Turn the magic on with Messiah J & The Expert

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

MESSIAH J & The Expert are on a roll at the moment. Their second album From The Word Go has been nominated for a Choice and Meteor award and they are about to undertake an Irish tour.

Christy Moore approved songwriter to play The Crane

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

“EVERY NOW and again I encounter a singer who gives me a glimmer of hope. Jim Page carries that light.”

Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble’s Two-Way Split

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

TWO-WAY Split, the latest production from the Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday at 8pm.

Aideen Barry’s adventures in space

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

IN 2007 the Galway based artist Aideen Barry visited NASA, she was able to see the new technologies it is developing, and experience zero-gravity.

Annual Junior Orchestra Festival in Gort

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

THE SECOND Annual Junior Orchestra Festival will take place in the Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort, on Sunday at 3pm.

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Caramel

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

CARAMEL, THE award winning Lebanese film will be screened in NUI, Galway’s O’Flaherty Theatre on Wednesday at 8pm to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Éigse an Spidéil 2009

Thu, Feb 26, 2009

ÉIGSE AN Spidéil 2009, the annual festival of traditional music, dance, sean-nós singing, art, and poetry, takes place from Thursday March 5 to Wednesday 11.

The festival, which is part of Seachtain na Gaeilge, begins at 8pm in the Park Lodge Hotel with an arts show by students in the traditional arts course at NUI, Galway. There will also be music and song, finishing with a session in Hughes Pub in the village.

Ibsen classic Enemy Of The People gets innovative new Galway production

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

ONE OF Galway’s brightest young theatre companies, Moonfish, have teamed up with An Taibhdhearc to present a new staging of Namhaid don Phobal - an Irish-language version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People. The production will have English subtitles.

Imelda May takes the liberty of following her own path

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

WHEN OTHER girls her age were listening to Wham, A-Ha, and Bros, Imelda May was extolling the virtues of Elvis, Eddie Cochrane, and Gene Vincent.

The Revellions to bring their sixties sound to Bar903

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE REVELLIONS are inspired by 1960s rock and make garage rock that sounds fresh and original. What’s more they are coming to Galway this weekend.

Conscience Of The King in Town Hall studio

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

VERSAILLES 1670. Louis XIV, King of France, has fallen madly in love with Madame de Montespan. He discovers, to his horror, that she has betrayed him and everything he stands for.

John O’Conor to play Town Hall

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE GREAT Irish pianist John O’Conor will play the Town Hall Theatre as part of Adventures in Music’s fifth year anniversary celebration.

KATS to stage Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE PILLOWMAN, by the award-winning dramatist and Golden Glode and BAFTA winning screenwriter Martin McDonagh, will be performed in Galway next week.

Dr Suess’ characters in Athenry

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE CAT In The Hat, Horton the Elephant, Mayzie LaBird, and Yertle the Turtle are in Athenry for Seussical The Musical.

Some country-blues with Charlie Parr

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

CHARLIE PARR is, for some, the alternative Seasick Steve, the man for whom Steve is, in a sense, making the paths straight.

See ‘Nashville’s best kept secret’

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE MUSIC journalist and author Vic Garbarini has described American songwriter and guitarist Dana Cooper as “one of Nashville’s best kept secrets”.

Rarely Seen Above Ground @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

RARELY SEEN Above Ground is quite unusual because he takes the entire notion of ‘the one man band’ into extreme and unusual places.

If the shoe fits... at Halo

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

HALO WILL hold a special themed night on Friday March 6 at 11pm entitled If the shoe fits... inspired by the story of Cinderella.

Start the St Patrick’s Day celebrations early at Campbell’s

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

TG4’S TRAD music programme Geantraí, returns to Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, tomorrow to record a night of music and craic, which will be broadcast on St Patrick’s Day.

Patrick Kavanagh Award Winner for Over The Edge

Thu, Feb 19, 2009

THE PATRICK Kavanagh Poetry Award 2008 winner Geraldine Mitchell will be among the featured readers at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading.

The event takes place in the Galway City Library on Thursday February 26 at 6.30pm with Geraldine Mitchell, Hajo Quade, and Marie Cadden.

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