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Ballads in the city centre

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  • 21-03-2012 8:47pm
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    deisecelt
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    Well folks, just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere in Galway city centre that has live irish ballad groups on sat nights? Headin over easter weekend and am lookin for something like that. Cheers!


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    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    deisecelt wrote: »
    Well folks, just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere in Galway city centre that has live irish ballad groups on sat nights? Headin over easter weekend and am lookin for something like that. Cheers!

    Barr an Chaladh, Garavans and The Merry Fiddler are the three pubs that do the most Ballad sessions. They keep changing line-ups, and seem to range from free for all to decent groups. Two groups with decent music are Neptune's Fancy and Atlantic Pirates, but their line-ups vary.
    Think Púcan may do ballads sometime. Sessions in the Crane often have a few singers in the mix and it's not all tunes. Ring the pubs mentioned when you're down.


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    ArtyC
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    Atlantic pirates are in the town hall for croi that sat :)


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    celty
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    Taafes on Shop Street has ballads most nights.


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    ScumLord
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    deisecelt wrote: »
    Well folks, just wondering if anyone knows of anywhere in Galway city centre that has live irish ballad groups on sat nights? Headin over easter weekend and am lookin for something like that. Cheers!
    Walk down shop street and give one of the buskers 2 euro and they'll play whatever you want.


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    inisboffin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭inisboffin


    celty wrote: »
    Taafes on Shop Street has ballads most nights.

    Really? It used to be just tunes, did that change this year?


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    celty
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    inisboffin wrote: »
    Really? It used to be just tunes, did that change this year?

    It's different bands every night, but a lot of nights they dish out ballads which are especially popular with the tourists from May to October. Some nights they do just have trad sessions.


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