Erik Mongrain @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

“Erik Mongrain is a self-taught French-Canadian guitar player that absolutely shreds. It’s like Van Halen meets James Taylor; furious but soothing,” said the Boston Herald about the Quebecois guitarist (pictured) who plays the Róisín Dubh this Sunday at 9pm. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

Celebrate St Andrew’s Day

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

ST ANDREW was a Jew and member of the 12 Apostles but this Israeli is honoured by Christians as the patron saint of Scotland and his feast day is a ‘day of mischief’ in Poland.

The Granary Learning Centre and the Galway Irish Polish Association will host an Andrzejki (St Andrew’s Day celebration) event for Galway on Sunday November 30 at the Granary Learning Centre, 58 Dominick Street.

Obama election victory party on Sunday

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

THE ELECTION of African-American Barack Obama as the 44th president of the USA has been welcomed the world over, but especially by black populations.

Galway’s African community will celebrate president-elect Obama’s victory at the Obama 2008 Victory - Yes We Can! -Party in Coyotes Late Bar & Club, Forster Street, this Sunday.

Tulca review: Jun Nguyen-Hatshushiba

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

AMONG THE featured international artists at this year’s Tulca is Jun Nguyen -Hatsushiba, who was born in Tokyo, raised in the US, and now lives in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City.

Jazz music to take over Co Galway

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

GALWAY city and county will be going jazz mad this weekend with the Galway Jazz Festival in the city and the David Lyttle Trio in Clifden, while next week there will be the Red Hot Jazz Joint in Salthill.

Galway to host world premiere of new Saw Doctors film

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

THE WORLD premiere of the new Saw Doctors documentary film - Clare Island to Cape Cod - will take place in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday at 5.30pm.

Zack and Miri make... a good team and a hit film

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

Zack and Miri are lifelong friends and flatmates who live together in a run-down apartment in Pittsburgh where they work at dull, low-level jobs. As cash-flow problems begin to mount, and their water and electricity gets cut off, they decide (during their high school reunion) to make an adult film as a way of solving their financial problems. As they attempt to keep their personal life and their new professional life separate, however, they discover they might have more feelings for each other than they previously thought.

See ET and The Princess Bride in Campbell’s

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

STEVEN SPIELBERG’S classic film ET and the family comedy The Princess Bride will be screened by the Solstice Arts Group at Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, this Sunday.

In ET, Eliot has an absentee father and a mother who works, leaving him in an empty house. Then he meets an alien who has crashlanded to earth, and Eliot’s life changes forever as he and his alien friend begin an extraordinary journey. ET will be screened at 4pm

Movie table quiz night

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

A MOVIE quiz night will take place in The Western House Hotel tomorrow at 9pm to raise funds for the Galway feature film Blood, Sweat and Wars.

The Coyote Factor starts tonight

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

THE COYOTE Factor, the new talent contest for Galway city, with €10,000 at stake takes place in Coyotes, Forster Street, tonight at 9pm.

Win Declan O’Rourke CDs

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

DECLAN O’ROURKE has released his new album Live and the Galway Advertiser has five copies to give away.

You havin’ a laugh?

Thu, Nov 20, 2008

Jarlath Regan, the new face of RTÉ’s The Panel and the fastest rising star of Irish comedy, plays The Comedy Club at Cuba* tomorrow. The Irish Times has called him a “comic genius”. Support is from Bob Hennigan and Marty D. Gerry Mallon is the MC. Tickets are available in advance at Bar 903, The Cellar Bar, and at the door which opens at 8.30pm.

The Special One of indie music returns with new album and tour

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

WHEN BELFAST songwriter Peter Wilson adopted the name Duke Special some years ago it led to a transformation that truly set him apart. With his long dreadlocks, dark eyeliner, and lovelorn songs, he became the pied piper of the Irish indie music scene.

The songs, paintings, and pieces of Jim McKee

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

JIM MCKEE is well known for his work as an artist. His vibrant canvases, depicting scenes of west of Ireland life through layers of thick oil paints, bright colours, and impressionistic forms, has won much praise for the Co Tyrone native.

Come What May with Frank Naughton

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

GALWAY TENOR Frank Naughton launches his new album, Come What May, at the Town Hall next week with three gala concerts.

Meridian’s theatrical feast

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

IT WAS once said of the Abbey Theatre Co that its actors were the best fed in Ireland due to the proliferation of plays which featured scenes of dining.

Charity concert at Town Hall

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

ARTY MCGLYNN, Jim Rooney, John Faulkner, and friends, will take to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday November 18 at 8pm for a special charity concert.

Two shows from ALâ Community Theatre

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

A RE-IMAGINING of The Alice In Wonderland story and two one-act comedies from the USA will be presented by ALâ Community Theatre in the Town Hall Studio next week.

Korean/Irish dance spectacular

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

KOREAN AND Irish dancers will create an east/west fusion of dance styles when Dance Theatre of Ireland and NOW Dance Company Korea take to the stage of the Town Hall Theatre.

Together, the companies will present Parallel Horizons/Under the Roof on Monday November 17 at 8.30pm. The show will feature eight dancers, four drummers, and a group of musicians.

Mirakil Whip to bring the Alternate Frequencies to Galway

Thu, Nov 13, 2008

Music, art, and animation, the aural and the visual, will collide and coalesce in Alternate Frequencies, a new music concert and video art night in the Nuns Island Theatre.

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