Bath International Music Festival

Date: May 18 - June 3

Location: Various venues, Bath

Description: Classical, contemporary, jazz and world music at a range of venues around the city - along with parties, workshops, silent film screenings and more.

Contact: 01225 463362

E-mail: boxoffice@bath festivals.org.uk

Link: www.bathmusicfest.org.uk/

Cannes Film Festival

Date: May 9-20.
Location: Cannes, France.
Description: Starlets on the beach, glamour on the screens and film reputations on the line at the world's most prestigious film festival.
Contact: 0033 (0) 4 93 39 01 01
Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~21731.jml

Jerez Horse Fair

Date: May 13-20.

Location: Jerez de la Frontera, Andalucia, Spain.

Description: A fully-fledged equestrian ballet from Spain's most highly trained four-legged friends, flamenco dancing and a bullfight or two. Not to mention gallons of sherry at this Andalucian fiesta.

Contact: Jerez Tourism Office 00 34 (0) 956359465

Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~30939.jml

Mike the Headless Chicken Day

Date: May 18-19.

Location: Fruita, Colorado, US.

Description: Mike the Chicken (born1945) lived for 18 months without a head after a narrow escape with an axe. He is remembered with a 5km headless chicken race in farmville Fruita.

Contact: Colorado Tourism Authority, 001 303 892 3885

Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~52854.jml

Mount Hagen Festival

Date: May 18-20.
Location: Mount Hagen, Papua New Guinea.
Description: You don't get much more remote than this: the wild frontier district of the Papua New Guinea highlands invites its tribal clans to perform head- hunting dances in full feather and grass-skirt regalia.
Contact: Papua New Guinea Tourist Office www.paradiselive.org.pg/t

Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~31325.jml.