Black Angles to be heard in St Nicholas’

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

BLACK ANGLES, one of the darkest and most challenging pieces of music ever composed for a string quartet, will be performed by ConTempo during the Galway Arts Festival.

Westside Arts Festival 2010

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE WESTSIDE Arts Festival takes place from Friday July 23 to Sunday July 25 and promises an array of exciting workshops, performances, events, family fun.

Classical fire from the Endellion String Quartet

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE ENDELLION String Quartet are so good that The Daily Telegraph has described them as being capable of “setting the audience ablaze”.

So bring a bucket of water and damp cloth to cool yourself with while watching the acclaimed British chamber group, when they play the Galway Arts Festival next week.

Peter Hall - a life in theatre

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

SIR PETER Hall, the founding director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the director of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain is coming to Galway.

The Laughter Lounge

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

A FEAST of comedy gigs awaits Galway this month as The Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh hosts shows by Keith Farnan, Jarlath Regan, and Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Gerry Mallon’s Laughter Loft

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

GERRY MALLON’S Laughter Loft in The Ruby Room at The King’s Head, is a daily lunchtime show featuring leading stand ups.

Aprés the World Cup it’s Aprés Match

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE APRÉS Match team provided great post match entertainment at this year’s World Cup with their satires on soccer punditry and politics.

Galway Film Fleadh Awards 2010

Thu, Jul 15, 2010

THE GALWAY Film Fleadh came to a close on Sunday night with the festival’s award ceremony in the Town Hall Theatre.

Teenage Fanclub - still harmonious after all these years

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

THERE IS A certain symmetry at work in the career of Teenage Fanclub. Their debut album A Catholic Education was released independently in 1990 and since then things have come full circle. Twenty years on from that debut comes the band’s 10th album, the wonderful Shadows, also released independently.

Glasgow bhoys

Sound Clash in Salthill

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

Calling all Rude Boys and Soulies, sound clash by the sea on Saturday, July 17th. Time to don the Fred Perrys and shine those brogues for a night of the best black music in town. The very best in early reggae and original ska (none of your dancehall jabbering here my friends!) and nitty gritty, fast funky soul all spun by experts on pretty vinyl.

Reggie Watts - Über alles in der Welt

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).

Adrian Crowley to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

ADRIAN CROWLEY is originally from Bearna and moved to Dublin in the early 1990s. For years he quietly worked away at this music, but now he stands on the cusp of great things.

Films by Galway’s DIG Productions to be screened at fleadh

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

THE NIGHT Nurse, a new short film from the independent Galway film and TV company, DIG Productions Ltd, will be screened at the Galway Film Fleadh this weekend.

Enjoyed the play? Hear how they did it

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

SOMETIMES YOU enjoy and admire a play, a dance show, or a painting or sculpture, so much that you become fascinated by the story behind it.

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

THE AMERICAN stand-up comedienne, actress, and TV personality Joan Rivers has been an unrivalled force in the entertainment industry for more than five decades.

Fairy folk theatre show at Kelly’s

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

GALWAY’S MEPHISTO Theatre Company will stage Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland in Kelly's Bar, Bridge Street.

Breakstra - get down with the funk

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

SINCE BREAKSTRA were announced to play the Galway Arts Festival last month, there has been much talk and expectation about the LA collective, so who are they?

Yourodny - a bit of Russia, Ireland, and New York

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

THE YOURODNY were the nomadic bards of ancient Russia who collected, preserved, and created the folk music of that country.

Saw Doctors announce more Kelly’s shows

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

THE SAW Doctors will launch their new single ‘Takin’ The Train’ with two more shows upstairs in Kelly’s, Bridge Street, on Tuesday July 20 and Wednesday July 21.

Reginald D Hunter - on that midnight train to Georgia

Thu, Jul 08, 2010

REGINALD D Hunter was born in the Southern state of Georgia in the late 1960s but in the early 1990s he travelled to Britain to train as an actor at RADA. However after winning a £10 bet to do a comedy gig he decided to re-focus his artistic energies on stand-up.

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