The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Ln, Galway.

Doors open 21:00 – 01:30 h, Friday 10th October
Tickets - €10/€5 students/concession.

Dónal Dineen’s Backstory Dances have gone from strength to  strength recently with a succession of 2025 festival triumphs including two legendary days at The Cambium (ATN) as well as an acclaimed residency at the Commercial Rowing Club in Dublin.

After his solo debut at the Architecture at the Edge festival in 2024, he returns to Galway this year with the full Backstory roadshow featuring very special guest, Hewan Mulugeta.

The Backstory motto “All the colours, every dancing mood” has served it well and the atmosphere generated on one heady night after another has become the stuff of legend from its genesis in its spiritual home of the much-missed Jigsaw in the north inner city to its current incarnation by the Liffey Banks.

Born and raised in Ethiopia, Hewan Mulugeta brings an immense amount of knowledge to each and every one of her singular sets. Playing mainly grooves from the 1960s and 70s golden era of modern Ethiopian music, she also incorporates a range of other African sounds into a glorious melting pot that never fails to set the night on fire.

Dónal and Hewan DJ’ing together is a combination not to be missed.