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Theatre, Opera, Circus & Dance 4

Street Art & Spectacle 26

Music 30

Visual Arts 52

First Thought Talks 60

Comedy 68

Booking, Information & Festival Club 74

Venues & Map 75

Festival Diary 76

Festival Garden

This year we introduce the new Festival Garden — the home Eyre Square of the Festival in the heart of Galway. Enjoy a chilled out 18–29 July, 12noon–10pm BOOK NOW at giaf.ie atmosphere at the new Festival Lounge with great food and Free In person from 18 June at drinks, occasional DJs and live sets from guest artists. With Festival Box Office, Galway Tourist Office, a Festival Information Centre & Box Office, the new Festival Forster Street, Galway, Ireland Garden is a great new space for artists and audiences alike Phone: +353 91 566 577 to come together and join in the celebration.

IMAGE: MUSEUM OF THE MOON [SEE PAGE 27] – PHOTO: ED SIMMONS #GIAF18 1 Funding Agencies & Sponsors

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Festival Staff DRINKS PARTNER Chief Executive Selected John Crumlish Shelley Troupe, Manager ® Artistic Director Artist Liaison Paul Fahy Philip Sweeney, Michael Mulroy Hugh Lavelle, Liam Parkinson Financial Controller FESTIVAL PARTNERS Gerry Cleary Photography & Filming Administration Andrew Downes Elizabeth Duffy, Administrator Moose Kady Perry, Assistant Colm Hogan | Festival Poster Marketing and Development Programme Consultants SUPPORTING PARTNERS Hilary Martyn, Development & Marketing Manager Catriona Crowe, First Thought Talks Aisling O’Sullivan, Fundraising Manager Gugai McNamara, Heineken Big Top Brendan O’Regan, Traditional Music FUNDING AGENCIES Operations John Donnelly, Manager Graphic Design Hilda Reid Production Adam Fitzsimons, Manager Web Design Rob Usher, Manager Pixel Design Box Office Print Sarah Callaghan, Manager iSupply Naoimh Ní Mhaolagain, Assistant Manager Media Support Publicity O’Doherty Communications MEDIA PARTNERS Sinead McPhillips Niall Horisk, Digital Marketing Executive Programmes Tracey Ferguson, Editorial Manager Galway International Arts Festival Volunteers Black Box Theatre, Dyke Road, Carly Zimmerman, Manager Galway, Ireland Merchandise Administration +35391509700 Vincent Nally, Manager [email protected]

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‘One of the outstanding elegies Galway International Arts Festival and Jen Coppinger of the 20th century.’ in association with Poetry Ireland THE GUARDIAN ON INCANTATA Incantata by Paul Muldoon directed by Sam Yates starring Stanley Townsend

INCANTATA adj. [feminine singular of incantato] 1. enchanted, spellbound

‘for there’s nothing, you’d say, nothing over and above the sky itself, nothing but cloud–cover reflected in the thousand lakes…’

Incantata is a man’s concentrated attempt to speak across Town Hall Theatre the barrier of death and recapture the essence of someone Courthouse Square lost. Now re–imagined for the theatre, Incantata, written 16–21 July, 8pm in memory of the artist Mary Farl Powers by poet Paul 24 & 27 July, 6pm & 9pm Muldoon, is an attempt to understand the void that remains Matinees 19 & 21 July, 2pm following the death of a close friend and lover. Previews 16 & 17 July, 8pm Paul Muldoon has published over thirty collections and Tickets €20–€25 won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. Duration 45 minutes approx. Directed by Sam Yates, an award–winning film and theatre director, whose recent production of Glengarry Glen Ross ran in London’s West End. Incantata stars Stanley Backstage at the Festival Townsend, one of Ireland’s leading actors and a familiar 19 July, following 9pm show face on both Irish and British stages and screens. Moderator, Patrick Lonergan, NUI Galway

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Gravity & Other Myths

Watch in awe as 10 skilled acrobats literally throw around the Bailey Allen Hall perception of what strength is, where it comes from and how it NUI Galway Backbone is measured. 17–21 July, 7pm devised by Gravity & Other Myths With jaw–dropping virtuosity and extraordinarily disciplined Matinee 21 July, 2pm teamwork, Backbone is utterly charming, contagiously joyful, Tickets €20–€29 and a thrilling high–octane exploration of human strength. directed by Darcy Grant Duration 1 hour 20 minutes Gravity & Other Myths create shows with a focus on human No interval connection and acrobatic dexterity, continually pushing boundaries and breaking new ground. In just a short few years, Adelaide’s acrobatic sensations Backstage at the Festival have rocketed to international acclaim, taking contemporary 18 July circus to a whole new level. Their Festival 2016 show A Simple Post–show talk with the company Space, wowed audiences during its Galway run and took the Moderator, Ian Walsh, world by storm playing Australia, Europe and America. NUI Galway

‘Circus at its best. Extraordinary.’ HHHHH

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

‘Circus as you’ve never seen it.’ HHHHH

INDAILY

‘Achieving the impossible.’

TIME OUT SYDNEY

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The Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town THE SCOTSMAN Fringe First The Fall Award devised by members of the company director/facilitator Clare Stopford cast Ameera Conrad, Oarabile Ditsele, Tankiso Mamabolo, Sizwesandile Mnisi, Sihle Mnqwazana, Cleo Raatus and Zandile Madliwa Black Box Theatre Dyke Road 16–21 July, 7pm Matinees 19 & 21 July, 2pm Tickets €22–€29.50 Duration 1 hour and 20 minutes ‘Exhilarating… stirring… transporting… No interval an infectious, heady joy…’ Backstage at the Festival BEN BRANTLEY, THE NEW YORK TIMES, CRITICS’ PICK 17 July Post–show talk with the company HHHHH HHHHH Moderator, Charlotte McIvor, NUI Galway THE SUNDAY TIMES THE STAGE

The atmosphere among my fellow comrades is euphoric. We have brought this change.

As the statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, seven students wrote the sensational play The Fall, which marshals the power of protest song and dance, to unpack discrimination in all its forms. The production took South Africa, Edinburgh, London and New York by storm, captivating audiences and wowing critics, and now comes to Galway for an exclusive limited Festival run. As colonialist and patriarchal icons are dismantled across the world, The Fall goes to the heart of how race, class, gender, power and history’s voices intersect.

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Druid Druid Furniture Shelter by Sonya Kelly by Cristín Kehoe directed by Cathal Cleary directed by Oonagh Murphy cast Niall Buggy, Peter Campion, Garrett Lombard, Clare Monnelly, cast includes Aaron Monaghan, Rory Nolan, Brendan Conroy Rebecca O’Mara and Aisling O’Sullivan and Lauren Larkin

Furniture is not sentimental. You can love it, We’re meant to be in here, we own this place. We’re the but it won’t remember who you are. sons of Ireland and I don’t care what anybody says.

Three short plays about chairs and tables, and the people The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane Fus is front–page news, but not all news is good. As he The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane who love them. 12–28 July hides out in a disused warehouse, he soon learns that 13–29 July Furniture is a playful new piece about perceptions and Previews 12 July 8pm & 14 July 5pm Tommy has lost his job and their hideaway is under Previews 13 & 14 July, 8pm possessions. Told through the lives of six individuals, this 16, 18, 20, 23, 25 & 27 July, 8pm threat. As friends trickle through the building, they drink, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 & 29 July, 8pm fresh, new comedy looks at how the things we own shape 17, 19, 21, 23, 24, 26 & 28 July, 5pm dance, row and reminisce while the clock counts down. 18, 20, 25 & 27 July, 5pm‬ Tickets €18–€26 22 & 29 July, 3pm our worldview and even ourselves. Shelter is a portrait of life on the edge. It is at turns Duration 1 hour 20 minutes Tickets €18–€26 Written by Sonya Kelly [The Wheelchair on My Face; brutal, touching and funny in its portrayal of those No interval Duration 1 hour 30 minutes, No interval How to Keep an Alien], Furniture is a new Irish play with a whose lives are washed over in the name of progress. lot to say about who we think we are. Backstage at the Festival Backstage at the Festival 18 July 19 July Furniture and Shelter are playing in repertory as part of Druid’s Post–show talk with the company Shelter and Furniture are playing in repertory as part of Druid’s Post–show talk with the company season of new Irish work at GIAF 2018 featuring two world members. Moderator, Miriam Houghton, season of new Irish work at GIAF 2018 featuring two world members. Moderator, Miriam Houghton, premieres and two Druid Debuts. NUI Galway premieres and two Druid Debuts. NUI Galway

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Irish National Opera in association with Galway International Arts Festival, ‘A star is born.’ a co–production with United Fall THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST in partnership with Irish Baroque Orchestra ON SHARON CARTY Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Gluck directed by and choreographed by Emma Martin conducted by Peter Whelan

‘Let love triumph, and all the world serve the empire of beauty’

A story so weighted in tragedy, the power of the Orpheus myth Town Hall Theatre lies in its balance between mortality and hope, transcendence Courthouse Square and love. GIAF presents this major new production of Gluck’s 23–29 July, 8pm revolutionary work Orfeo ed Euridice, based on one of the most No show 24 & 27 July famous stories in history and featuring a powerful mix of music, Tickets €30–€40 song, dance and imagery. Duration 1 hour 40 mins. Emma Martin, one of Ireland’s most exciting dance theatre No interval makers, directs with Sharon Carty and Sarah Power performing the title roles joined by an ensemble of four singers and four United Fall dancers. Peter Whelan conducts the Irish Baroque Backstage at the Festival Orchestra. 25 July Irish National Opera is a newly formed company that Post–show talk with the company merges two of Ireland’s most innovative opera producers of the Moderator, Aidan Thomson, past decade, Wide Open Opera and Opera Theatre Company. NUI Galway Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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Brink Productions The Aspirations of Daise Morrow by Patrick White directed by Chris Drummond

A unique adaptation of Australia’s towering literary genius and Nobel Prize recipient Patrick White’s Down at the Dump.

‘Visually captivating, splendidly lucid stage adaptation’

THE AUSTRALIAN The only death to fear is the death of love

‘Excellent… Drummond’s Actors, musicians and audience share a unique theatre Black Box Theatre staging is masterful.’ experience in a transformed performance space in the Black Dyke Road Box Theatre with everyone sitting in a circle of burnt earth 23–28 July, 7pm IN DAILY, AUSTRALIA beneath a vast canvas of Australian sky. Matinee 26 and 28 July, 2pm The Whalley family are getting ready for a day at the dump, Duration 1 hour 20 mins while next door the Hogbens prepare to bury the outrageous ‘Phenomenal.’ No interval Daise Morrow, a free spirit whose youthful romantic exploits Tickets €22–€29.50 LIMELIGHT MAGAZINE scandalised the staid residents of her tiny Australian town. A gorgeous, sensory evocation of Patrick White’s Australia, The Aspirations of Daise Morrow is brutally funny, profound Backstage at the Festival in its understanding of human nature, the complications 24 July of compassion and the majesty of love. This rich theatrical Post–show talk with the company adaptation keeps all the wit, scathing insight and wonderful Moderator, Marianne Kennedy, humour of the book and transforms it into something new. NUI Galway Accompanied with haunting live music performed by the sublime Zephyr Quartet. In association with Far and Away Productions.

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Circa

‘The mighty Circa.’

THE TIMES Humans created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble directed by Yaron Lifschitz

‘Stunning… heart–stopping acrobatics.’ HHHHH

ARTSHUB

‘Thrilling’

THE TIMES

Ten astonishing and highly–skilled acrobats take us on Bailey Allen Hall a stirring journey of what it means to be human. With NUI Galway incredible strength and integrity they connect each 24–29 July, 7pm moment seamlessly with the next in a thrilling and heart– Tickets €20–€29 stopping performance. Duration 1 hour 10 minutes approx. Exploring the physical limits of their bodies as they are No interval pushed to the extreme, the phenomenal Circa question how much we can take as humans. Backstage at the Festival Created by Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s reputation for fearless, boundary–pushing circus and physical theatre 25 July is borne out in every one of their shows. One of the most Post–show talk with the company popular companies ever to perform at the festival, Circa Moderator, Catherine Morris, make their long–awaited return to Galway after an absence NUI Galway of nine years.

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Vox Motus The runaway hit of the Edinburgh International Festival O’Donoghue Theatre 2017, Flight recently took New York by storm. NUI Galway A magical experience that combines unsettling 19 July themes with spellbinding images, Flight tells the story of 6pm, 6.45pm, 7.30pm, 8.15pm Flight two young orphaned brothers who embark on a desperate 20–29 July odyssey to find freedom and safety. With their small 12.45pm, 1.30pm, 2.15pm, 3pm, 3.45pm inheritance stitched into their clothes, they set off on an adapted by Oliver Emanuel from the novel 6pm, 6.45pm, 7,30pm, 8.15pm, 9pm epic journey across Europe seeking a better life in London, No show 24 July Hinterland by Caroline Brothers in a heart–wrenching road story of terror, hope and survival. Tickets €20–€25 directed by Jamie Harrison and Candice Edmunds Flight brings audiences into this intimate and Limited capacity of 25 per show heartbreaking story in a unique and deeply individual Duration 1 hour appox. experience. Seated in individual booths, the audience No interval. of 25 people each watch the story unfold for them as Age 14+ a carousel of over 100 3D models slowly rotates, with dialogue and music experienced through separate headsets. Flight draws you into its exquisite, fragile miniature ‘Exquisite and intensely affecting.’ world and allows you to contemplate its gripping story

THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC’S PICK of two children lost in dangerous lands.

‘Profoundly imaginative… gorgeously designed… unforgettable’

THE NEW YORKER

‘Extraordinary.’

THE OBSERVER

Galway International Arts Festival Office 33A written and directed by Enda Walsh featuring the voice of Donal O’Kelly

‘Guaranteed to take up residence in your head.’

THE NEW YORK TIMES ON ROOMS ‘Extraordinary’ It sort of kills me that I’ve allowed the hope of ‘you and me’ THE NEW YORK TIMES to be taken by the work. That the work and what it’s turned into has taken and killed everything. ‘This piece will change the way you think.’

WHAT’S ON STAGE The voice of an administrator in a waste management O’Donoghue Centre company is still heard in his office. He recalls the love he NUI Galway found and how he must keep that love alive. 16–29 July Office 33A is the fifth in a series of theatre From 11am. Every 20 minutes to 6pm Tania El Khoury installations by Enda Walsh collectively known as Rooms Sunday–Wednesday which toured to New York in 2017. From 11am. Every 20 minutes to 8pm Thursday–Saturday Gardens Speak Tickets €7 Duration 15 minutes approx.

Bank Of Ireland Theatre Across Syria, many gardens conceal the dead bodies of activists NUI Galway and protesters who took to the streets during the early periods 23–25 July of the uprising. 1pm, 2pm, 3pm As much an art installation as it is theatre, Gardens Speak 6pm & 7pm depicts the human cost of the war by acquainting us with the life and death of 10 ordinary yet remarkable people who were 26–29 July buried in Syrian gardens. 12 noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm Each story has been carefully constructed with the friends 6pm, 7pm, 8pm and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as Tickets €15 they themselves may have recounted it. Duration 40 minutes approx. A unique, unforgettable, interactive and immersive Limited capacity of 10 per show experience. Age 14+

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Iseult Golden and David Horan in association with the Abbey Theatre Class written and directed by Iseult Golden and David Horan

...is é an ciúnas a chreimfeas an ceantar God I hate classrooms. Give me the seo – níos measa ná ceimiceán ar bith... heebie jeebies. Even still.

An Taibhdhearc A fishing family leads a desperate fight to defend their Brian and Donna’s son is nine years old, and he’s struggling. An Taibhdhearc That’s what his teacher says. Says he should see a Middle Street coastal community from the imminent threat of offshore Middle Street psychologist. But Brian and Donna — recently separated — 12–22 July, 7.30pm fracking — but as the constant pressure of campaigning 24–28 July, 8pm never liked school, never liked teachers. So are they going Previews 12–14 July, 7.30pm mounts, hidden fractures appear in the once–solid clan, as 29 July, 6pm to trust this one? And should they? Matinees 14 & 22 July, 2pm lies, legacies, deceit and ultimate betrayal undermine the Matinees 26 & 28 July, 2pm family and destroy the community. A parent–teacher meeting goes very, very wrong in No show 15 July Tickets €20–€25 Allegiances are torn — a community is split, until a trawler Class — a new play about learning difficulties: in school, Tickets €20–€25 Duration 1 hour and 30 minutes tragedy unites it in grief. But when the truth begins to emerge in life, wherever. Duration 2 hours with interval Following a sell–out run at Dublin Theatre Festival 2017 about what actually happened, our perception of right and Backstage at the Festival wrong is turned on its head. and at the Abbey Theatre earlier this year, Iseult Golden 26 July Baoite is a new Abbey Theatre commission from the writer and David Horan explore the complications and comedy Post–show talk with the company and director of the multi–award winning TV crime series Corp when three adults find themselves back in class. Moderator, Miriam Haughton + Anam Darach Mac Con Iomaire. Scéinséir dorcha faoi lánúin iascaireachta a bristear ó NUI Galway chéile de bharr ciúnas agus bréaga an phobail agus iad sáite in agóid in aghaidh comhlachta fraiceála mara. Performed in Irish with English surtitles.

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Irish Modern Dance

Cloud Study Decadent Theatre choreography John Scott ‘Vital, fluent dance that admits no Port Authority boundaries.’ TANZ MAGAZINE, BERLIN [ON JOHN SCOTT] by Conor McPherson

Gathering Clouds is part dance, part theatre, directed by Andrew Flynn part athletics. Two compelling dancers: Mufutau Yusuf, an Irish man born in Nigeria and Salma Ataya, a Palestinian Dabka dancer, attempt to run 1,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the performance space, chasing dreams, ‘Spellbinding’ memories and home. John Scott returns THE TELEGRAPH ON PORT AUTHORITY to Galway with his new wild, beautiful and explosive running dance. ‘Glittering wit’ Festival Gallery THE GUARDIAN ON PORT AUTHORITY Market Street 18 July, 7.30pm & 9pm 19 July, 9pm Tickets €10

Duration 45 minutes approx. PHOTO: CHRIS NASH

Galway Youth and Community Theatre Wit by Margaret Edison ‘A glittering jewel on the mountain at the top directed by Andrew Flynn of Friday.’

A celebrated but exacting professor of A young boy leaves home for the first time, a man begins a job Nun’s Island Theatre metaphysical poetry, Vivian Bearing has been for which he is not qualified, a pensioner receives a mysterious Nun’s Island diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. package. As each confronts the significance of these events, they 16–29 July, 8pm As she submits herself to an experimental are forced to take stock of themselves, their feelings and of the Preview 14 July treatment, Vivian approaches her illness with decisions they have made. Matinee 21 & 28 July, 2pm the same uncompromising rigour she brings to Painting a vivid picture of life in contemporary Dublin, award– No Show 22 July bear on the sonnets of John Donne. winning playwright Conor McPherson [The Seafarer, The Weir Tickets €22–€24 A Pulitzer Prize winning play, Wit is a striking and Shining City] weaves together a moving and funny tale of Duration 2 hours with interval and sharply funny reflection on the frailty of loves lost and found, the consequences of big dreams and the existence and of the complex relationship significance of even our smallest choices. between knowledge and love.

Nun’s Island Theatre Nun’s Island 16–29 July, 4.30pm ‘A dazzling and humane play.’ No Show 22 July NEW YORK MAGAZINE Tickets €16–€18 Duration 2 hours with interval

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Olivier Grossetête Luke Jerram The People Build Museum of the Moon

Eyre Square | Waterside Following on from the success of The People Build in 2017, where Constructions 20 & 21 July, Olivier Grossetête won the hearts of the Festival audience with 11am–4pm his large scale reconstruction of the Aula Maxima in Eyre Square, Demolitions 22 July, 3pm & 6pm GIAF has invited the artist to return to Galway to embark on two Free large scale and highly ambitious projects. Over two weeks, thousands of cardboard boxes will be Workshops 13–19 July transformed into the building blocks of a series of democratically Check online for full details assembled buildings including a new floating cardboard bridge at Waterside, a testimony to Galway’s River Corrib Viaduct once part of the famous Galway to Clifden Railway. This awe–inspiring and spectacular architectural event is created by the people, for the people, and demonstrates the very best of community spirit and collective endeavour.

Museum of the Moon is a new touring artwork by UK artist Luke Various Venues Jerram who is known worldwide for his large scale public artworks. 16–29 July Measuring seven metres in diameter, the moon features 120dpi Free detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate Check online for details from scale of 1:500,000, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical 18 June sculpture represents 5km of the moon’s surface. The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer Dan Jones. Museum of the Moon can be viewed both indoors and outdoors on various days during the Festival.

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Architects of Air | Alan Parkinson Close–Act Miracoco Birdmen Luminarium

A luminarium is a sculpture people enter to be moved to a sense of wonder at the beauty of light and colour.

From the Guggenheim in Spain to the Sydney Opera House in Australia, the monumental and interactive walk–in sculptures of Architects of Air, designed by Alan Parkinson, have astounded audiences across the globe. The luminarium offers a dazzling maze of winding paths, soaring domes and scintillating light, creating a sense of wonder and enchantment for all ages. Visitors are transported and immersed into an amazing world for a unique sensory Huge illuminated, mysterious creatures will roam the streets of Eyre Square to Spanish Arch experience. Enter and be amazed. Galway this July. Friday 20 & Saturday 21 July Wheelchair Accessible. Resembling an extinct species of skeletal pterodactyls, these 7.30pm, 10pm luminous Birdmen can best be defined as a new species: the Sunday 22 July Eyre Square Technosaurus — a creature from the past and the future combined! 2pm, 4pm, 6pm 20–28 July, 11am–8pm [last entry] Magical and hypnotic, these Birdmen are full of surprise. Come Free €5 find out what they have to say. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult Minimum of 1 adult with 4 children Check online for full details

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‘Rich, strange, endlessly Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh fascinating music.’ THE GUARDIAN Caribou

Dan Snaith’s Canadian outfit Caribou is regarded as one of the most Heineken Big Top iconic and recognisable names on the contemporary electronic circuit. Fisheries Field In 2010, they released the universally adored album Swim, which Saturday 28 July was named ‘Album of the Year’ by Rough Trade, Mixmag and Resident Tickets €49.50 Advisor, while simultaneously hitting The Guardian, Pitchfork, Spin and Standing Mojo’s Top 20 albums of the year. Doors 7pm | Show 8pm In 2012, Caribou joined Radiohead on tour and Dan released his first album under the guise of his dance floor loving pseudonym, Daphni, to widespread positive reviews. Following the shape shifting sounds of Jiaolong and the brightly textured, fluid constructions of Swim, Dan released Caribou’s next opus the Grammy nominated Our Love which received widespread critical acclaim and again appeared on numerous end of year Top 20 lists including The Guardian. Caribou have spent the last three years touring with their energetic and immersive live shows with sold out performances all over the world including the Sydney Opera House and Glastonbury while providing thrilling festival headline slots at among others Primavera, Field Day, Parklife and Coachella. With the promise of killer tunes Can’t Do Without You, Odessa, Silver, Our Love, Melody Day and Sun sure to set the Festival Big Top sizzling this summer, Caribou’s only Irish performance in 2018 is one not to be missed.

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Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh Gavin James

All Our Exes Live A powerhouse of charm and songwriting prowess, the combination of four of Australia’s in Texas finest singer–songwriters is indie–folk harmony heaven. ‘Irresistible folk–pop’ 2017 saw the release of their critically– THE AUSTRALIAN acclaimed debut When We Fall and were named one of SXSW 2017’s ‘Top 15 Artists to Watch’ Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street by NPR. Brace yourself for intricate musicality, Friday 27 July, 8.30pm heartbreaking honesty and melodies that soar, from voices that truly captivate. Tickets €14–€16 Standing. Over 18

Since the release of his debut album Bitter Pill, Gavin James has Heineken Big Top sold over 2 million singles worldwide, amassed ½ billion streams on Fisheries Field The Olllam The Lost Brothers Spotify and performed over 500 shows to over 3 million people at Friday 20 July festivals and sold–out tours across US, Europe, Latin America, Asia Tickets €35 Famous for their trance–like melodies, stunning Not real siblings, Irish duo Oisin Leech and Mark and Australia. instrumental virtuosity and magical marriage Standing McCausland’s cabin in the woods–style folk The Bitter Pill, Say Hello, Nervous, and For You creator has of tradition and technology, The Olllam, resting music is built on whispering harmonies, deft Doors 7pm | Show 8pm amassed an army of fans around the globe with his ‘once in a somewhere between Radiohead and Planxty, acoustic fingerpicking and wispy melodies that generation’ voice and emotionally–charged live performances. have discovered a synergy within their diverse comfortably fit next to the Simon and Garfunkel musical backgrounds. The powerful rhythm or Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy corner of your record He has also found fans in many of his fellow musical peers, section of bassist Joe Dart [Vulfpeck] and supporting Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Kodaline and Sam Smith and ‘his voice is drummer Mike Shimmin is unique, whilst Tyler collection. collaborating with Alan Walker [on the summer smash Tired] and Duncan and John McSherry on pipes and low absolutely whistles are a melodic and harmonic dream. ‘Spellbinding’ Australian Hip Hop act Bliss n Eso [on the Aria Award nominated astounding’ NME Moments]. James had a massive 2017 and is set to be even bigger in 2018. STATE Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street His Galway gig will be another opportunity to see and hear one of Tuesday 17 July, 8.30pm Thursday 26 July, 9pm Ireland’s brightest talents. Tickets €20–€22.50 Tickets €20 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18

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Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh Madness

With over thirty Top 40 hits in the UK including One Step Beyond, Heineken Big Top Our House, It Must Be Love, Embarrassment and Baggy Trousers, Fisheries Field Madness’ knock–out live shows are a frenzy of infectious tunes and Friday 27 July timeless anthems. Tickets €59.50 The Nutty Boys, as they are commonly known, enjoy an Standing unrivalled reputation as one of Britain’s most enduring live acts and Doors 7pm | Show 8pm one of the most successful British acts of their generation. They headlined The House of Common Festival in London’s Clapham Common in 2016 and 2017, and wowed audiences when they played the main stage at Electric Picnic last September. Full House, The Very Best of Madness, a brand new compilation was released in November of last year. Their latest studio album Can’t Touch Us Now, which includes the poignant Amy Winehouse tribute Blackbird, put them back in the Top 5 in the charts and demonstrated why Madness are as relevant today as ever.

‘Superb’ HHHHH Camille O’Sullivan THE GUARDIAN THE SCOTSMAN

Camille enjoys a formidable international reputation for her intensely dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie and more. The multi award–winning singer has stunned audiences around the world with her 5 star sell–out performances, including Sydney Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Edinburgh Fringe and the Royal Albert Hall. She featured in The Telegraph’s Top 25 performances in 25 years of Later with Jools Holland. Dark, funny, fierce and mesmerizing, Camille China National China National Traditional Orchestra, the world’s transforms each song into an intense, emotional most celebrated and influential Chinese music and theatrical experience, drawing her audience Traditional Orchestra ensemble, makes its Irish debut to showcase into a world illuminated by the dark and the concertmaster Tang Feng heritage works in a modern light. This 90–piece light. Expect joy and pure passion. conductor Liu Sha orchestra mesmerizes with traditional Chinese instrumentation, beauty and artistry. In recent years, the orchestra has pushed its Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street Venue TBC boundaries with its extensive repertoire of new Wednesday 18 July, 9pm Check online for details from 18 June and traditional works, surprising audiences by Tickets €28 Tuesday 24 July inviting them into a realm of a vibrant and re– Limited unreserved seating. Over 18 Tickets €22–€25 imagined Chinese music experience.

Beardyman | Kevin Rowland [Dexy’s] DJ Set Wajahat Khan & Peadar Ó Riada Continuing Traditions

‘A phenomenally gifted A leading light on the Beatbox scene, Beardyman has always An exciting new musical ensemble formed by the world–renowned St Nicholas’ Church performer.’ pushed beatbox way beyond what most consider its limits. musicians Ustad Wajahat Khan and Peadar Ó Riada. Both artists are Lombard Street HOT PRESS ON BEARDYMAN A uniquely gifted performer, he has performed all over the among the leading and most revered performers and composers of Tuesday 17 July, 10.30pm world and toured with, among others, Groove Armada. Indian classical music and Irish traditional music respectively. They Tickets €22–€25 Using an ever–growing arsenal of sound manipulation are also sons of legendary fathers and continuing a family tradition technology, he takes audiences on full–length musical of musicianship and composition which have greatly influenced journeys, darting from exhilaratingly ad–hoc rave–ups, to the music of the current generation. They explore and bond their Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street mash–ups of classic tunes. Followed by DJ set with Kevin musical traditions that evolved in their respective families for many Saturday 28 July, 11pm Rowland, leader of the iconic Dexy’s Midnight Runners. generations in India and Ireland. The ensemble is comprised of six Tickets €20 Rowland’s musical genius has made him a highly respected master musicians playing traditional instruments and percussion Limited unreserved seating. Over 18 and in–demand DJ in clubs and festivals. from their respective genres.

36 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 37 Music | USA | Northern Ireland | Ireland Music | Ireland We Are Scientists Sharon Shannon & Band ‘Outrageous sonic adventures.’ THE IRISH TIMES

This New York based power pop troupe True master of the accordion, Sharon Shannon exploded onto the music scene with one of has recorded and toured with a veritable who’s 2005’s iconic indie dance rock records With who of the global music industry, including Love & Squalor. Years of touring followed, and Bono, Sinead O’Connor, Jackson Browne, a second album Brain Thrust Mastery, that John Prine, Steve Earle, The Chieftains, The spawned now–classic nightlife anthem After Waterboys, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss and Hours. They have performed on Later with Jools Shane MacGowan. Her 12 groundbreaking Holland and have appeared on the main stage studio albums have mixed traditional Irish at festivals around the world including Reading sounds with reggae, country, native American, Leeds, Glastonbury, T in the Park and across bluegrass, rap, dance, African and French Europe. Canadian. Winning the hearts and minds of audiences around the world, Sharon Shannon is undoubtedly the queen of traditional Irish music.

Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street Tuesday 24 July, 8.30pm Tuesday 17 July, 9pm Tickets €18–€20 Tickets €30 Standing. Over 18 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18

‘Vocal flair and acoustic finesse’ GOLDEN PLEC AILBHE REDDY AILBHE And So I Watch You Mongoose Ailbhe Reddy, Lilla Le Boom & LUMO From Afar Vargen & Maria Kelly Northern Ireland’s most compelling and Mongoose are a fierce female foursome who A triple–bill featuring Ailbhe Reddy [pictured] Le Boom is an electro–indie, house–pop duo heart–stoppingly brilliant export. The band’s have taken the alternative folk scene by storm. whose addictive radio friendly hooks have based in Dublin. Formed in 2016 by Christy passionate live show features joyous bubbling They are an amalgamation of styles, ranging made huge waves since the release of her Leech and Aimie Mallon they have brought rhythmic anticipation, specks of electronica from pop and folk to jazz and trad. Influences debut EP Hollowed Out Sea which included her their live shows from New York to Reyjavik and and what sounds like a thousand drumkits include Simon and Garfunkel, Fleetwood Mac acclaimed, breakout single Distrust; the soft, Dublin to Galway. Their debut single, What We chasing each other down the street in time. Add and Beyoncé. Festival appearances include soulful and evocative Lilla Vargen who set the Do, soundtracked the summer of 2017. Followed gloriously warm layers of cascading vocals, and Body & Soul, Longitude and Electric Picnic. blogosphere alight with her acclaimed single by LUMO club night, with as much fondness for what you get is an overwhelmingly warm feeling Their live shows feature an eclectic range of This Is Love, and the delicate blend of Maria Phil Collins as for Caribou. and a great gig. instruments and beautifully crafted songs. Kelly’s atmospheric alt–folk.

Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Saturday 21 July, 8.30pm Sunday 29 July, 8.30pm Thursday 19 July, 8.30pm Saturday 28 July, 11.30pm Tickets €18–€20 Tickets €10–€12.50 Tickets €12–€14 Tickets €10 Standing. Over 18 Standing. Over 18 Standing. Over 18 Standing. Over 18

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Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh The Flaming Lips

‘Joyous psychedelic extravaganzas’

THE GUARDIAN

‘Explosive spectacle’

PITCHFORK

Three–time Grammy Award winners and one of Q magazine’s ‘50 Heineken Big Top Bands to See Before You Die’ The Flaming Lips have carved out a Fisheries Field reputation as one of the world’s best live bands. Thursday 26 July Highly original on record, The Flaming Lips have a massive Tickets €49.50 back catalogue of critically–acclaimed albums, including 1992’s Hit Standing to Death in the Future Head; 1993’s Transmissions from the Satellite Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Heart, 1995’s Clouds Taste Metallic; 1997’s experimental Zaireeka; 1999’s The Soft Bulletin; 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots; 2009’s Embryonic; 2013’s The Terror and their Fwends series of albums featuring collaborations with artists such as Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu and Tame Impala. With its harmonies and orchestrated sounds, their 1999 breakthrough The Soft Bulletin has been compared to the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds and was named both NME’s and Uncut’s Album of the Year, and is widely considered one of the best albums this century. The Flaming Lips’ legendary 2010 performance on the Pyramid Stage has gone down in the annals of Glastonbury history so it is with much anticipation that we welcome them to the Heineken Big Top for their only Irish gig of the summer. Support from Le Galaxie.

40 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PHOTO: GEORGE SALISBURY #GIAF18 4 1 Music | Ireland Music | Ireland Live @ Electric HOLOVR O’NEILL AOIFE

Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh Shivers with Young Marco, Wolf Muller & Lerosa, HOLOVR & lastminuteman Niklas Wandt & Gash Collective Boat Party The Stunning Globetrotting Dekmantel Festival mainstay Dublin based Italian DJ and producer Lerosa Young Marco has gained recognition in recent brings his eclectic Disco stylings to the with special guests The Academic years for his eclectic DJ sets. Also on the bill Festival. UK artist Jimmy Billingham aka are German duo Wolf Muller and Niklas Wandt, HOLOVR performs the acid, techno, and With a string of memorable hits to their name, The Stunning make a Heineken Big Top who released their debut album of tropical jazz ambient sounds that have laced his numerous welcome return to the Festival. The legendary live performers, who have Fisheries Field Instrumentalmusik Von Der Mitte Der World earlier celebrated releases. A live set from Dublin’s always held a special place in the hearts of Irish music fans, provided the Sunday 22 July soundtrack to a generation of a fans during the 80s and 90s. this year to huge critical acclaim. Gash Collective lastminuteman rounds out a line–up brimming Tickets €35 founder and Corkonian Elll is on the warm up with quality. After a decade long absence, the band reformed and began touring again. Standing controls for rising star Deena Abdelwahed. Most recently they have released Twice Around the World, a re–recorded, re–imagined version of their Number 1 album Once Around the World. Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Ireland’s newest indie–rock sensation, The Academic burst on to the Electric Garden & Theatre, Abbeygate Street Electric, Abbeygate Street scene with a number of great tunes and amazing live shows leading to their Friday 20 July, 11pm Saturday 21 July, 11pm debut album reaching No 1 earlier this year. Tickets €10–€15 Tickets €8–€10

PHOTO: KATHRIN BAUMBACH

New Jackson, R. Kitt & Barry Redsetta Moodymann, Intergalactic Gary, Sync 24 & Aoife O’Neill Thank You For The Music a Sing Along Social special New Jackson is Irish singer–songwriter David Living dance music legend Moodymann brings Kitt’s electronic alias. He brings his machines to his smooth mix of Detroit party music, with Electric for another storming live show. Also on support from The Disconauts. In the Garden, the bill is up–and–coming younger sibling R. Kitt Dutch DJ Intergalactic Gary spins his tight The Sing Along Social is a zero–commitment Festival Club, who will perform his high octane party. DJing blend of 80’s disco and machine music. UK choir. It’s a space to sing alongside friends Galway Rowing upstairs is Irish clubbing mainstay Barry Redsetta. electro artist Sync 24 is joined by Cork’s Aoife and strangers, and last year your favourite Club, Waterside O’Neill on the decks in Factory. Power Ballads, hosted by Aoife McElwain. Thursday 26 July, Homes and lives were once shared by 8pm members of both Abba and Fleetwood Mac, Tickets €10 Electric Garden & Theatre, Abbeygate Street Electric Garden & Theatre, Abbeygate Street so tonight we have a sing off! Whose side are Thursday 26 July, 11pm Saturday 28 July, 10pm you on? Become part of our chaotic choir Tickets €8 Tickets €15–€20 and sing your heart out to your favourite Abba and Fleetwood Mac tunes.

42 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 43 Music | Ireland | England Music | Ireland

Paddy Hanna HHHH ‘Gently intoxicating.’ & Sinead White THE GUARDIAN CLASH

A cult figure on the Dublin music scene, Paddy has just released his new album, Frankly, I Mutate. Hanna’s songwriting has always sat somewhere between awkwardness and charm, his songs rich and lavish, recalling the likes of Jarvis Cocker and Scott Walker. Hanna has an authenticity other musicians strive towards. Sinéad White’s fresh approach to songwriting is captivatingly charming and Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh uniquely powerful. Her floor–stomping tunes leave audiences in awe. Featuring an amazing Walking on Cars guitar style, accompanied by interesting, profound and intelligent lyrics, all delivered Heineken Big Top by a dynamic voice that is as dramatic as it is Armed with lyrics that veer between tenderness and anguish, lush haunting. soundscapes that explode into colour, with vocals that roar of heartache Fisheries Field Support from Dowry. and romantic longing, Walking on Cars are set to provide the soundtrack Saturday 21 July to the summer when they play the Festival this July. Tickets €39.50 The double platinum selling Dingle five–piece caught music lovers’ Standing Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street imagination in 2012 with their early singles. Their debut album Everything Doors 7pm | Show 8pm ‘Brilliantly distinctive’ Sunday 22 July, 8.30pm This Way was released in January 2016 and went straight to No. 1 in Ireland SUNDAY BUSINESS POST Tickets €10–€12.50 and made the Top 5 in seven countries. Standing. Over 18 Support from Wyvern Lingo. ‘Irish music legends.’ HHHH HOT PRESS THE GUARDIAN

Something Happens Jerry Dammers DJ Set

One of the leading Irish bands of their Jerry Dammers is the founding member of The generation and boasting an enviable back Specials, 2 Tone Records and more recently The Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh catalogue of Top 30 singles and 5 original Spatial AKA Orchestra. albums, Something Happens continue to He began DJing at the Wag Club with Paul Kodaline perform to an adoring fan base. Weller at a benefit for the UK miners’ strike in With a string of unforgettable classic 1984. He has built a sterling reputation as a DJ hits including the infectious Hello Hello and with club sets of revival reggae and ska, with a One of Ireland’s biggest international successes, Kodaline return to the Heineken Big Top Parachute, a Something Happens live show is little funk and rhythm and blues. Festival Big Top. Their multi–platinum selling debut album In A Perfect Fisheries Field an unmissable trip down memory lane. World enjoyed massive success with their follow up Coming up for Air Thursday 19 July building further on their reputation. Tickets €47.50 In 2016, they featured on Kygo’s global smash Raging and have worked Standing Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street with a variety of world–renowned writers and producers including pop guru Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Friday 20 July, 8.30pm Friday 27 July, 11pm Wayne Hector and Jonny Coffer [Beyoncé, Emeli Sandé, Naughty Boy and Tickets €22–€24 Tickets €10 Two Inch Punch, Rag ‘n’ Bone Man and Sam Smith] on their new album. Standing. Over 18 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18 Support from Ryan McMullan.

44 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 4 5 Music | Ireland Music | Ireland

‘Cut the gloom with joyous panache’

IRISH INDEPENDENT

Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh The RTÉ Concert 2FM LIVE with Jenny Greene Orchestra Festival Proms and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra Conductor David Brophy Conductor Gavin Murphy Soloist: Sinead Campbell–Wallace

An Invitation To The Dance Dance Anthems

Heineken Big Top An afternoon of popular foot–tapping classics with the RTÉ Concert 2FM Live with Jenny Greene & the RTÉ Concert Orchestra became Heineken Big Top Fisheries Field Orchestra with leading Irish soprano Sinead Campbell–Wallace under the fastest selling music gig in Galway International Arts Festival’s Fisheries Field Saturday 28 July the baton of David Brophy in the spectacular setting of the Festival Big 40–year history. Sunday 29 July Tickets €25–€28 Top. Their 2017 Galway show featured live performances of 90’s club Tickets €49.50 Seated This year’s Festival Proms features Johann Strauss’ waltzes and classics hits complete with stunning visuals and special effects and Standing polkas to Bill Whelan’s Riverdance with some of the finest dance music was one of the highlights of the Festival Big Top last year. Doors 1pm | Show 2pm Doors 7pm | Show 8pm from around the world; from the musical energy of Tchaikovsky and With the amazing Gemma Sugrue back on vocals and the Concert other Russian favourites to the haunting beauty of a French pavane via Orchestra conductor Gavin Murphy once again at the helm, it is no Kalinka and the Mexican Hat Dance! surprise that this Festival closing party is one of the hottest tickets of the summer. Support from Elaine Mai.

Seamus Fogarty is an evocative and thoughtful lyricist and an electronic shape–shifter, layering Scottish indie–folk power duo Aidan Moffat songs in beats, loops, hisses, found sounds and [Arab Strap] and RM Hubbert perform tracks off bites of conversation. His storylines, delivered their new album Here Lies The Body weaving with rueful hindsight, are similarly surprising. beautiful, spidery guitar work, haunting piano His latest album, the truly magnificent The lines with Moffat’s rich voice. Curious Hand, elevates Fogarty into a whole Acclaimed guitarist and singer–songwriter new bracket of artists doing fascinatingly John Smith’s guitar work and honey–on–gravel skewed, modern and heartfelt things with roots– vocals have brought crowds to pin–drop silence influenced and electronic music. and rapturous applause. Junior Brother is an experimental singer Support by Siobhan Wilson who creates songwriter playing sometime humorous, and entrancing, intimate atmosphere in her sometimes heady tunes, well known for his live shows with an enigmatic combination of striking live performances. her pure voice, mesmeric guitar playing and trembling cello.

Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Wednesday, 18 July, 8.30pm Monday 23 July, 8.30pm Tickets €12.50–€15 Tickets €12.50–€15

SEAMUS FOGARTY SEAMUS Standing. Over 18 SMITH JOHN Standing. Over 18

‘Spellbinding’ GALWAY ADVERTISER

New Orleans Liam Ó Maonlaí & Tracy Bruen The Wedding Present Swamp Donkeys Brendan O’Regan

Returning to the Festival this year are Louisana’s A very special event when four of Ireland’s Tracy Bruen is something of a modern day UK indie rock band The Wedding Present finest New Orleans Swamp Donkeys. Masters leading musicians come together for a one– Renaissance woman. Singer, songwriter, pianist, celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of of their unique style, a compelling mix of off collaborative concert with music from guitarist, band leader, theatre director and their seminal album Tommy. traditional and modern jazz, blues and original around the world. Featuring Liam O’ Maonlai actor, her music blends and bends folk, prog Founded in 1985 in Leeds, they quickly music, this rhythmic ensemble will transport you of Hothouse Flowers and the composer and roots and pop with classical and theatrical gained a reputation for bittersweet, to a bustling New Orleans speakeasy. Frontman producer Brendan O’Regan who are joined influences to create epic compositions of power breathtakingly honest love songs immersed in James Williams echoes the powerful delivery by multi–instrumentalist Floriane Blancke and and vulnerability. whirlwind guitars. They have found renewed of Louis Armstrong as the group delivers hot, Altan’s Dermot Byrne, this gig promises to be international acclaim due to recent tours of soulful, sweet New Orleans jazz. a truly memorable Festival night. Australia, New Zealand and the USA.

Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street Róisín Dubh, Dominick Street Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street Thursday 26 July, 5.30pm & 8.30pm Monday 16 July, 9pm Wednesday 25 July, 8.30pm Sunday 29 July, 9pm Tickets €18–€20 Tickets €20 Tickets €10–€12.50 Tickets €30 Standing. 8.30pm show is over 18 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18 Limited unreserved seating. Over 18

48 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 49 Music | Ireland | England | USA Music | Mali

Traditional Music Showcases Galway International Arts Festival and Róisín Dubh Amadou & Mariam Conor Connolly [accordion] The Traditional Music Showcases bring together Ronan Flaherty [fiddle] some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians, & Brian McGrath [piano, banjo] many of whom are joining forces especially for Thursday 19 July, 1pm these Festival concerts. All of the concerts in this lunchtime series take place in Monroe’s Live, Manus Maguire [fiddle] Dominick Street. All leading exponents of their & Gary O’Briain [mandocello, guitar] respective instruments, the Festival’s Traditional Friday 20 July, 1pm Music Showcases are a little bit of musical magic to kick off your Festival day. Jesse Smith [fiddle] & Sean Gavin [uilleann pipes, flute] Saturday 21 July, 1pm

Deirbhile Ní Bhrolcháin with Steve Johnston [guitar] and friends Sunday 22 July, 1pm

Backwest Thursday 26 July, 1pm

The Invisible Jug Band ‘An extraordinary show. Joyous Friday 27 July, 1pm

DEIRBHILE NI BHROLCHÁIN NI DEIRBHILE mix of Afropop and desert blues.’ Jason O’Rourke [concertina] THE GUARDIAN Teresa Clarke [fiddle] Traditional Music Showcases & Michael Sands [guitar] Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street World music superstars, Amadou & Mariam bring their unique mix of Heineken Big Top Saturday 28 July, 1pm Tickets €10 Malian pop and Hendrix–flavored blues–rock to the Festival Big Top Fisheries Field stage for their only Irish performance this year. Wednesday 18 July The McCarthy Family The Bamako–born husband and wife have risen through the African Tickets €27–€30 and European music scenes to become one of the hottest world music Seated acts today, sharing the stage with artists including Coldplay, U2, Alicia The McCarthy Family feature Jacqueline Doors 7pm | Show 8pm Keys, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Scissor Sisters, Red Hot Chili Peppers [concertina], Marion [uilleann pipes and whistle], and Damon Albarn. Bernadette [fiddle and piano] and Tommy Junior Recordings such as Dimanche A Bamako [Manu Chao, producer]; [fiddle] who were all born in London to Irish Welcome to Mali, and Folila broadened Amadou & Mariam’s parents who had emigrated to England from the international appeal by introducing African soul to electro–pop, art– west of Ireland in the early 1950s. With their late rock and hip–hop. Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia have toured father Tommy, the renowned pipes and fiddle the world for over 30 years, with their ‘spine–tingling harmonies that player, they performed extensively throughout make the music soar’ [Spin], played the main stage at Glastonbury, Ireland and the UK including the Royal Albert supported Blur at Hyde Park and performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Hall, London. concert in honour of Barack Obama. Their latest album La Confusion sees Mali’s most popular artists Monroe’s Live, Dominick Street return to stake their claim as two of Africa’s most successful musical Thursday 19 July, 9pm ambassadors of the 21st century. Tickets €20

50 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 5 1 Visual Arts | Scotland Festival Commission David Mach Rock ‘n’ Roll

Festival Gallery Galway International Arts Festival has commissioned the Market Street Turner Prize–nominated artist David Mach to create one of his 16–29 July, 11am–6pm gargantuan newspaper installations, just the second of its kind Late opening to 8pm in 15 years. Thursday–Saturday Exploding through the gallery walls and floor like a wave of paper, engulfing numerous objects in its wake, this large–scale Free installation will create an organic volume of colour and texture, characteristic of the artist’s work. Backstage at the Festival Mach’s previous installations have featured objects such as 18 July, 2pm cars, furniture and aeroplanes including Incoming, pictured here, Gallery talk with the artist which was exhibited at the Griffin Gallery, London last year. Mach’s sensational 2012 GIAF exhibition Precious Light which featured the enormous crucifixion sculpture Golgotha, made from steel and wire coat hangers, enjoyed a record–breaking audience of over 30,000 visitors in 15 days. A number of additional sculptures and collages will also be exhibited.

52 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IMAGE: INCOMING – PHOTO: GRIFFIN GALLERY, LONDON #GIAF18 5 3 Visual Arts | Ireland Visual Arts | England

Deirdre O’Mahony Sarah Hickson Speculative Optimism Sounds Unseen A Photographic Memoir of The Calais Sessions O’Donoghue Centre Speculative Optimism is the title of the essay film Deirdre NUI Galway O’Mahony produced from research she conducted while artist– Between December 2015 and May 2016, photographer Sarah Hickson Festival Gallery 16–29 July, 11am–6pm in–residence at the University of Reading Museum of English Rural made a number of visits to the temporary refugee camps of Northern Market Street France to photograph ‘The Calais Sessions’ – a live music project Late opening to 8pm Life in 2017. 16–29 July, 11am–6pm among musicians living in the UK, the ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais and the Thursday–Saturday Her research began with the proposition: is ‘carbon–neutral’ Late opening to 8pm beef possible? Agricultural research at the University tested the Grande–Synthe in Dunkirk. Free Thursday–Saturday For the refugees she met, ‘The Calais Sessions’ provided a effect of different kinds of forage on animal and soil health and on Free levels of methane produced by livestock. welcome opportunity to tell their stories, to play and share the music Shot in the Museum’s archives, on Reading University Farm, from their homelands, or to pick up an instrument and join with other and a farm specialising in the production of heritage seed musicians. Sounds Unseen: A Photographic Memoir of The Calais varieties, this project investigated historical references to forages Sessions chronicles the evolution of this remarkable collaboration like Sainfoin and the Museum’s extensive collection of films and celebrates a vital human connection forged through the common produced to promote agricultural efficiency. voice of music. Deirdre O’Mahony’s work is grounded in collaborative The exhibit Sounds Unseen was commissioned and produced by engagements with different rural publics and contexts. Public art St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York. projects include X–PO, a defunct rural post–office, re–imagined as a social and cultural public exchange space.

54 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL PHOTO: TOM FLANAGAN PHOTO: SARAH HICKSON #GIAF18 5 5 Visual Arts | Ireland | England | Spain Visual Arts | Ireland

Jennifer Cunningham is a visual artist who works in a wide range of media. For this exhibition the artist has developed a body of work investigating the ways in which modern realms of collective pleasure decay. Abandoned fairgrounds, overgrown glass houses, untended car parks, ghostly figures and derelict hotels all hint at recent economic struggles but also suggest the cycle of change and renewal in which places become Jennifer Cunningham spaces and vice versa. Festival Gallery After the Future Market Street 16–29 July, 11am–6pm Galway Arts Centre and Galway International Arts Festival Late opening to 8pm Thursday–Saturday IMAGE: HOTEL BY JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM PHOTO: JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM Free Domestic Godless Impressions Printmaking Beyond the Frame

Impressions highlights the varying aspects of contemporary printmaking. As traditional boundaries are pushed and explored, artists known for their new and innovative approaches demonstrate advanced technologies of 3D printing and Following the publication of their book of the same name, Cork–based Galway Arts Centre inkjet, alongside traditional processes. collective The Domestic Godless return to the Galway Arts Centre to 47 Dominick Street Lower inhabit the space for two weeks, exposing their irreverent attitude to 16–29 July, 10am–5pm contemporary food culture as visual artists. Their occupation of the Free building will include slide shows, menus, sculptures and a custom– Centre For The Creative Arts & Media built kitchen. Cluain Mhuire, GMIT, Further to the exhibition, they will host a number of talks, Monivea Road complete with taster–samples of both their classic and more recent 16–29 July, 11am–6pm preparations including; the 14–allergen layer cake, a guide to post– Free industrial foraging and aperitifs designed to combat predatory sexual behaviour in intoxicated males. Commissioned by Crawford Art Gallery and supported by the Arts

IMAGE: MEMENTO MORI BY ANDREW FOLAN Council Touring Award. PHOTO: ANDREW FOLAN

56 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IMAGE: PORK & CHICKENS #GIAF18 57 Visual Arts | Ireland | Russia Visual Arts | Ireland | England Art of Protest

In the Art of Protest, artist and curator Dean Kelly has brought together a number of contemporary Irish and Irish based artists who have made social commentary, satire, political narrative, street art or campaigning graphics important, or even central, parts of their artistic output. The show includes Brian Maguire’s extraordinary haunting imagery of war– devastated Aleppo and also features the work of Robert Ballagh, Jim Fitzpatrick, Áine Phillips, Ruby Wallace and Dolores Lyne amongst others.

Kenny Gallery Liosbán Retail Park, Tuam Road 16–28 July, 9am–5pm Closed Sunday 22 July

IMAGE: WAR CHANGES ITS ADDRESS, ALEPPO 2018 – PHOTO: BRIAN MAGUIRE

Ronnie Hughes and Evgeniya Martirosyan Outflow Hughes’ elegant and poised works are Ghost Chapel executed with complex technical skill, yet retain a lightness of touch. While his finished paintings display a diversity of styles, at heart Off the Connemara coast, a 6th–century cyclopean stone chapel Claddagh Basin they share a common concern with the lived clings to an uninhabited island known as St. MacDara. On the 16th of 16–29 July, 11am–10pm experience, and what Hughes has described July each year [the opening day of GIAF 2018], a pilgrimage is made Free as ‘the beauty, the fragility and the violence to the island on a flotilla of boats for a celebration of mass and the of being.’ blessing of boats. Backstage at the Festival Martirosyan’s current body of work Working within Niall McLaughlin’s and Michiko Sumi’s Unit 17 22 July, 2pm stems from her interest in modern science at the Bartlett School of Architecture, students constructed Ghost Gallery talk with and philosophy and represents an intuitive Chapel, a web–like structural negative of the existing St. MacDara’s Niall McLaughlin, architect response to concepts of time, matter, chaos Chapel, solidifying the gaps of the drystone construction whilst and transformation. letting light fill the space where the stones should be. Festival Gallery, Market Curated by Stephan Roche. Ghost Chapel will sit on Galway’s famous Claddagh Basin with Street the accompanying exhibition Taking Time on show within the Festival 126, St. Bridget’s Place, Woodquay Hub at the Festival Gallery. 16–29 July, 11am–6pm. Free

58 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL IMAGE: THE SHAPE OF EMPTINESS 2017, BY EVGENIYA MARTIROSYAN IMAGE: GHOST CHAPEL #GIAF18 5 9 PHOTO: JED NIEZGODA First Thought Talks | Ireland First Thought Talks | Ireland | England | Scotland

Catherine Corless is the local historian who painstakingly researched infant mortality in the Tuam and Bessborough Mother and Baby Homes, which ultimately led to the establishment of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation, the work of which is ongoing. She will be in conversation with Catriona Crowe on her work, and what work remains to be done. Professor Diarmaid Ferriter will provide a historical context.

Mother and Baby Homes Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Saturday 21 July, 11.30am Tickets €10

Home Slave to the Cyberhomes President Michael D. Higgins Algorithm

Aula Maxima Michael D. Higgins has been President of Ireland since 2011, and The rise of the algorithm and its influence At home on social media, a comfortable home NUI Galway is one of the most popular presidents in the history of the state. on our lives has come strongly into focus in for our money in Bitcoin and a safe home for all Saturday 21 July, 10am A passionate political voice, a poet and writer, academic the light of recent research. From helping our personal details? reaffirming our biases whether we are left wing, Recent revelations about Facebook as a tool Free with ticket from Box office and statesman, human rights advocate, promoter of inclusive citizenship and champion of creativity within Irish society, he right wing or just plain extreme, to identifying for political and advertising propaganda, the the perfect match, the role of the algorithm in phenomenon of Wikileaks and the revelations of has previously served at almost every level of public life in our lives has ignited a worldwide debate on the Edward Snowden have woken many of us up to Ireland, including as Ireland’s first Minister for Arts, Culture and structures underpinning our online choices. the realities of online where it turns out that we the Gaeltacht. But how much do we really understand? ourselves are often the product. He has addressed all of the significant international Professor Mathieu D’Aquin NUI Galway will Learn more about the perils of social media, assemblies, including the United Nations, and with his wife enlighten us, and author Lucy McDiarmid will the potential dangers of Bitcoin and just who Sabina Higgins, has made Áras an Uachtaráin a welcoming read from her memoir on online dating. might be looking at your data from two well– environment for all sections of Irish society. Chair: Natalie Harrower, Digital Repository known novelists, and eminent writers on these The President will launch the First Thought Talks strand of of Ireland. subjects, Andrew O’Hagan and John Lanchester. Galway International Arts Festival with a meditation on the idea of Home, the animating theme of this year. Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Saturday 21 July, 1pm Saturday 21 July, 2.30pm Tickets €10 Tickets €10

60 GALWAY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL #GIAF18 61 First Thought Talks | Ireland First Thought Talks | Ireland Housing Crisis The Living Lands Why can’t Ireland Solve ‘Where the land ends with a sheer drop its Housing Crisis? You can see three stepping stones out of Europe.’

Our governments, although constantly SEAMUS HEANEY implementing new initiatives, do not seem to be able to tackle the problem with any The islands of Ireland have exercised a mythical effectiveness. The social consequences and hold on the country’s imagination since the human suffering arising from this issue make it Gaelic revival. Somehow island people were the an emergency requiring immediate progress. most ‘Irish’ of all. What do we need to do to make that happen? Author and historian Diarmaid Ferriter A panel of expert speakers will talk about delves into the real lives of islanders in his the different aspects of a complex problem forthcoming book on the islands of Ireland in with a view to generating light rather than heat: the 20th century and reveals stories, patterns Diarmaid Ferriter, UCD; Niamh Hourigan, UCC; and new perspectives not seen before. Frank MacDonald, author; and Niamh Randall, Chair: Gearoid O’Tuathaigh, Professor Simon. Chair: David McCullough, RTÉ. Emeritus in History NUI Galway.

Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Saturday 21 July, 4pm Sunday 22 July, 10am Tickets €10 Tickets €10 ROY FOSTER ROY Institutional Homes The Fictional Home The Skelligs When All Is Ruin Sebastian Barry ‘The Skelligs are pinnacled, crocketed, Once Again spired, arched, caverned, minaretted;… Mental illness continues to take its toll on Irish Sebastian Barry, Ireland’s Laureate for Fiction, I tell you the thing does not belong to people as we move from the highly populated has created many homes in his novels, any world that you and I have lived and ‘Ballyphallus, Yeats’s phallic symbol on the mental hospitals [lunatic asylums as they were ranging from Annie Dunne’s home, to the worked in: it is part of our dream world.’ bogs.’ called in the 19th century], of the past to a place mental hospital in The Secret Scripture to the where treatments are better but facilities are battlefields in Days Without End to the Dublin GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, 1910 EZRA POUND scarce. tenements in A Long Long Way. He will discuss Edward Bourke, OPW archaeologist on the Thoor Ballylee, the Hiberno–Norman Professor Brendan Kelly, psychiatrist and these fictional dwellings and their relationships Skelligs 1993 to 2003, on life in the Beehive towerhouse near Gort in Galway, bought by WB author of the definitive history of mental illness to real places, and read relevant passages from huts, the strategic importance of the Skelligs Yeats in 1917 for his new wife George Hyde– treatment in Ireland, Hearing Voices: The History the novels. monastery, and the lives of later inhabitants Lees, was where Yeats wrote some of his best of Psychiatry in Ireland, will talk about his In conversation with Catriona Crowe, of the islands, such as lighthouse keepers and work. He wrote of it: ‘Everything is so beautiful research into Irish mental health. Curator of First Thought Talks. archaeologists. And Star Wars... that to go elsewhere is to leave beauty behind.’ Chair: Alice Mauger, the author of The Cost Chair: Catriona Crowe, Curator of First Professor Roy Foster, acclaimed biographer of Insanity in Nineteenth–Century Ireland: Public, Thought Talks. of Yeats, will talk about his favourite dwelling. Voluntary and Private Asylum Care. Chair: Dr, Adrian Paterson, NUI Galway.

Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Saturday 21 July, 6pm Saturday 21 July, 8pm Sunday 22 July, 11.30am Sunday 22 July, 1pm Tickets €10 Tickets €10 Tickets €10 Tickets €10

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Poetry can often capture vivid apprehensions of dwellings and other locations, as well as abstract ideas like home, better than prose. Four of our finest female poets will discuss the theme of home and homes and read from their work on the topic. They are Paula Meehan, Vona Groarke, Martina Evans and Rita Ann Higgins. Chair: Maureen Kennelly, Director of Poetry Ireland. Between 2008 and the poet’s death in 2013, Blackbird Andrew O’Hagan and Karl Miller, the founder A Memory of of the London Review of Books, made trips to Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland — Seamus Heaney including a famous trip to the Aran Islands Aula Maxima, NUI Galway — with their friend Seamus Heaney. Andrew Sunday 22 July, 2.30pm Aula Maxima, NUI Galway O’Hagan will deliver, for the first time in Tickets €10 Sunday 22 July, 7pm Ireland, a talk on those travels, on memory and Tickets €10 friendship, and a shared love of poems. Chair: Roy Foster, historian, Yeats

SEAMUS HEANEY, KARL MILLER AND ANDREW O’HAGAN biographer and currently writing a book about PHOTO: JEREMY SUTTON–HIBBERT Seamus Heaney.

Europe’s Fault Lines

PAULA MEEHAN PAULA What is Happening to our The Vibrant House Home Is Where You European Home? Start From

Lucy McDiarmid, Editor of The Vibrant House, Theo Dorgan, poet, novelist, travel writer and Liz Fekete is the Director of the Institute of Race a collection of essays, poems and images of broadcaster grew up in a working–class house Relations where she has worked for the last Irish writers’ concepts and memories of home, in Cork City with a family of thirteen. He has thirty years. She writes and speaks extensively explores poems by Paula Meehan and Vona written a luminous essay about the house and on aspects of contemporary racism, refugee Groarke with a direct bearing on homes they his relationship to it, which appears in The rights, far–right extremism and Islamophobia have lived in. The two poets will read relevant Vibrant House, edited by Lucy McDiarmid and across Europe. poems. Rhona Richman Kenneally. He will talk about the An expansive investigation of the ways in Chair: Maureen Kennelly, Poetry Ireland. house, its inhabitants, and the effect of these which a newly–configured right interconnects experiences on his writing. with anti–democratic and illiberal forces at the Chair: Dr. Sarah–Anne Buckley, NUI Galway. level of the state, her new book Europe’s Fault Lines provides much–needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths. Chair: Dave O’Connell, Journalist.

Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Sunday 22 July, 4pm Sunday 22 July, 5.30pm Sunday 22 July, 8.30pm Tickets €10 Tickets €10 Tickets €10

Tomi Reichental was born in 1935 in TED Fellow, architect and urban designer Czechoslovakia. He was sent to Bergen–Belsen Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for concentration camp in 1944. He has lived in sustainable, organic architecture: eco–friendly Dublin since 1959 and regularly talks to Irish abodes grown from plants and — wait for it — schools about his wartime experiences. meat. Joachim is the founder of the non–profit A documentary about Tomi’s attempts to green design group Terreform and a leader meet one of his jailers, Close to Evil, has been in the ‘urbaneering’ movement, which invites shown on TV and in cinemas throughout the communities to participate in urban design world and helped again to raise the profile of projects. He will be joined in conversation with the Holocaust. Frank Monagan, Architecture at the Edge. He will be in conversation with Saul Woolfson, a human rights lawyer with a long– term interest in Irish–Jewish identity. Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Saturday 28 July, 6pm Tickets €10

Aula Maxima, NUI Galway IMAGE: CRICKET SHELTER INSECT FARM Saturday 28 July, 2pm Tickets €10

IMAGE: TOMI REICHENTAL [LEFT]

The Calais Camps

Photographer Sarah Hickson made a number of visits to the Calais Camps in France to document a unique music project organised by cellist Vanessa Lucas–Smith who wanted to show a different side of the camp. Druid Debuts Vinyl Hours The result was the album The Calais Sessions and Hickson’s exhibition Sounds It’s not theatre until someone’s watching… Druid Festival artists reveal their most treasured vinyl Unseen. Sarah Hickson will discuss her time in Debuts staged readings offer the chance to memories at the Festival Garden. Join Tiernan the ‘Jungle’, an illegal home for 10,000 refugees experience work fresh off the page and to share Henry in conversation with special guests who which was disbanded in 2016. an open discussion with the writer, director and play and speak about their favourite albums Chair: Judy Murphy, journalist. cast. It is a chance to see and shape new Irish and what stirs within them, fun, heartbreak and work. revolution. Many readings have gone on to full From teenage kicks to first loves and musical productions including Furniture by Sonya Kelly idolatry to rock and roll, spend an hour on an and Shelter by Cristín Kehoe, both at GIAF this aural journey of classical vinyl records. year. You never know what you’ll see! Aula Maxima, NUI Galway Full details online from 18 June. Saturday 28 July, 4pm Tickets €10 The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane Festival Garden, Eyre Square 20 & 27 July, 12noon Check online for details from 18 June PHOTO: SARAH HICKSON Tickets €7 Free

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Comedy | England | Ireland Terry Alderton

‘Comedy thrill of a lifetime’ THE SCOTSMAN

Seamlessly blending reality and fantasy, Terry Alderton: The Musical takes you on a wild ride. The award–winning comedian presents an action–packed show packed with songs, jokes and impressions. Expect the unexpected, as, in Terry’s unique and singular style, nothing is ever quite as it seems.

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This award–winning Irish comedian has just Intimate festival comedy at its best. Enjoy finished the ‘Best of the Edinburgh Fest’ the comedy styling of top acts including: Australian tour. Heralded as ‘uproariously funny’ Foil Arms and Hog, Neil Delamere, Alison by the Sunday Independent, no topic is safe as Spittle, Colm O Regan, Karl Spain and David he tackles everything from religion to hangry McSavage, all under the tutelage of MC Gerry hangovers with perfectly wicked comic timing. Mallon. Check online for daily schedule.

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Festival Club 1 Heineken Big Top Fisheries Field 15 Spanish Arch Spanish Parade FR. GRIFFIN ROAD 2 Festival Box Office Forster Street 16 Festival Gallery & Hub Market Street Enjoy a cocktail on the deck of the waterside 3 Town Hall Theatre Courthouse Square 17 Eyre Square Festival Club with spectacular views of the Festival 4 Black Box Theatre Dyke Road 18 Galway Arts Centre 47 Dominick Street Big Top under the midnight sky. 5 Mick Lally Theatre Druid Lane 19 Electric Abbeygate Street As artists rub shoulders with audiences, and DJs 6 Festival Club Waterside 20 Claddagh Basin Claddagh spin your favourite sounds late into the night, what 7 Nun’s Island Theatre Nun’s Island 21 Festival Kiosk Eyre Square more could one want to bring a perfect Festival day 8 Waterside Woodquay 22 126 Gallery St Bridget’s Place, Woodquay to a close. 9 St Nicholas’ Church Lombard Street 23 Aula Maxima NUI Galway Festival Club, Galway Rowing Club, Woodquay 10 An Taibhdhearc Middle Street 24 Bank of Ireland Theatre NUI Galway 17–29 July 11 Cluain Mhuire GMIT, Monivea Road 25 O’Donoghue Centre and Theatre NUI Galway 10.30pm 12 Róisín Dubh Dominick Street 26 Bailey Allen Hall NUI Galway Entry with same day Festival ticket or Club Members. 13 Monroe’s Live Dominick Street 27 Festival Garden Eyre Square Subject to house rules and capacity. 14 The King‘s Head High Street 28 Kenny Gallery Líosbán, Tuam Road

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EVENT PAGE VENUE PREVIEWS MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THURS 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22 MON 23 TUES 24 WED 25 THURS 26 FRI 27 SAT 28 SUN 29

Festival Garden 1 Eyre Square 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm 12noon–10pm

Incantata 4–5 Town Hall Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 6pm & 9pm 6pm & 9pm

Backbone 6–7 Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm & 7pm

The Fall 8–9 Black Box Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm & 7pm 7pm 2pm & 7pm

Furniture 10 Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane 12 & 14 July 8pm 5pm 8pm 5pm 8pm 5pm 5pm & 8pm 5pm 8pm 5pm 8pm 5pm

Shelter 11 Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane 13 & 14 July 8pm 5pm 8pm 5pm 8pm 3pm & 8pm 8pm 5pm 8pm 5pm 8pm 3pm & 8pm

Orfeo ed Euridice 12–13 Town Hall Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm

The Aspirations of Daise Morrow 14–15 Black Box Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm & 7pm 7pm 2pm & 7pm

Humans 16–17 Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm

Flight 18–19 O'Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway 6pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm 12.45pm–9pm

Gardens Speak 20 Bank of Ireland Theatre, NUI Galway 1pm–7pm 1pm–7pm 1pm–7pm 12noon–8pm 12noon–8pm 12noon–8pm 12noon–8pm

Office 33A 21 O'Donoghue Centre, NUI Galway 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm

Baoite 22 An Taibhdhearc 12–14 July 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm & 7.30pm

Class 23 An Taibhdhearc 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 6pm

Cloud Study 24 Festival Gallery 7.30pm & 9pm 9pm

Wit 24 Nun's Island Theatre 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm 4.30pm

Port Authority 25 Nun's Island Theatre 14 July 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm & 8pm 8pm

The People Build 26 Eyre Square | Waterside 11am–4pm 11am–4pm 3pm & 6pm

Museum of the Moon 27 Various Venues Check online for details 16–29 July Check online for details 16–29 July

Miracoco Luminarium 28 Eyre Square 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm

Birdmen 29 Eyre Square to Spanish Arch 7.30pm & 10pm 7.30pm & 10pm 2pm, 4pm & 6pm

Caribou 30–31 Heineken Big Top 8pm

All Our Exes Live in Texas 32 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

The Olllam 32 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

The Lost Brothers 32 Monroe's Live 9pm

Gavin James 33 Heineken Big Top 8pm

Madness 34–35 Heineken Big Top 8pm

Camille O'Sullivan 36 Monroe's Live 9pm

Beardyman & Kevin Rowland 36 Monroe's Live 11pm

China National Traditional Orchestra 37 Venue TBC TBC

Continuing Traditions 37 St. Nicholas' Church 10.30pm

We Are Scientists 38 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

And So I Watch You From Afar 38 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Mongoose 38 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Sharon Shannon & Band 39 Monroe's Live 9pm

Reddy, Vargen & Kelly 39 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Le Boom & LUMO 39 Róisín Dubh 11.30pm

The Flaming Lips | Le Galaxie 40–41 Heineken Big Top 8pm

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EVENT PAGE VENUE MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THURS 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22 MON 23 TUES 24 WED 25 THURS 26 FRI 27 SAT 28 SUN 29

Marco | Muller & Wandt | Gash 42 Electric 11pm

Lerosa | HOLOVR & lastminuteman 42 Electric 11pm

New Jackson | Redsetta 42 Electric 11pm Moodymann & Intergalactic G | 42 Electric 10pm Sync 24 & O'Neill The Stunning | The Academic 43 Heineken Big Top 8pm

Thank You For The Music 43 Festival Club, Galway Rowing Club 8pm

Paddy Hanna & Sinead White 44 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Something Happens 44 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Jerry Dammers 44 Monroe's Live 11pm

Walking on Cars 45 Heineken Big Top 8pm

Kodaline 45 Heineken Big Top 8pm

RTÉ CO Festival Proms 46 Heineken Big Top 2pm

2FM Live, Jenny Greene & RTÉ CO 47 Heineken Big Top 8pm

Seamus Fogarty & Junior Brother 48 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

New Orleans Swamp Donkeys 48 Róisín Dubh 5.30pm & 8.30pm

Liam Ó Maonlaí & Brendan O'Regan 48 Monroe's Live 9pm

Moffat & Hubbert | Smith | Wilson 49 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Tracy Bruen 49 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

The Wedding Present 49 Monroe's Live 9pm

Traditional Music Showcases 50 Monroe's Live 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm

The McCarthy Family 50 Monroe's Live 9pm

Amadou & Mariam 51 Heineken Big Top 8pm

David Mach 52–53 Festival Gallery 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm

Deirdre O'Mahony 54 O'Donoghue Centre, NUI Galway 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm

Sarah Hickson 55 Festival Gallery 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm

Jennifer Cunningham 56 Festival Gallery 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–8pm 11am–6pm

Impressions 56 Cluain Mhuire 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm

Domestic Godless 57 Galway Arts Centre 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm

The Art of Protest 58 Kenny Gallery 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm 9am–5pm

Hughes & Martirosyan 58 126 Gallery 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm 11am–6pm

Ghost Chapel 59 Claddagh Quay 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm 11am–10pm

First Thought Talks 60–67 Various Venues Pages 60–67 Pages 60–67 Pages 60–67

Vinyl Hours 67 Festival Garden, Eyre Square Check online for details Check online for details

Druid Debuts 67 Mick Lally Theatre 12noon 12noon

Terry Alderton 68 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Danny O’Brien 68 Róisín Dubh 8.30pm

Laughter Loft 68 The King’s Head 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm

Festival Club 74 Festival Club, Galway Rowing Club 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm

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