Music making from tree to note

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

WHAT GOES into the making of an instrument? What are the processes, skills, materials, and equipment necessary to make a violin, a flute, or a guitar?

These are the questions which lie at the heart of an acclaimed new documentary, The Music Makers, which will be shown in An Taibhdhearc this Saturday at 8pm.

Niall Connolly returns

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

SINGER-SONGWRITER Niall Connolly makes a welcome return to Galway city to play a show promoting his new album Sound.

Vinnie’s TV @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

LED BY New Jersey singer-songwriter Wade Lynch, Vinnie’s TV play folk/roots rock inspired by Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and Nick Drake.

Innovative new drama from THEATREclub

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

“SO THEATRE is a safe, middle-class thing, and young people think it's boring? THEATREclub beg to disagree. They’re taking conventional notions of theatre and shoving them back in our faces.

Digital Chaos @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

DIGITAL CHAOS returns to the Cellar Underground this Saturday for another night of techno grooves.

North Beach Poetry Nights

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

CORKONIAN BILLY Ramsell will be performing his poetry at the next North Beach Poetry Nights this Monday in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, at 6.30pm.

Pete Mullineaux’s acting classes

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

THE ACTOR, poet, and singer-songwriter Pete Mullineaux will host his popular acting classes for adults at Galway Arts Centre.

The classes start on Wednesday May 8 from 7pm to 8.30pm and run every Wednesday for six weeks, covering improvisation, projection, voice technique, etc. Beginners are welcome.

Birds Of Chicago - US folk duo to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

“TAKE SOME melodies, arrange them in interesting ways (soul, folk, country, doo wop, samba, gospel) and the crowning glory – put two of the best voices in popular music over the top.”

Galway Arts Centre’s GAC(h) Duine music festival

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

GAC(h) DUINE, the Galway Arts Centre’s first music festival, runs from this evening until Saturday at the centre on 47 Dominick Street.

Low Mountain @ Monroe’s

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

A STRIPPED down, nowhere-to-hide acoustic set with a strong emphasis on vocals and subtle instrumentation is the approiach of LOWmountain.

LOWmountain - Alan Tobin, Niall O’Driscoll, and Deirdre Archbold - play Monroe’s Backstage Bar on Friday April 26 at 11pm.

Kevin McAleer @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

SINCE HIS appearances on Nighthawks in the early 1990s, Kevin McAleer has enjoyed the status of a founding father of modern Irish stand-up and a a much loved comic.

Noise rock night @ The Cellar

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

ABRASIVE NOISE-ROCK, alternative rock, and punk will be the order of the night at a show in the Cellar Underground this Sunday at 8pm.

110th Street’s Hive Party @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

110THE STREET DJs Cyril Briscoe and Cian Ó Cíobháin will host their Hive clubnight tomorrow in the Róisín Dubh from 11.15pm.

Hive is, according to the duo, “a joyous and debonair voyage” through disco, house, hip-hop, Italo, techno, post-punk, new wave or lost classics. Expect to hear New Order, Robert Palmer, Daft Punk, Kate Bush, Dead Kennedys, Ariel Pink, LCD Soundsystem, Talking Heads, The Human League, The Clash, and Hot Chip.

Hear Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

GEORGE GERSCHWIN’S ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, one of the great orchestral works of the 20th century, fusing jazz and classical, will be performed in Galway.

Hear the songs of Schubert

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

THE SONGS of Franz Schubert, one of the leading composers of the Romantic era, will bring the curtain down on Music for Galway’s 32nd International Concert Season.

Cúirt events and exhibition

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

READINGS, ART exhibitions, tree planting, and a plaque unveiling will all take place as part of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature from April 23 to 28.

Choral concert in St Nicholas’

Thu, Apr 18, 2013

VOCI NUOVE, a new young choir from Cork will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Poulenc, and Arvö Part in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church this Saturday at 8pm.

Voci Nuove was formed in 2011 by Cork School of Music students. Since then they have performed around the country at various venues and festivals.

Stuart Neville - spies, Nazis, and Charles J Haughey

Thu, Apr 11, 2013

FORMER NAZIS and Nazi collaborators resident in Ireland are being taken out one by one by an enigmatic hit squad, but this is a only a warning to the man they are really after - SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny.

Fíbín returns with award-winning Sétanta

Thu, Apr 11, 2013

FÍBÍN MAKES a welcome return to An Taibhdhearc next week where it begins a national tour of its award-winning play Sétanta, written and directed by Paul Mercier.

Sétanta breathes new life into the ancient story of Sétanta and Ferdia, delivering a stylised tale of greed, power, envy, and love. The play tells how these two young warriors become sworn enemies under the reign of the all-powerful Medb. Fíbín makes exciting use of multimedia including explosive visuals, music specially composed by Mel Mercier, and almost 50 hand-made highly expressive masks by Matthew Guinnane.

Chinese State Circus to defy gravity in Yin Yang

Thu, Apr 11, 2013

THE FAMOUS Chinese philosophical symbol Yin Yang describes how seemingly opposite forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world.

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