Saint Sister - new single and GIAF 17 show

Tue, May 30, 2017

SAINT SISTER, the Irish electro-folk duo of Morgan Macintyre and Gemma Doherty have released a new single - ‘Causing Trouble’ - ahead of their Irish and European tour, which includes a show at the Galway International Arts Festival.

Mike Skinner to DJ @ HALO

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOR 10 years Mike Skinner was the man behind the musical phenomenon The Streets. In that time he won an Ivor Novello, a Brit, and made a significant impact on British urban music.

Album review: Sea Pinks

Music Reviews Thu, May 25, 2017

SEA PINKS' last album, Soft Days, was solid, but lacked a true stand-out song. Watercourse has no such trouble though, as this new album from the Belfast trio boasts several great moments.

Metal, heft, sludge - and two FEAST debuts

Thu, May 25, 2017

IT IS their first Galway gig in four years, and their debut gig at FEAST. Either way if you have not seen Belfast band Hornets before, this weekend provides you with the excuse to rectify that omission.

American orchestral music at the Town Hall

Thu, May 25, 2017

ICONIC AMERICAN music, such as Bernstein's scores for West Side Story, will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra on their America Tour, which comes to Galway next month.

Mad Dog McRea - rowdy and room shaking

Thu, May 25, 2017

FOLK, ROCK, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music is what Galway can expect when Mad Dog McRea take to the stage of Monroe’s BackStage Bar next month.

US choir to sing at Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 25, 2017

THE SONORAN Desert Chorale from Arizona will give a concert at the Galway Cathedral featuring Renaissance and contemporary Irish compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish songs.

Go back to the eighties with Delorean

Thu, May 25, 2017

GOING BACK to the 1980s need not involve one of 'Doc' Brown's time machine Delorean car - it just needs 1980s covers band Delorean, who play HALO this weekend.

Album review: The Charlatans

Music Reviews Thu, May 18, 2017

IT SAYS much for The Charlatans that, while other Manchester bands of their vintage who may have been bigger went and imploded long ago, Tim Burgess and friends have quietly been able to keep going.

Bruce Springsteen's right-hand man to play Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

GARRY TALLENT, a long serving member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, is taking time out from those duties to go on a solo tour which will see him head to Ireland, and Galway, next month.

A FEAST of polyrhythmic heaviness

Thu, May 18, 2017

HIBAGON, THE heavy, polyrhythmic, duo from Bergamo, northern Italy, headline the next FEAST night this Saturday at 8.30pm in the Róísín Dubh's upstairs bar.

The saxophone and a mediaeval lover's journey

Thu, May 18, 2017

THE SAXOPHONE is an instrument indelibly associated with jazz, a musical form created by African-Americans in the early 20th century, so what is a saxophone doing at a concert at the Galway Early Music Festival?

Chasing Abbey to play Monroe's Live

Thu, May 18, 2017

"YOU KNOW where you should be going for your hip-hop? Tullamore, County Offaly. This is Ro, Bee, and TeddyC, they're called Chasing Abbey," so said Today FM's Dermot & Dave.

Spiccato Junction revisited

Thu, May 18, 2017

IN THE mid-Noughties, the enthusiastic, energetic fusion of Irish trad and classical by the combined forces of the Máirtín O’Connor Band and the ConTempo Quartet, was a thrilling sight in concert.

Make Haste To The Wedding

Thu, May 18, 2017

YOUNG MUSICIANS and singers from the Athenry Music School Horizon Orchestra, the St Nicholas Choristers, Maoincheoil na Gaillimhe’s Adult String Orchestra, and Galway Early Music’s Red Earl’s Musicke join forces for the Galway Early Music Festival.

US metal band make Irish debut in Galway

Thu, May 18, 2017

OF VIRTUE, the metalcore/ambient band from Lansing, the capital of the US state of Michigan, make their Irish debut when they play The Cellar Bar tomorrow night.

Jenn Grant to play Black Gate Cultural Centre

Thu, May 18, 2017

JENN GRANT, the acclaimed Candian singer-songwriter is touring her latest album, Paradise, and is coming to Galway next week to play The Black Gate Cultural Centre, St Francis Street.

Gilbert O'Sullivan announces Galway show

Tue, May 16, 2017

'NOTHING RHYMED', 'Alone Again (Naturally)', 'Matrimony', 'Clair', 'Get Down' - the signature songs of Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan are also timeless classics which boast of a outstanding sense of melody.

Galway's finest musicians feature on new Citóg Records compilation

Thu, May 11, 2017

SOME OF the finest indie-rock, folk, and singer-songwriter acts in Galway, and the west of Ireland, feature on a new compilation album to be launched at Strange Brew in the Róisín Dubh tonight.

Album review: Slowdive

Music Reviews Thu, May 11, 2017

FOR ANYONE wishing to go back to 1992, and those just curious to see what that year felt and sounded like, the best means - in the absence of a TARDIS - is to play the second track from Slowdive's new album.

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