Paddy Casey @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
PADDY CASEY began his musical career busking on Galway’s streets, but since that apprenticeship he has become one of Ireland’s best established singer-songwriters.
Casey plays Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm where he will perform songs from his four albums - Amen (So Be It), Living, Addicted To Company, and The Secret Life Of. Doubtless the set will include such audience favourites as ‘Saints and Sinners’, ‘Bend Down Low’, ‘Everybody Wants’, and ‘The Lucky One’.
Read more ...Bluegrass master Tim O’Brien to play Galway
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
TIM O’BRIEN, one of America’s leading folk, bluegrass, and country musicians, is coming to Galway to play Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover.
Read more ...The Hive party @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
110TH STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.30pm.
Read more ...Gold Diggers @ Monroe’s
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
KANYE WEST’S ruminations on gold diggers has become part of the popular conscience, but the phrase is also the name of an Athenry folk quintet.
Read more ...Japanese butoh in The Shed
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
BUTOH IS many things. It can be dance, performance, or movement. It involves grotesque imagery and taboo topics, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup.
Read more ...Launch of new crime fiction book
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
THE NEW York based Irish writer Seamus Scanlon launches his new collection of crime fiction stories in Galway this evening.
Read more ...Recalling Kinvara in the fifties
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
PAINTINGS INSPIRED by photographs taken of Kinvara in the 1950s will be on show at Murphystore on the Quay, Kinvara, from this weekend.
Read more ...Dialysis patients celebrate creativity
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
A SWALLOW'S Tale In A Thousand Skies, is an exhibition of “pictures, words and messin’” from dialysis patients and staff in Merlin Park University Hospital.
The exhibition opens in the Galway Arts Centre this Saturday at 2pm and will also feature the launch of the book The Magician and the Swallow’s Tale.
Read more ...Jerry Marjoram to exhibit in Kenny’s
Thu, Aug 08, 2013
MARJORAM, A collection of new and retrospective paintings by Jerry Marjoram opens in The Kenny Gallery, tomorrow at 6pm.
Read more ...The Sound Of Music
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE TOWN Hall Theatre will come alive with The Sound Of Music when Sean and Brian Powers’ Twin Productions bring the much-loved musical to the venue for a five night run from August 14 to 18.
Read more ...New exhibitions at Galway Arts Centre
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
TOMORROW AT 6pm sees the opening of two exhibitions in the Galway Arts Centre - Linda Shevlin’s Supernature and Vicky Smith’s Megga Bubble Space Burbs.
Read more ...Milltown to host PJ Conlon Festival
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
UACHTARÁN NA hÉireann, Michael D Higgins, will officially open the inaugural PJ Conlon Festival, in Milltown, north County Galway, this weekend.
Read more ...Summer ballet camp
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
A SUMMER ballet camp will take place from August 13 to 16 in the Presentation Primary School Hall, Newcastle Road, and is open to all students of ballet.
Read more ...Chamber Philharmonia Cologne in concert
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
ONE OF Germany's finest ensembles, the Chamber Philharmonia Cologne, will be in concert in St Nicholas Collegiate Church.
Read more ...Summer Music in Galway festival
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
The Summer Music in Galway school and festival returns on Monday August 5 with classical concerts in both the city and county.
The concerts take place in Claregalway Castle, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, and the Raheen Woods Hotel in Athenry and will feature Galway Youth Orchestra.
Read more ...Midlake to play Róisín Dubh in August
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
ALTHOUGH THEY began as jazz students, Midlake eventually pioneered a kind of 1970s styled, west-coast Americana, which paved the way for Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver.
Read more ...Theatre reviews: The Great Hunger, Galway Fringe Festival
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE CLAIRE Keegan-helmed Galway Fringe Festival made a distinctive splash in July with two and a half weeks of non-stop theatre, art, music, literature, dance, workshops, children’s events, and more.
Read more ...Alan Partridge to the rescue?
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
STEVE COOGAN’S celebrated Alan Partridge character is now to star in his own movie, where the hapless radio DJ/talk show host encounters disaster at an airport.
Read more ...Free children’s art workshop on The Claddagh
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
THE CLADDAGH was once a vibrant fishing village of thatched cottages and its people had a distinctive form of dress.
Read more ...Foster & Allen in concert
Thu, Aug 01, 2013
FOSTER & ALLEN will be in concert at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinasloe, on Thursday August 8.
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