Sean Lock & Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Thu, Jun 30, 2011
8 OUT Of 10 Cats team captain Sean Lock will be the special guest joining the Whose Line Is It Anyway? team at their two Galway Arts Festival shows next month.
Sean Lock and Stephen Frost’s Improv All Stars will bring Whose Line Is It Anyway? to the Róisín Dubh on Friday July 15 at 4.30pm and again at 8.30pm.
Read more ...De La Soul
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
THEY ARE brothers in hip hop, part of the music’s ‘golden age’, yet still a going concern, keen to look for new ways to express themselves; they are innovators, legends, but also laid back and nice guys. They are De La Soul.
Read more ...Emma Donoghue - Room author talks books, frog catchers, and film
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
AMONG THE many illustrious visitors to this year’s Galway Arts Festival is writer Emma Donoghue, author of the international best-seller and multi-award winning novel, Room.
Read more ...The return of Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
LUNCHTIME LAUGHS and the chance to see some of the very best Irish comedians up close and personal are the order of the day when Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft returns next month.
Gerry Mallon’s The Laughter Loft is by now a Galway Arts Festival institution and these series of lunchtime shows in The Ruby Room of The King’s Head are some of the most fun and essential shows you will see in July.
Read more ...A feast of film at the Galway Film Fleadh
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
THE GALWAY Film Fleadh returns from Tuesday July 5 to Sunday 10 and film fans are in store for a feast of new Irish cinema, feature documentaries, short films, Oscar winners, and movies from Korea, Argentina, India, Germany, and Japan.
The guest of honour at this year’s fleadh will be the distinguished actor Martin Sheen, who is celebrated for his roles in Apocalypse Now and The West Wing. Mr Sheen will attend the world premiere of Stella Days, in which he plays a Roman Catholic priest who wants to set up a cinema in rural Irish town. He will also be the subject of the Galway Film Fleadh Public Interview in the Town Hall Theatre on Sunday July 10.
Read more ...Liza Minnelli show @ Town Hall
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
A SINGING sensation, a Golden Globe winner, an Oscar nominee, a legend, a recovering alcoholic, and Judy Garland’s daughter - Liza Minnelli has been all these.
Read more ...Around the World on 80 Quid
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
AINDRAIS DE Staic has made the headlines in theatre internationally for his acclaimed one man shows, and his best known show is coming back to Galway.
Read more ...Wonderland album winners
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
THE WINNERS of signed copies of the deubt album by Irish girl group wonderland were:
Carmel Creaven, Belclare; Catherine Mohan, Caherlistrane; Marie Biard, Oranmore; Marese Sheehy, Tuam; and Elaine Flaherty, Claregalway.
Read more ...Launch of new Crannóg
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
THE NEW edition of Crannóg will be launched in The Crane Bar, Sea Road, tomorrow at 6.30pm.
On the night there will be prose and poetry readings from the magazine. All are welcome.
Read more ...Albert Niland to launch new album at Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
ALBERT NILAND, one of Ireland’s leading guitarists, is coming back to his native county to launch his new album in the Róisín Dubh on Sunday July 3 at 9pm.
Read more ...Gráda @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
“GRÁDA IS to Irish music what Arcade Fire is to indie - informal, prodigious and full of spirit.” So said The Washington Post and Gráda play Monroe’s Live on Sunday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...The Chakras @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
THE CHAKRAS are creating something of a stir at the moment. The Times compared them to Doves while Q said their “epic, swirling psychedelia recalls Richard Ashcroft’s gang at their peak”.
If you want to see what all the fuss is about then check them out when they play the Róisín Dubh on Monday at 9pm.
Read more ...Support Cuckoo Savante’s new album
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
CUCKOO SAVANTE have brought a wonderful touch of cabaret and black romanticism to the Galway music scene and now local music fans can help the band record their next album.
Read more ...Paul Bradley concerts
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
VIOLIN MAKER, player, and poet Paul Bradley will give a concert and reading, with singer Alan Burke, in the gallery space at the Bridge Mills on Saturday July 2 at 7pm.
Read more ...New exhibition in 126 gallery
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
In Dublin a group of artists came together to develop an experimental collaborative process of visual arts, literature, sound, video, and architectural working methodologies.
Read more ...Margaret Clayton debut exhibition
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
GALWAY SEASCAPES, the debut exhibition by Margaret Clayton is currently on show in the Renzo Café on Eyre Street.
Read more ...Birds and trad musician come together in new book by Marcus Hernon
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
FLUTE PLAYER, flute maker, composer, Roisín na Mainíach, Carna man, Marcus Hernon is all these things, and now he can add author to that list.
Read more ...New comedy night - Stand Up For The Month
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
A NEW, regular comedy night is coming to Galway - Stand Up For The Month - a monthly night which will be hosted by Jarlath Regan.
Read more ...Trad music concerts in St Nicholas’
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
ST NICHOLAS’ Collegiate Church will host the next Tunes In The Church gig tomorrow from 8pm to 9.30pm.
Read more ...Journey to Aran at the Town Hall
Thu, Jun 23, 2011
WHETHER IT be Robert Flaherty’s Man Of Aran or that legendary Guinness advert from the late 1970s, the Aran Islands have held a fascination for film-makers.
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