Éigse an Spidéal 2013 festival

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

MARY BERGIN, Johnny Óg Connolly, and poet Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill are among those who will perform at next month’s Éigse an Spidéal festival.

A highlight will be the performance by Mary Bergin and Johnny Óg Connolly, of the newly-composed suite, written by Mary and Johnny and commissioned by An Gaelacadamh, entitled ‘Sruth’.

Classical concert and album launch

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

A CONCERT featuring Lynda Lee, one of Ireland’s leading sopranos, and an album launch by clarinettist Paul Roe, both take place next week.

Vyvienne Long’s String Collision Tour

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

WHAT HAPPENS when an Irish songwriter, a Romanian virtuoso, and an avant garde string quintet join forces? String Collision, that’s what.

The String Collision tour, featuring Vyvienne Long, and the Balanescu Quartet - making their debut appearance in Ireland - comes to The Druid Lane Theatre on Thursday March 7 at 7.30pm.

Ireland’s young jazz musicians to play Gort

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

YOUNG JAZZ musicians from the west and the north come to Gort this weekend for a special show as part of the Coole Music Orchestra Festival.

Ger Sweeney @ Norman Villa Gallery

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

EXCAVATIONS, THE new exhibition by leading Irish abstract artist Ger Sweeney, opens at the Norman Villa Gallery in Salthill tomorrow at 6pm.

Poetry and music

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

POETRY AND classical music will join forces for an event taking place tomorrow at 1.10pm in the Galway City Museum.

Entries sought for Galway Film Centre/RTÉ Short Film Awards

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE GALWAY Film Centre, in association with RTÉ, is seeking entries for the 2013 Short Film Awards, with a prize of two cash awards of €9,500 each.

The awards will be given for the two best scripts submitted to the centre and the deadline is 12 noon on Friday April 12. The writers of the best scripts will be short-listed for interview and two winners will be awarded the prize money to produce a short film, the use of equipment and facilities from Galway Film Centre, and a commitment from RTÉ to screen the finished film.

Galway Film Society Women’s Day screening

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

A FILM celebrating spirited, independent, women in the Middle East will be shown in Galway to mark International Woman’s Day.

Tom Stade - part devil, part dude

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

TOM STADE, described as “part devil, part dude” by The Scotsman, brings his show Tom Stade Totally Rocks! to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday March 6 at 8.30pm.

Luck be a Lady Tonight

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

NATHAN DETROIT has a problem. He needs money. He has a floating crap game, where players make wagers on the outcome on rolling dice. The game is illegal and only one venue in New York will hold it.

‘Leo’ hops a train

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

LAST TRAIN From Holyhead, by Galway-based author Bernard Field, comes to the Town Hall in a new production by Out Of Time Theatre Company, and starring Fair City’s Dave Duffy.

Grizzly Bear to play Galway Arts Festival

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

GRIZZLY BEAR, one of the most outstanding indie-rock bands at work today, play the Galway Arts Festival Big Top in the Fisheries Field on Friday July 19.

‘Because of Grenades people found me’

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

THE LAST time I interviewed playwright Tara McKevitt was in 2010 when Mephisto Theatre Company was about to stage her debut play Grenades.

I Am Martin Sharry

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

SOME YEARS ago, Martin Sharry moved from Ballymun to Inis Óirr on the Aran Islands to live with his uncle and grandfather also named Martin Sharry.

From that experience comes Martin’s acclaimed one-man I Am Martin Sharry, which explores identity, disconnection, loss of language and tradition, and migration through personal recollection, photos, and objects found in the family home.

Tuesdays With Morrie

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

A VISIT to a favourite professor by a former student turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life.

This is Tuesdays With Morrie, Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom’s acclaimed play which returns to the Town Hall Theatre from Monday February 25 to Wednesday 27 at 8pm.

Award nominations for Blue Teapot

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

GALWAY’S BLUE Teapot Theatre Company have been nominated of an Irish Times Theatre Award 2012 and for a Aontas STAR (Connacht Region) Award.

Wine based film from France

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

FRENCH FILM You Will Be My Son, set in a chateau and winery in Saint-Émilion, Bordeaux, will be screened by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8.15pm.

New book on Chaucer from NUIG academics

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S immortal Canterbury Tales is the subject of a major new book of essays, including contributions from NUI Galway academics.

Chaucer’s Poetry: words, authority and ethics, edited by NUIG’s Clíodhna Carney and Frances McCormack, both of whom lecture in Old and Middle English, has just been published by Four Courts Press.

We Banjo Three to play An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

SPARKS WILL fly when We Banjo 3, featuring Galway virtuosos Enda and Fergal Scahill, team up with Dublin roots band I Draw Slow for a concert at An Taibhdhearc.

The Alan Kelly Gang @ An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

THE ALAN Kelly Gang, along with De Dannan’s Alec Finn and Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh will play a fundraising concert in An Taibhdhearc tomorrow at 8pm.

Joining accordionist Alan and his band will be Alec Finn (bouzouki), Johnny ‘Ringo’ McDonagh (percussion); Alan’s father Frank Kelly (piano accordion); Mary Staunton (box player and vocalist); Mary Shannon (banjo); Gerry Mulvihill (fiddle); Patsy Hanly (flautist); Pauline Hanly (singer); Claire and Breda Keville (concertina and fiddle); and John McEvoy and John Wynne (fiddle and flute).

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