Funk v rock @ the Silent Disco
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE SILENT Disco in the Róisín Dubh takes a new twist with a themed night this Saturday of ‘Funk’n’Soul v Rock’n’Roll’.
Read more ...Lucia Evans’ vocal studio concert
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
VOCAL STUDENTS of Galway soul singer Lucia Evans will perform in the Salthill Hotel this Sunday at 6.30pm.
Read more ...Leading young Chinese pianist to play NUIG
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE ONLY piano recital in this year’s Music For Galway season takes place on Tuesday at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway, with the great Chinese pianist Jue Wang.
Read more ...Art Essence gallery holds fine art sale
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
FINE ART is normally an expensive purchase, and a painting could set you back enough to lead you to enduring beans on toast for your Christmas dinner.
Thankfully in Galway, you do not have to endure penury to acquire some wonderful art works. The Art Essence Gallery in the Liosbán estate, is holding the Fabulous Fifty and Heavenly Hundred Fine Art and Crystal Sale from this Sunday at 2.30pm until Thursday December 23.
Read more ...We can all own a piece of the song
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
IN THIS era of downloading and Youtube, the means of production have transferred from the record companies to ordinary people, raising questions over the relevance of copyright.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Being at the epicentre of the most intense drinking session or walking by the sea hand in hand with the one I love.
Tribal Chamber Choir launch debut album
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE TRIBAL Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Keane, will launch their debut album Carols From Galway with a concert in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church next week.
Read more ...New books to be launched in NUIG
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
TWO NEW books by Prof Brian Arkins of the Classics Department in NUI, Galway will be launched tomorrow.
Read more ...Rising comedy star Roisin Conaty to play Laughter Lounge
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
ROISIN CONATY, the pulchritudinous Co Kerry born, London based comic, described by Time Out as “a seriously talented young lady” is coming to Galway.
Read more ...New documentary on Rossport/Shell struggle to be screened at The Eye
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE PIPE, the award-winning Irish documentary on Rossport’s struggle against the economic might of Shell, will be screened in The Eye cinema in Wellpark on Saturday December 4.
Read more ...Little Cinema Short Film Club
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
THE NEXT screening by the Little Cinema Short Film Club takes place on Tuesday, upstairs in Kelly’s Bar.
The club screens amateur and professional short films. Filmmakers are welcome to submit their films to screen to the public at the club. The director will introduce the film before the screening. There is an entry fee of €3 with the submitter getting in free.
Read more ...The Coronas - foreign adventures and hanging with Macca
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
DECEMBER IS going to be a amazing month for music fans in the city as three of Ireland’s leading bands - Two Door Cinema Club, Villagers, and The Coronas - come to Galway for a series of major ‘Róisín Dubh presents...’ concerts.
Read more ...Flann O’Brien’s Slattery’s Sago Saga comes to Town Hall
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
ONE OF the highlights of the Town Hall Theatre’s current season takes place next week with Performance Corporation’s uproarious staging of Flann O’Brien’s unfinished comic novel Slattery’s Sago Saga, adapted by Arthur Riordain.
Read more ...Saturday night jazz with the great Chris Potter
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
“ONE OF the best saxophonists on the planet,” is how The Guardian has described American jazz musician Chris Potter who plays Galway this weekend.
Chris Potter’s Underground - which features Potter, Adam Rogers (guitar), and Craig Taborn (Fender Rhodes) - play the Radisson Live Lounge this Sunday at 7pm as part of the Galway Jazz Festival.
Read more ...Huston and O’Toole to collaborate on new film
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE ACTOR Peter O’Toole and director John Huston have been associated with County Galway for more than six decades.
Read more ...John O’Conor to play Town Hall
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
JOHN O’CONOR, the internationally acclaimed Irish pianist, returns to the Town Hall Theatre next week to play the music of Beethoven, Chopin, and Field.
Read more ...Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere comes to the stage
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
GALWAY’S CROI8 Productions will perform the Irish stage premiere of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere at the Town Hall Theatre studio from December 8 to 11.
Read more ...Make a choice with ALâ at Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
SCHOOL BULLYING and a troubled child in the home are the themes of two plays which will be staged under the title Choices by ALâ Community Theatre, in Kelly’s, Bridge Street.
Read more ...Blue Teapot Theatre Co table quiz
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
THE BLUE Teapot Theatre Company will hold a fund raising table quiz at Lohan’s Bar, Salthill, on Tuesday at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Daithi Ó Dronaí to headline Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 18, 2010
DAITHÍ Ó Dronaí, the immensely talented fiddle player, who injects Irish trad with a dose of youthful swagger, headlines the Róisín Dubh this Saturday at 9pm.
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