The Kentucky Derby Festival is an annual festival held in Louisville, Kentucky during the two weeks preceding the first Saturday in May, the day of the Kentucky Derby.
Founded by the late Jim Boggio in 1991, the Cotati Accordion Festival features three stages, vendors including food, beer and wine and a polka dance party. A bronze statue honoring Boggio, an accordion genius, stands at the corner of La Plaza Park in Cotati, CA, where the festival takes place.
Quebec City Canada is celebrating its 400 Anniversary in 2008 with parades, concerts, and fireworks.
A fall harvest festival in Nepal , with exotic costumes, performed at 12,000 feet.
Those were the last words I heard from some Italians I had befriended in Barcelona the day before heading down to Pamplona. The odds of that happening were literally 1 in 1.5 million people expected to be reveling during San Fermin.
International contemporary dance festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, brings great acts that break the rules and have big attraction.
The explosive tradition of Hawaii
Appreciating St. Jordi's Day in Barcelona.
The first weekend in August, Pohang, South Korea hosts the Pohang International Fireworks Festival. In addition to fireworks, there are numerous intricate lanterns to be seen and enjoyed.
Istanbul's Yearly Rocking For Peace Festival Barisarock
Each year, in the height of the summer, a network of social groups organise a free rock festival in a forest just outside of Istanbul. With only a budget of 5000 dollar it is easily visited by fifty thousand people, all there to enjoy an unique 3-day festival, with free entry and camping-space, reasonable prices for drinks and food, over 30 popular and upcoming rock-bands from Turkey and a great ambience.