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.

This is Sweeney’s first show in Galway since 2009. The new works are inspired by ideas of exploration and discovery, involving elements of chance, the unexpected, and re-emergence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are you GaGa for Kylie?

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

LADY GAGA, Kylie, and Katie Perry will be celebrated at the Kylie Goes Gaga tribute show at Upstairs @ HALO Live tomorrow night.

2manydjs @ Electric Garden

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

THE PIONEERING Belgian DJ duo 2manydjs, also known as Soulwax, are coming to Galway to play The Electric Garden for this year’s Heineken Live Project.

2manydjs - brothers David and Stephen Dewaele - play The Electric Garden on Friday March 15. Tickets for the event are free and are available from www.heinekenmusic.ie. Tickets will be released two weeks before each show on a first come, first served basis.

The Tedfest Mainland Ball @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 21, 2013

THE FIRST annual Tedfest Mainland Ball, part of the Tedfest celebrations of the legendary 1990s comedy Father Ted, takes place in the Róisín Dubh tonight.

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