The angriest young man in Newport last night was at the Playhouse, where `` Epitaph For George Dillon '' opened as the jazz festival closed.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

Initially the festival was held in October, but due to the inclement weather and local heavy clay soil ( like the battle ) making the festival difficult it was moved to July.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.

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.

An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

The festival of Artemis Orthia was observed in Sparta.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

Still extant echoes of these celebrations are found in the mid-autumn Thanksgiving holiday of the United States and Canada, and the Jewish Sukkot holiday with its roots as a full-moon harvest festival of " tabernacles " ( huts wherein the harvest was processed and which later gained religious significance ).

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

Beltane was an ancient Gaelic festival celebrated in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

Beltane and Samhain were the leading terminal dates of the civil year in medieval Ireland, though the latter festival was the more important.

According to Nora Chadwick, in Celtic Ireland " Beltine ( or Beltaine ) was celebrated on 1 May, a spring-time festival of optimism.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

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.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

" Now Judas celebrated the festival of the restoration of the sacrifices of the temple for eight days, and omitted no sort of pleasures thereon ; but he feasted them upon very rich and splendid sacrifices ; and he honored God, and delighted them by hymns and psalms.

In Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks ( inocentadas ), similar to April Fools ' Day.

On June 11, the Matralia was celebrated at that temple in honor of Mater Matuta ; this festival was only for women during their first marriage.

The Day of German Unity is celebrated each year with a ceremonial act and a citizens ' festival ().

In Euboea the festival of the Great Daedala, sacred to Hera, was celebrated on a sixty-year cycle.

The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

This provoked the 174 – 135 BCE Maccabean Revolt led by Judas Maccabeus ( whose victory is celebrated in the Jewish festival of Hanukkah ).

The ancient Greeks celebrated the festival of the Heracleia, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of Metageitnion ( which would fall in late July or early August ).

In Buddhism, honey plays an important role in the festival of Madhu Purnima, celebrated in India and Bangladesh.

Evidence of how Imbolc was celebrated in Gaelic Ireland is found in medieval Irish texts that mention the festival, besides folklore collected during the 19th and early 20th century in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

His festival, celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple on February 15, was called the Lupercalia.

Throughout the country, two minutes of silence are observed at 8 p. m. On May 5th, the liberation is celebrated and festivals are held at most places in the Netherlands, with a parade of veterans and day-long musical festival in Wageningen, the latter with an estimated attendance of 100, 000.

In the neighbourhood of Larissa was celebrated a festival which recalled the Roman Saturnalia, and at which the slaves were waited on by their masters.

The Romans celebrated her festival from March 19 to March 23 during the day which is called, in the neuter plural, Quinquatria, the fifth after the Ides of March, the nineteenth, an artisans ' holiday.

It is the first time a non-Christian religious festival is officially celebrated in Spain since the Reconquista.

Culturama, the annual cultural festival of Nevis, is celebrated during the Emancipation Day weekend, the first week of August.

* Sindhi festival of Cheti Chand is celebrated on the same day as Ugadi / Gudi Padwa to mark the celebration of the Sindhi New Year.

* Sinhalese New Year is celebrated with the harvest festival ( in the month of Bak ) when the sun moves from the Meena Rashiya ( House of Pisces ) to the Mesha Rashiya ( House of Aries ).

* The Marwari New Year is celebrated on the day of the festival of Diwali, which is the last day Krishna Paksha of Ashvin month & also last day of the Ashvin month of Hindu calendar.

Similarly, after the victory the festival of the Agroteras Thysia (" sacrifice to the Agrotéra ") was held at Agrae near Athens, in honor of Artemis Agrotera (" Artemis the Huntress ").

The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.

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.

The winter festival went underground with the Protestant Reformation and ensuing years, but re-emerged near the end of the 17th century.

A second Torpedo Town festival was held in August 1987 at Bramdean Common near Winchester.

* 23 September: A 48-year-old man was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.

Funding is a combination from the Buckingham endowment, city and park district funds and a grant from the Lollapalooza music festival which is held annually near the fountain.

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.

Priests of the Erechtheum and the priestess of Athena jointly took part in the procession to Skira that inaugurated the Skira festival near the end of the Athenian year.

His brothers, nymphs, gods and goddesses mourned his death, and their tears, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, were the source of the river Marsyas in Phrygia, which joins the Meander near Celaenae, where Herodotus reported that the flayed skin of Marsyas was still to be seen, and Ptolemy Hephaestion recorded a " festival of Apollo, where the skins of all those victims one has flayed are offered to the god.

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.

The festival takes place on the first weekend after Labor Day in Veterans Park, near Long Island Sound.

At Crockettsville ( near Buckhorn ) is a yearly festival that raises money for a children's home.

Cornerstone Festival was a Christian music festival put on by Jesus People USA and held annually around the 4th of July near Bushnell, Illinois.

Gong played at the Big Chill festival in the UK between on 9 August 2009 with Allen, Smyth, Hillage, Giraudy, Sturt, Taylor and Travis in the line up, at the Beautiful Days Festival in Devon, 23 August 2009, and at the Lounge on the Farm festival near Canterbury in the summer of 2009.

Started in 1929 ( coincidentally the year Wyatt Earp died ), the festival is held on the third weekend of every October, near the anniversary date of the Gunfight at the O. K.

The dates of the festival vary from year to year, but are always near the end of June through the first week of July.

Music festival near Zegersloot.

Started by Italian immigrants from Montefalcione, a small town near Naples, Italy in 1919, the feast is widely considered the largest and most authentic Italian Religious festival in the United States.

The Dulci-More Festival, a music festival dedicated to the Appalachian dulcimer and other traditional musical instruments, was inaugurated in 1995 and takes place each Memorial Day weekend at Camp McKinley, a Boy Scout camp near Lisbon.

The two yearly events celebrated by the community, both held by St. Patrick's Parish, are the Lenten fish fries, held in the cafeteria of the school, and the summer festival, held near the end of August on the school playground and in the gymnasium.

In August 2009, a benefit music festival featuring local bands was held near the completed portion of the trail.

* Texas Mile-a weekend Motorsports racing festival used to be held at the Goliad Airport near Berclair, TX but the field has since been reclaimed by the Navy as a training field.