In Iwate prefecture, where my father is from, I recall how the entire township would get excited about a summer festival.
Today, the yamahoko parade is a representative urban summer festival showcasing the creative spirit and artistry of the float-building districts and providing entertainment for the entire city.
But the band may be taking a break next summer and the festival is having a year off in 2012, Mr Eavis added.
Always a summer highlight, the epic Sydney Festival is back with an even bigger bang in 2014, presenting a plethora of new Australian works that will have both Sydneysiders and visitors eager to get in on the action.
Two major companies, Florida Stage and Seattle's Intiman Theatre, were forced to shut down (though Intiman is reconstituting itself as a summer-only "theatre festival").
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These include an exhibition of photographs and memorabilia at the library during the week of the summer festival and a revamped plaque for much-loved community building the Wendy House.
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Guildford Borough Council said it wanted a family-style festival next summer similar to Guilfest, which had been running for 21 years.
Which, sadly, will be months too late for strategically teaming up with Bonnaroo so tech-savvy music fans can olfactorily brag to everyone back home with the familiar summer festival smell of a hot Port-O-John.
The production, led by directors John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg, originated at the National Theatre of Scotland and made a stop last summer in the Lincoln Center Festival.
Before she begins a summer filled with U.K. festival gigs, including an appearance at Glastonbury, she'll return to the U.S. in May for shows in Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Washington.
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This comes after a summer which included appearances at the Edinburgh International Festival and Scotland's largest pop music festival, T in the Park, which she described as "absolutely extraordinary".
She announced the extra money as she met members of Edinburgh-based band The Blueswater whose performance at the festival last summer saw them collect a Mervyn Stutter Spirit of the Fringe award.
In 1996, he became the first official artist for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta and - a year later - the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
Its most recent initiative was a festival celebrating transhumance, the ancient custom of moving animals between winter and summer pastures.
The veteran actor will be in Edinburgh for 10 days over the summer to attend the Edinburgh International Film Festival, of which he is a patron.
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Newly elected mayor Rahm Emanuel has yet to comment on whether he intends to privatize the concerts a plan Daley considered before leaving office which could bring dramatic changes to the summer festival line-up.
It is home, after all, to Ding Dong Daddy, hero of a 1930s music-hall number still popular as the theme-song of an annual Dumas summer festival (though Dumas, Texas also claims him).
Besides the revival and film of "The Last Five Years, " he's got two new musicals debuting this year: "Honeymoon in Vegas, " an adaptation of the 1992 film written with Andrew Bergman that will premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, and "The Bridges of Madison County, " a musical he wrote with Marsha Norman that debuts at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts this summer.
But in late summer, for the five days of the Petronio Alvarez Pacific Music Festival, salsa takes a back seat to the diverse sounds of Colombian Pacific music like cumbia and currulao, and its cacophony of percussion instruments, like the marimba.
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