Access Music Project gig
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE ACCESS Music Project will debut its current crop of talented musicians in an informal performance in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, next Wednesday at 9pm.
AMP provides focused training for musicians to develop the skills and knowledge required to further their careers in the music industry while also providing opportunities leading to further education.
Read more ...Andy Blake to DJ @ The Blue Note
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
LEADING UNDERGROUND DJ Andy Blake returns to Galway where he will be spinning the decks in The Blue Note this Saturday.
Read more ...Fish - Marillion and solo eras show
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
IT IS a mark of the impact he had while with veteran British prog-rockers Marillion that you can get T-shirts bearing the legend ‘Fish, not a member of Marillion since 1989’.
Read more ...Come On Live Long @ Kelly’s
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
IRISH BAND Come On Live Long, though barely a year in existence, have generated much excitement among indie fans and music critics, and Galway will see why this weekend.
Read more ...Singers and their Songs @ The Crane
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
JULIET TURNER, Mary Coughlan, and Johnny Moynihan are just three of the diverse and outstanding talents that will play The Crane Bar’s Singers and their Songs sessions.
Read more ...Ham Sandwich @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
HAM SANDWICH have had a great 12 months with their profile rising to new heights throughout 2011 and to top it off they tour Ireland this month.
Read more ...The Kanyu Tree all-ages show at Róisín Dubh
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE KANYU Tree will round off a very successful year with two shows in the Róisín Dubh on Saturday December 17, including an all-ages family show.
Read more ...Citóg’s Nativity play
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
TOMORROW NIGHT Citóg in The Cellar Bar will host a Nativity play, devised and directed by Donal McConnon in collaboration with Sideshow Productions.
The play will also feature musical accompaniment from a number of prominent local artists, including members of The Depravations and Rural Savage. The play will be followed by a show from one of Galway’s most eclectic of bands My Fellow Sponges, led by eccentric songwriters Donal McConnon and Anna Mullarkey. Their shows mix fine musicianship, kooky arrangements, and musical theatre.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
At home with my family.
Art exhibitions
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THIS WEEKEND sees the opening of three exhibitions in Galway city - two group shows and a solo exhibition.
Galway and Westport are the subject of a new exhibition of oil paintings by Breege Staunton which opens in the Renzo Cafe, Eyre Street, this evening at 7.30pm.
Read more ...North Beach Poetry Nights
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
RITA ANN Higgins will read from her new poetry collection Ireland is Changing Mother at this month’s North Beach Poetry Nights.
The event takes place on Monday at The Crane Bar at 9pm. Rita’s new collection “chronicles the lives of the Irish dispossessed, before as well as since the demise of the Celtic Tiger”.
Read more ...Festive French music and dance
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
A FESTIVE concert of French and Irish traditional music and dance takes place in the Corrib Rowing and Yachting Club, Earls Island, on Thursday December 15 at 8pm.
Read more ...Celebrate Christmas with ConTempo
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will give three Christmas concerts over the next week, with the first show taking place this afternoon.
Read more ...Murray and Falkenau @ The Crane
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
IRISH TRAD-folk duo, Murray & Falkenau, and their band, will play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Comedy improv @ Townhouse Bar
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE MAKE-Up Artists will bring their A Tale Of Three Cities show to the Townhouse Bar, this Sunday at 8pm, as part of their Comedy Improv Tour 2011.
Read more ...Galway Omniplex Christmas toy drive
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
THE GALWAY Omniplex in association with the St Vincent de Paul is hosting a ‘Toy drive’ this Saturday and Sunday at the Omniplex on the Headford Road.
Read more ...Over The Edge December reading
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
AWARD WINNING American poet Tamar Yoseloff will read at Over The Edge in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday December 15 at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s
Thu, Dec 08, 2011
GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.
Read more ...Agnes Obel
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
SCANDINAVIA has been a great centre of pop and rock over the last 30 years and without question Sweden is the dominant nation. It has given us pop giants ABBA; a thriving heavy metal scene; and inspired indie/alternative acts such as I’m From Barcelona, Jens Lekmann, and Peter Bjorn and John.
Norway also has a strong metal scene, while indie/singer-songwriter acts such as Kings of Convenience and Ane Brun have also done well, and above all there is A-Ha, who had a run of excellent singles in the 1980s.
Read more ...From Mayo to Mozart
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
2011 IS a landmark year for Opera Theatre Company, being its 25th birthday, and to mark the occasion it is touring Mozart’s much-loved The Magic Flute in a sparkling new production which arrives at the Town Hall, for one night only, this coming Tuesday at 8pm.
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