Jimmy Magee - different class

Thu, May 08, 2014

IRELAND’S FOREMOST sports broadcaster, ‘the memory man’, and is coming to the Town Hall Theatre to share a lifetime of sporting memories.

Get ready to be magnetised

Thu, May 08, 2014

MAGNETIC, A dance show from John Scott which is constructed like a movement symphony, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre.

Gypsy jazz and bellydance

Thu, May 08, 2014

AN ORCHESTRA playing Eastern European folk and a bellydance group will share the stage at Kelly’s Bar tonight from 9pm.

The Underscore Orkestra, from Portland Oregon, play Balkan folk, Klezmer, Gypsy jazz, and swing on violin, guitar, accordion, horns, clarinet, bass, sousaphone harmonica, piccolo, ukulele, and bambazoo. They have toured Europe and the Americas over the past seven years.

Heathers @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, May 08, 2014

THEYPLAYED the prestigious South by Southwest Festival in Texas for the first time in March; they also toured Malaysia this year, and now they are coming home.

GMIT students exhibition

Thu, May 08, 2014

CERAMICS AND sculptures by GMIT students go on display in Traces Remain, an exhibition at the Fairgreen Building, from tomorrow.

The exhibition features new work by 27 students from the GMIT‘s Centre for Creative Arts and Media, studying for a BA art and design.

Renmore girl wins national singing final

Thu, May 08, 2014

CLARE QUINN, a 14-year-old from Renmore, has won the National All Ireland Schools Talent Final, which took place recently in Limerick Concert Hall.

Mozart’s Mass in Galway Cathedral

Thu, May 08, 2014

NEW YORK soprano Marcy Richardson and English soprano Denise Leigh will perform Mozart’s ‘Great’ Mass in C minor in Galway Cathedral on Thursday May 15 at 8pm.

Southern choir to sing for Simon

Thu, May 08, 2014

A CHOIR from North Carolina is coming to St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church to perform a fundraising concert for Galway Simon.

Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering

Thu, May 08, 2014

THREE POETS, a fiction writer, and a celebration of the poems of by the late Tom Duddy, will make up the May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering.

The event takes place in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Middle Street, on Saturday May 17 at 6pm.

Music for Celts and Romans to battle to

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE CELTS and the Romans were never bosom buddies. The Celts sacked Rome in 390 AD and Caesar conquered Gaul in the Fifties BC.

TULCA seeks artists for 2014 festival

Thu, May 08, 2014

THE TULCA Festival of Visual Arts is inviting artists to submit their work for consideration for this year’s festival which runs from November 7 to 23.

Submission is open to artists from Ireland and abroad working in any visual art practice and in design (graphic, furniture, textile, and domestic scale industrial design), architecture, crafts, web-based work, and social media as an artform.

Dimitra Xidous - keeping bees and meeting Leonard Cohen

Thu, May 08, 2014

THERE WAS a fine turnout The Crane Bar last Saturday afternoon for the launch of Dimitra Xidous’s debut poetry collection, Keeping Bees, published by Doire Press.

Game of Thrones Exhibition to return to Northern Ireland next month

Thu, May 08, 2014

Tickets for the highly anticipated HBO Game of Thrones Exhibition, which returns to Northern Ireland from June 11 to 15, are available from today.

Listen to new album by Galway folk singer

Tue, May 06, 2014

GALWAY BASED folk/alternative singer-songwriter Brigid Power-Rice has released her new album I Told You The Truth, which was recorded in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

Take a listen to it here:

Russell Kane and comedy as a social survival mechanism

Thu, May 01, 2014

THE IRISH and the British - in some ways so similar, in others so completely different. One commonality is a strange uneasiness with success. In Ireland it manifests as ‘the begrudger mentality’. In Britain, it’s the ‘mustn’t grumble’ belief that failure and being inadequate is your deserved lot. The other great common factor is drinking, or rather drinking too much.

Galway-set Songs For Amy hits the big screen

Thu, May 01, 2014

THIS WEEKEND sees the big-screen release of Sonny and Skye production’s romantic comedy, Songs For Amy, much of which was filmed in and around Galway city and county.

Divided between the west of Ireland and New York; Songs For Amy follows the plight of musician Sean O’Malley (played by Sean Maguire) as he tries to redeem himself with bride-to-be, Amy (Lorna Anderson), after a debauched stag do.

Alabama 3 and Songs For Amy concert

Thu, May 01, 2014

ALABAMA 3 will headline a concert in Monroe’s Live tomorrow from 9pm, featuring musicians involved in the award-winning independent Irish film Songs for Amy.

The Word of God - the abridged version

Thu, May 01, 2014

THEY PARED Shakespeare down to his very essence, now they are about to do the same to the greatest story ever told - The Bible.

The Nualas’ Great Big Shiny Show

Thu, May 01, 2014

THE FABULOUS and funny Irish comedy trio, The Nualas, are coming back to Galway with their Great Big Shiny Show.

Blue Teapot launches Fund it campaign for new show

Thu, May 01, 2014

iD, A new theatre piece conceived by the actors of the Blue Teapot Theatre Company, will premiere at the Galway Arts Festival in July.

The title iD, refers to identity and identification, as well as being an acronym for intellectual disability, and those who devised the show are actors with intellectual disability. It will be directed by Scott Williams, who runs acting conservatoires in London and Paris.

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