Classical and ballet @ The Eye
Thu, May 09, 2013
THE BOLSHOI Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet and The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Berlioz and Mendelssohn are to be screened at The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Sunday Service @ Massimo
Thu, May 09, 2013
Every Sunday afternoon in the comfortable surrounds of Massimos bar, Williams street Galway enjoy the soulful sounds by vinyl DJ Dave Barry and guests and award winning food from the EAT kitchens.
Read more ...John Murry
Thu, May 09, 2013
HE WAS born in Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley. His grandfather was none other than the great American writer William Faulkner.
Read more ...Daft Funk - robot rock @ Kelly’s
Thu, May 09, 2013
WITH THE release of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories imminent and causing understandable excitement among music fans, there is a way to whet the appetite while you wait.
Read more ...Enemies take a step up with new album
Thu, May 09, 2013
TOMORROW SEES the release of Embark, Embrace, the new album by Wicklow post-rock quartet Enemies, who play Galway next week.
Read more ...Scott Ferguson to celebrate Epoch’s first birthday
Thu, May 09, 2013
THE EPOCH nights at Factory will celebrate their first 12 months of running parties this Saturday with a set from leading Detroit DJ Scott Ferguson.
Ferguson joins the dots between house, techno, disco, hip-hop, and soul, and has released recordings on Moodymann’s Mahogani Music as well as his own label, Ferrsipark.
Read more ...Flirt FM Sessions @ Monroe’s
Thu, May 09, 2013
NUI GALWAY student radio station Flirt FM, will hold its Flirt FM Sessions concert/recording in Monroe’s Backstage Bar this evening at 10pm.
Read more ...Tokyo Rosenthal @ Monroe's Live
Thu, May 09, 2013
ROOTS, COUNTRY, and blues singer-songwriter Tokyo Rosenthal plays a solo acoustic show at Monroe’s Backstage Bar this Sunday at 10.30pm.
Rosenthal’s songs run the gamut from love to politics and reveal the influence of James Taylor and Kris Kristofferson. He has enjoyed critical acclaim as well as honours of another kind.
Read more ...American music in St Nicholas’
Thu, May 09, 2013
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL and choral music will join forces for a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Wednesday May 15 at 8pm.
Read more ...Soul music comedy film for Bealtaine
Thu, May 09, 2013
THE SAPPHIRES, starring Irish actor Chris O’Dowd, and telling the tale of a mother and three aunts who form a soul quartet, will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Ghetto disco to bring ‘tha funk’
Thu, May 09, 2013
GHETTO DISCO, a new clubnight of funk/soul retro classics with DJs Will Softly and Slick Normal, starts this weekend.
Read more ...Kenny’s Vibrant Synchronies
Thu, May 09, 2013
VIBRANT SYNCHRONIES, a group exhibition, will officially open in The Kenny Gallery, Liosbán, tomorrow at 3pm.
The show consists of the paintings and sculpture by 13 artists from 11 different countries, many of whom have previously been selected to exhibit their work in Estense Castle in Ferrara, Italy. They have come together under the professional guidance and curatorial skills of Paola Trevisan.
Read more ...Painting and drawing workshops
Thu, May 09, 2013
ONE OF Galway’s leading young artists, Jennifer Cunningham, will hold her ‘One Day Painting and Drawing’ workshops in Newcastle.
Read more ...Adventures in Music with Sonic Strings
Thu, May 09, 2013
TEENAGE ORCHESTRA Sonic String will perform music from across the world at the final Adventures In Music gig of the season.
Read more ...Celebrating Adrian Frazier
Thu, May 09, 2013
WATCHING MY Hands At Work, an anthology of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays honouring NUI Galway’s Prof Adrian Frazier is to be launched.
Read more ...Contemporary dance classes
Thu, May 09, 2013
CONTEMPORARY DANCE classes with Elena Giannotti, take place in the Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay, today (Thursday May 9), Monday 13, and Monday 20.
The classes, organised by the Galway Dance Project, will be held at 11am (advanced/professional level) and at 2pm (beginners/intermediate)
Read more ...The guitarist and the cellist
Thu, May 09, 2013
A CONCERT of guitar and cello music, with ConTempo’s Adrian Mantu and John Feeley, takes place in the Druid Lane Theatre tomorrow at 1pm.
The concert, which is part of the Galway Early Music Festival, is entitled Lost Innocence: Pastoral Music and Poetry Throughout the Ages. It will see cellist Mantu and guitarist Feeley perform music by Bazelaires, Marais, Bach and others, interspersed with pastoral themed poetry.
Read more ...OTC’s ‘dramatically re-imagined’ Carmen
Thu, May 02, 2013
WITH ITS instantly recognisable score and a love story bristling with thwarted passions, Georges Bizet’s Carmen is undoubtedly among the most popular operas in existence.
Read more ...Sonnets For The Cradle and the dark side of fairytales
Thu, May 02, 2013
GALWAY EARLY Music Festival takes place from Thursday May 9 to Sunday 12 and among the highlights is Sonnets For The Cradle, a multi-media event based on classic fairytales.
Read more ...New exhibition of film and artwork
Thu, May 02, 2013
THE ARTISTS Cecilia Danell and Emmet Kierans and the youth group Red Bird, will host a new art exhibition, Remember Me (When I Forget), at the Galway Arts Centre.
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