21 Outs to kick off The Underground Sound

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

GALWAY GRUNGE/classic rock trio 21 Outs will headline the first The Underground Sound at The Cellar, a new music night at the Eglinton Street venue, each Wednesday.

John Spillane - ‘no Cork mad stuff’ on new album and live shows

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

JOHN SPILLANE has a new album out, A Rock To Cling To on EMI, and he is coming to Galway to play the Róisín Dubh on Sunday October 9 at 8.30pm.

The Cork singer-songwriter has described the album as “a new collection of beautiful songs that I have made up myself, out of my imagination, fair play to me... This is a collection of newly composed Irish melodies, songs of love and family, songs that have come floating down to me through the air.”

French chanteuse to sing @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

FRENCH CHANTEUSE Caroline Moreau and Lunfardia, led by Argentinean guitarist Ariel Hernández, play Monroe’s Live, tomorrow at 9pm.

On the night Caroline, who performed a solo show in the Town Hall in June, will perform songs by Brel, Gainsbourge, Piaf, and Piazzola.

Art exhibitions in the city

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

EXHIBITIONS, RANGING from traditional landscapes to experimental installations, can be seen in galleries throughout Galway city this month.

Music For Galway concerts return

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

THE RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet and ConTempo’s Andreea Banciu and Adrian Mantu join forces for a concert in the Aula Maxima, NUI, Galway on Tuesday at 8pm.

New poetry collection from Amit Mediratta

Thu, Oct 06, 2011

POET AND VISUAL artist Amit Mediratta will launch his new collection of poetry, Ecstatic Flights/Manhattan Nights in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop tomorrow at 6pm.

The Kanyu Tree - brothers in harmony

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

IT HAS been a long time since a Galway band has made a major impression outside of its hometown - close to 20 years in fact, back in the heady days of the early 1990s.

B for Baby at Town Hall

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

MRS C wants a baby, not a Christmas tree. B wants a real hairdresser’s scissors and a wife. D wants a snow globe and “a big head of dirty auld curls”. All of them want their own place in the world, and if they can’t find it, they will create one of their own.

Peggy Seeger @ The Crane

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THE LEGENDARY folk singer Peggy Seeger plays The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Friday October 14 at 9pm.

Peggy is considered one of America’s finest singers of traditional songs and she is best known for her musical collaborations with her late partner Ewan MacColl.

Fawlty Towers - now opening in Galway

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

FAWLTY TOWERS is not your average hotel. It is known that one guest had cream poured over his head simply for being mistaken for a hotel inspector while the dead body or another resident was dumped in a laundry basket.

Globe’s heart-pumping fusion of music, dance, and percussion

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

AMONG THE highlights of the upcoming Baboró children’s festival is the pulsating music and dance production Globe which has been put together by bodhrán-virtuoso Robbie Harris and Dave McFarlane.

Competition winners

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THE WINNERS of copies of John le Carré’s classic novel Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy are: Anne Marie Loughnane, Athenry; Catherine Mohan, Caherlistrane; Dennis Connolly, Rahoon; Will O’Connor, Knocknacarra; and Francis J Dempsey, Tuam.

The winners of signed copies of Bressie’s debut album Colourblind Stereo are: Zoe Ward, Salthill; Alan Quinn, Westside; Hannah Ruane, Carnmore; Aoife O’Halloran, Oughterard; and David Grennan, Galway.

Citóg @ The Cellar

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

THREE INDIETRONIC bands - Milan Jay, Toy Soldier, and The Great Balloon Race - play Citóg at The Cellar on Eglinton Street tomorrow at 10pm.

Roisín Dubh Comedy

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

TANYALEE DAVIS may only be three feet, six inches high, but she will show Galway why she is known as “the little lady with a lot of BIG laughs” next week.

Jeffrey Lewis - new album and Kelly’s show

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

JEFFREY LEWIS - singer, songwriter, comic book illustrator, and spoken word artist - in short, indie rock’s renaissance man, returns to Galway to play Kelly’s, Bridge Street, this Sunday at 8.30pm.

Jamie Lawson plays Monroe’s

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

IRELAND HAS a track record of taking British and American singer-songwriters to its heart long before the singer’s native soil does.

Josh Ritter and David Gray are the most famous examples, and it seems now that Devon songwriter Jamie Lawson is the latest to experience this phenomenon.

Lúnasa to play Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

IRISH TRAD supergroup Lúnasa make a welcome return to Galway to play Monroe’s Live this Monday at 9pm.

Lúnasa has become one of the most sought-after bands on the international Irish music scene. The band’s inventive arrangements and bass-driven grooves are steering Irish acoustic music into surprising new territory.

Galway Jazz Festival takes place this weekend

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

“RICK MARGITZA is simply a great tenor player.” This verdict, on the saxophonist who plays Galway this weekend, was passed by no less a person than Miles Davis.

A jazz odyssey

Thu, Sep 29, 2011

SCHIPHOL AIRPORT, one of the busiest airport hubs in Europe has witnessed many a bizarre journey but perhaps fewer stranger than the personal odyssey that began during a lay-over in 2002.

Wandering through the airport shops, which were of a higher quality than usual, three jazz CDs caught my eye - Lionel Hampton’s Mai 1956, Eddy Louis’s Bohemia After Dark, and Art Blakey’s 1958 Paris Olympia. All three were part of a series called Jazz in Paris, a distinctive feature of which was the cover image - a black and white photograph of a contemporary Parisian scene.