Lights and wonderful music at Claregalway Castle
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
There was an air of abandonment and fun in Claregalway last Saturday evening as the International Summer Music School and Festival came to a glorious end.
To hear ‘The Fields of Athenry’ played by a full orchestra, and sung at full pitch by the audience and participants, lifted the spirits. It had all the energy of the famous Last Night at the Proms, only it was not in the Royal Albert Hall, London, but within the grandeur of Claregalway Castle.
Read more ...Moonfish to bring Star Of The Sea to the stage
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
GALWAY THEATRE company Moonfish will perform its stage adaptation of Joseph O’Connor’s acclaimed novel Star Of The Sea at An Taibhdhearc in July 2014.
Read more ...Steven Sharpe to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
comedian, performer, and singer-songwriter will be upstairs at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday August 22 at 9pm.
Read more ...Bell X1 announce Galway show
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
BELL X1 have announced they will play Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Saturday December 7 as part of their Chop Chop Tour of Ireland.
Read more ...The Year of the Moving Statues
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE BIZARRE phenomenon of the ‘moving statues’, which swept through 1980s Ireland will be examined in a new comic play by Kinvara playwright Gerry Connelly.
Read more ...Athenry Musical Society AGM
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE ATHENRY Musical Society will hold its AGM and information evening about the society next week.
Read more ...Murder On The Menu
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
MURDER ON The Menu, the successful murder mystery dinner theatre show which featured in the Galway Fringe Festival, returns this month.
Read more ...New website to showcase work of Galway artists
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
A NEW website, dedicated to promoting the work of artists in Galway is online and is encouraging Galwegians to send it works to display.
Read more ...Moth & Butterfly storytelling event
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE MOTH & Butterfly storytelling and improvisation event returns to The Townhouse Bar, Spanish Parade, on Wednesday August 21 at 8pm.
Read more ...Core Theatre College actors’ workshops
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
is taking bookings for its autumn workshops in the Blue Teapot Theatre on Munster Avenue.
Read more ...Blues music @ The Quays
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE AUSSIE Blues Band, or Finn as they are also known, play The Quays Music Hall this Sunday from 7pm.
Read more ...The Curragh Sons @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE CURRAGH SONS are no strangers to Galway audiences as they have played Kinvara’s Cuckoo Fleadh and Cruinniu na mBad festivals over the years.
Read more ...Kory Quinn - the true sound of American folk
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
PORTLAND, OREGON, singer-songwriter Kory Quinn plays “train-hoppin’, foot-stompin’, hobo-blues,” according to that city’s Eight-Ball Studios’ Rob Stroup.
Read more ...The Lofires @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
THE LOFIRES are Dublin songwriters, Niall Toner Jr and Jonny Rowen and they come with a pedigree and years of experience.
Read more ...Metal night @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
FRENCH BAND Dead Like Me headline a night of chaotic metal, gloom rock, and punk upstairs in Róisín Dubh tonight from 9pm.
Read more ...The Tom Portman Trio
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
FRESH FROM his return from Poland’s Suwalki Blues Festival and the launch of his new solo album Float Your Blues Away, gifted guitarist Tom Portman is back in Galway.
Read more ...Sean Keane announces second concert
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
SEAN KEANE and Citizen Keane have announced a second concert in the village marquee on Sunday August 25 as part of the Caherlistrane/Kilcoona Gathering.
Read more ...Wheatus @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
WHEATUS, THE band responsible for ‘Teenage Dirtbag’, one of the biggest hits of the noughties, are coming to Galway.
Read more ...Galway artists on display in window exhibition
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
FOUR GALWAY artists, Cecilia Danell, Brid Egan, Alannah Barrett, and Arlene McPadden, are exhibiting in an unusual location - the windows of Brown Thomas.
Read more ...A ‘macho’ exhibition
Thu, Aug 15, 2013
WHAT IS it to be macho? Hard livin’, hard drinkin’, wine, women and song rabble rousing? Beer and crisps street fighter? Muscle-bound body builder? Leather clad, biker, tough guy?
What then about the ‘subversion’ of traditional images of being ‘macho’ with the tough guy look of beards, moustaches, and leather jackets being a big part of gay male culture? Indeed, can you have machismo without homoeroticism?
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