The identity of the company that supplied Wagner tubas for the first "Ring" cycle at the Bayreuth Festival a year later is uncertain.
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Together, they give the Edinburgh Festival a welcome popular music edge.
It will also be screened in 3D - only the second time in the history of the festival a film has been shown in the format after Pixar's Up opened in 2009.
Over the past decade, the event has evolved into a festival of A-listers and corporate sponsors.
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He said running a major festival on a shoestring budget was a challenge, but they did get help.
She described attending a chocolate festival and a book fair with Kercher.
On any given day, it could be a music festival, a tailgate, a restaurant parking lot or outside a Bon Jovi concert when the band plays in Nashville.
Maritime Ipswich is returning after a break of a decade and will feature 400 visiting boats, music and maritime artists, river cruises, displays and demonstrations, a food festival and a children's zone.
Many cultures around the world celebrate a yearly thanksgiving festival, a time when we express our gratitude for a successful harvest.
The London 2012 Festival is a UK wide festival, and we are very excited about the upcoming London 2012 Festival event "See No Evil 2012: Urban Festival" in Bristol.
With a population of just 46, 000 Hattiesburg, Mississippi is not the type of place you might expect to find a major wine festival featuring a huge array of world class vintners.
Professor Mike Parker Pearson, from University College London, said the scene would have resembled a cross between the Glastonbury Festival and a motorway building scheme.
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These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4, 500-person slurping festival, a rite of spring for Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew of someone's Swedish distributor.
Strange won a Crystal Bear award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival for a short film called "Aphrodite's Farm, " a magical tale set on a dairy farm in the 1930s.
"We make it a festival, natural, a carnival, " said Kenny Lo, the CEO of convention organizer Vertical Expo Services, who sported a pin with blinding LED lights.
Of course, a literature festival hardly represents a national mood.
The Tron Kirk will also transform into a new festival hub, a club that will open at 10:00 and run through to late evening - with performers from contemporary to vintage jazz.
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.
If you want a taste of the kind of music that helped make the festival such a sensation, visit Austin during any other month of the year.
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Al Marri, who is a filmmaker himself and has worked with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival as a content producer, says UAE filmmakers should also be looking towards creating movies on an international level rather than solely targeting a local audience.
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Earlier this year she made a sensational appearance during RAI's broadcast of the San Remo Music Festival - a sort of Italian version of the Eurovision song contest, and very much family viewing.
It's about as meta as it gets because you're sitting in a Cannes Film Festival screening room, watching a movie about someone trying to make a movie at the Cannes Film Festival.
Rock band Bon Jovi will close the festival with a headline slot on Sunday night.
Other events include Europe's biggest brass band festival and a re-enactment of the Battle of Bannockburn.
It was recorded live at the 2003 Tanglewood Jazz festival with a record-setting audience on hand.
Some films and filmmakers emerge from the festival on a fast track to big things.
The promoters decided enough was enough until the festival staged a comeback four years ago.
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The first Big Chill festival was a one-day event held in London in 1994.
Edinburgh Festival is a singular event most accurately referred to in the plural.
Those attending WE Festival, a variety of female entrepreneurs from a wide variety of fields, were no exception.
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