Ivano Cafolla and Chris Engel @ HALO
Thu, Nov 28, 2013
DJ AND saxophone duo Ivano Cafolla and Chris Engel will make their Galway debut with a concert in HALO this Saturday.
Read more ...The Amazing Apples do it For Pete’s Sake
Thu, Nov 28, 2013
THE AMAZING Apples will play Kudos Nightclub in Keanes, Oranmore, on December 6 at 9pm, to raise funds for the For Pete’s Sake charity.
Read more ...Launch of a mystical journey
Thu, Nov 28, 2013
ONE WOMAN’S journey of self-discovery through mystical practices and ancient rites takes her on an adventure she could never have foreseen.
Read more ...Fight Like Apes to play Strange Brew
Thu, Nov 28, 2013
FURIOUS SYNTHS, manic performances, inspired pop hooks, and outrageous songtitles will be the order of the day when Fight Like Apes return to Galway next month.
Read more ...Villagers - ‘I don’t feel I’ve reached my creative peak’
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
HOW DO you react to the most successful year of your career, one that has seen you showered with critical praise and more people than every buying your albums and coming to your shows?
“I also feel an ‘impostor syndrome’ about it. I don’t actually deserve all the praise that’s going around,” says Conor J O’Brien, the founder, leader, singer, and songwriter of Villagers. It may sound like a strange reaction, but it is keeping him looking forward and giving him the scope to write songs he believes are his best yet.
Read more ...The Colleen Bawn - torn between two lovers
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
ALL GOOD girls love a bad boy and Eily O’Connor, the ‘Colleen Bawn’, has two of them - her husband, Hardress Cregan who looks down on her; and local wide boy Myles na Coppaleen who wants to be more than friends.
Read more ...David Gray to play Galway next month
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
DAVID GRAY is bringing his Sounding Out Tour to Ireland and will conclude the tour with a show in The Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, on Wednesday December 11.
Read more ...PASG’s Grease - the one that they want
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
THE WINTER chill might be starting to bite, but audiences can still enjoy ‘Summer Nights’ – and a slew of other pop classics - at the Town Hall Theatre next week when the Performing Arts School Galway stage Grease.
Read more ...The sound of Connemara in St Nicholas’
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
THE MUSIC and musicians of Connemara will gather in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church tomorrow, from 8.30pm, for a major concert.
Read more ...Brian Kennedy/Ros na Rún charity concert
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
ROS NA Rún cast members and singer-songwriter Brian Kennedy will join forces for a special charity concert for Pieta House.
Read more ...Award winning Italian film for Town Hall
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
SHUN LI & The Poet, which won Best First Feature at the 2012 BFI London Film Festival and the LUX Prize 2012, will be screened in Galway.
Read more ...André Rieu live @ The Eye
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
ANDRÉ RIEU’S Home for Christmas concert will be broadcast live via satellite from Maastricht in The Netherlands to the Eye Cinema in Wellpark.
Read more ...Steve Hughes - catch him while he’s legal
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
STEVE HUGHES, the Australian heavy metal drummer turned hit comedian is coming to Galway with his new show While It’s Still Legal.
Steve takes to the stage of the Róisín Dubh on Monday December 9 at 8pm, where he is set to deliver thoughtful, outspoken, social commentary and caustic anti-establishment humour.
Read more ...The View to play Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
THE VIEW may still look like cheeky young scamps, but the band are fast approaching a decade old, and 2013 finds them looking back and towards the future.
Read more ...Baile an Salsa to celebrate first birthday in Monroe’s
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
BAILE AN SALSA, the Galway based, international band, who excitingly fuse Irish trad with Latin American music, celebrate their first birthday this weekend.
Read more ...Lucinda Williams’ guitarist/producer to play Kelly’s
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
HE HAS produced albums by Lucinda Williams and Tom Russell, played guitar for Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle, and he is a solo singer-songwriter.
Read more ...iRocks band competition @ Monroe’s Live
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
FOUR NEW bands will go head-to-head at Monroe’s Live tonight in the second heat of the iRocks competition, in association with iRadio.
Read more ...Platinum Ray to DJ @ Factory
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
PLATINUM RAY, aka Pauly Martin of Dublin’s Bop Gun night, will be DJing at the Epoch clubnight in Factory this Saturday.
Read more ...Disconauts @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
THE DISCONAUTS will hold their monthly ‘Dex & Percussion Party’ in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 10.30pm.
Read more ...A Band Called Wanda to headline charity gig
Thu, Nov 21, 2013
THE BRILLIANT Galway ‘folk’n’roll’ group A Band Called Wanda, will headline a charity concert in Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, tomorrow at 9pm, in aid of Galway Hospice.
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