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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Disconauts @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE DISCONAUTS will hold their monthly ‘Dex & Percussion Party’ in the Róisín Dubh tomorrow from 10.30pm.

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.

Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

The Cúirt New Writing Prize 2014 is open for submissions in poetry and fiction from Thursday November 28.

There is a €500 cash prize for the winner in each category. The winners will be published in a Cúirt publication to be launched at the 2014 festival. The judges are poet Martin Dyar and fiction writer Mary Costello.

Award winning Romanian quartet for Galway

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THE ARCADIA String Quartet, winners of the 2012 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, are coming to Galway.

‘Away with Words’/Over The Edge reading

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

AN OVER The Edge reading, in conjunction with Away with Words, the Galway based creative writing programme for people with intellectual disabilities, takes place next week.

Last weekend of TULCA events

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

THIS IS the last weekend of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art in Galway city, which means there is still time to explore the wealth of creative and imaginative exhibitions on display.

Music from another room

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

“I WILL sit right down, waiting for the gift of sound and vision,” David Bowie declared on his 1976 single ‘Sound + Vision’, and Galway audiences are about to do the same.

Minus 3, a music, sound, and visual happening, presented by the Galway Music Residency and New Music:New Audiences, takes place in the Galway City Museum this Saturday at 2.30pm.

Rita Oates exhibition

Thu, Nov 21, 2013

SINGING BY Itself 2013, an exhibition by Roscommon artist Rita Oates, is on show in the Providence Market Kitchen and Gallery, Saint Augustine Street.

Druid to stage The Colleen Bawn

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

DRUID THEATRE will stage Dion Boucicault’s comic melodrama The Colleen Bawn in the Black Box Theatre from December 5 to 21.

Two American songwriters over two nights

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

AMERICAN SINGER-songwriters James Low, of The James Low Western Front, and Drew Landry, of Bandryland and Drew Landry & The Dirty Cajuns, play Galway.

Silent Disco for kids

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

A SILENT Disco for children will take place this Saturday in the Seapoint Ballroom, Salthill, from 2pm.

The ‘Silent Disco For Kids’, presented by the Róisín Dubh, will see two DJs playing songs to hundreds of people dancing and singing along to chart hits, anthems, guilty pleasures, fun songs, and pure cheese - except no music will be heard as they will be all wearing headphones. It promises to be wonderful fun for the whole family.

Former TD to read at Over The Edge

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

THE FORMER Fine Gael Galway West TD Pádraic McCormack will read at the Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library on Thursday November 21 at 6.30pm.

Romantic Ireland is not dead and gone

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

IRELAND WAS an inspiration to the 19th century Romantic movement, while the Irish Literary movement would inspire the imagination of the 1916 rebels.

A Saudi girl and a bicycle

Thu, Nov 14, 2013

WAJADA, THE first full-length feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia, and winner of the CICAE Award at the Venice Film Festival 2012, will be shown in Galway.

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