Sullivan became the conductor of the Leeds festival beginning in 1880 and conducted the performance.

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.

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.

The festival became centered around the Siegessäule in the middle of the park ; and the golden angel atop the column became the parade's emblem.

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

He became pope on 27 October 625, two days after the death of his predecessor, Boniface V. The festival of the Elevation of the Cross is said to have been instituted during the pontificate of Honorius, which was marked also by considerable missionary enterprise.

With Christianization, the festival in November ( not the Roman festival in May ) became All Hallows ' Day on November 1 followed by All Souls ' Day, on November 2.

Holst became an occasional organist and choir master at Thaxted Parish Church and began an annual music festival at Whitsuntide in 1916, at which students from Morley College and St Paul's School performed.

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.

Hitler loved the music of Richard Wagner, and he became a close friend of Winifred Wagner after she took over the festival.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

His company became an active developer and manager of shopping center and mall properties, even as he shifted focus to new projects which eventually included planned communities and festival marketplaces.

The film was a sensation and Binoche became the darling of the festival.

In recent years the festival became so popular that there are now several such large summer festivals near the Connecticut-Rhode Island border: The Great Connecticut Cajun and Zydeco Music & Arts Festival, The Blast From The Bayou Cajun and Zydeco Festival, Rhythm & Roots Festival also in California the Cajun / Zydeco Festival ; Bay Area Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont, Calif. and The Simi Valley Cajun, Creole Music Festival.

Liverpool's official Pride was launced in 2010, but by 2011 it became the largest free Gay Pride festival in the United Kingdom outside London.

The Festival was an immediate success, and became an annual festival that continues to this day.

In the months preceding the event, Nirvana's Nevermind was released and became an international smash hit, therefore guaranteeing the success of the festival.

At the state-sponsored facility, which was named Jamestown Festival Park, later renamed Jamestown Settlement, full-sized replicas of the three ships that brought the colonists, the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery were constructed at a shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, and docked at Jamestown, where became a permanent attraction to be both toured, and seen by water from the nearby Jamestown Ferry system operated by VDOT, and relocated for the festival to nearby Glass House Point.

His festival of Liberalia ( March 17 ) became associated with free speech and the rights attached to coming of age.

During a festival in honor of Dionysus that she attended, Priapus tried to rape her while she was asleep, but she was awakened by a sudden cry of a donkey and ran off, leaving Priapus in embarrassment as everyone else woke up too and became aware of his intentions.

While in Miletus at a festival in honor of Artemis, she became an object of Apollo's desire and, fleeing from his advances, asked Pompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home.

During a cinema festival in Sochi in 1996, Sergey Bodrov became acquainted with stage manager Aleksei Balabanov, who invited him to studio STV.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

In favor of John's chronology is the near universal modern scholarly agreement that the Synoptic accounts of a formal trial before the Sanhedrin on a festival day are historically impossible.

Sorita d ' Este observes that it is also important to give consideration to the difference between the modern calendar and the lunisolar calendars which would have been in use when these dates were set, giving us a full moon date around the 13th of each month and the date for the August festival originating with the festival of Nemoralia held in honour of Diana.

The rite of her sacred fires is a modern festival held in honour of the Goddess Hekate all around the world at the Full Moon in May each year, with thousands participating in more than 18 languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Welsh and Esperanto.

In 2004, the New York Musical Theatre Festival presented a week-long festival of modern film musicals that included 10 independent features made since 1996, as well as several programs of short film musicals.

Most modern pagan religions celebrate the cycles and seasons of nature through a festival calendar that honours these changes.

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

The festival consisted of a parade of masks following an adorned wooden boat, that would reflect the floats of modern Carnivals.

In Saint Petersburg the modern celebration of the festival is organized by the city to fall on a fixed date annually ( at Sunday, closest to 27 May ).

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.

The annual Aquarian Tabernacle Church Spring Mysteries Festival is a 3 day Pan-Pagan festival, recreating the mysteries in modern day.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.

Camping overnight, a rural invasion, eccentric dress, wild music and sometimes wilder behaviour — these now familiar features of pop festival happened at Beaulieu each summer, culminating in the so-called ' Battle of Beaulieu ' at the 1960 festival, when rival gangs of modern and traditional jazz fans indulged in a spot of what sociologists went on to call ' subcultural contestation '.

In Irish mythology, the Lughnasadh festival is said to have been begun by the god Lugh ( modern spelling: Lú ) as a funeral feast and sporting competition in commemoration of his foster-mother, Tailtiu, who died of exhaustion after clearing the plains of Ireland for agriculture.

Olokun is still revered in modern Lagos, and Eyo Olokun masquerades are among the main attractions at the Eyo festival.

Buck Fever is Banks ' festival that takes place every year on the opening weekend of modern gun deer hunting season.

This festival celebrates Greenville's Danish heritage as well as its modern day Midwestern spirit.

Some modern day Druids and Pagans see bonfire night as a significant celebration to end the harvest festival.