Based in Galway’s medieval centre, the Galway Early Music Festival features medieval, renaissance and baroque music and dance. Concerts by international performers, workshops and street performance, coupled with the West of Ireland's unique welcome, make this the place to be in May for a taste of early music magic.
Laus Polyphoniae is an annual festival presenting mainly vocal polyphonic music from the 15th and 16th century. The programme of lunch and evening concerts, debates, lectures and workshops is meticulously built around a specific theme, in 2007 'La polyphonie francaise'.
Festival Description: The aim of Summer Festivities of Early Music is to enrich today's cultural life with the music of previous centuries. The concert repertories feature high-quality works which have been hidden from the audience and are thus performed in their modern premieres. The attempt of the festival is to raise awareness about the European music history. One of the strengths of the festival is the location of the concerts in Prague's unique historical halls. Experience has shown that such locations and their acoustics make for the singular atmosphere that is created by playing early music on period instruments.
