Bedbound from Toronto to Galway
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
OVER THE past few years Galway audiences have become well acquainted with the work of Enda Walsh due to his association with Druid which has yielded riveting plays like The Walworth Farce, New Electric Ballroom, and Penelope.
Read more ...The Forge at Gort Festival
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
THE FORGE at Gort literary festival, featuring readings, book launches, music, and exhibitions, returns to the south County Galway town tomorrow and Saturday.
Read more ...Show Me The Funny final heat
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
THE FOURTH and final heat of Show Me The Funny, the competition to find the freshest new voice in Irish comedy, takes place next Monday at 8pm in The King’s Head.
Read more ...Stompin’ Dave Allen is coming to Galway
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
“HIS STYLE is mesmerising and infectious and he ought to be booked at every festival going,” so said Blues Matters about the English Americana folk/roots musician Stompin’ Dave Allen.
Read more ...UK Pink Floyd Experience @ Black Box
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
“SO YA thought ya might like to go to the show?” sang Roger Waters on the opening lines of The Wall, and for Galway Pink Floyd fans the answer will be a resounding ‘Yes’.
Read more ...Norman Jay to DJ at Kelly’s
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
NORMAN JAY, the only DJ to have received an MBE for “deejaying and services to music” returns to Galway to play Kelly’s on Friday April 1 at 11pm.
Norman Jay is an innovative and pioneering British DJ who first came to prominence playing unlicensed or ‘warehouse’ parties in the early 1980s. His diverse musical knowledge, and refusal to be restricted to playing from any single genre distinguished him from his peers.
Read more ...Win copies of the novel The Dark Fields
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
LIMITLESS, THE new film starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro, based on the novel The Dark Fields by Irish author Alan Glynn, is now on in cinemas.
Read more ...Mary Coughlan to play Moycullen
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
THE GREAT Mary Coughlan, Ireland’s leading jazz/blues singer, will play The Forge in Moycullen on Saturday April 2 at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Get some soul with Taylor McFerrin
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
TAYLOR MCFERRIN is a singer and musician who is equally influenced by the legends of 1960s and 1970s soul and the modern Beat Generation.
Read more ...Dublin universities take awards at ISDA festival
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
DUBLIN UNIVERSITIES swept the boards at The Irish Student Drama Association Awards which took place last Saturday in The Ardilaun on Taylor’s Hill.
Read more ...Little Cinema Club @ Kelly’s
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
THE LITTLE Cinema Club returns to Kelly’s on Tuesday at 9pm, showing short films directed by local and up and coming filmmakers.
Read more ...Kelly’s Movie Table Quiz
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
KELLY’S WILL host a Movie Table Quiz on Monday April 4 at 8pm.
Read more ...Craic Attack - New All-Ireland comedy talent search
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
CRAIC ATTACK, the new All-Ireland comedy talent search is coming to Galway and will take place in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Tuesday April 5 at 8pm.
Read more ...NUIG to host major Baroque music concert
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
BAROQUE MASTERWORKS, a concert featuring the music of Bach, Handel, and Telemann, tales place in NUI, Galway’s Bailey Allen Hall tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...Judith Bernhardt’s debut solo exhibition
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
JUDITH BERNHARDT, the German born, Galway based, artist will hold her first solo exhibition in Mocca Beans café, Dominick Street.
Read more ...Anne Brennan to launch debut album
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
ANNE BRENNAN of Connemara’s The Brennan Sisters will launch her debut solo album with a gig in The Forge, Moycullen, tomorrow at 8pm.
Read more ...GMIT art students, exhibition
Thu, Mar 24, 2011
STUDENTS COMPLETING their Level 7 degree in art and design at GMIT Cluain Mhuire will tonight open an exhibition entitled Show and Tell.
Show and Tell opens at 6pm in the former Galway Business School, above Bake House in Market Street. It will feature drawing, painting, video, photography, and installation. Most works will be for sale.
Read more ...Arts Festival hit The Quare Land returns to Town Hall
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
ONE OF the hit shows of last year’s Galway Arts Festival, John McManus’ comedy The Quare Land, returns to the Town Hall next week for two nights only prior to embarking on a national tour.
Read more ...A feast of Baroque music for Galway
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
CATALAN SOPRANO Nuria Rial, English conductor Matthew Halls, and The Irish Chamber Orchestra are bringing the music of Bach, Handel, and Telemann to Galway.
The concert, entitled Baroque Masterworks, takes place in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI, Galway on Friday March 25 at 8pm.
Read more ...By Kernan Andrews
Wed, Mar 16, 2011
MAIRTÍN O’CONNOR is one of the greats of the accordion and of Irish trad and he is about to launch a new book of transcriptions of his music.
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