The genius comedy of Terry Alderton
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE RÓISÍN Dubh will celebrate its ninth birthday in style when the award winning comedian Terry Alderton takes to the stage of the Dominick Street venue next week.
Róisín Dubh 2.0 9th Birthday Weekend Celebrations begins on Friday June 21 at 8pm with Alderton performing his show Season 4? and support from Galway comedians Sean Sheridan, Johnny Graham, John O’Hare, and Kenny Gaughan. The MC will be John Donnellan.
Read more ...Nora Talks and Sings
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE LIFE of Nora Barnacle, the Galwegian, wife, and muse of James Joyce, will be celebrated through song in a show taking place this weekend.
Read more ...Goldilicks and the Three Bears
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE MUCH loved story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears will be brought to life on the Town Hall Theatre stage by puppeteer Miriam Lambert.
Read more ...O’Conor and Beethoven
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
LEADING IRISH pianist John O’Conor will play his favourite works by Beethoven at his concert in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday 19th June at 8pm.
Read more ...Club Tropicana 2013
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
ON THEIR 1983 hit ‘Club Tropicana’, the aspirational pop duo Wham! promised “fun and sunshine, there’s enough for everyone”.
Read more ...Silent returns to Town Hall
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 13, 2013
WINNER OF the Fringe First and Herald Angel Awards at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe and the Argus Angel at the 2012 Brighton Festival, Silent is back in Galway.
Written and performed by Pat Kinevane, directed by Jim Culleton, and staged by Fishamble: The New Play Company, Silent is at the Town Hall Theatre on Thursday June 20 and Friday 21 at 8pm.
Read more ...Dusty Banjos’ Cleggan weekender
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE FIFTH Dusty Banjos Traditional Music Weekend takes place in Cleggan on Friday June 21 and Saturday 22.
Read more ...Shadows and Dust @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
DUBLIN QUINTET Shadows and Dust are coming to Galway to play Monroe’s Live Backstage Bar this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Strange Boats @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
“A pair a ‘lectric guitars, drums, bass, flowery language and western harmonies, usually culminating in catchy rock songs.”
Read more ...Shuffle with DJ Dave Barry
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
GALWAY CITY’s Soul Brother No 1 and disciple of vinyl Dave Barry will kick off a new monthly residency at the Róisín Dubh next week.
Shuffle takes place in the Róisín on Friday 21 from 11.30pm where Dave will spin the very best in funk, soul, original r’n’b, northern soul, and the very best in black American music in general.
Read more ...Mikey and the Scallywags
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE UPROARIOUS bluegrass, gypsy, hip-hop, and swing sounds of Mikey and the Scallywags will be heard in the Galway City Youth Café tomorrow.
The band will play the café, in the Fairgreen, opposite the Coach Station, as part of the Pop Up Youth Art Festival.
Read more ...Reggae vibes for The Cellar
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
REGGAE FANS are in for a treat this Saturday at The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, when London’s Channel One Sound System takes to the stage.
Read more ...Bluegrass music @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THEYMAY be named after the tip end of Cornwall, but bluegrass band Land’s End draws members from Gloucester, Liverpool, Munich, Dublin, Cork, and Galway.
The Land's End Bluegrass Band play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 10.30pm. The band formed at the Sore Fingers international bluegrass workshop last year and are led by Galwegian Hugh ‘Blind Boy’ Murray.
Read more ...Kidnap Alice play toinight
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
EAST LONDON folk/bluegrass/soul sextet Kidnap Alice play upstairs at the Róisín Dubh this evening at 9pm, as part of their first Irish tour.
Read more ...Bobby Champs to DJ in Galway
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
BOBBY CHAMPS, the Brighton techno producer, and DJ, plays the Cult club-night in Factory, Abbeygate Street, this Saturday at 11pm.
Read more ...Ilenkus - heavy metal thunder
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE GALWAY prog/post-hardcore/metal band Ilenkus will be turning things up to a Nigel Tufnel approved 11 at the Róisín Dubh next week.
Read more ...Deadline for film fleadh Pitching Award
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE DEADLINE for submissions to the Galway Film Fleadh’s Pitching Awards is today.
Read more ...John Waters to attend Galway’s Kavanagh Days
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE POETRY of Patrick Kavanagh will be read, celebrated, and discussed at the fifth Kavanagh Days event, to be held in Galway next week.
Read more ...Galway Sessions gigs @ The King’s Head
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE KING’S HEAD pub will host a series of free concerts of Irish trad next week, each starting at 3pm, as part of the Galway Sessions festival.
Read more ...Choral concert from The Mornington Singers
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE MORNINGTON Singers, the award winning Irish chamber choir, will perform its concert, De Profundis, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, this Saturday at 8pm.
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