Held on the first Saturday of May, the Shine to Wine festival pays tribute to the county's heritage of growing from the Moonshine Capital of the World to what is now recognized as a strong viticultural industry.

Held every September, the annual festival Bois d ’ Arc Bash pays homage to bois d ’ arc trees which played a vital part in the frontier days, providing foundations, fences and weapons of the Indians.

The festival also pays tribute to the Acadian soldiers of the North Shore Regiment of New Brunswick who landed on the beach of Saint-Aubin on June 6, 1944.

Furthermore, these local comedians must compete with international acts, some of whom the festival pays to bring to Melbourne.

A holiday that pays tribute to ancestors, the festival is centered around the arts of altar decoration.

This festival is the pageantry of sights, sounds and colors as it honors and pays homage to the patron saint of Cebu, Sr. Sto.

In this sojourner belonging to a great family from the south, who came like a god, enriched the festival of the New Year with games and drama, possibly organized the collection of tribute on a southern pattern, and departed leaving behind him a legend of divine embodiment, one is tempted to recognize a far earlier appearance of that Lono of the Makahiki in whose name the Kumulipo chant was dedicated to Keawe's infant son and heir ".

It is home to the 10-day Cheeseburger in Caseville festival, a tribute to Jimmy Buffett's song " Cheeseburger in Paradise ".

This festival marks a tribute to the Hachiman Jinja, located near the Owase Port.

A film festival in Hiller's name was held each spring from 2006 until 2009 at his alma mater, Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts, in tribute for his continued support of the school.

The festival began with a primary focus on jam bands and folk rock ; it has diversified greatly in recent years but continues to pay tribute to its roots.

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 1989, Seyrig was given a festival tribute at Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France.

They had first met Stevie Wonder in Jamaica in 1976 and the single prompted him to perform with them at the Reggae Sunsplash festival in 1981 in the wake of Bob Marley's death, playing his tribute to Marley, " Master Blaster ".

The single was released in connection with The City Wakes, a festival in tribute to Syd Barrett that took place in Cambridge and London in October 2008.

Many Portuguese musicians, both veterans and younger artists, joined in the tribute festival, called " Filhos da Madrugada " (" Children of Dawn ", the title of one of Zeca's most famous songs ).

Performances included a January 16 concert in Mumbai ( Bombay ), a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. in Delhi on January 17, and a music festival in Delhi on January 18 organized by violinist L. Subramaniam.

In the same year, a tribute, The Forest of Stumps, by artist Geoff Parr, was exhibited at Hobart's Ten Days on the Island arts festival, including a number of Truchanas ' photographs.

" Come Back Oscar " is a tribute to Calgary musician Oscar Lopez, a friend of the band's who had been absent from the folk festival circuit for several years due to a battle with depression.

* Arrested Development, The Cat Empire, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan and The Captains, Blue King Brown, Archie Roach ( Archie Roach could not perform due to medical issues, a tribute show was held and other performers at the festival played his songs ), Jeff Lang, Lior, You Am I, and Siobhan Owen.

This is a tribute to a large illuminated sign which says " Show " which sits outside of the Sheridan Opera House, which is the festival venue where the Silver Medallions are awarded.

Zappanale is a yearly tribute concert festival dedicated to Frank Zappa's compositions.

Traditionally, each festival is inaugurated with a tribute honoring Pt.

* The group helped celebrate the life of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival founder / benefactor Warren Hellman at a free tribute concert in San Francisco February 19, 2012, appearing with such acts as John Doe, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Steve Earle, The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gillian Welch, Boz Scaggs, and Emmylou Harris.

The festival introduced Maria Callas in Holland, but was also the first to successfully set up a large symphonic tribute to Frank Zappa with " 200 motels-the suite " in 2000 ( after failed attempts to have Zappa perform himself in the festival in 1981 ).

Oyo sources claim Ketu as a dependency with claims that the Ketu paid an annual tribute and that its ruler attended the Bere festival in Oyo.

The Apple festival celebrates one of Northern Michigan's most prominent fruits, the apple.

Many apple related events are always scheduled including the " Apple Run " which is a 5 kilometer race on the Sunday of the festival.

Since 1947 La Crescent has celebrated this apple heritage annually with a weekend festival known as Applefest.

* Norsk Eplefest ( Norwegian apple festival, since 2006 )

Gvarv is also the host for the music festival Kartfestivalen and the apple festival Eplefest.

Kimmswick, Missouri and Berkeley Springs, West Virginia have an annual apple butter festival.

The highlight of the festival is the cooking of real apple butter in a large copper kettle over an open fire.

Non secular highlights include primarily the Festival of the Pêro, an agricultural festival dedicated to the apple, held annually in September in the locality of Salão.

An apple orchard preserves native Jersey cider apple varieties and the preinseu ( cider press house ) is the focus of the annual Faîs ' sie d ' cidre cidermaking festival using traditional equipment and methods.

The festival is held in and around Eastwood Oval and is usually in October of each year to commemorate 19th-century pioneer Maria Ann ' Granny ' Smith, credited with producing the " Granny Smith apple " and celebrated for providing the Ryde-Hunters Hill area with great prosperity.

The films may be of recent date and, depending upon the focus of the individual festival, can include international releases as well as films produced by the organisers ' domestic film industry.

In modern times, the whole two week long festival has spawned a huge local industry, to the point that an entire suburban area has been designated the City of Falles – Ciutat fallera.

In 1959 the Marché du Film ( Film Market ) was founded, giving the festival a commercial character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry.

Other changes were the decrease of length of the festival down to thirteen days, reducing the number of selected films thus ; also, until that point the Jury was composed by Film Academics, and Jacob started to introduce celebrities and professionals from the film industry.

In general, SIFF has a reputation as an " audience festival " rather than an " industry festival ".

The festival often partially overlaps the Cannes Film Festival, which can reduce attendance by industry bigwigs ; in 2007 there were two days of overlap, May 24 and 25.

The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts.

The festival format has proven quite successful at attracting attention to the art of stand-up, and is often used as a scouting and proving ground by industry professionals seeking new comedy talent.

The town holds an annual sausage festival to celebrate the industry.

The festival that is hosted each October supports the local industry of agriculture.

This festival is named such because of New Washington's history with the chicken hatchery industry. The first commercial hatchery in the United States was in New Washington.

* Astropolis — star-scaled city / industry area ; complex space station ; a European star-related festival.

* Baix Vinalopó or Bajo Vinalopó: 290, 481 inhabitants ; its capital is Elche ; agriculture, footwear and carpet industry, tourism ; Misteri d ' Elx festival and services with Alicante Airport in municipality of Elche.

The following festival also occurs in Edinburgh during August, but is an industry gathering-it does not offer events open to the public:

Each year Broome celebrates this fusion of different cultures in an annual cultural festival called Shinju Matsuri ( Japanese for festival of the pearl ), it looks to celebrate the Asian influenced culture brought here by the pearling industry.

The festival commemorates the industry that shaped the area, namely cultivation of grapes ( Dutch druiven ).

Heavily sponsored by the local industry, prominent world acts such as BB King, Diana Krall, Ornette Coleman, Joshua Redman and John Scofield have played at the festival in recent years.

Annually, the festival showcases the best films offered from the independent and international industry as well as those from student filmmakers.

In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry.

Grapes, first planted in the 1760s, led to the modern grape and wine industry of the town and also led to the annual grape festival which began in 1861, one of which was broadcast on the World Food Network.

The Independent Games Festival ( IGF ) is an annual festival at the Game Developers Conference, the largest annual gathering of the indie video game industry.