Trojan Sound System @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

THE TROJAN label was launched in July 1967 to showcase productions by Duke Reid. Since then it has been a key player in presenting the best in Jamaican rocksteady and reggae.

Cologne’s Daso to play De Burgo’s

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

COLOGNE BASED electronic producer Daso will play LowerState at De Burgo’s tomorrow at 10pm.

Karl Spain to play The Comedy Club

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

The biggest hit at the Comedy Tent at this year’s Electric Picnic was Limerick’s Karl Spain. Following that triumphant performance, he plays The Comedy Club at Cuba* on Sunday.

Proust Questionnaire

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I sometimes think I'm quite close to being happy, but something ruins it. I was happy earlier on today but then I had a huge nosebleed.

Venetian Bookends to open Music For Galway season

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

VENICE’S QUARTETTO di Venezia and pianist Alberto Nosè, from the province of Veneto - the capital of which is Venice - play NUI, Galway’s Aula Maxima on Thursday September 18 at 8pm.

New novel to be launched in Charlie Byrne’s

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

SNOW WHITE Turtle Doves, the debut novel from Juliet Bressan, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Thursday September 18 at 6pm.

The novel, published by Poolbeg Press, is a contemporary love story set to the backdrop of the implications of the Iraq war.

MISE - new gallery and design boutique opens in Barna

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

MISE IS the new art space and design boutique which recently opened in Barna and it will have its official launch tomorrow at 7pm.

Art exhibitions

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

Rosemary Carr @ The Kenny Gallery
Moments, Colours & Effects, the new exhibition from the English born, Connemara based, artist Rosemary Carr will be opened by Brendan Flynn at Kenny’s at 6pm tomorrow. The exhibition features works in oil depicting the changing colours and light over the Connemara landscape.

Speech Level Singing masterclasses

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

JEFFREY SKOUSON, a leading Speech Level Singing method teacher, will give a masterclass in his singing method in the Galway Business School on Saturday September 27.

The Speech Level Singing method was developed by Seth Riggs who has since gone on to coach Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole, Luther Vandross, and Josh Groban in the discipline. He is also the man who taught Jeffrey Skouson.

Matt Keane launches new album

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

MATT KEANE has released his second album Pictures In Time, recorded with his daughter Orlaith. They will launch it with a concert in the Claregalway Hotel this Sunday at 7.30pm.

Renmore youth singers

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

THE RENMORE Youth Singers recommence this Saturday at 10am in Aras Naofa, beside Renmore Church.

Those aged between 14 and 25 years are invited to join and the choir covers a wide range of songs to suit all tastes. No previous experience is necessary but a simple voice audition is required. Rehearsals will continue every Saturday from 10am to 11.45am.

Lavish period drama masks a bleak story of marriage

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

DARKER THAN the lavish trailer suggests, The Duchess tells the surprisingly grim story of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, and her marriage during the late 18th century.

Rocknrolla

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

Director Guy Ritchie comes back with a bang in this gritty British crime flick Rocknrolla. After his last two disastrous films Swept Away (voted one of the worst films of all time) - starring his wife Madonna, and Revolver, Ritchie’s future film career was depending on the success of this film. So he sticks to what he’s good at - gangster films about drugs, crime, and money.

Galway Youth Theatre seeks new members for performance course

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

Galway Youth Theatre is currently recruiting new members for its two-year performance course starting at the end of September.

Galway Circus Project classes

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

THE GALWAY Circus Project will resume its programmes of workshops today and there are a few places left in the age eight to 12 classes.

Fun at CPs this autumn

Thu, Sep 11, 2008

IT MAY be getting colder and the recession is beginning to bite, but there is still plenty of fun to be had by heading down to Central Park.

The great white Stanhope of comedy

Thu, Aug 14, 2008

At the age of 18 American comedian Doug Stanhope left his suburban home outside Boston behind and travelled to Los Angeles to become rich and famous. He appeared in a number of TV movies and uncredited extra roles and eventually he left acting behind to pursue a lucrative career in telemarketing. After breaking up with his then girlfriend Doug decided that the only road open to him was the world of stand-up comedy and in 1995 he won the San Francisco comedy competition. Throughout his career Stanhope has been somewhat controversial and in recent years has toured with a bunch of comics under the banner of The Unbookables. He has upset the sensibilities of the booking agents at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival, The Edinburgh Comedy Festival and the Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival. Stanhope makes his way to Galway on Wednesday September 3 to play The Laughter Lounge at Roisin Dubh.

The Martini Cowboy

Thu, Aug 14, 2008

When we think of New York City the images that come to mind are of skyscrapers, Central Park coffee houses, Wall Street, cocktails and manolo blahnik shoes. The images of 10 gallon hats, honky tonks and tumbleweeds seem at odds with the Big Apple images but in recent years New York-native Jack Grace has changed all that. The Village Voice declared: “NYC someday will brag about its great legends of country music and among those names will be the engaging, hardworking, witty, and schmoozing and boozing Grace.” The Martini Cowboy brings his Jack Grace Band to Galway’s Roisin Dubh on Tuesday August 26.

Zelig Theatre premiere New Pat McCabe play

Thu, Aug 14, 2008

Up and coming Galway company, Zelig Theatre, have pulled off quite a coup for their new production, the world premiere of Pat McCabe’s Appointment in Limbo which they will stage in the Town Hall.

Last Train From Holyhead stations at the Town Hall

Thu, Aug 14, 2008

Bernard Field’s intimate and suspenseful drama, Last Train From Holyhead, returns to the Town Hall studio next week after a summer-long tour of the west. The play has been to Inis Mor, Roundstone, Inis Bofin, Inisheer, and Tuam in the run-up to its Town Hall return.

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