Galway Arts Festival @ Kellys

Upstairs at Kellys

Kellys is very proud to announce it's involvement with The Galway Arts Festival 2011. Here is a list of the shows run by both The Arts Festival and ourselves over the two amazing weeks of live music, performers, comedy and art.



Thur 14th- Trad Lunch with Anna Faulkner*
Fri 15th- Trad Lunch with Emer Mayock*
Fri 15th- Shack Up with Graham Dolan
Sat 16th- Trad Lunch with Dermot Byrne with Florence Blancke*
Sat 16th- Rural Savage w/ TBA followed by DJ Ferg
Sun 17th- Mystic Force
Mon 18th- Session Americana*
Wed 20th- Damien O Kane Trio
Fri 22nd- Comedy with Roisin Conaty and Jarlath Regan*
Fri 22nd- Shack Up with Graham Dolan
Sat 23rd- The Ralphs w/TBA followed by DJ Ferg

*= The Galway Arts Festival Presents....

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Upstairs @ Kellys
The Galway Arts Festival Presents...
Anna Falkenau
Thur July 14th



1pm
Doors 8euro

From Germany, Anna has a classical background and is proficient at many musical genres. Anna will be joined by the great Clawhammer banjoplayer Lena Ullman and guitarist Ivan Murray.

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Upstairs@ Kellys
Galway Arts Festival Presents...
Fri July 15th
Emer Mayock
Doors 1pm
8euro



An accomplished flautist, Emer Mayock is renowned for her work with Afro Celt Sound System. For this performance she is accompanied by long time collaborator Donal Siggins.

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Upstairs@ Kellys
Galway Arts Festival Presents....
Sat July 16th
Dermot Byrne with Florence Blancke
Doors 1pm
8euro



Dermot Byrne is acknowledged as one of Ireland\'s finest accordion players. Best known for his work with Altan, Dermot has a broad musical repertoire and will be accompanied by harpist extraordinaire Floriane Blancke

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Upstairs @ Kellys
Sat 16th of July
Doors 9.30
Free In

Rural Savage,
Support from TBA

Followed by DJ Ferg playing the best in Indie, Dance, Electro and Hip Hop



Surf - Punk, ripping melodies, and handsome hillbilly songs are what make up northern lightning racket " Rural Savage". Cack-handed spiritual cackophany of the most selfish kind. Nothing too political and nothing too clever. Sniggering dullards adrift on tides of their own psychic sewage. Too legit to quit, this shower of Teenage Mutant Ditch Dwellers don't even need the journalistic aplomb they're bound to receive from the worlds music press. They're sneering attempts to make friends with their instruments are matched only by their retarded ambition and sloppy trousers. Ludicrous hyper-adjectives don't do justice to this smelly assortment of lunatic half-wits

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Upstairs @ Kellys
The Galway Arts Festival Presents...
Session Americana
Monday July 18th
Doors 9.30
15euro/ 12euro with concession



A who’s–who of the Boston roots music scene where players swap songs and instruments; a suitcase drum kit, an old electric bass, a field organ and a collection of acoustic instruments in a unique format which feels fantastically theatrical. Featuring current and former members of Treat Her Right, The The, Patty Griffin Band and Aimee Mann Band. Session Americana are joined by Donegal song–writer, Finbarr Doherty for the July 19 concert.

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Upstairs @ Kellys
July 20th
Damien O Kane featuring John Joe Kelly and Gerard Thompson
Support from Don Stiffe
Doors 9pm
10euro
'An outstanding banjo player and supurb vocals...'- The Sunday Express



Damien O’Kane

Damien O’Kane is earning a growing reputation for being a creative and exciting musician and singer. His banjo playing in particular has led him to being regarded as one of the finest Irish players on the scene today and he’s winning accolades as a singer, focusing on songs from his native Northern Ireland.

He is probably best known for his work with Shona Kipling and Flook but has recently been a full-time member of Kate Rusby’s band.
Damien released his debut solo album Summer Hill on May 3, 2010 on the Pure Records label.

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Upstairs @ Kellys
The Galway Arts Festival Presents...
Roisin Conaty and Jarlath Regan
Fri July 22nd
Doors 8.30
15euro



Currently one of the hottest tickets on the UK comedy circuit, Roisin Conaty won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival. Rising stage and TV star Jarlath Regan whose witty badinage and heavenly banter is to die for, is already a veteran of all the world’s major festivals.

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Upstairs @ Kellys
Sat 23rd July
Doors 9.30
Free IN

The Ralphs
w/ support TBA

Followed by DJ Ferg playing the best in Indie, Electro, Dance and Hip Hop



The Ralphs from Tuam, Co. Galway play gutsy rock n'roll - bull**** need not apply.

Debuting in November 2008, The Ralphs are partly a family affair, with brothers Jamie (Vocals/Guitar) & Leigh Ralph (Drums), their cousin Conor Ralph (Guitars), and friend Brian Ruane (Bass) forming the axis of the band. Their debut single in August 2009 'Waste of Time/Gunfire' earned them support slots with the likes of Delorentos, Jape, Fred, Ham Sandwich, and The Flaws, a session on 2fm, and also some nice words from the national press.

The Ralphs are looking onwards and upwards, after releasing their debut E.P, '21st Century Window' in September 2010 at a sold out gig at their 'home' venue Roisín Dubh.

Expect energy at their live shows, and if you're real lucky, chaos might even ensue.