerts in the Town Hall Theatre.

Vivaldi’s Gloria in St Nicholas’

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

VIVALDI’S ‘GLORIA’ will be performed in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church by the Galway Choral Association on Saturday January 26 at 8pm.

Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

ONE OF the most talked-about plays at last year’s ABSOLUT Fringe Festival in Dublin was Stefanie Preissner’s Solpadeine Is My Boyfriend which got rave reviews, was nominated for two Fringe Awards, and marked its author as one Ireland’s brightest young theatrical talents.

NUIG’s Babel public lectures returns

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

HARRY POTTER, Rainer Maria Rilke, and the international language that is body language will be discussed in a series of public lectures taking place in the Town Hall Theatre.

Stephen James Band @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

STEPHEN JAMES has been described by Olaf Tyaransen as an “amazing talent” and by Declan O’Rourke as “the real thing”.

Fiddle classes with Frankie Gavin

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

FRANKIE GAVIN, one of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians and fiddle players is taking enrolments for his fiddle master classes.

Rat Republik @ HALO

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

RAT REPUBLIK are coming back to Galway to play HALO Live tomorrow night.

Julie Feeney - awards and nominations

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

ATHENRY VOCALIST/composer Julie Feeney has seen 2013 get off to a great start with her latest album Clocks being nominated for and winning prestigious Irish awards.

Not Squares @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

THE CURRENT burst of musical creativity in Northern Ireland has produced a host of exciting new bands these past few years, among them Belfast’s Not Squares.

Win tickets to I Give It A Year

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

GIVE It A Year, the new romantic-comedy starring Bridesmaids’ Rose Byrne and One Day’s Rafe Spall will receive an advanced screening in The Eye Cinema.

Galway Film Society opening film

Thu, Jan 17, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Society’s winter/spring 2013 season opens this Sunday at 8.15pm with French film The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

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