, a medieval festival commemorating local history has been held in the village once in every year since 2004, on a July weekend in the summer.

Aberdour has a very popular yearly festival, which runs from late July to early August and features musical events, shows, sporting events and children's events.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

:* Orlando has a boutique Bastille Day street festival that began in 2009 in the Audubon Park Garden District and involves champagne, wine, music, petanque, artists, and street performers.

He performs live DJ sets, occasionally comperes and curates the events, and has broadcast the radio show live from the festival location.

The style of Miyake Taiko has developed as a music for Gozu Tenno Sai — a traditional festival held on July in Miyake-jima since 1820.

The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.

For instance, the second word of the Arabic name of the festival, has the root F-Ṣ-Ḥ, which given the sound laws applicable to Arabic is cognate to Hebrew P-S-Ḥ, with " Ḥ " realized as in Modern Hebrew and in Arabic.

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.

It is the oldest continually operated experimental film festival in North America and has become one of the premiere film festivals for independent and, primarily, experimental filmmakers to showcase their work.

For a number of years this volunteer led festival has concentrated mostly around film but, starting in the Year of Highland Culture-Highland 2007, its scope was widened, and it dropped the ' film ' from its title.

Since 2010, the country has began hosting a street festival to encourage all generations and people from all walks of life to enjoy and encourage Malaysian street culture.

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.

It has grown since its beginning in 1976 and now is the second largest festival held in the state of Kentucky.

It has served as the foundation for most music in South India, including folk music, festival music and has also extended its influence to film music in the past 100 – 150 years or so.

Incest appears in the commonly accepted version of the birth of Adonis, when his mother, Myrrha has sex with her father Cinyras during a festival, disguised as a prostitute.

It has been suggested that it was originally a pagan festival associated with the goddess Brighid and that it was Christianized as a festival of Saint Brighid, with whom she is said to share many traits.

This has led to some debate about both the timing and origins of the festival.

Marilyn Strauss founded the festival in 1993 and it has gone on ever since.

The annual " Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival ", which attracts top jazz stars nationwide and large out-of-town audiences, has been rated Kansas City's " best festival.

Von Trier has had a number of his films featured at the Cannes Film Festival over the course of his career, and each time has insisted on driving from Denmark to France for the festival and back.

384 ), may owe its inspiration to her performances at the festival.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

Although the holiday may use features of the Gaelic Beltane, such as the bonfire, it is more alike the Germanic May Day festival, both in its significance ( focusing on fertility ) and its rituals ( such as maypole dancing ).

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.

The region is known for its production of white truffles, and hosts a festival and a museum dedicated to the rare fungus ( genus Tuber ).

In an elaborate festival held on the anniversary of the revolt that brought the monarchy to its knees, David's Hercules figure was revealed in a procession following the lady Liberty ( Marianne ).

The ecclesiastical historian Socrates Scholasticus ( b. 380 ) attributes the observance of Easter by the church to the perpetuation of its custom, " just as many other customs have been established ," stating that neither Jesus nor his Apostles enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival.

Already at its inception it was the largest comedy festival in the world.

Time wrote it had " grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period.

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

The festival draws the best talents of India to its competitions, covering areas ranging from music and drama to literary games and quizzing.

The Mewlānā festival is held over two weeks in December ; its culmination is on 17 December, the Urs of Mewlānā ( anniversary of Rumi's death ), called Šabe Arūs ( شب عروس ) ( Persian meaning " nuptial night "), the night of Rumi's union with God.

" Later, a spokesman for the EIFF said that although it had returned £ 300 to the Israeli Embassy, the festival itself would fund Israeli filmmaker Tali Shalom-Ezer's travel to Edinburgh out of its own budget.

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.

A July festival at CBGB featuring over thirty new groups brought the scene its first substantial media coverage.

Padstow is best known for its "' Obby ' Oss " festival.

Although its origins are unclear, it most likely stems from an ancient fertility rite, perhaps the Celtic festival of Beltane.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.

* George McKay ( 2004 ) '" Unsafe things like youth and jazz ": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals ( 1956 – 61 ) and the origins of pop festival culture in Britain '.

Although the origins of blacking-up for Mummer's Day have no racial connotations – the tradition going back to the days of the Celts – controversially, in the Padstow festival, a song with the words " He's gone where the good niggers go ", was formerly included due to the popularity of minstrel songs during the 20th century.

The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in the late 1930s when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger and with the support of the British and Americans, set up an international cinematographic festival.

Judsonia is home to a yearly festival called Prospect Bluff Days in honor of the towns origins.

The Talmud ascribes the origins of this festival to Adam, who saw that the days were getting shorter and thought it was punishment for his sin.

A number of scholars view aspects of the Saturnalia festival as the origin of some later Christmas customs, particularly the practice of gift giving, which was suppressed by the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages due to perceived " pagan origins ".

Today Greenbelt sees audiences comparable in numbers to those of its " glory days " in the early 1980s, and, although there is constant tension between its faith-based origins and a more exploratory attitude to engaging with the world, the perspective of the festival remains one rooted in the Christian tradition.

He founded the Consualia festival, inviting the neighbouring Sabines to participate ; the ensuing rape of the Sabine women by Romulus's men further embedded both violence and cultural assimilation in Rome's myth of origins.

Originally based around a festival to welcome the New Year, manzai traces its origins back to the Heian period.

The festival has its origins in the local Carnival Queen, once an annual town event, fallen by the wayside due to post-war emigration.

Both " Nadun " and " Nadam " are special nouns designated to an annual festival and reflect their shared origins from the Xianbei who were recorded to have " one major gathering every spring for leisure and fun by river ".

In Italy, St Martin's summer ( Estate di San Martino ) was expected and celebrated as a rural tradition with ancient origins, and is marked by a festival throughout the peninsula on November 11.

With their name derived from a root meaning ' festival ', here is a plateful of traditional Christmas Eve PierogiWhile dumplings as such are found throughout Eurasia, the specific name pierogi, with its Proto-Slavic root " pir " ( festivity ) and its various cognates in the West and East Slavic languages, shows the name's common Slavic origins, predating the modern nation states and their standardized languages, although in most of these languages the word means pie.

The Buddhist origins of the festival can be traced back to a story that originally came from India, but later took on culturally Chinese overtones.

There is a legend about the origins of the Doro Mochi Tsuki festival ( see festivals section below ).

* September 22,: A muddy, mochi-pounding festival at Itoki Kabuta, in which men wearing fundoshi battle each other on a slippery mud field of red-clay while pounding mochi ( see above for origins of this matsuri ).

: This raft racing festival has origins from when lumber traders shipped Hinoki ( Cypress ) wood from Shiraga Mountain in rafts down the river.