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.

The winners of signed copies of Bressie’s debut album Colourblind Stereo are: Zoe Ward, Salthill; Alan Quinn, Westside; Hannah Ruane, Carnmore; Aoife O’Halloran, Oughterard; and David Grennan, Galway.

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.

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.

Josh Ritter and David Gray are the most famous examples, and it seems now that Devon songwriter Jamie Lawson is the latest to experience this phenomenon.

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.

Lúnasa has become one of the most sought-after bands on the international Irish music scene. The band’s inventive arrangements and bass-driven grooves are steering Irish acoustic music into surprising new territory.

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.

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.

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?

Fight Night - ‘exhilarating and cathartic’

Thu, Sep 22, 2011

AONGHUS ÓG McAnally brings his award-winning one-man show Fight Night to the Town Hall Theatre next Wednesday at 8pm as part of a nationwide tour.

Written by Gavin Kostick and winner of both Best Actor and the Bewley's Little Gem Award at last year’s Dublin Absolut Fringe Festival, Fight Night is a gripping journey charting the comeback of Dan Coyle jr, a failed amateur boxer from a long line of accomplished fighters.

Sam Amidon - a journey into rural America and the head

Thu, Sep 22, 2011

THERE WILL be songs - some sacred, some secular; there will be storytelling, and field recordings, and cartoon videos to watch while you listen.

Get your head in the clouds at Baboró

Thu, Sep 22, 2011

AWARD-WINNING Spanish dance company Aracaladanza are among the star attractions at next month’s Baboró festival with their latest production, Nubes (Clouds), inspired by the work of surrealist painter René Magritte.

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