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 band claims on their website that they still pay close attention to an anti-corporate ideology, despite performing on September 5, 2003 at a festival in Turkey that was sponsored by Coca-Cola, noting that they have since pulled out of a show in Los Angeles when they found that it was being sponsored by Coors.

A second festival was held in 2003.

Furthermore, the city of Limassol introduced the first Beer festival in July 2003.

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.

Hustlaball, the huge gay porn festival is held every year since 2003 and is today the leading event of it's kind in Europe.

It was prepared at a 2003 tomato festival in Sonoma County, California and had a total area of.

In 2003, the weight of crowds travelling to and from the Ashton Court festival and Bristol International Balloon Fiesta put such great strain on the bridge that it was decided to close the bridge to all traffic, including pedestrians, during the whole of the Ashton Court Festival and part of the Balloon Fiesta in 2004.

In 2003 and 2004 T4 hosted their T4 on the Beach music festival in the town.

In 2003, the festival organisers responded to claims that the event was becoming too commercialised by implemented a scaled-down, grassroots approach.

* Wild & Scenic Film Festival — Beginning in 2003, the festival has showcased films on a full range of environmental issues and films emphasizing outdoor adventure and extreme sports.

Notable appearances include Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Pierre Boulez, who was festival director in 2003.

In 2003 the city worked with local groups to revamp the festival and the Galesburg Railroad Museum got bus tours of the yards back on track.

The festival was first organized by local resident Harry Roberts ( 1924 – 2003 ) to fund improvements to the then derelict municipal swimming pool and park, located one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of the village.

She is currently writing " Berlin Notes ," based on a six month sabbatical visit to that city ( the first chapter was a cover feature in Prairie Fire Fall 2003 ), and co-editing two volumes of proceedings from the conference / festival, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry ( University of Windsor, 2001 ), with Barbara Godard, of York University.

Metal Female Voices Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Belgium since 2003.

In 2003, the band released the album The Well's on Fire and appeared at the Progman Cometh festival in Seattle.

Following the first three events under the name Detroit Electronic Music Festival ( 2000 – 2002 ) were Movement ( 2003 – 2004 ), Fuse-In ( 2005 ) and currently, Movement: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival ( 2006 – present ), with each name change reflecting shifts in festival management.

In 2003, in one of his most famous protests, Kaurismäki boycotted the 40th New York Film Festival as a show of solidarity with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami who was not given a US visa in time for the festival.

They have also performed at Bonnaroo Music Festival 5 times ( 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2009 ) in the 10 year history of the festival.

In 2003, former film producer and Dean of the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Dale Pollock took over the festival and moved it from RiverRun to Winston-Salem.

It was during the Eurosong festival in Latvia in May 2003 that Urban Trad wins the hearts of the general public.

Due to the outbreak of SARS in 2003, the Shanghai festival was moved to Poznan, Poland.

During the summer of 2003, at a street festival that attracted an overflow crowd of 7, 000 fans, the Charlotte NBA expansion franchise unveils " Bobcats " as the team nickname.

In 2003, the Egyptian Museum in Berlin allowed the Hungarian artist duo Little Warsaw, Andras Galik and Balint Havas, to place the bust atop a nearly nude female bronze for a video installation to be shown at the Venice Biennale modern art festival.

* 2003: Kidsfest, a summer children's festival, premiers.