Japanese Film Festival returns to Galway
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
THE GREAT Passage, Japan’s official submission to the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film category, will receive its Irish premiere at The Japanese Film Festival.
The Japanese Film Festival is coming to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, from Sunday April 6 to Thursday 10, organised by the Embassy of Japan, access>CINEMA, and the Ireland Japan Association, with the support of The Japan Foundation.
Read more ...A weekend of dancing days
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
A MUSICAL about capitalism, site-specific performances, and a symposium will form the Galway Dance Days festival which takes place tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday.
Read more ...CPNHGN @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
DESPITE THE Scandinavian moniker, CPNHGN hail from Kildare, and take their musical influences from New York’s Sonic Youth and Manchester’s Joy Division.
Read more ...A court summons to listen to music
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
COURT ROOMS are not associated with musical concerts - unless there was a fall-out between artist and promoter - but they are places of performance and controversy.
Read more ...Julie Feeney to judge Choirfactor 2014
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
JULIE FEENEY, the award winning, Athenry-born, vocalist and composer, will be among the judges at Galway’s Choirfactor competition.
Choirfactor 2014, a competition specifically for choirs, takes place in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday April 12. Also judging will be Cois Cladaigh musical director Brendan O’Connor and music educator Maire Ní Dhuibhir.
Read more ...Líadan to play Claregalway
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
TRAD/FOLK band Líadan celebrate their 10th anniversary this year with a nationwide tour which begins with a gig in County Galway next month.
Read more ...Freddie White to play Moycullen
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
WHETHER INTERPRETING songs by Randy Newman, Tom Waits, John Hiatt, and Guy Clark, or performing his own compositions, Freddie White’s live performances are legendary.
Read more ...Galway bands to release new singles
Thu, Mar 27, 2014
GALWAY BANDS Harrison & The Devil and The Followers Of Otis release new singles, at two separate gigs, in the Róisín Dubh.
Harrison & The Devil, whose sound draws on Nick Drake, Nick Cave, and Supergrass, and whose debut EP Cat Matters featured on Nialler9’s reader’s Top 5 Irish EPs list, release the double A-side single ‘Mary/Blue Blood’ on Citóg Records.
Read more ...Mark Thomas - a dissenter’s challenge to the status quo
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
HE IS taking the British police to court over data collection; held a flash mob in Apple’s London store in protest against multi-nationals and tax avoidance; ran a pro-choice rally in Belfast; and is determined to get banned from every Tesco store.
He is Mark Thomas, the British comedian, commentator, and journalist, and these acts of rebellion are at the heart of his latest stand-up show 100 Acts Of Minor Dissent, which he is bringing to the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...‘The Irish public’s interest in fiction perks me right up’
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
ONE OF the most praised novels of recent years was Patrick deWitt’s highly original western tale The Sisters Brothers, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won a number of prestigious awards in deWitt’s native Canada.
Read more ...Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
THE MADNESS, mayhem, and hilarity of Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience, returns to Galway for one night only at The Salthill Hotel.
Read more ...Galway Community Circus at the double
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
GALWAY COMMUNITY Circus return to the Black Box Theatre for two thrilling new circus shows this weekend; Circopolis and Circopolín Children.
Read more ...NUIG to host Irish premiere of David Greig play
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
THE IRISH premiere of The Monster In The Hall, by Scottish writer David Greig, will be staged as part of NUI Galway's inaugural theatre season.
Read more ...Mark Logan: an appreciation
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
HUSBAND, FATHER, brother, uncle, friend, messer, Chelsea fan, musician, comedian, animal lover, teller of the most detailed stories, absolute gentleman, a man of honesty and passion, Mark was, first and foremost, a beautiful person.
Read more ...Evita – classic musical for Town Hall
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
EVITA, THE celebrated musical based on the life of Eva Perón, the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952, is being staged in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Dubliners re-imagined for the stage
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
THE DUBLINERS Dilemma, based on James Joyce’s Dubliners, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday April 2 at 8pm.
Read more ...Gabriel Byrne en Français
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
A FRENCH actress meets a mysterious passenger aboard a train and decides to follow him to his destination.
Read more ...Short Film Awards 2014
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
FRIDAY MAY 9 at 12 noon is the deadline for entries to the Galway Film Centre’s 2014 Short Film Awards, in association with RTÉ.
Read more ...Frankie Gavin to play NUIG concert
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
TRAD FIDDLE great Frankie Gavin will be among the stellar line-up of musicians performing at the NUI Galway’s Arts in Action Finale Concert.
Read more ...Rackhouse Pilfer album launch
Thu, Mar 20, 2014
RACKHOUSE PILFER, the Sligo alt-country and bluegrass sextet, launch their new album, Love and Havoc, at a concert in Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 10pm.
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