‘The tautness of a bow’

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

GIFTED GALWAY dance company Chrysalis grace the Black Box Theatre next week with its new production, Slings and Arrows, which will showcase its remarkable versatility and promises to be a visceral feast for the senses.

The show is a double-bill in which the featured pieces are Bow and Arrow, a new work for six dancers with an original score, and Symphony in Sync which is set to the ‘Summer’ and ‘Winter’ concertos from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Eclipsed and the world of the Magdalene Laundries

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE DIFFERING reactions to the Magdalene Laundries over the years have been mirrored in the responses to Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed, which will have a staged reading in Galway next week.

Villagers to play Seapoint

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

WHEN VILLAGERS take to the stage of the Seapoint Ballroom in Salthill on Thursday March 14 at 8pm, it will be for one of the most anticipated gigs of the year.

Josef Locke – ‘Three times the size of life’

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE COLOURFUL life and remarkable career of singer Josef Locke is celebrated in a new show, Blaze Away!, which comes to the Town Hall this Saturday at 8pm.

Born in Derry, Locke was a hugely popular entertainer from the 1940s through to the 1960s, with hits like ‘Hear My Song, Violetta’, ‘Come Back to Sorrento’, ‘Cara Mia’, and ‘Blaze Away’. His careers also had plenty of offstage drama with numerous love affairs and a headline-making run-in with the taxman that forced him to flee Britain.

Family concert of Javanese music

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE ENTRANCING sound of the Javanese gamelan will fill St Patrick’s Brass Band Hall this Sunday at the next Adventures In Music family concert.

Alone It Stands @ Town Hall

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THOSE DOWNCAST by Ireland’s injuries, defeats, and bad luck in the Six Nations, which sees us out of the running with more games still to play, take heart.

Children’s show at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

AN TAIBHDHEARC’S Saturday shows for families continues with Graffiti Theatre Company’s Walking Man/An Fear Siúil by Jody O’Neill at 11am and 1pm.

New books from Futa Fata

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE ADVENTURES of a pirate girl, and a tiny tiger in search of his teddy, are two new books for children from An Spidéal based publishers Futa Fata.

Lísín - Scoil na Páistí Deasa (Lísín – The school for Posh Kids) written by Patricia Forde and illustrated by Joelle Dreidemy centres on Lísín, a pirate who is forced to attend school, on land. Her classmates are rather stuck up, but she is determined to train them in the art of piracy.

What Richard Did winners

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE WINNERS of the DVDs of What Richard Did are Tommie Commins, Ballybane; Claire Finn, Renmore; and Loretta Goff, Riverside.

Underwater Picnic EP launch

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

GALWAY INDIE-rock quartet Underwater Picnic will launch their new EP Atlas tomorrow with a gig in The Cellar Bar.

Poetry reading with Louis DePaor

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

LOUIS DEPAOR and Japanese tanka poet Hisa Kagawa will be reading in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop this Saturday at 6.30pm.

Athenry Musical Society fashion show

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

ATHENRY MUSICAL Society will host a fashion show in aid of its upcoming musical, Sweet Charity, in May.

The cream of indie for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THREE OF the most exciting Irish indie bands - one from Dublin, one from Tuam, the other from Donegal - play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday March 7.

Toy Soldier @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

IRISH ELECTRO-rock trio Toy Soldier combine a dancefloor groove with hard rocking riffs as audiences will hear when they play Monroe’s tomorrow.

Fleetwood Mac tribute

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

IN THE late sixties they played expressive blues and paved the way for heavy metal. In the seventies and eighties they were globe gobbling pop superstars.

Fleetwood Mac have two (you could also argue three) distinct eras and fans of the long running British-American phenomenon can check out Irish tribute band Mack Fleetwood in Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 10pm. The set will cover songs from the Peter Green blues era to the later Buckingham-Nicks period.

Rugby loving folk-rock

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

HERMITAGE GREEN are not only rugby fans who play folk-rock but their vocalist Barry Murphy formerly played for Munster and Ireland.

Nineties indie night @ HALO

Thu, Feb 28, 2013

THE NINETIES was when indie went from the underground to overground and spawned such genres as shoegaze, grunge, and Britpop.

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.

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.

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