The British arts and music festival Bestival cancelled its planned clown theme in 2006 after many adult ticketholders contacted the organizers expressing a fear of clowns.

What began as a programme of marginal acts has become the largest arts festival in the world, with 1867 different shows being staged in 2006, in 261 venues.

A music festival called Gram Fest or the Cosmic American Music Festival was held annually in honor of Parsons in Joshua Tree, California, between 1996 and 2006.

His last shows were greeted with positive reviews, and one of his final concert appearances at the Irish Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006 was performed for a record crowd of 80, 000 people.

Dunst at the Cannes film festival premiere of Marie Antoinette ( 2006 film ) | Marie Antoinette.

Ho Chee Yue, a founder of the marketing company AKQA, helped to organize the first festival for the Asia chapter of the AMAS in 2006.

Smith returned to the theatre stage after some 20 years in August 2006, appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in Allegiance, Irish journalist and author Mary Kenny's play about Churchill's encounter with the Irish nationalist leader Michael Collins in 1921.

The Rhythm Devils announced their first tour in 2006, which ended at the popular Vegoose festival in Las Vegas, Nevada over the Halloween weekend.

Circus Historian and collector Ken Harck runs the Brothers Grim Sideshow, which toured with the OzzFest music festival in the summer of 2006 and 2007.

In 2006, Fatboy Slim filled the Saturday headline slot at the Global Gathering festival, Long Marston Airfield in the English Midlands.

In 2006, the Italians planned a one-off film festival to celebrate the opening of the Museo Rodolfo Valentino.

At the Oxford Literary festival in 2006, Fraser estimated that it took him roughly three to five months to research and write a Flashman novel.

MUCES is the Spanish acronym to The City of Segovia Festival of European Cinema, an annual film festival which takes place in the city since 2006, usually in November.

On 26 August 2006, bassist Mani was reportedly arrested at the Leeds music festival, after what was said to be a drunken brawl.

Still promoting the country album, Morrison's performance as the headline act on the first night of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on 15 September 2006 was reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top ten shows of the 2006 festival.

Martin again appeared with Glass Harp at the same festival in 2006.

In 2006, Betsy Bryan, an archaeologist with Johns Hopkins University excavating at the temple of Mut presented her findings about the festival that included illustrations of the priestesses being served to excess and its adverse effects being ministered to by temple attendants.

* From 1986 to 2006 Arezzo was also home to an annual popular music and culture festival, each July, called Arezzo Wave.

Audiences have grown steadily ; the 2006 festival had 160, 000 attendees.

Alexander has often ended " The Arkansas Schools Tours " there at the festival, which was a well-known annual event from 1996 through 2006.

In 2006, a car / truck / rim show was added to the festival.

The documentary film The Homecoming: Tupelo Welcomes Elvis Home, premiered at the 2006 festival.

The festival was established in 2006.

In 2006, the festival was part of the Appalachia 100 celebration that marked the 100th birthday of the Town of Appalachia. In 2010 it was their 104th birthday.

Indian applicants have been welcomed in 2006 / 7 to the JET Programme, starting with just one slot available in 2006 and 41 in 2007.

In 2006, the city made the national news as it welcomed the largest gathering of Presidential relatives in the history of the nation.

Prime Minister Helen Clark being welcomed onto Hoani Waititi Marae, in West Auckland, Waitangi Day 2006

George W. Bush welcomed the Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes to the Rose Garden after their victory in 2006.

In 2006 YFU welcomed more than 2, 000 students from over 50 countries.

During his term as a President, Enkhbayar welcomed the Dalai Lama on August, 2006, when the Dalai Lama visited Mongolia and stayed at Enkhbayar ’ s residence.

It is open to the public daily, and welcomed 1. 05 million visitors in 2006.

During the 2006 – 07 ECHL All-Star Game, the league officially welcomed back the Sea Wolves at the Board of Governors Meeting held during the festivities.

The Georgia Aquarium welcomed its three millionth guest on August 24, 2006, its five millionth on May 23, 2007, and its ten millionth guest on June 25, 2009.

On 24 January 2006 the Māori Party's four MPs were jointly welcomed to the Rātana pā with the Leader of the Opposition and leader of the National Party, Don Brash, together with his delegation of eight MPs.

During the 2006 Commonwealth Games, John So was warmly welcomed by Melbourne as a figurehead of the city.

According to her A & E Biography TV special, she welcomed a second daughter, Harlow, in 2006.

The hostel welcomed its first residents in December 2006 and was officially opened in February 2007.

Kennesaw State and North Florida departed for the Division I ranks in 2005, USC Upstate did the same in 2007, and the conference welcomed in North Georgia College & State University in 2005 and Georgia Southwestern State University in 2006.

Their first condo-hotel property opened on July 31, 2006 and welcomed its first guests and residents.

Apart from regular seasons offered by The National Ballet of Canada at the Sony Centre from 1964 to 2006 and frequent visits by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the theatre has welcomed a diverse range of international dance companies.

In September 2006, Kuhl welcomed Vice President Dick Cheney to a major fundraiser in Rochester.

In January 2006, the couple welcomed their first child, Piper Bee-Jones.

A number of members of Parliament welcomed Windsor's marriage in 2006 as " the first legal and public marriage within the rites of the Roman Catholic Church of a member of the Royal Family since 1554 and the marriage of Queen Mary I to Philip II of Spain " and then later proposed a further Early Day Motion welcoming the Baptism of his first son Albert noting " that he was the first member of the Royal Family to be Baptised a Catholic since 1688 and the so-called Glorious Revolution when James II was chased away from his Crown and country on account of the Baptism of his son, the Old Pretender.

She and her husband welcomed a son, named Samson Fromer Gerstein, on July 15, 2006 at 3: 31pm at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre at the Women's College Hospital location in Toronto.

AmCham Vietnam welcomed President George W. Bush to Ho Chi Minh City in November 2006, and hosted the Asia Pacific Council of AmChams ' 40th Annual Meeting on March 23, 2007.

Hersey also welcomed the CLS ( Career and Life Skills ) program, formerly housed at Wheeling High School, to its school in 2006.

In 2006, the stadium welcomed the re-formed NCAA baseball team from nearby Montana State University Billings.