abstract:Tintamarre is an Acadian tradition of marching through one's community making noise with improvised instruments and other noisemakers, usually in celebration of National Acadian Day. The term originates from the Acadian French word meaning "clangour" or "din".
Only one messy festival does not requires an Olympic-sized cleanup crew - the Tintamarre festival held in the sleepy bayside town of Caraquet, in Canada.