In 2008 the largest comedy venues on the Edinburgh Fringe launched as a festival within a festival, labelled the Edinburgh Comedy Festival.

A public appeal was launched in 1981 and a festival of avant-garde theatre and music was held there and at other Islington venues in 1982, and the successful Almeida Theatre founded.

Their initial farewell tour launched the first Lollapalooza festival, an alternative rock showcase.

During the life of the festival, in 1999, the organisers launched the Bexhill 100 Motoring Club, so although the Festival no longer exists, the club still goes from strength to strength, and their committee organises each year, the Bexhill 100 Motoring Club Classic Car Show held on August bank holiday Monday in the Polegrove, Bexhill.

In 2005 Canalside Community Radio was launched to provide community news and entertainment for the duration of the festival.

The band launched a multi-night festival, Octoberflame, in Southern California in 2008, concluding two years of touring behind Music From Regions Beyond.

Old drummer Stew Smith has already launched his graphic design company, ' Smeezer ', which has designed advertising campaigns for Premier Percussion, clothing lines for high street store Fat Face, and the marketing of ' The Big Church Day Out ' festival.

CBGB Radio launched on the iheartradio platform in 2010 and a music festival in 2012.

On opening day a celebrity launched the festival by releasing balloons and stayed to sign autographs.

The current priority for the feoffees is the preservation of the tower stonework and other items at a cost of approximately £ 40, 000 and an appeal fund was launched in 2009 at the patronal festival.

* The Bobby was launched by Broadway Baby in 2011 and are given to the best shows of the festival as decided by the Broadway Baby judging panel.

The festival lasts four days and fireworks are launched every night.

In 2009, the Chicago festival was launched and aired on TBS.

In 2008 " The Fringe of Toronto " launched a second festival called " The Next Stage Festival " ( NSTF ) which takes place annually in January.

In October 1986, a group of faculty members launched Fanfare, a festival celebrating the arts, humanities and sciences.

In Toronto, the Caribana parade and festival was launched in 1967 as a celebration of Caribbean culture, and as a gift from Canada's West Indian community in tribute to the Centennial year.

In 1994, the festival launched on a parcel of undeveloped land at Peachtree St. and Tenth St. in the heart of Midtown's business district.

In 2008, the ' transmediale parcours ' publication series was launched in order to reflect upon research, as well as artistic and critical backgrounds behind each festival ’ s theme.

On July 4, 1976, following the rendezvous of Tall Ships in New York for the U. S. Bicentennial, eight ships from other nations visited Baltimore, where they attracted a huge outpouring of tourists and launched the creation of many tourist attractions – including the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore Convention Center, Hyatt Regency Baltimore Hotel and the Harborplace festival marketplace ( operated by The Rouse Company ), which opened on the Fourth of July, 1980.

The festival was launched in 1987 at a media conference hosted by Barry Humphries ( as Sir Les Patterson ) and Peter Cook.

In any event, the situation did not last long as the Tây Sơn leader, Nguyễn Huệ, launched a surprise attack against the Qing forces while they were celebrating the Chinese New Year festival of the year 1789.

In February 1997, Clay Nelson ( a two-time attendee at Stanford Tango Week ) organized his first ValenTango festival in Portland, Oregon ; " Tango Fantasy on Miami Beach " was formed by Jorge Nel, Martha Mandel, Lydia Henson and Randy Pittman as Florida's first tango festival ; and the Portland October Tangofest was launched, again by Clay Nelson.

It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the biggest music festivals of the 1990s, and helped launch the careers of several well-known female artists.

The festival is closely identified with the musical careers of British composers Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The festival is noted for being the launching platform of Keith Urban and Kasey Chambers ' careers.

The MUTEK festival has presented many of electronic music ’ s most established figures, while providing a platform for numerous new talents who have gone on to build sustainable careers, often as a result of their appearances at the festival.

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.

There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of autumnally ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others.

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

The Aomori region is famous for the Nebuta festival where huge okedo are played by many people while carted through the streets.

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.

Hobart also hosts many events as part of the biennial international arts festival Ten Days On The Island.

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.

The holiday was, and for many still is, a festival of the hearth and home, and a celebration of the lengthening days and the early signs of spring.

" According to Hone, more than four people had died at this festival and many more were injured.

May Day on May 1 is an ancient Northern Hemisphere spring festival and usually a public holiday ; it is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures.

In the twentieth and continuing into the twenty-first century, many neopagans began reconstructing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festival again.

The festival has many different names specific to each country:

Perhaps the most important cultural event in Poznań is the annual Malta theatre festival, which takes place at many city venues usually in late June and early July.

Gawai Dayak a festival of the Dayaks includes the cockfight and the waving of a rooster over offerings while asking for guidance and blessings with the rooster being sacrificed and the blood included in spiritual offering, while the Tiwah festival involves the sacrifice of many animals including the chicken as offerings to the Supreme God.

Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival dependent on the position of the sun and celebration of Sankranti who is considered a Deity for Hindus and is celebrated in many ways including worship for the departed ancestors and to worship Saraswati.

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.

Melburnians were celebrating the annual Moomba Festival, a free community festival, and many thousands were enjoying other attractions but are included in the crowd estimate.

The Brothers have also played at many major festivals, including Glastonbury, Fuji Rock, Reading, the HFStival, and Leeds festival.

The audience which had peaked at an estimated 400, 000 people during the festival, was now reduced to about 30 – 40, 000 by that point ; many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his show.

Celebration hosts many events every year, including community-wide yard sales, an art show, an exotic car festival, an annual Radio Disney Holiday concert, an Oktoberfest Celebration, the " Great American Pie Festival " ( televised on The Food Network ), a " Posh Pooch " festival, and downtown events for the Fall and Christmas seasons when autumn leaves and " snow " ( small-scale soap flakes ) are released into the Town Center.