Setlist

The star of BBC2’s Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle brings his unique brand of anti-comedy to The Seapoint Ballroom in Salthill this Saturday, 19 May. If you like to hold your sides and scratch your head at the same time, Mr Lee is your man.
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One of the hottest and most dynamic live acts around comes to the Róisín Dubh on Monday 21 May. Mark Black and the Trips’ live show, featuring amplified 12 string acoustic guitars, lap steel, didgeridoo, driving roots rhythms and grooves, will help you shake off those Monday blues and get the weekend started five days early.
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A French-themed fundraising night of music complemented by French wine and cheese will take place at the United Methodist and Presbyterian Church at Victoria Place on Thursday 17 May at 8pm. The night will feature well known musicians from Galway and Headford such as Sandra Schalks, The Berrill Family, Joanne Cater, the Galway Brass Quintet, and many more.
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Cars Love Girls bring their funk-drenched disco pop to Monroe’s Live this Thursday, 17 May, as part of a six-band fundraiser for The Hope Foundation. Featuring founding members of Irish stars Republic of Loose, Cars Love Girls have made an impressive impact on the Irish scene since their formation in 2011.
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Folk legend Christy Moore will play a rare full standing show at the Galway Arts Festival Big Top on Friday 20 July, with Declan Sinnott and high energy trad group 4 Men and a Dog. The show is Moore’s only gig in Galway City in 2012 and promises to be a massive musical highlight at this year’s festival.
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Monroe’s Live welcomes acoustic duo Jezzebelle on Wednesday, 6 June. Featuring the solid guitar rhythms of Gary Burke and the haunting, soulful vocals of Katie Carpenter, this unsigned, self-managed group has garnered rave reviews from both the Irish Times and Hot Press, and one listen to their latest self-released EP, ‘Back to the Start’ will tell you why.
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Fiddle player, teacher and researcher Dr Máire O’Keeffe will deliver the second lecture in the Martin Reilly Lecture Series on Thursday, 17 May. Organised by Comhrá Ceoil, the Music and Dance Studies at the NUI Galway Centre for Irish Studies, this series is dedicated to Martin Reilly, the celebrated East Galway uilleann piper, who left a rich musical legacy to generations of pipers.
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Ireland’s answer to Michael Bublé, Sean Slattery and his band, The Connections bring their style and swing to Monroe’s Live on 8 July. Former vocalist with leading showband The Conquerors, Sean is a talented and charismatic performer, and has recorded many hits over the years.
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“Absorbing and effective” is how the Irish Times describes Junk Ensemble’s ‘Five Ways to Drown’. This brave, entertaining and innovative dance theatre group are now bringing their production to Galway’s Town Hall Theatre on 14 June.
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The Town Hall Theatre will welcome one of the great operas, Monteverdi’s Orfeo, on Tuesday 12 June. For over 400 years, the dramatic music and raw emotional power of this baroque masterpiece has remained undiminished.
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Macnas is hosting a magical, behind-the-scenes event on Thursday, 17 May to celebrate the launch of the ‘Friends of Macnas’. Like Willy Wonka opening up his Chocolate Factory, Macnas is opening its Liosbán Workshop, where the magic happens, to give guests a unique encounter with the company’s iconic images.
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The May ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, 31 May, from 6.30pm to 8pm. The featured readers are Adam White, Bernie Ashe, and the 2011 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year, Eimear Ryan.
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‘Eye of the Storm’ is a solo exhibition by visual artist Siobhan McDonald, which is influenced by the recent eruptions of the Icelandic volcanco, Eyjafjallajokull. Her work alludes to tensions between chaos and entropy, and between the teleological and the merely random.
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Stewart Lee brings his thoughtful, intelligent and hilarious brand of ‘anti-comedy’ to Seapoint Ballroom on Saturday 19 May. He talks change, parenthood, Galway Girl and carpets to Conor Harrington.
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