The festival normally centres on a charity gala day in June, when various groups including Scouts, church groups and schools parade through the town, finishing with a large fête in the grounds of Swakeleys House.

White tours often, performing live at the WOMAD UK festival in 2000 and hosting the gala finale in 2005, MCing the main stage at the Fleadh in London for its first two years, and performing again in 2002.

The festival takes place at Canmore Collegiate High School and the Canmore Recreation Centre with evening gala performances at the Oh Canada, Eh?!

With a crowd of over 7000 witnessing this mammoth annual gala, talentime transcends the boundaries from being just a college meet to a festival celebrating talent and skills.

On 10 May 2007 history was made when the Swanage Railway ’ s permanent connection with Network Rail was used for the first time – four ex-BR diesel locomotives running from Eastleigh down to Swanage to participate in the Purbeck Line ’ s largest ever diesel gala and beer festival in May 2007.

His recent work includes movies like Gori vatra, Kajmak in marmelada, Days and Hours, Borderline Lovers and establishing his new Saša Lošić Film Orchestra which had its world premiere at the 10th jubilee Sarajevo film festival with gala concerts at the National Theatre in Sarajevo.

The three-day fest features a gala event with carnival, cultural show, food festival, rock concert, wine festival, angling competition, ethnic wear competition, children's fancy dress, DJ Nite, exhibitions, housie housie and other games.

The largest of its kind in South Gujarat, this five-day festival consists of literary and debating events / competitions in the morning and gala cultural shows in the evenings.

Stewarton, like many other Scottish towns, holds an annual gala festival at the beginning of summer.

A juried arts exhibition, food court, concert stages with local and national acts and a charity preview gala highlight festival programming.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

The name is certainly cognate with the Doric month name Απέλλαιος and the Doric festival απελλαι.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

AFI FEST is the only film festival in the US to hold FIAPF ( Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films ) accreditation.

Hay is normally brought in twice a year, often also on festival days.

* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August

* Bon festival – ( Obon Festival ) is a Japanese traditional buddhist custom, evolved into a family reunion holiday.

This festival is locally known as Korfest.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Van Mahotsav is an annual pan-Indian tree planting festival, occupying a week in the month of July. During this event millions of trees are planted.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

It is also a fertility festival, similar in some ways to other harvest-time celebrations in other cultures.

The Donkey brae run is held on the first Sunday of the festival and is popular nationwide, with a 7-mile race, 2-mile run and a 1-mile run for children.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

The Japanese festival, in which Altair is known as, is based on this legend.

Alexandria is also known as " Small Town USA " and holds an annual festival to honor this heritage.

The city is home to the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, an annual arts and crafts festival held one weekend during early April, when the native dogwoods are in bloom.

Beltane () is the anglicised spelling of the Goidelic name for either the month of May or the festival held on the first day of May.

Beltane regained popularity during the Celtic Revival and is still observed as a cultural festival by some in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man and among their diasporas.

Today, Beltane is also observed as a religious festival by Celtic neopagans.

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

* A festival, for example, a musical event

This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

Perhaps the most important cultural event in Poznań is the annual Malta theatre festival, which takes place at many city venues usually in late June and early July.

The Perdonanza Celestiniana festival is celebrated in L ' Aquila every 28 – 29 August in commemoration of this event.

In the western Indian state of Gujarat, an event of the Makar Sankranti festival is kozhi kettu, the rooster fight.

The theme of Spamarama is gentle parody of Spam, rather than straightforward celebration: the event at the heart of the festival is a Spam cook-off that originated as a challenge to produce an appetizing recipe for the meat.

Youth Speaks, a non-profit literary organization founded in 1996 by James Kass, patterned the slam competitions at the annual Brave New Voices festival after that seminal Taos event.

Lang had experience as a promoter and had already organized the largest festival on the East Coast at the time, the Miami Pop Festival, which had an estimated 100, 000 people attend the two day event.

* November 8 – Millennium ' 73, a festival hosted by Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the " most significant event in human history ".

Specifically Tyrnavos holds an annual Phallus festival, a traditional " phallkloric " event in which giant, gaudily painted effigies of phalluses made of papier maché are paraded, and which all women present are asked to touch, or kiss, their reward for doing so being a shot of the famous local tsipouro alcohol spirit.

In late 2009, Anthrax confirmed a " Big 4 " event ( with Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer ) as part of the 2010 Sonisphere festival.

The Mascletà, an explosive barrage of coordinated firecracker and fireworks displays, takes place in each neighbourhood at 2: 00 pm every day of the festival ; the main event is the municipal Mascletà in the Plaça de l ' Ajuntament where the pyrotechnicians compete for the honor of providing the final Mascletà of the fiestas ( on March 19 ).

The first cherry festival in Salem was held in 1903 and was an annual event, with parades and the election of a cherry queen, until sometime after World War I.

Another major funerary festival, a national event spread over several days in the month of Khoiak in the Egyptian calendar, became linked with Osiris during the Middle Kingdom.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

Later in June, the Gay and Lesbian Service organization hosts the Lexington Pride Festival, currently into the planning phases of its third festival as of 2009, the event is popular among the diverse communities in Lexington.

* The Roots & Heritage Festival: An event that takes place throughout the month of September and consists of a wide variety of culturally enriching activities including art exhibits, literary readings, film presentations, the Festival Ball and the ever-popular two-day street festival featuring live musical performances from internationally renowned artists.

The documentary competition is another important festival event.

In the late 1950s Beaulieu was the surprising location for one of Britain's first experiments in pop festival culture, with the annual Beaulieu Jazz Festival, which quickly expanded to become a significant event in the burgeoning jazz and youth pop music scene of the period.

Other yearly events on the Grote Markt are " Haarlem Jazzstad " ( a jazz festival ), " Haarlem Culinair " ( a culinary event ) and the " Haarlemse Stripdagen " ( Haarlem comic days ).