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Three acclaimed Irish singer-songwriters, Rachel Goode, Colm Gavin, and Kenan Flannery, will take to the stage at the Backstage venue at Monroe’s Live this Halloween night, Friday, October 31, at 7.30pm.

Busking is the practice of performing in public places, such as on the street, for tips or gratuities or voluntary donations. It comes from the Spanish word Buscar—to seek (fame and fortune) or the Latin word Buscare – to procure, to gain. Busking could take many forms, clowning, dancing, singing, fortune telling, mime, living statue, one-man band, puppeteering, juggling, reciting poetry, even Christmas carolling. One’s ‘pitch’, where one performed, was very important. It had to be a place where there was a lot of traffic, lots of people, high visibility and little background noise.

The singers of KaRoSal are offering city centre Christmas shoppers a free lunchtime show this weekend to punctuate the madness of the seasonal rush.

Platinum-selling recording artist, songwriter, performer and producer, Ryan Sheridan will bring ‘The Preview Tour’ to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, September 30.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.

Following the success of February’s free music concerts with Cillian Hill, Colin Fahy and Paul Gurney in the Dean Crowe Theatre Bar, the June offering promises some more top class talent with Rob Irwin performing live on June 16, Brian Mac Band on June 19 and David Dockery on June 23.

Following the success of February’s free music concerts with Cillian Hill, Colin Fahy and Paul Gurney in the Dean Crowe Theatre Bar, the June offering promises some more top class talent with Rob Irwin performing live on June 16, Brian Mac Band on June 19 and David Dockery on June 23.

TWO GALWAY music legends; the inaugural winner of the Choice Music Award; a rising star among Irish singer-songwriters; and a Galway trad music and dance phenomenons.

WHEN ULTAN Conlon emerged from the recording studio in Burbank, California, on the final day of sessions for what would become his fourth album, he could have had no idea of the world into which it would be released.

THERE'S A Waltz, the new album, by Loughrea singer-songwriter Ultan Conlon, produced by the Grammy Award winning Sean Watkins, formerly of Nickel Creek, is released tomorrow [April 17].