Cardiff councillor Huw Thomas said it was an important festival that the city wanted to see continuing, and thanked the Welsh government.
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Pope Francis has led services to mark Good Friday as part of the Easter triduum, the Catholic Church's most important festival that recalls Jesus Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.
It's a fantastic symbol of everything that is important for Brighton Festival and its basis in the community.
Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day for the Chinese, marked by family reunions and gift-giving.
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At the end of the year the Winter Solstice is celebrated --many Macau Chinese consider this festival even more important than Chinese New Year.
The festival is an important auction market for purebred camels, and as well as commanding high prices, award-winning specimens can confer immense prestige on their owners.
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"We've always recognised that Glastonbury Festival is an important event for our district and the country, but have never been able to judge just how important it is, " Mr Siggs said.
This had been an important structure for the annual Lughnasa Festival, when the ancient Celts celebrated the harvest season.
"The festival has become an important part of the Wimborne calendar over the years, and has attracted national and international attention, " he said.
Meanwhile the culture minister described the Faenol Festival as "an important part of our cultural identity and helps to raise Wales's profile within the UK and internationally".
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Widely regarded as the world's most important event for international art, the festival is celebrating its 54th exhibition next year.
But we should not lose sight of the fact that these are traditional celebrations around a great religious festival, one of the most important in the Christian year.
Ms Redgrave said that although she had been involved in important arts events before, this was her first festival.
For Mr. Gilmore, whose duties this year expanded into the programming realm, sales are important, but not a defining facet of the festival.
One of the most important dates in the Hindu religious calendar, the festival attracts millions of participants from India and around the world, who bathe in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna and mythical Saraswati Rivers to cleanse their sins.
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The festival's organizers say it is an important way to protect the purebred camel lines of the region -- the light-skinned asayal, and the darker brown majaheem.
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But to him and the festival's Board, Gitai represents something very important in Jewish tradition.
Kidwell-e Festival founder and author Julian Ruck said his event was important for new writers, and could be where the next self-publishing superstar author was plucked from obscurity.
Mid-way through the festival one of our team found her path to a particularly important screening blocked by a melee of movie fans.
This year's September 27 marks three important lunar events -- a supermoon, a total lunar eclipse and Asia's Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival.
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The Fona Festival consists of a modified Tsou marriage, representing efforts to continue the tribe, a rather important task as the populations of many tribes number only a few thousand people.
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