'Getting to Know'...Jo Vahey
Thu, Nov 18, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A big fire and a good book!
‘I want to make Resurgam better known outside Ireland’
Wed, Nov 17, 2021
THESE ARE changing and exciting times for Resurgam, the Galway project based vocal ensemble. Already regarded as the premier such ensemble in Ireland, its new general manager, Vlad Smishkewych, has ambitions to make them a force across the European continent.
Read more ...‘We can call ourselves artists, thanks to Galway’
Wed, Nov 10, 2021
THEY WERE formed in the turbulent years following the collapse of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, and in Ireland they survived the recession, and later, the lockdowns enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...‘The Famine is not finished with me’
Thu, Nov 04, 2021
NICK CAVE, Leonard Cohen, Julian Lennon, Ray Davies, Louise Wener, Graham Parker, Gil Scott Heron...there is a tradition of singer-songwriters turning their hand to fiction via the novel or short story, and to that list we can now add Declan O’Rourke.
Read more ...'Getting to Know'...Eoin Dara, TULCA Festival
Thu, Nov 04, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being left alone by the sea.
'Getting to Know'...Tom O'Mahony, comedian
Thu, Oct 14, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A cleared mortgage.
‘Galway provides the best atmosphere...it has that good reputation’
Wed, Oct 13, 2021
FOR KARL Spain, the return to live comedy, and especially the return to indoor gigs, is “akin to Italia 90 - without the climbing up on cars and big crowds hugging each other, we can't do that yet - but that kind of euphoria”.
Read more ...‘If Ireland is a young nation, the Famine is our childhood trauma’
Thu, Oct 07, 2021
IT IS 1845, the first year of the potato blight, the first year of The Famine. In Connemara, Colmán Sharkey ekes out a living as a fisherman. He is isolated from his community, except from his brother Patsy, a soldier who has returned home.
Read more ...'Getting to Know'...a dragon!
Thu, Oct 07, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Simply to sing, atop a hill or perhaps astride a hillock.
‘I always tell comedians, you need to go to Galway, that’s where it’s happening‘
Wed, Oct 06, 2021
ASK TERRY Alderton about coming to Galway, and the last thing he will give you is the standard “Oh yeah Galway’s a great city, I really love it” most performers trot out. For Terry, coming to Galway is coming to a city where there is a “funky bohemian atmosphere you only get in the west of Ireland”.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Suzanne Black
Thu, Sep 30, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Reading a good book in an empty house is bliss - chocolate makes it perfect!
‘I love that Baboró is all about art. It is always a positive and happy thing to do or see’
Wed, Sep 29, 2021
THE 25TH Baboró International Arts Festival for Children is taking place from Monday October 4 to Sunday 17. Children are at the heart of everything that Baboró does, and this year young people are co-creators of many of the events, lending their talents, opinions and thoughts.
Read more ...Jennie O’Connell, artist
Thu, Sep 23, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having just ordered in a great restaurant.
‘It means the world to us we can have live audiences again’
Wed, Sep 22, 2021
WITH THE return of live music and concerts, there is a sense of optimism and possibility again, not to mention a determination to make up for the lost time enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more ...‘Singing allows me to express parts of me I don’t normally show’
Thu, Sep 16, 2021
“I AM excited. It’s been a long time coming,” says Tolü Makay, about the return to playing in front of live audiences again, after 18 long months where shows and concerts were deemed impossible.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Joy Gerrard, visual artist
Thu, Sep 16, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Three weeks in Connemara.
‘The music I create is built for performance’
Wed, Sep 08, 2021
EIGHTEEN MONTHS of no live music, then September arrives and suddenly it all starts to happen again for producer, composer, and musician, Daithí.
Read more ...'Getting to Know...' Chantal McCormick, choreographer
Wed, Sep 08, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A healed planet.
'Getting to Know...' Clare Barrett, actor
Thu, Aug 26, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Going to an Enda Walsh play.
'Getting to Know...' - Stephanie Dufresne, dancer, actor, theatre-maker
Thu, Aug 19, 2021
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The moment just after finishing a show, working with inspiring collaborators, feeling like I did a good job.
