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Galway Arts Festival 2010

  • 06.15.10
    Badly Drawn Boy added to Galway Arts Festival Galway Arts Festival 2010 | Comments Off
    The Mercury award winner Badly Drawn Boy will take to the stage at the Radisson Live Lounge, adding to an already enticing musical line-up BDB, aka Damon Gough, will no doubt be showcasing songs from his latest album, Is There Nothing We Could Do as well as 2006's Born In The UK and his award winning debut The Hour of The Bewilderbeast. The singer will appear on the festival's Radisson Live Live Lounge Stage on Saturday July 17. Tickets are on sale at www.ticketmaster.ie. All tickets and group bookings are also available at www.galwayartsfestival.com.
  • 05.28.10
    Spike Jonze to take centre stage at the Galway Arts Festival Galway Arts Festival 2010 | Comments Off
    FILM-MAKER Spike Jonze and 1980s band The Human League are to take centre stage at this year’s Galway Arts Festival. Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, the New York Theatre Workshop and original lithographs by Henri Matisse will also feature strongly in the two week event. Influential theatre director Sir Peter Hall and critic and author Michael Billington are set to debate,  while crime writer Ian Rankin, journalist John Lanchester and US-based Irish journalist Niall O’Dowd will also speak at the event. Enda Walsh’s new play, Penelope, will premiere, while the Galway Youth Theatre, Decadent Theatre and Electric Bridget, and An Taibhdhearc will all celebrate ...
  • 05.19.10
    Josh Ritter, Cathy Davey & Human League play the Galway Arts Festival Galway Arts Festival 2010 | Comments Off
    Tickets for the Big Top shows are on sale now. The first two gigs have just been confirmed for the Galway Arts Festival, which runs from July 12 to 25. And pretty tasty they are too with Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band, Damien Dempsey and Cathy Davey playing a triple-header on July 23 and ‘80s icons Heaven 17 and Human League, who’ve a lot of shared history, doubling up the following night. Both are taking place in the Big Top, with tickets priced €38.50 and €36.50 respectively available from www.galwayartsfestival.com. The rest of the line-up will be announced shortly.