Coirmcheoil Phadraig 2017

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

COIRMCHEOIL PHADRAIG 2017, the annual St Patrick's Festival concert of music and song of the nation, featuring the renowned Irish composer and pianist Tom Cullivan, takes place this weekend.

Bob Skeleton - and the sound of 'Midnight Pop'

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

THEY DESCRIBE themselves as playing "Midnight-Pop", with late night grooves and melodies that "create a dynamic blend of West Coast cool and Mancunian mood".

Stomptown Brass play Monroe’s on St Patrick’s Day

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

STOMPTOWN BRASS have released a new single, 'I Got A Plan', and the 10-piece urban street-funk band are touring Ireland this month, taking in Galway next week.

Ilenkus - new EP out next month

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

HUNGER, THE new EP from Galway post-metal band Ilenkus will be released next month on vinyl, and officially launched at an upcoming FEAST show in the upstairs bar of the Róisín Dubh.

Cooney, Byrne, and Harper for Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

STEVE COONEY, Altan's Dermot Byrne, and Bríd Harper, three outstanding Irish trad musicians, are coming to Galway to play Monrtoe's Live next week.

Free concert ahead of European Day of Early Music

Thu, Mar 09, 2017

A FREE concert, to take place next week in St Joseph’s Church, on the Presentation Road, will launch a week of pan-European celebrations ahed of the European Day of Early Music.

The Blossoms - 'guitar pop's shooting stars' for Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

“WE WANT to be as mainstream as Will Smith, as great as The Smiths, and as uplifting as Mr Smith Goes to Washington.” So said The Blossoms who play Galway next week.

Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn at NUIG

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

THE MUSIC of Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn, will be heard in the Emily Anderson Concert Hall in NUI Galway's Aula Maxima when the Trio Dali and Nathan Braude play the next Music For Galway concert.

The Stoles to play Monroe’s

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

DUBLIN ALTERNATIVE rock band, The Stoles, who "have a Black Keys vibe going on, but with maybe more of an emphasis on heavy rock than blues" according to TXFM, will play Galway.

No Stairway - Led Zeppelin tribute @ Monroe's Live

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

NO STAIRWAY, the brilliant Galway tribute act to Led Zeppelin, featuring the flamboyant Steven Sharpe on vocals, play the main stage at Monroe’s Live on Friday March 10.

Elvis is alive and well in Monroe's

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

AUGUST 2017 will mark the 40th anniversary of the death of 'The King of Rock'n'Roll' - Elvis Presley, and in advance of that, a major Elvis tribute show is coming to Monroe's Live.

Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta to launch new album

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

AFTER A 17 year hiatus, Connemara melodeon player, Mícheál Darby Ó Fátharta, returns with a new album, An Rithim Réidh, which he will launch at a show in Indreabhán next week.

Distortion final to take place at The Quays

Thu, Mar 02, 2017

CONMAN, DEAD Horse Jive, Foxy Boxxing, Patrick Conneely, and Tobi will fight to be the first winner of Distortion, the new music competition organised by NUI Galway Music Society.

Passenger to play Galway International Arts Festival in 2017

Wed, Mar 01, 2017

HE HAS amassed 1.3 billion views on YouTube for his hit single 'Let Her Go', won the Independent Music Award in 2013 and an Ivor Novello Award in 2014, and enjoyed a No 1 album with 2016's Young as the Morning Old as the Sea. This year he plays Galway.

Album review: WHY?

Music Reviews Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THERE ARE few more individual, yet conversely definitive, voices in American indie than WHY? founder/leader/singer Yoni Wolf, and his brilliance and ambition as a songwriter, indeed composer, is writ large on Moh Lhean.

Frankie Gavin and Liam Ó Maonlaí headline Éigse an Spidéil

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

FRANKIE GAVIN and Liam Ó Maonlaí will headline Éigse an Spidéil 2017, the village's annual arts festival, which has been running for more than 30 years, and which runs from Thursday March 2 to Sunday 5.

Dinosaur - British jazz 'supergroup' to play Clifden

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

"IMAGINE THE impressionistic electric-jazz moodiness and glistening keyboard textures of Miles Davis’s In A Silent Way seamlessly wrapped around Celtic folk melodies." That was how The Guardian described jazz 'supergroup' Dinosaur.

Benjamin Francis Leftwich to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

HE PLAYS "enchanting, fragile folk-pop" says The Independent. His music is "steeped in emotion” according to DIY, and he is "the real deal” declared Q. He is Benjamin Francis Leftwich.

Shuffle! - a night of soul, reggae, and r'n'b

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

SHUFFLE! RETURNS to the upstairs bar of Roisin Dubh this weekend for another night of hip shakin', rockin' northern soul, reggae, ska, blues, jazz, dicso, and r'n'b.

Rory Gallagher tribute @ Monroe's

Thu, Feb 23, 2017

THE BARRY McGivern Band have been playing the music of Rory Gallagher since the man himself was still with us, and they are coming to play Galway tomorrow.

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