In October 1996, Ramone headlined the " Rock The Reservation " alternative rock festival in Tuba City, Arizona.

The festival has a broad main stream focus with pop related music as well as traditional acoustic guitar music and alternative music with international guests like Caetano Veloso ( 2007 ), Rumberos Catalans, Pedro Soler, Bernardo Sandoval, Peter Finger, Aaron and Bryce Dessner ( 2008 ).

The festival began in 1992 as a Sydney-only show with Violent Femmes as the headline act, along with Nirvana and a range of other foreign and local alternative music acts playing at the Hordern Pavilion.

Sydney is famous for its alternative rock scene, boasting such names as The Celibate Rifles, indie rockers The Clouds, The Vines and The Crystal Set, to electronic music pioneers Severed Heads, Single Gun Theory, The Lab, Itch-E and Scratch-E and local favourites Sneaky Sound System. and is the original home of the now national alternative rock festival the Big Day Out, which began in Sydney in 1992 featuring local bands such as You Am I and The Clouds and international groups like Nirvana.

The movie title is reported to have been the influence for the name of the popular annual live music festival South By Southwest in Austin, Texas, started in 1987, with the name idea coming from Louis Black, editor and co-founder of the local alternative weekly The Austin Chronicle as a play on the Hitchcock movie title.

Yearly in February the Tanned Tin music festival for alternative music and experimental music takes place in Castellón.

The nearest town to the festival site is Shepton Mallet, three miles ( 5 km ) north east, but there continues to be interaction between the people espousing alternative lifestyles living in Glastonbury and the festival.

The Augustan poet Ovid conflates her with another archaic goddess named Carna, whose festival was celebrated on the Kalends of June and for whom he gives the alternative name Cranê or Cranea, a nymph.

" First Night ", a New Year's Eve arts and entertainment festival, is a Red Bank event designed to provide an alternative to alcohol-related events.

In 1989, PiL toured with New Order and The Sugarcubes as " The Monsters of Alternative Rock ", an arrangement of disparate alternative bands that predated the Lollapalooza festival by two years.

The town hosts the yearly Greasestock festival, a showcase of alternative fuel vehicles.

Their initial farewell tour launched the first Lollapalooza festival, an alternative rock showcase.

In 1993 Primus headlined the alternative rock festival Lollapalooza.

The band then played on the travelling U. S. alternative rock festival, Lollapalooza, in the summer of 1994.

The festival evolved from Music At Myrtle and features a range of musical genres including rock, alternative rock, indie rock and pop music.

* Infest ( festival ), an alternative electronic music festival in Bradford, UK since 1998

A charcoal gas producer at the Nambassa alternative festival in New Zealand in 1981

Since 1989 Dour has hosted the annual Dour Festival, an alternative music festival.

There is an increasing amount of tourism, mostly as a result of the festival that runs in the Summer promoting the isle and the alternative history there.

This was a free festival put on by the alternative ( albeit Toyota-funded ) music and art label, Scion A / V.

Later scholars and students commonly quoted Agricola's lists as a historical source ; only in the late eighteenth century did scholars begin to critically evaluate the " gods " in Agricola's lists and the information he presented about them, determining with further research that most of the figures in his lists were not gods, but local guardian spirits, figures from folk mythology or explanatory legends, cultural heroes, Christian saints under alternative names, and, in one case, a harvest-time festival.

There are also the many North American Indian festivals tied to harvest of autumnally ripe foods gathered in the wild, the Chinese Mid-Autumn or Moon festival, and many others.

On 13 February 2008, the band announced from their website that it would perform at the World Stage of the Rock in Rio — Madrid festival, being held in Arganda del Rey, Madrid with others artists who have ( then ) yet to be announced .< ref >

The ones on Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are chiefly made up of homilies on the Scripture sections for the Sabbath or festival, while the others are rather of an exegetical nature.

Plutarch and others have noted that the sacrifices to Osiris were " gloomy, solemn, and mournful ..." ( Isis and Osiris, 69 ) and that the great mystery festival, celebrated in two phases, began at Abydos on the 17th of Athyr ( November 13 ) commemorating the death of the god, which was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

In order to perform these more complex arrangements the band toured with an expanded group that included Adrian Belew and Bernie Worrell, among others, first at the Heatwave festival in August, and later in their concert film Stop Making Sense.

The city hosts, among others events, the international theatre festival, " Kontakt ", annually in May

Nevertheless it remains an official church festival in many Protestant churches, such as the ( Lutheran ) Church of Sweden, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and others.

Festivals with international stars and noteworthy films gave way to others filled with bombastic socialist rhetoric, which nearly caused the complete loss of the festival audience.

Most Ancient Egyptian festivals were religious, but others were not such as one festival established by Rameses III to celebrate his victory over the Libyans.

The most commonly cited include the series of Chamber's Street loft concerts, New York, curated by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young in 1961 featuring pieces by Jackson Mac Low and Henry Flynt, the month-long Yam festival held in upstate New York by George Brecht and Robert Watts in May, 1963 with Ray Johnson and Allan Kaprow that was the culmination of a year's worth of Mail Art pieces, and a series of concerts held in Mary Bauermeister's studio, Cologne, 1960-61 featuring Nam June Paik and John Cage amongst many others.

Each July, the city hosts the 10, 000 Lakes Festival, a large music festival with past acts including The Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Phil Lesh, The String Cheese Incident, Trey Anastasio, The Black Crowes, the Allman Brothers, Ratdog, and others.

The festival includes vendors ' booths and others of the like focusing on the area arts community.

A tragic helicopter crash into a crowd assembled for a festival at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Derry killed eight people and injured 18 others on Labor Day, 1978.

Messiaen's music was by this time championed by, among others, Pierre Boulez, who programmed first performances at his Domaine musical concerts and the Donaueschingen festival.

She is also co-producing Planet Earth, a musical CD featuring settings of Canadian women's poetry by well known composers like Violet Archer, Barbara Pentland, Chester Duncan, Jana Skarecky, Paul McIntyre, and others ( performed, commissioned for, and premiered at the Wider Boundaries conference / festival ), together with Barbara Godard, Jana Skarecky, and Brenda Muller.

* August 23 – The Heatwave festival near Toronto features The B-52's, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and many others.

* October 20 – October 21 – The Donaueschinger Musiktage new-music festival takes place with a memorial concert featuring the music of Arthur Honegger, and also concerts with compositions of ( amongst others ) Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy, Gottfried von Einem, Hans Werner Henze, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Maurice Jarre, Olivier Messiaen, and Igor Stravinsky

* July – A-Teens and many others perform at the Stockholm Pride festival.

The idea for a telemark festival was originally started by NATO ( North American Telemark Organization ) at Mad River Glen in Vermont and organizations such as NET ( New England Telemark ) and others now run festivals all around the U. S. and Canada.

The year 2000 saw numerous European festival appearances by Eurythmics ( at Germany's Rock am Ring, among others ).

; Bihutoli Bihu: The rural festival made its transition to urban life when it was first time brought to the stage in Lataxil field in Guwahati by the Guwahati Bihu Sanmilani in 1962, promoted by leading citizens like Radha Govinda Baruah and others.

Gene Shay helped found the festival, along with George Britton and others, and has acted as Master of Ceremonies since its inception.

In Viljandi, several international festivals and other cultural events take place: Viljandi Folk Music Festival, The Early Music Festival, Hansa Days, Young Dance Festival, Winter Folk Dance Festival, the " Theatre in Suitcase " puppet theatre festival, and others.

But then not all Achaeans were reduced to helotism: the village of Amykles, home of the Hyacinthia festival, enjoyed special status, as did others.