The taiko drummer traditionally wears a " happi coat " or " hanten " ( a colorful festival coat ), " tabi " ( split toe shoes ), " tekko " ( wristbands ), momohiki ( pants ), hachimaki ( headband ), " haragake " ( traditional workman's apron ) with a haramaki underneath ( a strip of cloth wrapped around the midsection ), so most of the upper body is bare.

" The festival was celebrated near the cave of Lupercal on the Palatine Hill ( the central hill where Rome was traditionally founded ), to expiate and purify new life in the Spring.

It is traditionally eaten during the festival is for Lunar worship and Moon watching.

The most significant ethonological Carnival festival is traditionally held in annually in the town of Ptuj ( see: Kurentovanje ).

Another important detail is fire: A festival fire must be kept from sunset till sunrise, and various kinds of flaming light sources are used ; usually these are bonfires, which traditionally people jump over to ensure prosperity and fertility.

Winslow also has an annual Standin ' On The Corner street festival, traditionally held the last week of September.

This festival, which has traditionally been held on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, was demoted to only Saturday and Sunday in 2009 after the town's centennial due to the suffering economy. But, in 2011 they added Thursday activities to the festival.

This event is traditionally held over the Memorial Day weekend and consists of a community parade, a festival at the Valley Center Community Center and a rodeo.

The festival is held every year in the São Paulo ( state ) city of Barretos, where it has traditionally been organized and promoted by the social club Os Independentes (" The Independents ").

Songkran has traditionally been celebrated as the New Year for many centuries, and is believed to have been adapted from an Indian festival.

** Lustration ; this one day festival took place on the third day of the third moon ( dubbed the " double-three "), and traditionally was meant to dispel evil and wash away defilement in a river with scented aromatic orchis plants.

Gallagher reportedly blasted the organizers of the 2008 Glastonbury Festival for scheduling Jay-Z as a headliner for the traditionally guitar-driven festival:

Latkes () are traditionally eaten by Jews during the Hanukkah festival.

The belly button is traditionally painted into a mouth. These days, modern motifs and Japanese anime designs have crept in to the festival, which city officials said is all about having fun.

In Urdu-speaking areas, the festival is also called بقرعید Baqra Īd or Baqrī Īd, stemming either from the Arabic baqarah " heifer " or the Urdu word baqrī for " goat ", as cows and goats are among the traditionally sacrificed animals.

The circular dance is traditionally performed in the spring around the festival of May Day, but in Sweden it is during the midsummer festivities.

Speeches by Arab religious leaders during the festival, in which traditionally large numbers of Muslims gathered for a religious procession, led to a serious outbreak of violent assaults on the city's Jews.

Although traditionally flying kites is observed as a part of this festival.

The dish originates from the village of Mousehole () in Cornwall and is traditionally eaten during the festival of Tom Bawcock's Eve to celebrate his heroic catch during a very stormy winter.

Among the ancient remains, barbs ( perhaps Barbus perince ) were plentiful, and Egyptians in our time still consider B. perince good for preparing fesikh, as it is traditionally done for the Sham el-Nessim ( spring festival ) celebrations.

The festival is always held in July on the week, which it has been traditionally recognized as Latino Week in Toronto, in honour of the festival.

Among the more popular Birdmen event, the Birdman Rally, which traditionally adds colour to the festival and is traditionally held at the Swan Street bridge, a location that also featured in the 2006 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony as part of the Queens Baton Relay.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

:* Milwaukee's four-day street festival begins with a " Storming of the Bastille " with a 43-foot replica of the Eiffel Tower.

Direct evidence for the Easter festival begins to appear in the mid-2nd century.

Evidence for another kind of annual Christian festival, the commemoration of martyrs, begins to appear at about the same time as evidence for the celebration of Easter.

As Passover is a spring festival, 14 Nisan begins on the night of a full moon after the vernal equinox.

Passover is a spring festival, so the 14th day of Nisan begins on the night of a full moon after the northern vernal equinox.

In the context of English educational and legal institutions, Saint Hilary's festival lies at the start of the Hilary Term which begins in January.

The festival begins on the first weekend in May with the Artrageous Parade, a lively, outrageous, and colorful procession of all things artsy.

The festival is well known for backing up unsuspecting traffic for hours when the parade begins on Saturday morning of the event.

" A parade begins the festival, marching down High Street to the Chester River, and then follows with colonial music and dance, fife and drum performances, puppet shows, colonial crafts demonstrations and sales, military drills, and a walking tour of the historic district.

The community festival begins on a Friday evening and lasts until the early hours of Sunday morning.

The week-long celebration begins with the selection of the local festival queen and her court and culminates with a carnival, popular 10k race, parade and " fly-in " breakfast at the local airport.

The second day of the festival always brings out antique car lovers as the Antique Car Run begins its trek through the county on Sunday afternoon.

The event usually begins on a Friday night with bands and food, but the official start is the parade on Saturday morning in which local school bands, Little League teams, Boy Scout troops and various local emergency service crews walk across town, ending at the festival.

The playground has a unique and traditional July 4 festival, mostly unchanged for more than a century, which begins at 9 AM with children's races and culminates twelve hours later in one of the region's best-known fireworks displays.

The festival begins Friday afternoon and lasts until Sunday afternoon.

The current festival begins with the awakening of the Jack-in-the-Green ceremony, atop Blue Bell Hill at sunrise on 1 May and continues in Rochester High Street over the May Bank Holiday weekend.

The festival begins in the early morning with a family foot race.

The festival begins with chamber music and then the patron image of the Virgin Mary is “ awakened ” with the song Las Mañanitas as she is surrounded by numerous floral arrangements for mass.

The festival begins on 31 January at 3pm and lasts for 8 days, until 9 February, all day and all night.

The central act of this celebration is a political meeting of leading nationalists, but the celebration begins in the morning with a traditional festival in which the different municipal organizations from the party set up stands to sell drinks and their more typical products, all brightened up by traditional music.

Such festivals include Vėlinės ( day of dead souls, common with Celtic Halloween ), Užgavėnės ( festival when winter ends and spring begins ), and Rasos or Joninės.

It is prepared during the festival of Pongal, which is held when the harvesting season begins, Kalhi made during Thiruvaadhirai, moreover Honey, Thinai Mavu along with Jaggery is ancient tamil food for many thousand years. It is important and one of the ingredient in pazhani prasadam called ' Panch Amirtham '.

The festival begins with a parade through the village, with the new King and Queen being determined thereafter in a bird-shooting contest.