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.
The concert, which will feature the Pathétique and Moonlight Sonata, earned critical acclaim in the USA, with the Washington Post declaring:
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.
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.
The band draw on a wide range of influences, such as Nick Cave, Iron And Wine, and Calexico, but also art, folklore, film, and other creative media. Blending guitar, strings, piano, and percussion with Dermot Kennedy’s expressive and dextrous vocals, Shadows and Dust have a sound that is both roots based and soulful. Check out the band’s EP Each Year Forever.
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.
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.
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.
This show will be the Englishman’s debut Irish show and Galway can look forward to his house, techno, and bass DJ set, frequently marked by a propulsive drive and chunky low end.
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.
Read more ...The art of storytelling in Ballymoe
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
THE SEANCHAÍ Brendan Nolan will tell tales in Eileen’s Pub, Ballymoe, north Galway on Friday June 28 at 8pm.
Read more ...Seán Tyrrell’s Message Of Peace
Thu, Jun 13, 2013
JOHN BOYLE O’Reilly was one of the most fascinating individuals to emerge from 19th century Ireland, and he is the subject of a show by the great Seán Tyrrell.
Read more ...Daithí - the ‘Chameleon Life’ of an electro wunderkind
Thu, Jun 06, 2013
HE HAS been called “the baby faced DJ” and a “hair flicking bundle of energy” but never overlook that Daithí is a young man passionate about music, its creation, and in bending, twisting, and shaping sounds into exciting slabs of electro fused indie-pop.
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