Luka Bloom - new album, Róisín Dubh show

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

LUKA BLOOM makes a welcome return to the Róisín Dubh this weekend, following last month's release of Refuge, possibly the most personal album the Kildare born singer-songwriter has made.

Padraig Jack to play The Crane

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

ARAN ISLAND singer-songwriter Padraig Jack is on tour this month and brings his intimate, soulful music, to The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday November 24 at 8.30pm.

NUIG Concert Orchestra winter concert

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

MUSIC BY such different composers as Gustav Holst and Terry Reilly will be performed by the NUIG Concert Orchestra as part of its annual winter concert in aid of the charity Draíocht.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry - reggae legend for Monroe's Live

Mon, Nov 13, 2017

VISIONARY, ECCENTRIC, legend - Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the man who produced the early music of Bob Marley and The Wailers, and an enormously influential and significant figure in reggae music in his own right, is coming back to Galway.

Ten Ton Slug + Weed Prist = Epic doom metal

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

TWO OF Galway's most exhilarating metal bands and purveyors of some of the heaviest, sludgiest, contemporary stoner rock riffing human ears can bear, launch their latest releases with a gig in the city tonight.

Mahalia - honest to goodness soul music

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

SHE GREW up 100 miles from London in the English East Midlands city of Leicester, but being away from the metropolis has proven an advantage for Mahalia, and her dreams of a career in music.

Experimental trad and jazz @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

NOTIFY, IRELAND'S experimental trad virtuosos, and America's Mark Lettieri Trio, featuring members of the Grammy Award winning jazz supergroup Snarky Puppy, will give a special collaborative performance at Monroe's Live.

PINS - Manc indie-punk band return to Galway

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

FOLLOWING THE release of the 'Serve The Rich' single, Manchester indie-rock/post-punk band PINS hit the road for a European tour, with four dates in Ireland, including one in Galway.

Rising SON to play Monroe's Live

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

HER MOTHER did not want her "hanging around the streets", so "if you’re spending all your time indoors, what else is a music-mad kid gonna do with her time except learn to play an instrument?”

Camelphat play Electric tonight

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

'COLA' PUSHED electronic duo Camelphat to the top of the tech/house charts across the globe earlier this year and tonight sees the British duo of Dave Whelan and Mike Di Scala play Electric.

Scythian to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

THE SCYTHIANS were a group of Iranian people and Eurasian nomads who inhabited the western and central Eurasian steppes from the 9th to the 1st centuries BC. Scythian is also the name of a US roots-rock band.

Campbells to mark 1,000th trad session

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

CAMPBELL'S TAVERN in Cloughanover, near Headford, is about to mark a major milestone, celebrating its 1000th trad session in a row this weekend.

The Clockworks to play Canada's Indie Week

Tue, Nov 07, 2017

ONE OF Galway's most exciting young bands, The Clockworks, landed in Toronto this week, having been selected as one of only a couple of Irish bands to play at Canada's Indie Week.

Franz Ferdinand - tickets for Galway show on sale tomorrow

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

FRANZ FERDINAND play only two shows in Ireland in 2018 - and one of them is in Galway, with the Scottish quintet in concert in Leisureland, Salthill, the day after they release their new album Always Ascending.

Album review: Lankum

Music Reviews Thu, Nov 02, 2017

I RARELY get excited about Irish folk/trad albums, given most are either of the sickly slick super produced variety or else have that purist reductionism which renders trad as a kind of 'living dead' form where jibes that 'it all sounds the same' are not without foundation.

Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

MARTIN HAYES and Dennis Cahill may be one of, if not the greatest, partnership in Irish trad. The duo, going strong since meeting in Chicago in the 1980s, return to Galway, to play the Róisín Dubh this month.

Katie Kim returns to Galway

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

KATIE KIM, the slowcore, ethereal, ambient folk/pop singer-songwriter is coming to Galway to play the next FEAST night at the Róisín Dubh, performing songs from her new album, Salt.

Can't get enough of ConTempo?

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

SLY STONE urged us to "dance to the music" and the ConTempo Quartet is about to take audiences through their dance-paces, bringing them on a sonic journey from the formality of the Austrian courts to the wildness of the Romanian steppes.

Young Galway musicians to perform in Dublin

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

TWELVE YOUNG amateur musicians from Galway will perform in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, next month, as part of Dave Flynn's Irish Memory Orchestra.

Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon @ Bus King

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

AARON HURLEY, one half of the Galway indie-rock/avant-garde duo Phantom Dog Beneath The Moon, plays a solo acoustic show this weekend as part of the Bus King gig series.

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