The Ghost Festival has roots in the Buddhist festival, Ullambana, and also some from the Daoist culture. In the Tang Dynasty, the Buddhist festival "Ullambana" and traditional festivities were mixed and celebrated on one day. Thus, the Ghost Festival has special meaning for all Buddhists as one of their most important festivals. Ghost Festival - Mahāmaudgalyāyana Saves His Mother From Hell. The Buddhist origins of the festival can be traced back to a story that originally came from India, but late ...

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Ghost Festival, Ghost Festival - Buddhist Ghost Festival: Ullambana, Ghost Festival - Mahāmaudgalyāyana Saves His Mother From Hell, Ghost Festival - Japanese Ghost Festival: O-bon

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The festival is organised by local farmer and site owner Michael Eavis (through his company Glastonbury Festivals Ltd), who has hosted the event since its inception. More recently, the Mean Fiddler Organisation, now controlled by Clear Channel, a US-based media conglomerate, have taken a 40% stake in the festival. The Mean Fiddler contract is a rolling one reviewed every five years. Each year a company joint owned by Glastonbury Festivals Ltd and Mean Fiddler Plc is created to run the festival, with profits going to the parent companies. Glastonbury Fest ...

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Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury Festival - Festival Site, Glastonbury Festival - Organisation, Glastonbury Festival - Glastonbury over time, Glastonbury Festival - 1970s, Glastonbury Festival - 1980s, Glastonbury Festival - 1990s, Glastonbury Festival - 2000, Glastonbury Festival - 2002, Glastonbury Festival - 2003, Glastonbury Festival - 2004, Glastonbury Festival - 2005, Glastonbury Festival - Bibliography, Glastonbury Festival - References

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The festival grew from one-day reunion events staged by the folk-rock band Fairport Convention. Members of Fairport still organise it and the band gives the closing concert, a marathon performance which lasts up to four hours. The original one-day festival was extended to two days and, from 2000, to three days. It now takes place on the second full weekend in August and for 2005 has been re ...

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Cropredy Festival, Cropredy Festival - History, Cropredy Festival - Appearances, Cropredy Festival - 2005, Cropredy Festival - 2004, Cropredy Festival - 2003, Cropredy Festival - 2002

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The international jazz festival is held annually in June and features some of the world's best jazz musicians. One of the biggest jazz festivals in Europe, the Glasgow Jazz Festival infects the small Merchant City area with a celebratory atmosphere, spilling out onto the streets from the bars in the neighbourhood and from the main open-air stage in George Square. Musicians from around the world flock to the city to take part in lively ...

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Glasgow International Jazz Festival, Glasgow International Jazz Festival - Main Festival, Glasgow International Jazz Festival - Fringe Festival

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One of the largest free Fourth of July celebrations in the South. The two day outdoor festival, set in Decatur, AL, hosts a variety of traditional summer activities. The event is organized and staged by an all volunteer board. The major highlights of the festival are the presentation of the Audie Murphy Patriotism Award, the presentation of the Barrett C. Shelton Award, the Miss Point Mallard pageant and also the presentation of one of ...

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Spirit of America Festival, Spirit of America Festival - Intro, Spirit of America Festival - History, Spirit of America Festival - Events, Spirit of America Festival - Special Awards, Spirit of America Festival - Sporting Events, Spirit of America Festival - Booth Activities, Spirit of America Festival - Special Demonstrations, Spirit of America Festival - Stage Entertainment, Spirit of America Festival - Children’s Games, Spirit of America Festival - Facts, Spirit of America Festival - Source

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The traditional religions followed in Africa are grouped under the term animist, and presently followed by around 100 million Africans. The Christian faith reached North Africa in the 1st century and spread to Sudan and Ethiopia by the 4th century. The faith still survives in Egypt, Eritrea, and Ethiopia as subsets of Oriental Orthodoxy. In the 15th century, the Christian faith was again reintroduced in tropical Africa and presently there are around 340 ...

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Culture of Africa, Culture of Africa - One continent several worlds, Culture of Africa - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Africa - Music & dance, Culture of Africa - Art & Craft, Culture of Africa - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Africa - Languages & literatures, Culture of Africa - Philosophy, Culture of Africa - Religions, Culture of Africa - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Africa - Food & drink

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Africa is home to innumerable tribes, ethnic and social groups, some representing very large populations consisting of millions of people, others are smaller groups of a few thousand. All these tribes and groups have cultures which are different, but represent the mosaic of cultural diversity of Africa. Such tribes and ethnic/social groups include Afar, Anlo Ewe, Amhara, Arabs, Ashanti, Bakongo, Bambara, Bemba, Berber, Bobo, Bushmen/San, Chewa, Dogon, Fang, Fon, Fulani, Ibos, Kikuyu (Gikuyu) , Maasai, Mand ...

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Culture of Africa, Culture of Africa - One continent several worlds, Culture of Africa - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Africa - Music & dance, Culture of Africa - Art & Craft, Culture of Africa - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Africa - Languages & literatures, Culture of Africa - Philosophy, Culture of Africa - Religions, Culture of Africa - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Africa - Food & drink

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Indigenous musical and dance traditions of Africa are maintained by oral traditions and they are distinct from the music and dance styles of the North Africa and the Southern Africa. Arab influences are visible in the North African music and dance and in Southern Africa western influences are apparent due to colonization. Many African languages are tone languages, in which pitch level determines the meaning. This also finds expression in African musical melodies and rhythms. A variety of ...

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Culture of Africa, Culture of Africa - One continent several worlds, Culture of Africa - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Africa - Music & dance, Culture of Africa - Art & Craft, Culture of Africa - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Africa - Languages & literatures, Culture of Africa - Philosophy, Culture of Africa - Religions, Culture of Africa - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Africa - Food & drink

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Africa has a rich tradition of arts and crafts. African arts and crafts find expression in a variety of wood carvings, brass and leather art works. African arts and crafts also include sculpture, paintings, pottery, ceremonial and religious headgear and dress. African culture has always placed emphasis on personal appearance and jewelry has remained an important personal accessory. Many pieces of such jewelry are made of cowry shells and similar materials. Similarly, masks are made with elaborate designs and are important part of African culture. ...

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Culture of Africa, Culture of Africa - One continent several worlds, Culture of Africa - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Africa - Music & dance, Culture of Africa - Art & Craft, Culture of Africa - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Africa - Languages & literatures, Culture of Africa - Philosophy, Culture of Africa - Religions, Culture of Africa - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Africa - Food & drink

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A proverb from Sierra Leone states: Proverbs are daughters of experience. Likewise, in essence, folktales and folklores are residue of human experience and a treasury of human values. Folktales provide a look at any cultures moral and customs. This also applies to African folklores and folktales. It is estimated that there are around a quarter of a million of African folktales[1]. Like all human cultures, Africans folktales and folktales represent a variety of social facets of African culture[2]. Like almost all civilizations and cult ...

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Culture of Africa, Culture of Africa - One continent several worlds, Culture of Africa - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Africa - Music & dance, Culture of Africa - Art & Craft, Culture of Africa - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Africa - Languages & literatures, Culture of Africa - Philosophy, Culture of Africa - Religions, Culture of Africa - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Africa - Food & drink

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The continent of Africa speaks hundreds of languages and if dialects spoken by various ethnic groups are also included, the number is much higher. All these languages and dialects do not have same importance: some are spoken by only few hundred persons, others are spoken by millions. Among the most prominent languages spoken are Arabic, Swahili and Hausa. Very few countries of Africa use any single language and for this reason several official languages coexist, African and European. The language of Africa present a unity of character ...

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Culture of Africa, Culture of Africa - One continent several worlds, Culture of Africa - Tribes & ethnic groups, Culture of Africa - Music & dance, Culture of Africa - Art & Craft, Culture of Africa - Folklores & folktales, Culture of Africa - Languages & literatures, Culture of Africa - Philosophy, Culture of Africa - Religions, Culture of Africa - Festivals & celebrations, Culture of Africa - Food & drink

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Brahmotsava: (Sanskrit) "God's festival, or foremost festival." Each temple has one festival of the year which is its major celebration. This is called Brahmotsava, often a ten-day event. See: festival, temple.

(See also: Brahmotsava, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

In 1989, Mean Fiddler got involved for the first time. The festival started to change, leading towards its re-establishment in the 1990s as one of the U.K.'s biggest music festivals. Notably, the new indie music of this decade started to appear on the bill and the future of the festival became more secure. In 1991 Nirvana played the first of their two appearances to a massive crowd. They returned following year as headliners, playing live in Britain for the last time. This is also the year the first britpop bands such as Suede and Blu ...

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Reading and Leeds Festivals, Reading and Leeds Festivals - Early History, Reading and Leeds Festivals - 1970s, Reading and Leeds Festivals - 1980s, Reading and Leeds Festivals - 1990s, Reading and Leeds Festivals - 2000s, Reading and Leeds Festivals - List of Headliners

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The Karlovy Vary IFF first held an international film competition in 1948. Since 1951 an international jury has evaluated the films. The Karlovy Vary competition quickly found a place among other developing festivals and by 1956 FIAPF had already classified Karlovy Vary as a category A festival. Given the creation of the Moscow IFF and the political decision to organize only one "A" festival for all socialist countries, Karl ...

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - History, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Program, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Awards, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe Winners - Grand Prix, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Some of the Celebrities of the Festival of Last Years

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The festival was established in 2001. The first year it took place as a rather small event featuring six artists on each of the two days of the festival, which were Friday, the 8th and Saturday, the 9th of June. Musicnet, the company that organizes the Frequency festival, rented the open air stage of the Arena Wien, one of Vienna's leading concert locations. The festival, called Vienna City Festival at that time, became an instant success - not only financially, but it was also very much liked by the audience. This quickly lead to the decision of moving it to another loca ...

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FM4 Frequency Festival, FM4 Frequency Festival - History, FM4 Frequency Festival - Past lineups, FM4 Frequency Festival - 2005 lineup

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The Karlovy Vary film festival is one of the oldest in the world. The pre-war dream of many enthusiastic filmmakers materialized in 1946 when in Mariánské Lázně and Karlovy Vary a non-competition festival of films from seven countries took place. Above all it was intended to screen the results of the recently nationalized Czechoslovak film industry. After the first two years the festival moved permanently to Karlovy Vary. For several decades after the Communist takeover in February 1948 the festival was entirely under the control ...

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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - History, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Program, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Awards, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Crystal Globe Winners - Grand Prix, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival - Some of the Celebrities of the Festival of Last Years

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Curiosa is the name of a 2004 concert tour curated by Robert Smith. Smith hand selected all 11 openers to perform before his band The Cure. It began with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 24 and ended in Sacramento, California on August 29. The headlining bands were The Cure, Interpol, The Rapture, and Mogwai. The concert had two stages, with the headlining bands on the main stage and the less popular bands on the second stage. Bands on the second stage changed throughout the tour. The second stage bands included Muse, Cursive, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scar ...

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Robert Smith musician, Robert Smith musician - Overview, Robert Smith musician - Discography, Robert Smith musician - Band discography, Robert Smith musician - Collaborations, Robert Smith musician - Solo discography, Robert Smith musician - Curiosa Festival, Robert Smith musician - Trivia

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Liberty is home to the Casey County Apple Festival, which is the city's most recognizable event, and which gives Liberty the distinction of being "Home of the Worlds Largest Apple Pie". From the first Apple Festival held on a gravel parking lot at a newly-built shopping center in 1975, The Casey County Apple Festival has become one of Kentucky's best street festivals. 2005 marked the 31th anniversary of the Apple Festival. The first apple festival was held on a Saturday afternoon in the parking lot, and the following year was m ...

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Liberty Kentucky, Liberty Kentucky - Geography, Liberty Kentucky - Casey County Apple Festival, Liberty Kentucky - Demographics

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Infest was born in early 1998 through the efforts of three students of the University of Bradford and the Student's Union Entertainments Manager. The concept of the show was a one day event for local goth bands in West Yorkshire. Even before the first event however, it spiraled into an altogether bigger beast when the Students Union agreed that funds could be found to book some much bigger acts; most notably gothic/death rock band Alien Sex Fiend. The student organisers were already fans of the Whitby Gothic Weekend and took the idea for Inf ...

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Infest festival, Infest festival - History, Infest festival - Infest performers, Infest festival - 1998, Infest festival - 1999, Infest festival - 2000, Infest festival - 2001, Infest festival - 2002, Infest festival - 2003, Infest festival - 2004, Infest festival - 2005

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Bon Odori (盆踊り, meaning simply Bon dance) is an event held during Obon. It is celebrated as a reminder of the gratefulness one should feel toward one's ancestors. The O-Bon festival is observed all over the country. Originally a Nenbutsu folk dance to express the effusive welcome toward the spirits of the dead, the style of celebration varies in some aspects from region to region. Prefectures often have their own ways of dancing the Bon Odori and their own music to go with it. A Bon Odori in Okayama prefecture will ...

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Bon Festival, Bon Festival - Bon Odori, Bon Festival - Festival in China

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The first festival was held in 1974, and the event grew steadily through the 1970s. After a large number of arrests on site in 1980, the festival was not held again until 1983, when it was a one-day event; in 1984 a de facto two-day event was created by staging it back-to-back with a one-day WOMAD event. Since then it has grown increasingly popular. For several years it was claimed to be Europe's biggest free festival; however, the "suggested minimum donation" for entry has now become a compulsory UK£6 entry fee for adults. The festival is typi ...

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Ashton Court Festival, Ashton Court Festival - History

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Local authorities posted warning signs on every highway leading to Middlefield: "Festival Prohibited, turn back". By 1970, rock festivals were regarded as having a political dimension. Carol Brightman wrote that "Rock shows... such as the Powder Ridge concert... were increasingly being covered by the national media as civil events, one step removed from street demonstrations." The CIA had Powder Ridge, like other rock events, under surveillance, and noted in a July 30 situation report that "hippie-type young people [were] already beginning to assemble in the area." ...

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Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - Announcement and preparations, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - Lawsuit, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - Attendees arrive anyway, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - The festival scene, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - Aftermath, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - Notes, Powder Ridge Rock Festival - External link

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