Clarinbridge Arts Festival

Thu, Sep 24, 2009

THE CLARINBRIDGE Arts Festival takes place from Friday October 2 to Sunday 11 with a host of music concerts, exhibitions, readings, and events to enjoy.

The festival will start on October 2 with a concert of bluegrass and country music from the Niall Toner Band at Paddy Burke’s. On Friday 9 Kimber’s Men will play Moran’s Of The Weir. There will also be a gig with TG4 Musician of the Year 2009 Charlie Harris.

A Beckett from Buenos Aires

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

GALWAY THEATREGOERS are in for a rare treat next week when Argentinean company La Compania bring their award-winning production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days to the Town Hall for one night only on Friday September 25.

A new Substance for Thursday nights at Kelly’s

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

A NIGHT of new music, old classics, and a platform for exciting Irish indie and rock’n’roll acts, named after the New Order and Joy Division compilations - this is Substance.

Get ready to laugh as the Galway Comedy Festival returns

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

DURING THIS time of economic recession we all need a good laugh and chortles galore are on the way to the city when the Galway Comedy Festival takes place from October 21 to 25.

Mick Lally boards Last Train from Holyhead

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

MICK LALLY, one of Galway’s most celebrated theatrical sons, makes a welcome return to the city next week when he steps onto the Town Hall studio stage in a revival of Bernard Fields’ suspenseful drama, Last Train From Holyhead.

Manhattan Short Film Festival returns to Galway

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

GALWAY FILMGOERS will unite with audiences in 172 cities across five continents to view and judge the next generation of filmmakers when the 12th Annual Manhattan Short Film Festival screens at the Town Hall on Sunday September 27 at 3pm.

Keegan return with Of Mice and Men

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

WASHINGTON’S VAUNTED Keegan Theatre Company make their annual visit to Galway next week when they bring the John Steinbeck classic Of Mice and Men to the Town Hall Theatre.

Boxty Band to play GPO

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

THE BOXTY Band will play the GPO on Sunday and audiences can expect to hear everything from Pink Floyd to Lynard Skynard.

Sign up for tickets for Peter Doherty Galway gig

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

REGISTRATION FOR free tickets to Peter Doherty’s Heineken Green Spheres gig in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday October 15 is now open.

Galway rock, folk, and indie is Free By The Sea

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

IN THE 1980s and early 1990s Salthill hosted free, live, rock concerts each summer and those days look set to return with the Free By The Sea event as part of the Salthill Community Arts Festival.

Ger Wolfe to play The Crane

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

GER WOLFE, the Cork singer-songwriter John Spillane has described as “the poetic soul of Ireland” and who the Irish Examiner called a “unique creative talent” is playing Galway.

Manuela Riedo Foundation concert

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

SHARON SHANNON, Marc Robedrts, and Mary McPartlan are among some of the acts that will play the Night Of Music concert in aid of the Manuela Riedo Foundation.

Cinema Review - 500 days of summer

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

This film is not just another run-of-the-mill romantic comedy where boy meets girl, boy loses girl and then spends the whole film moaning about it. Well OK there is some of this but it’s done in such a quirky and fresh way that you don’t mind, in fact you are enthralled.

Galway Film Society returns

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

THE Galway Film Society returns for its autumn/winter season, screening a range of international films from September 27 to December 6.

Win Dorian Gray goodies

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

OSCAR WILDE’S classical novel The Picture Of Dorian Gray has been made into a new film and the Galway Advertiser has five Dorian Gray goodie bags to give away.

Get connected to new UHG exhibition

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

CONNECTION, AN exhibition of paintings donated to the Oncology Department at University Hospital Galway by artists from the Paint Box Studios, opens tomorrow.

Enjoy a Purely Piano concert

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

“UNLIKE MANY virtuosos, Haefliger is a musician first and pianist second...Andreas Haefliger is a pianist to watch. More importantly, he is a pianist to listen to.”

Clifden to chime to the sounds of trad and classical

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

CLIFDEN WILL host a series of classical and Irish trad concerts featuring acclaimed acts like Cherish the Ladies, Anúna, Scullion, and Christian Benda and Finghin Collins, during Clifden Community Arts Week.

Creative writing classes

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

THE WRITER, poet, and critic Fred Johnston will hold creative writing classes in NUI, Galway, starting on Thursday October 1.

Over The Edge

Thu, Sep 17, 2009

BRIGHTON POET Bernadette Cremin will be the main reader at the September Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday September 24 at 6.30pm.

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