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National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, in partnership with Music for Galway, returns to Leisureland on Thursday, November 11, under the baton of acclaimed conductor Anna Rakitina, with Daniel Müller-Schott, one of the world’s leading cellists, as soloist.

Music for Galway’s season ‘Breaking Boundaries’ continues with a bold, new large-scale project by acclaimed Irish composer Ed Bennett.

Something In The Water, Headford’s community arts festival, is returning for its fourth consecutive year, running from Wednesday, September 30th, to Sunday, October 4th. The five-day programme will bring music, theatre, literature, film, dance and visual art to venues in the North Galway town, including utilising vacant premises that will be reinvigorated for the festival.

Three celebrated, international musicians with Irish roots will combine their talents for an afternoon of colourful, virtuosic chamber music at St Joseph’s Church on Presentation Road, next Sunday, September 20, at 3pm.

The 49th Clifden Arts Festival, from Thursday, September 17 to Sunday, September 27, has lined up its most ambitious and wide-ranging music schedule to date, beyond its multidisciplinary programme of literature, visual arts, theatre, film, architecture and ideas across Clifden and Connemara.

With the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s death approaching next year, Music for Galway’s 45th International Concert Season is inspired by classical music’s German revolutionary.

With the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s death approaching next year, Music for Galway’s 45th International Concert Season is inspired by classical music’s German revolutionary.

Galway Cathedral’s 33rd year of annual summer concerts begins on Thursday next, 2 July, and continues every Thursday at 8.00pm until 6 August. The series opens with young Australian organist Jonathan Lee, who will use both of the cathedral’s organs. His performance includes 19th-century German composer Julius Reubke’s dramatic, symphonic tone poem for organ, renowned as one of the greatest organ works of the Romantic period.

Over the course of 14 days and nights this July, Galway city and county will once again be transformed into a vibrant cultural landscape—alive with theatre, music, circus, dance, visual arts, comedy, street spectacle and ideas. This year’s Galway International Arts Festival 2026 programme, described as one of the most ambitious to date, reflects a festival that continues to grow not only in size, but in artistic depth, international reach and civic importance.

Alan Stivell, famous Breton Harpist, will be playing in Galway tomorrow Tuesday May 26 in St Nicholas Church and tickets are now on sale.