The Algerian singer was discovered when she performed at a festival of young musicians in Paris.
The staging itself and the technical production was at levels never seen before at a festival in the U.S. and possibly worldwide.
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For young talent, it's "the best chance of getting yourself noticed at a festival where people are putting films together and producers are around, " said Hubbard.
At a festival where the remarkable has become commonplace, 30 maniacs working round the clock only to land in full-on promotion mode is far from unique.
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Primrose was knocked unconscious on 7 July when he dived into the pool and struck his head while the band were relaxing after performing at a festival in Belmont.
He later took classical lessons and was "discovered" at age 9 by the late New York City jazz aficionado Charles McWhorter, who saw him play at a festival in Siberia.
Darren 'Graceland' Jones, a local man from Cwmbran, led a record-breaking gathering of Elvises at a festival in Porthcawl in September shortly after being voted the best Elvis impersonator in Wales.
The gathering held by the Democrats last week in Denver was a difficult act to follow: at once a festival, spectacle and party rally before 75, 000 screaming fans.
David Petrarca, who directed a couple of episodes of HBO drama Game of Thrones, the most pirated TV series of 2012, was reported to have said at a literary festival in Australia that piracy gave the series a "cultural buzz" but has since denied that he is in favour of the activity.
He was arrested at a music festival in Bulawayo for not having a work permit.
Mercer and Burton met six years ago at a music festival, and each was a fan of the other's music.
Three plays the company did at a Paris festival in 1955 won rave reviews in French newspapers.
Hustvedt told a story to CNN about giving a talk at a literary festival in Key West, Florida.
Hollywood actor Al Pacino has been honoured at a film festival in Dublin.
Borthwick was told by Saracens to miss the launch and attend a team bonding session at a beer festival in Munich.
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At first there was some confusion because some of the girls had official invitations to model West African fashions at a cultural festival in Libya.
Because the service and supporting culinary staff were all his own, Flay did not need to make any compromises as he would at a resort festival where he did not have his own eatery.
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At a spring festival gathering in February, the Hong Kong Pui Ching Alumni Association ordered a 10-course meal but opted to replace the shark's fin soup with a chicken, fish belly and abalone soup.
As the polo shirts left the area three well-dressed 50-something men, who wouldn't look out of place at a book festival, stood up towards the back of the balcony and placed white sticky labels over their mouths.
Speaking at a panel discussion at the festival Monday morning, Motion Picture Association of America Chairman Chris Dodd blamed the movie industry's problems in part on technology companies' ability to lobby the public directly.
They started applying to be rehoused after the feud flared up at a UDA-linked festival on the road at the weekend.
The xx, who won the Mercury Prize in 2010, will have a residency at the festival, playing for fewer than 100 people at a time.
In the distance a tractor rumbled, and scratchy music wafted from speakers at a nearby Buddhist festival.
One of Adams' most famous works, Grand Pianola Music, premiered at a new music festival in 1982.
The exact source of an outbreak of salmonella at a Newcastle food festival may never be identified, health officials have said.
The performer and his troupe of trained house cats entertain regularly at Sunset Celebration, a nightly arts festival at Mallory Square Dock.
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Non-Greeks, slaves and women were barred from competing, and, with the exception of unmarried girls, from spectating as well (unmarried girls were also allowed to participate in a footrace at a separate religious festival in honor of the Goddess Hera).
Visitors to a Tyneside food festival at the centre of a food poisoning probe are being urged to take part in an online survey to identify the source.
Restrictions have eased over time and bands have quietly performed to small gatherings over the years, but the public performance of Egyptian metal band Wyvern to a crowd of almost 15, 000 at the SOS festival was a breakthrough.
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