On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

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

Akio Tsumura had also played for the festival before Miyake-jima erupted in 2000.

An important role in this standardisation appears to have been played by the Athenian tyrant Hipparchus, who reformed the recitation of Homeric poetry at the Panathenaic festival.

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

In April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.

In 1995, he played at the first The Big Chill festival, and then became a resident for the next 16 years.

In August 1977, Asphalt Jungle played at the second Mont de Marsan punk festival.

In July 2005, the band — again including MacGowan — played at the annual Guilfest festival in Guildford before flying out to Japan where they played three dates.

In 2009 the band played at the biggest open-air festival in Europe ( 400. 000-500. 000 rock fans every year )-Przystanek Woodstock in Poland

In July 2009, Buzzcocks played in Serbia for the second time, at the EXIT festival in Novi Sad.

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

In January 1985, the band headlined two nights of the first Rock in Rio festival at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and played in front of over 300, 000 people each night.

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

On February 5, 2012 they played for the first time in Bangalore as part of the second edition of Summerstorm festival.

On August 2, 2009, Baez played at the 50th Newport Folk Festival, which also marked the 50th anniversary of her breakthrough performance at the first festival.

There were versions in Slough and Leeds, as well as one in Scotland, played during the Edinburgh Fringe arts festival ( where the name was changed to " Morningside Crescent ").

In the summer of 1986, the band played to their biggest ever audience as special guests to Queen at a festival in Germany attended by a crowd of 150, 000 people.

He played the violin in the 1846 Birmingham festival, and in 1849 went to London as a private composition student under William Sterndale Bennett.

He played a live recording of the band recorded at the 2003 All Tomorrows Parties festival on his radio show ; afterwards he couldn't speak and had to put on another record to regain his composure.

They also played the main stage of the 2004 and 2009 Big Day Out festival and opened for Metallica in their Australian tour in 2004.

The Europop song Happy New Year by Swedish band ABBA is usually played during the festival nowadays.

Each summer since 1969 ( with the exception of 2007 when the town was hit by floods ) the Abbey has played host to Musica Deo Sacra, a festival combining music and liturgy.

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

The first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932 ; the other major and oldest film festivals of the world are: Cannes Film Festival ( 1946 ), Festival del film Locarno ( 1946 ), Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( 1946 ), Edinburgh International Film Festival ( 1947 ), Melbourne International Film Festival ( 1951 ), Berlin International Film Festival ( 1951 ) and Toronto International Film Festival ( 1976 ).

The Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Gimli Film Festival are also major festivals in North America, as is the Vancouver International Film Festival, the fifth largest film festival in North America.

The Toronto International Film Festival, begun in 1976, is regarded North America's most major and most prestigious film festival, and the most widely attended worldwide.

The Sundance film festival is a major festival for independent film.

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

Hultsfred is known as the site of a major rock festival in Sweden, the Hultsfred Festival.

She was one of the more popular acts at the Monterey Pop Festival and later became one of the major attractions to the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour.

P1 SuperStock is a major sporting festival over five or six weekends in May through October.

These trends climaxed in the 1969 Woodstock festival, which saw performances by most of the major psychedelic acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Santana.

1968 saw the first major German rock festival in Essen, and the foundation of the Zodiak Free Arts Lab in Berlin by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, and Conrad Schnitzler, which helped bands like Tangerine Dream and Amon Düül achieve cult status.

All of the Indian states observe dry days on major religious festivals / occasions depending on the popularity of the festival in that region.

festival in 1992 provided Phish with their first national tour of major amphitheaters.

This major festival is also celebrated in the northeast region of India, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and parts of Chhattisgarh.

The Consualia, with its semi-mythical establishment by Romulus, and the Cerealia, the major festival of Ceres, were probably older than the earliest historically attested " Roman Games " ( Ludi Romani ) held at the Circus in honour of Jupiter in 366 BC.

Because Mercury was not one of the early deities surviving from the Roman Kingdom, he was not assigned a flamen (" priest "), but he did have a major festival on May 15, the Mercuralia.

Another major funerary festival, a national event spread over several days in the month of Khoiak in the Egyptian calendar, became linked with Osiris during the Middle Kingdom.

Due to their valiant efforts many films will be purchased at the festival for wider distribution or, thanks to receiving a festival award, will attract the attention of major producers, distributors, and the media.

It was a major festival during the Hellenic era, and later spread to Rome.