Galway Gospel Choir Christmas concert
Tue, Dec 16, 2014
THE GALWAY Gospel Choir will hold its Christmas concert in the Claddagh Church tomorrow [Wednesday December 17] at 8.30pm, with proceeds this year going to Childline.
Read more ...Jape - Róisín Dubh show and new album
Mon, Dec 15, 2014
JAPE, THE solo indie-electro project of singer-songwriter and Redneck Manifesto bassist Richie Egan, returns in 2015 with a new album and an Irish tour that includes the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Declan O’Rourke - Róisín Dubh show and new album
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
IN THE late-noughties, many believed the album as way of presenting music was dead and that digital media would see everything reduced to individual tracks. Fast forward to 2014 and instead of abandoning the album, artists are using digital media as a new way to present and re-imagine the album format. This and the corresponding resurrection of vinyl means the album has plenty of life in it yet.
Read more ...Album review: AC/DC
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GIVEN THAT founder and driving force Malcolm Young can no longer play music owing to dementia, AC/DC would have been forgiven for calling it a day.
Read more ...The Harp, The Accordion and The Ugly album launch
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
THE HARP, The Accordion and The Ugly are seven Galway based musicians and one film-maker who put on live-music cinema shows as will be seen when they play Monroe’s Live.
Read more ...Album review: John Grant
Music Reviews Thu, Dec 11, 2014
AFTER RUINING his second album Pale Green Ghosts with ill-advised dabbling in, and often insipid stabs at, techno and electronica, John Grant re-connects with more organic sounds on this live album.
Read more ...Mary Coughlan to play Town Hall
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
MARY COUGHLAN, the Galwegian rightly regarded as Ireland’s leading jazz and blues vocalist, plays the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday December 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Classical guitarist in concert at Nuns Island
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
CLASSICAL GUITAR and Irish trad will combine in the playing of Dublin guitarist John O’Shea, who is in concert at the Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday.
Read more ...ConTempo to host Christmas concert in the museum
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GUITARS, VIOLINS, voices, and saxophones will be heard in the Galway City Museum when The ConTempo Quartet host a concert of classical and Christmas music.
Read more ...Drum’n’bass night @ The Cellar
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
DRUM’N’BASS, dubstep, and different permutations of techno will be heard when DJs Zenji, Phunty, and Teknonotice hit the decks in The Cellar Bar this Saturday.
Read more ...The return of The Whileaways
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
GALWAY folk-rock/trad/Americana trio The Whileaways return to live music duties with a show at Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, this Saturday.
Read more ...Manchester DJ for Electric
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
MANCHESTER DJ, producer, remixer, and MC, Chimpo makes his Irish debut tomorrow night at Get Boogie! in Factory, Abbeygate Street.
Read more ...Galway Baroque Singers in Tuam
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
Galway Baroque Singers travel to Tuam on Sunday December 21 where they will present a concert of seasonal music in the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Read more ...Rebel songs for Monroe’s Live
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
REBEL SONGS and Irish roots music will be heard loud and proud when Galway band The Uncurables play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Thursday December 18.
Read more ...Cois Cladaigh concert for Simon
Thu, Dec 11, 2014
COIS CLADAIGH choir will present a concert of seasonal music in aid of the Galway Simon Community in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Cork folk and roots musicians for Monroe’s Live
Wed, Dec 10, 2014
TWO STALWARTS of the Cork folk and roots music scene - Greenshine, the band consisting of Mary Green and Noel Shine, and singer-songwriter Hank Wedel - play Monroe’s Live on Monday December 22.
Read more ...Syd Arthur - neo-psychedelic quartet play Galway
Tue, Dec 09, 2014
IN PSYCHEDELIC music, few figures as pivotal as Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett and Love’s Arthur Lee, so it is hardly surprising that both men should appeal to a quartet of Canterbury psych fans.
Read more ...Galway singer releases charity single for Alzheimer Society
Tue, Dec 09, 2014
INDIE-FOLK singer-songwriter Eoin Dolan, best known as leader of blues/roots/folk-pop band The Followers Of Otis, has released a new Christmas single in aid of The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
Read more ...Damien Rice to play Galway Arts Festival Big Top
Mon, Dec 08, 2014
DAMIEN RICE will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top on Thursday July 16. The concert, which will take place in the Fisheries Field, will be the singer-songwriter’s arts festival debut.
Read more ...Johnny’s gift – the story behind the charity single ‘Part Of A Tribe’
Mon, Dec 08, 2014
IT IS the gift of a songwriter to put together a story that in lyrics and melody transcends time and place to transport us to a place of his/her making, often without us ever noticing the hand steering us along.
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