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

Music and poetry were highlights of the festival, which featured performers Leon Rausch, Tommy Allsup and the Texas Playboys ; Mel Tillis and the Statesiders ; Larry Gatlin ; Billy Mata, and Liz Talley.

The festival presents Ipswich's cultural heritage and highlights the city's emerging talents through a deliberate program of Live Bands, Concerts, Art exhibits, Fireworks, Theatre, Jazz, Multicultural Celebrations, interactive displays and a range of family-based events to encourage participation by all age groups whilst attracting day tourism to the region.

The Just for Laughs Festival, or Festival Juste pour rire, a comedy festival, again highlights Quebec's love of humour.

A TV show, also called Just For Laughs, features highlights from the festival, and it airs regularly on CBC Television, The Comedy Network and TVA.

The two day festival highlights the area's Dutch heritage with parades filled with flowers, traditional song and dance, and Dutch markets.

Among the highlights of the school year are a dance recital, a sports festival and a potato harvest.

The festival highlights traditional Swiss culture and features competitions of Steinstossen ( stone put ), Schwingen ( wrestling ) and yodelling.

The highlights of that festival included a parade on the Saturday, which began in the grounds of the former Mooroolbark Primary School ( which closed at the end of 2004 ) and went down Brice Avenue towards the fairground.

Aside from the actual festival performance of " Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue ", including the distant-sounding Gonsalves solo, the original album used re-creations, note for note, of some of the set's highlights, which were secretly re-recorded in the studio in spite of Ellington's objection.

The two main highlights of the National Hunt Calendar are the Cheltenham Festival meeting at Cheltenham Racecourse, held over four days in the second week of March the festival features eleven Grade one races, culminating in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the best and most prestigious Chase race in the world, on the Friday.

The CineLink Market each year presents approximately 10 finest regional projects for feature-length fiction films, also offering festival guests a special opportunity to meet with the assembled regional industry, with emphasis on young filmmakers, producers and directors presenting their latest projects, productions and works in progress, with highlights of the regional production presented to international distributors, TV-buyers and festival programmers, making CineLink the most important international market place for new features from Southeast Europe.

In the fall, the Atlanta Pride festival attracts the LGBT local and regional community while the week-long Out on Film gay film festival highlights films by, for, and about the LGBT community.

Traditional folk dancing, a Turkish bazaar, classical and contemporary Turkish music, and a fashion show of the many traditional costumes are festival highlights.

The album, will be a collection of B-sides, including the previously unreleased-on-CD Handsome Sugite and one new song, Tadaranu Kankei, while the video will contain highlights from the band's best live performances along with festival appearances and rare material.

After the release of The Pathway, Officium Triste did a number of gigs of which the support slot for Candlemass in 013 Tilburg and the appearance on the Doom Shall Rise festival were highlights in the history of Officium Triste.

* The Morija Arts & Cultural Festival is a prominent Sotho music festival, held annually, which highlights the dance and music of the Basotho people.

Additional highlights include the Tanzquartier, an international, state-of-the-art centre for dance, the Architekturzentrum Wien, production studios for new media, artist studios for artists-in-residence, outstanding art and cultural facilities designed for children, and a variety of other events and festivals such as the renowned Viennale film festival, the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, and many others.

2009 festival highlights included premieres Mississippi Damned directed by Tina Mabry and I Sell the Dead produced by Larry Fessenden and directed by Glenn McQuaid, which was acquired by the Independent Film Channel and Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Buddhist monasteries sporting prayer flags, display of thankas, archery competitions, a mock marriage and horse-polo are the some highlights of this festival.

Staged across six prestigious London venues, highlights of the 2012 festival include a rare visit to London by Wales ’ internationally acclaimed NoFit State Circus in a co-production with France ’ s Tattoo Theatre ; the UK premières of Camille Boitel ’ s astonishing visual cacophony, L ’ Immédiat, at the Barbican Theatre, Belgium ’ s acrobat-illusionist, Claudio Stellato at Southbank Centre, and Japanese butoh / street-dance icon, Hiroaki Umeda, at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House.

The festival highlights the work of new film makers.

* All Tomorrow's Parties ( music festival ), a music festival which takes place in Great Britain

:* 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 was invited to open subsequent gigs for the band, and then began performing as a support act in pubs and clubs, for the next three years, and at events such as the Larks in the Park music festival at Sefton Park ( 1982 ).

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.

* Creation Festivals, Christian music festival

Bhangra is not just music but a dance, a celebration of the harvest where people beat the dhol ( drum ), sing Boliyaan ( lyrics ) and dance. It developed further with the Vaisakhi festival of the Sikhs.

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.

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

Today there are thousands of film festivals around the world, ranging from high profile festivals such as Sundance Film Festival and Slamdance Film Festival ( Park City, UT ) to horror festivals such as Terror Film Festival ( Philadelphia, PA ), and the first U. S. film festival dedicated to honoring the impact of music in film: the Park City Film Music Festival: http :// www. PCFMF. com.

This festival is mainly for groups that are already known in the music world.

Still, in the early 2000s the town founded the pop music festival " Fucking Åmål Festival ".

the olive harvest festival, and music festivals featuring Anglo-American folk, klezmer, Renaissance, and chamber music.

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.

In addition, the Gram Parsons Tribute, in Waycross, Georgia, is a music festival remembering Parsons in the town in which he grew up.

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.

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

In September 2010, Jarmusch helped to curate the All Tomorrow's Parties music festival in Monticello, New York.

In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded.

The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

The Taste of Tasmania is a major part of the festival, where locals and visitors can taste fine local and international food and wine.

Each summer solstice he held a festival dedicated to the god, which became popular with the masses because of the free food distributed on such occasions.

Although a vegetarian festival is celebrated each year by a portion of Thailand's population, and many restaurants in Thailand will offer vegetarian food during this festival period, pure vegetarian food is normally difficult to find in Thailand.

Held in Gratz Park between the Carnegie Center and Transylvania University, the festival typically features up to 100 art and craft booths, live entertainment throughout the weekend, food, children's activities, adult activities and literary events, free carriage rides, a traditional Morris and Maypole dance and various demonstrations.

Her conclusion was that the evidence testified to an ancient Celtic festival on 1 August that involved the following: solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it ; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake ; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull ; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight ; an installation of a head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh ; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine ; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god or his human representative.

In return for their help, typically around 18 hours over the festival, volunteers are paid in free entry, transport and food, while their charities receive the wages the volunteers earn over the event.

Herodian also relates that Elagabalus forced senators to watch while he danced around his deity's altar to the sound of drums and cymbals, and at each summer solstice celebrated a great festival, popular with the masses because of food distributions, during which he placed the holy stone on a chariot adorned with gold and jewels, which he paraded through the city:

The festival held at the end of the harvest season ; when Jumis ' gift of food had been received.

During the festival, victorious warriors wearing flayed skins carried out mock skirmishes throughout Tenochtitlan, they passed through the city begging alms and blessed whoever gave them food or other offerings.

Held during the second weekend of October on Main Street in Columbia, this festival celebrates the history and culture of Caldwell Parish, with hundreds of pieces of arts and craft, entertainment and good food.

It has lost most of its religious content to become a popular festival with live music, food, drinks and verbenas.

The Crawfish Festival is typically a food and music festival, but each year something new is added.

The three day community festival incorporates live music, food and craft vendors, and amusement rides during the first weekend of May.

Gecko Fest happens on Saturday of each Labor Day weekend and is the largest street festival of the year, including street performers, live music on multiple stages, and food, art and craft vendors.

There is also a festival at the Lion's Park with attractions like rides, games, and food.

The street festival encompasses the entire city square, complete with numerous food stands, rides, and a very large Biergarten.

The festival features food and cakes, musical entertainment, contests, races, vendor booths and yard sales.

Held mainly to expose locals to a part of Japanese culture, the festival provides the experience of a variety of Japanese food & drinks, art and dance.

The Folklife aspect of the festival is a celebration of local lifestyles and culture with displays on recreational folklife ( traditional games ), functional folklife ( quilting, tatting, chair-caning, basket-making, fly-tying ), oral traditions ( storytelling ), folk music, food traditions ( curing country hams, making burgoo, the craft of barbecue ), and foreign cultures that have integrated with local traditions, among other things.

The festival includes country headliners, sponsored by Jenkins Festival Committee, Inc. and Coca-Cola ; Mountain Outreach Idol ; local performers ; bluegrass ; Gospel ; Rock ; Country ; food and craft booths ; rides ; a mechanical bull ; bungee jump ; prizes and fun.