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

The festival highlights music, food, and crafts of the Appalachian region.

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.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

The most famous work of Algerian cinema is probably that of Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Chronicle of the Years of Fire, which won the palme d ' Or at the Cannes film festival in the year 1975.

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.

The London Short Film Festival is a BAFTA-affiliated festival which takes place in January every year and is dedicated to finding and showcasing the work of new UK talent, including specific screenings for low budget work.

According to a very different account by an ancient grammarian, Herodotus refused to begin reading his work at the festival of Olympia until some clouds offered him a bit of shade, by which time however the assembly had dispersed-thus the proverbial expression " Herodotus and his shade " to describe any man who misses his opportunity through delay.

Shenandoah and the O ' Neill festival offer summer retreats for playwrights to develop their work with directors and actors in a totally " devoted " setting.

The rediscovery of Mackintosh as a significant figure in design is attributed by some to the designation of Glasgow as European City of Culture in 1990, and the exhibition of his work which accompanied the year-long festival.

The festival has spawned a range of other work including the 1972 film Glastonbury Fayre and album, 1996 film Glastonbury the Movie and the 2005 DVD Glastonbury Anthems.

When Isis finds Morag, she learns that though Morag has lapsed somewhat in her Luskentyrian practices ( her work as a porn actress is not inconsistent with the cult's beliefs ) she had every intention of returning for the festival.

Al-Nadim in his 10th century work Kitab al-Fehrest drawing from a work on Syriac calendar feast days, describes a Tâ ' ûz festival that took place in the middle of the month of Tammuz.

In return for their work at the festival Oxfam receive a donation, which in 2005 was £ 200, 000.

National Express provide extra coaches direct to the festival site from major UK towns and much of this work is subcontracted to smaller coach operators to provide the capacity required.

During the festival horses and mules were garlanded with flowers, and given a rest from work.

At least partly through her work Oamaru hosts an annual mask festival each July, the " Midwinter Masquerade ".

Allen, however, continued to develop the Gong mythology from the late seventies up until the nineties in his solo work, and with bands such as Euterpe, Planet Gong ( which comprised Allen and Smyth playing with the British festival band Here & Now ), and New York Gong ( comprising Allen and the musicians who would later become known as Material ), while Smyth formed a separate band Mother Gong, with Jean-Paul Vivini from the band Can AM Des Puig ( author of The Book of AM produced by Daevid Allen ), playing in Spain and England.

There has been a noticeable increase in the quality of the operatic programme in recent years, after decades when, according to critic Rupert Christiansen, the festival featured " work of such mediocre quality that I just longed for someone to put it out of its misery.

Every year hundreds of volunteers work to create exciting new events for our festival for you to enjoy.

At a panel discussion with Daniel Bird and Andrzej Klimowski at the Aurora festival Norwich they emphasized the more significant influence on their work was Walerian Borowczyk, who made both animation shorts and live-action features.

Little has been an exponent of the works of composer Frederick Delius throughout her career, and was the artistic director of " Delius Inspired ", an eight-day festival held in Bradford in July 2006 celebrating his work which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Since its inception in 2005, Mr. Children has been actively participating in the festivals, with an announcement in 2008 that the group will now work more closely with its cause by participating during the entire three day festival duration in addition to further details to be announced at a later time.

His final work, in 1975, a narrative of the epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that Redgrave taught as a young schoolmaster and visualized by producer-director Raul da Silva, received six international film festival prizes of which five were first place in category.

Annual festivals and events in Blowing Rock include: the " Art In The Park " festival, a monthly summertime ( May-Oct ) event in downtown Blowing Rock where artists set up booths to sell their work to tourists ; the Fourth of July festival and parade ; Blowing Rock Winterfest in November ; the Blue Ridge Wine and Food Festival in April ; Christmas in the Park and Lighting of the Town festivities, including a Holiday Parade ; the Symphony by the Lake at Chetola Resort ; and the Blowing Rock Charity Horse Show which has been a tradition for 84 years.