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MUSIC FOR Galway's successful cello season Cellissimo closes this weekend when MFG joins forces with the Galway Early Music Festival for a concert of Baroque music in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church.

ON ONE day of the year, the teenagers were let run riot in the monastery, adolescent apprentice monks could dance, sing, clap their hands, shake their tonsures, boss around their elders, play cards in church, and stage a riotous show where an altar could explode, hide and seek games ran into the wee small hours, and the elders had no choice but to let them away with it.

A FEAST of fools, ticking clocks, apocalyptic visions, and a time warp - time is of the essence at the 20th Galway Early Music Festival which runs from Thursday May 14 to Sunday 17.

OPERA GETS its turn at the Galway International Arts Festival tonight and tomorrow at 8pm when Atalante and Resurgam combine to present Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo at St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church.

THE CELTS and the Romans were never bosom buddies. The Celts sacked Rome in 390 AD and Caesar conquered Gaul in the Fifties BC.

A CONCERT of guitar and cello music, with ConTempo’s Adrian Mantu and John Feeley, takes place in the Druid Lane Theatre tomorrow at 1pm.

ERIN HEADLEY and her award-winning pan-European ensemble Atalante are coming to Galway to perform a concert which aims to “transport the soul and elevate the spirit”.

MONSTERS AND fairies, poets and singers, heroes and villains will all be part and parcel of the Galway Early Music Festival, which runs from May 9 to 12.

AUGHNANURE CASTLE in Oughterard will be filled with the sound of Scottish traditional music and song this weekend as part of the Galway Early Music Festival.

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.