Now that Halloween is over, we're all turning our attention to the next great national festival, Thanksgiving.
He also confirmed the three-day Grand National Festival had benefited from the cancellation of the Cheltenham Gold Cup due to the foot-and-mouth crisis.
Naadam is a national festival celebrated every year from 11 to 13 July across Mongolia that focuses on three traditional games: horseracing, wrestling and archery.
So, in order to underwrite Augusts' multi-national festival, the Narino government inaugurated a special licensing stamp for state contractors, costing two percent of their contract revenue.
Time to Flourish festival director, Carmen Perini unwittingly summed up the Pasto attitude, when asked how a multi-faceted, multi-national festival could be organized in 10 months.
The 85-year-old National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, for example, attracts 500, 000 visitors every July.
The opening day of the four-day Irish National Hunt Festival at Punchestown proved a happy one for the Carberry family.
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And I think that's why we've already had the very successful early childhood education summit last week and announced the ... the National Book Festival today.
This national Hindu festival is also embraced by other religious denominations, including the Sikhs and Jains, with religious and regional variations in the way it is celebrated.
Cliburn won his first Texas competition when he was 12, and two years later he played in Carnegie Hall as the winner of the National Music Festival Award.
Bush's National Book Festival last year in the United States.
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Not long after, it became obvious that my bag, a freebie from the National Book Festival, was a mini-compost pile, with a pretty obvious lining of various meat and vegetable sleazes.
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This includes working with or contributing to The National Black Arts Festival, the Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation and the Jazz Foundation of America.
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In the US, the National Cherry Blossom Festival kicked off last week in Washington DC with a fundraising walk and vigil for the victims of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
The festival brings national-profile performing arts troupes and visual arts to this sleepy mountain town each summer.
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Existing events such as Hogmanay, Edinburgh festivals, Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, Edinburgh Mela, Royal National MOD, Turriff Show, East Neuk Festival, Outdoor Orkney Festival and Tweedlove Bike Festival will receive funding for homecoming additions to their planned programmes for next year.
On June 18, locals celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival, a national holiday that is marked by races on the Keelung River and by eating jungtzu, a steamed dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice and other goodies.
Latin America's first multi-national, multi-cultural festival.
The 41-year-old will cover events such as the Cheltenham Festival and the Grand National from January next year.
The programme for Derry in 2013 includes the Turner Prize, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal National Ballet and Lumiere, a festival of light.
Eurovision, in which viewers across Europe (broadly defined) select a winning song from competing national entries, is an annual festival of kitsch.
Of course, a literature festival hardly represents a national mood.
Luck, who will join Balding for the big events such as the Cheltenham Festival, Derby, Grand National and Royal Ascot, called the role "an incredibly exciting opportunity".
The 76-year-old Hull-born actor accepted the award at the National Media Museum during the Bradford International Film Festival (BIFF).
The organization is best known for throwing Jazzfest, a two-weekend outdoor music festival with dozens of local, national and international bands.
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When you've made it back to terra firma stroll east along the river, past the Royal Festival Hall and the uncompromisingly brutalist National Theatre, navigating the crowds that cluster around the street entertainers.
National festivals such as Casablanca's Casa Music Festival and capital city Rabat's Mawazine increasingly showcase the talents of both domestic and international musicians, including the likes of Busta Rhymes and Kanye West.
Hit the National Mall for a variety of free events during the festival.
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It's premier attractions are the Coral Scottish Grand National and the John Smith's Ayr Gold Cup Festival.
Indeed, the Sienese place incredible demands on the national TV network, RAI, for rights to televise their festival.
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