The linguist Jorma Koivulehto wrote ( 2001 ) of the annual Finnish Kekri celebration having borrowed the word from early Indo-Aryan.

Hancock hosts an annual midwinter festival called Heikinpäivä, celebrating the feast day of Saint Henrik, patron saint of Finland and Heikki Lunta, the Finnish god of snow.

Future Crew was co-organizer of the first Assembly demo party in 1992, and continued organizing the annual party until 1995, when the organization set up the Finnish company ASSEMBLY Organizing in order to " provide a solid financial basis for the events and a reliable partner for our sponsors.

The traditional Independence Day Reception ( in Finnish: Linnanjuhlat, " the Castle Ball ") at the Presidential Palace on 6 December is one of the key annual events in the Presidential calendar.

A clear indication of this is, that the annual Finnish contest for iskelmä artists is named as " Tangomarkkinat " meaning " The Tango Marketplace "; many of the superstars of contemporary iskelmä have won this competition and it is major spectacle in Finland, even to some extent comparable with the San Remo festival in Italy.

In 2002, the Finnish Food Safety Authority estimated annual consumption of false morels to be hundreds of tonnes in plentiful years.

One of the main problems was that the governing of the SM-sarja was based on the annual meeting of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, where all important issues were decided by vote.

The organization publishes an annual regional magazine, Katajanokan kaiku ( Finnish for " The Echo of Katajanokka ").

Customers can buy yearly membership cards that enable them to vote at the Finnish Labour Temple annual general membership meeting, where the board of directors is chosen for the year.

An annual festival is held to celebrate Finnish heritage.

Her art career started to blossom when some of her work was displayed in an annual Finnish Art Society exhibition in 1880.

Since 1983, the TSFS awards the annual Atorox Award for the best Finnish science fiction short story.

In the Finnish Rock Championship, an annual competition for young musicians, the band finished second in the progressive rock category.

Summer services (,, ) is the annual meeting of the Finnish Lutheran movement known as Conservative Laestadians.

In the past years, the choir has performed on several foreign tours with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and Orchestre national de Lorraine, and at its annual spring and Christmas concerts.

* The annual ' Tangoworld ' festival in September-one of the largest representations of Argentinian tango in Italy

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.

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.

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.

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

The park also hosts the annual Taste of Chicago festival.

The annual summer festival, the Taste of Chicago in Grant Park, highlights food in the city with many local restaurants taking part.

Begun by Spencer in 1814, the annual gathering of the Big August Quarterly still draws people together in a religious and cultural festival, the oldest such cultural festival in the nation.

Another regular Delphi festival was the " Theophania " ( Θεοφάνεια ), an annual festival in spring celebrating the return of Apollo from his winter quarters in Hyperborea.

Taking in Europe and North America, the tour opened at London's annual Meltdown festival, for which Bowie was that year appointed artistic director.

Evidence for another kind of annual Christian festival, the commemoration of martyrs, begins to appear at about the same time as evidence for the celebration of Easter.

* Ellensburg hosts the annual Jazz in the Valley music festival on the last weekend in July.

Chinese dragon kite more than one hundred feet long which flew in the annual Berkeley, California, kite festival in 2000.

The Shaw Festival, an annual theater festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada began as an eight week run of Don Juan in Hell ( as the long third act dream sequence of Man And Superman is called when staged alone ) and Candida in 1962, and has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performances a year, dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries.

Brian Ritchie curates the annual international arts festival MONA FOMA, held in Hobart.

MONA, the Museum of Old and New Art opened in 2011 to coincide with the third annual MONA FOMA festival.

The World's Largest Disco, an annual celebration held over Thanksgiving weekend in Buffalo, New York, draws thousands of disco fans in 1970s-era attire.

An annual marathon draws thousands, and allows runners to sponsor a victim of the bombing.

The annual Labor Day walk on Mackinac Bridge draws over sixty thousand participants.

This annual event draws attendees from all across the world.

Other regular events at the arena include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus when it comes to New York City ( although the Izod Center and Nassau Coliseum also host the circus each year ), selected home games for the St. John's men's Red Storm ( college basketball ), the annual pre and postseason NIT tournaments, the NBA Draft, the Millrose Games track and field meet, and almost any other kind of indoor activity that draws large audiences, such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

The annual youth soccer tournament draws thousands of young soccer players, their parents, siblings and even grandparents to Bullhead City.

Superlift Offroad Vehicle Park hosts the annual Ouachita Jeep Jamboree, an off-road adventure weekend that draws people and their 4x4's from a dozen states.

This is the scene of the annual 4th of July " Freedomfest " fireworks display, which draws a crowd of thousands from as far as 500 miles away.

This bridge is the centerpiece of the town's annual festival and draws thousands of people every year.

Additionally, the annual Old Fashion Days festival usually draws large crowds.

This annual " Spring Party " started as a Chamber of Commerce initiative twenty years ago and now draws some twenty thousand to Winnsboro each year.

* Plaquemine's annual International Acadian Festival draws visitors from all over the world.

The annual auction draws thousands to the town and shuts down streets for auction rings.

The symphony also holds a free annual July 4 outdoor concert at Tupelo's Ballard Park, which draws thousands of fans.

It is the scene of an annual " trout parade " in June that draws marching bands, fire trucks and other local amusements.

Each summer Angier draws a crowd of motorcyclists and bike enthusiasts from across the region to downtown Angier to enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of its annual Bike Fest event.

Carrboro is also home to the annual West End Poetry Festival, which draws in a great selection of local poets.

Taste of New Albany is an annual culinary event ( each August since 2002 ) that draws thousands to Market Square in downtown New Albany to sample ( for an entry fee ) food from dozens of restaurants.

The annual ethnic German American festival draws over 30, 000 people a year.

This annual event, one of the largest in the nation, is held at the Wood County Fairgrounds and draws an estimated 60, 000 people.

Red Boiling Springs is also home to Tennessee's only motorcycle museum, Cyclemos, which holds an annual Show and Old School Swap Meet that draws thousands of visitors and bikes.

The city owns the Arlington Municipal Airport, located three miles ( 5 km ) southwest of Arlington, which is home to the annual Arlington Fly-In which draws aircraft from all across the US and Canada.

Porterfield is home to the annual Porterfield Country Music Festival, a weekend of open air concerts held every summer which draws both local and nationally known country music artists such as Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, Crystal Gayle, Merle Haggard, and Loretta Lynn.

The town celebrates an annual cranberry festival which draws thousands to Stone Lake each fall on the first Saturday of October.