In 1974, they won first place in the Festival of Orchestras for the composition " La Zafra ", whose lyrics describe the struggles of sugar cane workers in western Puerto Rico and elsewhere.

The Aberdeen International Youth Festival was formerly known as the International Festival of Youth Orchestras ( IFYO ) and has grown to attract the world's best youth dance, theatre, choral and music companies to the city every August.

The first International Festival of Youth Orchestras was held in 1969 in St Moritz in Switzerland.

HRO has also performed in Carnegie Hall, and in 1978 placed third in the International Festival of Student Orchestras.

He regularly runs courses for young musicians and his success in this general area was recognised when he was given the Novello Award for Youth Orchestras at the 1989 Edinburgh Festival conducting Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra with whom he has been Musical Director for thirty-seven years.

* 1969: GBYSO earns top honors at the first International Festival of Youth Orchestras in St. Moritz, Switzerland on its first international tour.

The Louisville Orchestra has performed for many prestigious events including " A Festival for the Arts " at the White House, the Inter-American Music Festival at the Kennedy Center, " Great Orchestras of the World " at Carnegie Hall, and toured Mexico City.

In 1977 MCYO performed at the first American Festival of Youth Orchestras.

Soon afterwards, she appeared in repertory theatre, until she found recognition in the West End for a series of stage performances, ultimately receiving an Olivier Award nomination for her performance in A Lie of the Mind, and in 1996, she is cited as " the greatest actress of our time in any medium " by one critic after she appeared in Orlando at the Edinburgh Festival.

* Orlando ( Orlando )-50th Edinburgh International Festival ( 11 / 21 August 1996 )

The work received its initial readings from the Harriet Lake Festival of New Plays at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in 2006, and was presented in workshop form in the inaugural season of the Fordham University Lincoln Center Alumni Company in 2008.

Orlando International Dragon Boat Festival, state of Florida, is the first time for a dragon boat racing event to have been presented ( 1998 ) at a major world class amusement park property, Walt Disney World.

The Vermeer performed at virtually all the most prestigious festivals, including Tanglewood, Aldeburgh, Norfolk, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Taos, Bath, South Bank, Lucerne, Stresa, Flanders, Kneisel Hall, Caramoor, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Berlin, Schleswig-Holstein, Orlando, Daniel, Edinburgh, Great Woods, Spoleto, Ravinia, and the Casals Festival.

The band returned to Florida for the first time since their November 2006 Bang Music Festival show where they were cut off stage early, with three shows in Miami, Orlando and St. Augustine.

In May 2012, Logan Donahoo Presents performed a version of the musical in Orlando, FL during the 2012 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, in the Yellow venue.

David appeared at the Anime Festival Orlando in Florida in August 2010.

* Anime Festival Orlando, a yearly anime convention in Orlando, Florida

* Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival

The Sarajevo Film Festival has been hosted at the National Theater, with screenings at the Open-air theater Metalac and the Bosnian Cultural Center, all located in downtown Sarajevo and has been attended by celebrities such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Steve Buscemi, Jeremy Irons, Bono Vox ( Bono holds dual Bosnian and Irish citizenship and is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo ), Nick Cave, Coolio, Stephen Frears, Michael Moore, Gérard Depardieu, Darren Aronofsky, Sophie Okonedo, Gillian Anderson, Kevin Spacey, Eric Cantona, Victoria Abril, James Floyd and many others.

The Killers were the inaugural headliner of the new Orlando Calling Festival in Orlando, FL on November 12, 2011.

They began with appearances at the Orlando International Fringe Festival in the late 1990s.

In 2002, Vans opened an enclosed skatepark in the Festival Bay Mall on International Drive in Orlando, Florida.

Lake Eola Park was redesigned and the Walt Disney Amphitheater opened in the park around the same time the annual " Orlando Shakespeare Festival " was established.

* The Orlando Film Festival

* Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival

In 2007, the Wind Ensemble traveled to Orlando, Florida to compete in the All American Band Festival, and took home many awards, including Most Outstanding Band.

In 2004, 2005, and 2006 they performed at the annual Cornerstone Florida Festival in Orlando, Florida.

Since its inception, the orchestra has partnered with the Orlando Opera, Orlando Ballet, the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra, Florida Young Artists Orchestra, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orlando Science Center, Bethune-Cookman University, the University of Central Florida, Stetson University, the “ Negro Spiritual ” Scholarship Foundation, Mad Cow Theatre, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, the Orange County Regional History Center and many other area organizations.

the Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, May 5-7 ; ;

There are also many smaller film festivals in the United States, such as the Stony Brook Film Festival in Long Island, New York, the Northwest Filmmakers ' Festival, or the Sicilian Film Festival in Miami, Florida, which do not charge entry fees ; however, acceptance of films is usually more limited, and such film festivals do not necessarily attract big names in their audiences like Sundance and Telluride do.

The kumquat is celebrated annually in Dade City, Florida, U. S. A. with the annual Kumquat Festival.

File: Kumquat pie. JPG | Slices of kumquat pie at the Kumquat Festival in Dade City, Florida

* Mullet Festival, annual event held in Niceville, Florida

Other general festivals that allow machinima include the Sundance Film Festival and the Florida Film Festival.

Sixty-three people who had visited either the Florida State Fair, the Central Florida Fair, or the Florida Strawberry Festival reported illness to investigators for the Florida Department of Health, including 20 who were culture-confirmed and 7 with HUS.

On Saturday, 24 March 2012, Fatboy Slim performed a live DJ set on the main stage at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida.

* Sebring Florida Junteenth Festival

Parra has production credits in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D. C .; at Florida Stage ( Palm Beach ), The Hartford Stage ( Hartford, Connecticut ), Theatre Memphis, at the Cape Playhouse ( Cape Cod ); George Street Playhouse, Florida Rep, and, at the Edinburgh International Festival.

The term is best known for its association with New Orleans Mardi Gras, but is also used in other Carnival celebrations around the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida, and Springtime Tallahassee as well as in La Crosse, Wisconsin and at the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.

It is also currently the location of independent label No Idea Records and the former home of Plan It X Records, which moved to Cairo, Ill. For two years, the Gainesville non-profit organization called Harvest of Hope Foundation hosted the Harvest of Hope Festival in St. Augustine, Florida.

Home of the annual Florida Folk Festival, it is a tourist destination noted for historic charm, antique shops and river recreation.

* Florida Folk Festival

* Homepage of the Florida Folklife Collection ( housed at the State Archives of Florida ) which includes thousands of images and recordings of the Florida Folk Festival ; held annually in White Springs, Florida