Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connection with which they happen to be used.

Nay, they were so very glad at the revival of their customs, when, after a long time of intermission, they unexpectedly had regained the freedom of their worship, that they made it a law for their posterity, that they should keep a festival, on account of the restoration of their temple worship, for eight days.

The band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

In the end, the Museum allowed the chess set to be displayed at the Isle of Lewis festival tournament, but they were not used in any games.

In 2008 they performed their classic second album live in its entirety at the ATP New York festival.

The band have been chosen by Animal Collective to perform the album ' Up on the Sun ' live in its entirety at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they will curate in May 2011.

* Some neo-pagans celebrate their interpretation of Samhain ( a festival of the ancient Celts, held around 1 November ) as a New Year's Day representing the new cycle of the Wheel of the Year, although they do not use a different calendar that starts on this day.

Plutarch mentions that ( for much later period ) two days after the beginning of the festival " the priests bring forth a sacred chest containing a small golden coffer, into which they pour some potable water ... and a great shout arises from the company for joy that Osiris is found ( or resurrected ).

Daoshi act as interpreters of the principles of Yin-Yang 5 elements ( fire, water, soil, wood, and metal p. 53 ) school of ancient Chinese philosophy, as they relate to marriage, death, festival cycles, and so on.

Ronald Hutton notes that while medieval Irish authors do attribute a historical pagan significance to the Beltane festival, they are silent in this respect in regard to Samhain, apparently because no tradition of pagan ritual had survived into the Christian period.

In January 1978 they toured New Zealand and performed at the Nambassa festival.

In July 2005, the band — again including MacGowan — played at the annual Guilfest festival in Guildford before flying out to Japan where they played three dates.

X appeared at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 19, 2009 and at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, England from the May 15 – 17 where they had been invited to perform by the festival's curators The Breeders.

In June, Garner announced that he had decided to leave the band, although he stayed until they found a replacement, playing his final gig with the band at the ' Larks in the Park ' festival in Liverpool.

In the churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty ; but at Constantinople, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: " We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth ," they reported, describing a majestic Divine Liturgy in Hagia Sophia, " nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it.

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

Passover is a spring festival associated with the barley harvest, so the leap-month mentioned above is intercalated periodically to keep this festival in the northern hemisphere's spring season.

And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord's Dominicam as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days.

During the Passover, a festival of deep national as well as religious significance for the Jews, Pilate, as governor or prefect, would have been expected to be in Jerusalem to keep order.

Wrestling with what to do, Wayne departs the festival grounds so he can find Cassandra, leaving Garth to keep the rowdy crowd in check.

That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means.

Efforts were made to keep the festival relevant, including more eclectic acts such as country superstar Waylon Jennings and emphasizing more heavily electronica groups like The Prodigy.

After a successful 2008 festival, another deal was signed to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago through 2018, guaranteeing the city $ 13 million.

The Michfest Half-Way parties, usually held between February and April, have played an important role in keeping the spirit of the festival alive throughout the year, to keep local Michfest workers and attendees connected, to spread word about the festival, and to raise money for the women and children's fund

I looked long and hard late last year at moving the date so it didn ’ t clash with the Olympics but the mix of the festival fans desire to keep the date and an inability to find an alternative date that works I plumped for maintaining the existing weekend.

The festival is responsible for helping to keep the rich choral tradition of the West alive both in Europe and North America.

The policy reason behind starting the festival was to keep the youth entertained and off the streets of Torquay while the contest was on.

On May 28, at Slam Dunk Records Leeds music festival, the band played a 50-minute set during which Kenny Vasoli announced " People keep asking us when we're getting back together, and the answer I have is yesterday.

Also keep the harvest festival Sukkot soon after the year changes.

In 2008 Parachute Music signed a contract with Mystery Creek Events Centre to keep the festival at the venue for five more years.

The music festival requires a year-round effort of many volunteers to keep it going.

Hiawatha and local authorities work to keep the festival a safe for all with a combination of experienced security volunteers, paid security and City officers.

Codicote Village Day ( www. codicotevillageday. co. uk ) is an annual one day festival which begins with a parade up the High St and proceeds to the Sports and Recreation field where a program of events, lots of stalls and attractions keep locals and visitors entertained throughout the afternoon.

Other events of note included a row between the Trotskyists of the RSL / Militant Tendency dominated Labour Party Young Socialists ( LPYS ) and the festival organisers ( the British Labour Party's student wing, the National Organisation of Labour Students ( NOLS ) sided with the organisers in trying to keep the LPYS delegation-led by Tommy Sheridan-out ).

Mykale is a western promontory of the mainland opposite Samos ; the Ionians used to assemble there from their cities and keep the festival to which they gave the name of Panionia.

To prevent other barriers to attendance, they made a similar dedication to keep festival admission free of charge and to hold it at venues close to public transportation routes.

And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord ’ s Day as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days.

Eliana Burki playing the alphorn at the Bardentreffen festival in Nuremberg 2009.

The Stems then toured nationally to promote the new album, playing their first shows outside Australia last year, including European dates and a successful U. S visit which included the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

After McCrea recovered, the band continued touring, playing at the Big Stink festival in Vancouver, Washington, and the Jayhawk Music Festival in Lawrence, Kansas.

The festival began in 1992 as a Sydney-only show with Violent Femmes as the headline act, along with Nirvana and a range of other foreign and local alternative music acts playing at the Hordern Pavilion.

On 8 November 2010, it was announced that Pulp would return to playing live in 2011, with dates at the Isle of Wight Festival, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Sziget Festival, Primavera Sound, the Exit festival, and the Wireless Festival.

In November 2010 it was announced that the Different Class line-up ( Cocker, Banks, Doyle, Mackey, Senior and Webber ) would be playing at the Wireless festival in London's Hyde Park and a Saturday slot at the Isle of Wight festival in 2011.

Allen, however, continued to develop the Gong mythology from the late seventies up until the nineties in his solo work, and with bands such as Euterpe, Planet Gong ( which comprised Allen and Smyth playing with the British festival band Here & Now ), and New York Gong ( comprising Allen and the musicians who would later become known as Material ), while Smyth formed a separate band Mother Gong, with Jean-Paul Vivini from the band Can AM Des Puig ( author of The Book of AM produced by Daevid Allen ), playing in Spain and England.

Initially the festival was held in a tent on a playing field, and later a weaver's shed.

The main stage is set up along Court Street playing to festival goers in Central Park.

Gibb marked his return to his birthplace by playing a concert at the Isle of Man TT festival in 2007.

In May and June 1965 Redgrave directed the opening festival of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford, including directing and playing Rakitin in A Month in the Country ( co-starring with Ingrid Bergman as Natalya Petrovna ), and Samson in Samson Agonistes ( co-starring with Rachel Kempson as Chorus ).

Matlock joined a reformed Faces, playing at the Vintage at Goodwood festival near Chichester in August 2010.

Those that have played the festival in the past include both new and established musicians, mostly playing rock, folk and pop music.

This line-up debuted at the 1985 Rock in Rio festival, playing two shows, but Carlisle and Caffey soon realized their hearts were no longer in the group and decided to disband the Go-Go's in May 1985.

Kiedis later stated in his autobiography, Scar Tissue that Jimi Hendrix's sister had asked the Chili Peppers to play " Fire " in honor of Jimi and his performance at the original Woodstock festival, and that they were not playing it to encourage the crowd.

In August 2007, Soulfly did a tour that consisted of a mixture of festival and club shows through Europe before playing the 11th Annual D-Low Memorial Show in Tempe, AZ on August 31, 2007.

According to Dave Haslam, the festival demonstrated that " the city had become synonymous with ... larger-than-life characters playing cutting edge music ...

She is also greatly interested in pop culture and shows musical talent of her own, including playing the piano and guitar, singing, and composing all the songs for a school festival.

The band toured briefly, playing eight dates across the USA including the three-day Coachella music festival in Indio, California on April 18, 2010.

Once, at a village festival, he astonished everyone by playing the viol beautifully.