Family fun and evening singalongs - The Wizard of Oz @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE MUSICAL version of The Wizard of Oz has given the world two of its most loved songs - ‘Follow The Yellowbrick Road’ and the magnificent ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.
This weekend Sing Along Cinema is showing the classic 1939 film The Wizard Of Oz, starring Judy Garland, at the Róisín Dubh.
Read more ...Breathing Water with Fregoli
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
LOCAL ENSEMBLE Fregoli Theatre Company are in the Town Hall Studio next week with Raymond Scannell’s award-winning play Breathing Water.
Read more ...Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters @ De Burgos
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FOX JAW Bounty Hunters, the acclaimed young Limerick quartet, will play Citóg at Club De Burgos tomorrow night.
Read more ...Auditions for pilot TV series
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
LOCAL ACTORS are sought to take part in a pilot programme for a prospective TV series, entitled Issues.
Read more ...Northern Soul 60s R&B and Original Ska at the Blue Note
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
Get down to the Blue Note, Galway on Saturday 18th to hear rare and not so rare Northern Soul 60s R&B and Original Ska all played on original vinyl, the way God intended. DJs Dave Barry with very special guest Bill Kealy.
Read more ...Seanie Vaughan @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
SEANIE VAUGHAN, the Connemara born, Dublin based, folk/rock singer-songwriter, and his band, will play Monroe’s Live tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Elaine Mai and Daithi O Dronaí @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
TWO OF the most talented and promising young solo musicians to emerge from the west of Ireland in the last couple of years, play the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.
Read more ...Wonderland to appear at HMV
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
NEW IRISH girlband Wonderland are coming to Galway where they will do an in-store appearance in HMV, Edward Square, on Wednesday at 1pm.
Read more ...The Paul King Band @ Monroe’s
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FUNK’N’SOUL group The Paul King Band play The Backstage Bar at Monroe’s this Sunday at 11.30pm.
Read more ...New music from Jimmy Monaghan
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
JIMMY MONAGHAN has impressed many Galway audiences these last couple of years with his sparse and lyrical songs which straddle both folk and alternative rock.
Jimmy is lead singer and songwriter with the duo Music For Dead Birds, which has released two EPs - And Then It Rained For Seven Days and Black Tides Falling. The band are currently working on a new album, which is planned for an August release.
Read more ...Hammer and Feather at The Niland Gallery
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FORTY YEARS ago this summer, Commander David Scott conducted an experiment on the moon.
Read more ...Enjoy some jazz on the prom
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE SALTHILL Hotel will be jazzing up June as jazz quintet Wall Street will play the hotel’s Blackrock Café, every Sunday throughout the month from 12.30pm to 2.30pm.
Read more ...Los Angeles choir to sing in Kinvara
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE SAINT Cecelia Chorale from Los Angeles will be in concert with Anette Jorgensen’s Quay Singers in St Colman’s Church, Kinvara, this Saturday at 8pm.
Read more ...Classical concert to raise funds for Japanese disaster victims
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
THE CONTEMPO Quartet will headline a charity concert for victims of the recent earthquake, tsunami, and radiation tragedies in Japan.
Read more ...Colm O’Byrne book launch at city museum
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
FRED THE Red, the debut collection of short stories by Colm O’Byrne will be launched at the Galway City Museum on Thursday June 16 at 6pm.
Read more ...Cinema Review - Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
BY GETTING back to basics, recapturing the comedy and the brilliance that saw everyone falling in love with Captain Jack Sparrow, On Stranger Tides brings all the best qualities flooding back with the result that this movie is almost as good as the first, almost.
Read more ...Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
GALWEGIANS WITH an idea for a film and who are not afraid to stand up before a panel of judges and tell them about it take note - the Galway Film Fleadh Pitching Award is back.
The Galway Film Fleadh is seeking submissions for its Pitching Award and the deadline for submissions is Thursday June 16.
Read more ...Roisin Conaty @ Galway Arts Festival
Thu, Jun 09, 2011
ROISIN CONATY, the London-Irish comic and one of the fastest rising stars on the comedy circuit, will play Kelly’s on Friday July 22 at 8pm as part of this year’s Galway Arts Festival.
Read more ...Caroline Moreau’s powerful songs of love, death and desire
Thu, Jun 02, 2011
FRENCH CHANTEUSE Caroline Moreau comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week with her compelling new show Amours toujours etc... in which she applies her powerful vocal sensibility to a range of fascinating and eclectic material – some new, some familiar – which she will sing in French.
Read more ...Croi8: bringing Blackadder to the stage
Thu, Jun 02, 2011
AS PART of a cunning plan to raise money for Comic Relief, local company Croi8 Productions is presenting the Irish stage premiere of classic TV comedy Blackadder at the Town Hall next week.
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