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CLASSICAL MUSIC trio The Priests will perform in the Galway Cathedral on Sunday August 16 at 8pm. The platinum-selling group, featuring three Roman Catholic priests from Northern Ireland - Fr Eugene O’Hagan and his younger brother Fr Martin O’Hagan, from the Derry village of Claudy, and Fr David Largy from Ballymena - perform as part of the Cathedral’s jubilee celebrations.

CLASSICAL MUSIC concerts have always formed part of the Galway International Arts Festival, but this year, classical music has a notably larger, more prominent, placing. Indeed it is almost a mini-festival within the GIAF itself. "The festival is really pushing out the classic side of things this year," notes the distinguished Irish pianist Finghin Collins approvingly. "It's a wonderful thing."

BAGPIPES AND harps, France, Spain, and Scotland, the mediaeval world to the 18th century, all will be explored and celebrated for the 2012 Galway Early Music Festival.

The Kilkenny Arts Festival has welcomed thousands of visitors to the city and county in the past week with a host of entertainment on offer in venues and on the streets.

THE SIXTEENTH Galway Early Music Festival returns to the mediaeval streets of Galway city from May 19 to 22.

Kilkenny County Library’s brand new online service - The Naxos Music Library was launched recently by award winning Kilkenny violinist, Maria Ryan.

CLASSICAL MUSIC to thrill the ears and readings from poems and novels which will stir the imagination are set to be the order of the day at the Clifden Community Arts Week which begins tomorrow.

THE MUSIC of Vivaldi, Bach, and Tchaikovsky will be heard in the Town Hall Theatre, when The Russian Chamber Orchestra make their Galway debut on Wednesday at 8pm.