Festivals in January
January Festivals
17 January Festival Articles
15 January Festival Snippets
24 January Festival Photo Galleries
15 January Festival Videos
113 January Festival Websites
Festivals in January - 17 Articles
Article Title: Mardi Gras - The Greatest Free Show on Earth
Festival Name: New Orleans Mardi Gras
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras
Throw me something, Mister! Throw me something!' shout thousands of street revelers to costumed riders on larger than life floats as they shower glittering trinkets over the scrambling crowd below. Parades--60 formal ones at last count and many other informal ones--fantastic costumes, elegant balls and intricately designed tableaux, all essential parts of Mardi Gras, one of the wildest celebrations in the country.
Article Title: Mardi Gras Sneak Preview
Festival Name: New Orlean's Mardi Gras
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras
Many people do not realize this, but Mardi Gras or rather, CARNIVAL, begins on January 6, the Epiphany, or Kings Day. The parties and parades begin on a very small but widespread scale until the climax on the Wednesday before Lent which is Fat Tuesday.
Article Title: Ati-Atihan Festival
Festival Name: Ati-Atihan Festival
Festival Country: Philippines
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Party
The noise strikes you first. It's thick, heavy, relentless, a bone-rattling clamour that fills every available inch of airspace. It sounds like the march of a thousand jackbooted skeletons on their way to pay a visit on someone unpleasant, like the dentist or the taxman. Your brain takes it in as an all encompassing roar initially, but gradually the different rhythms and tempos become apparent. Over here an intricate staccato. Over there a dull thud. Right over there a mixture of the two but at twice the speed.
Article Title: Orange Battle at Canrevale di Ivrea
Festival Name: Carnevale di Ivrea
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Carnival, Party
Unlike La Tomatina, the ammunition at Italy's Carnevale di Ivrea's orange battle doesn't get squished before it is hurled in the streets. It may, however, become smushed after colliding with the helmets that keep faces from leaking their own natural juices.
Article Title: World Buskers Festival
Festival Name: World Buskers Festival
Festival Country: New Zealand
Festival Type(s): Busking, Juggling, Performing Art
Each January locals and visitors of all ages flock to open-air city malls, the city's cultural precinct, and out to the seaside suburb New Brighton to witness the world's very best busker talent: the World Buskers Festival
Article Title: Thaipusam - Festival of Faith
Festival Name: Thaipusam
Festival Country: Malaysia
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Bizarre, Religious
As an avid attendee of matsuri (traditional festivals) across my adopted home country of Japan, I had thought there was little to touch them in terms of color, vivacity and raw animism. Until I went to Malaysia's Thaipusam festival, that is.
Article Title: Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Festival Name: Mid-Autumn Moon Festival
Festival Country: Taiwan
Festival Type(s): Lunar, Traditional
Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is one of the more important holidays on the Chinese calendar. I'd heard of it at in college, but didn't really know anything about it, other than looking at the moon was important.
Article Title: Roach Racin'
Festival Name: World Championship Cockroach Racing
Festival Country: Australia
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, National, Bizarre
Only in Australia would they celebrate their national holiday by racing cockroaches. Yes, that's right I'm talking about those pooey brown, hairy legged, skin crawling, under the fridge indulgers and lights out kitchen partiers that infest much of the land Down Under.
Article Title: Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
Festival Name: Mummers Parade - Philadelphia
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Street Parade, New Year
The air is usually bitingly cold as each New Years Day, thousands don outlandish costumes and strut to the thumping beat of string bands in a colorful Philadelphia spectacle, The Mummers Parade. They're called Mummers (probably after the German word for disguise), they're mostly white, blue-collar guys who every January 1 - except 1919 and 1934 - have strutted up Broad Street decked out in wild array from head to spray-painted toe in one big absurd, hilarious, fraternal party.
Article Title: Cherry Blossom Festival
Festival Name: Cherry Blossom Festival
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Floral, Local, Traditional
Visitors come from all over the island, from mainland Japan, and even from other countries to see the earliest sign of the approaching spring.
Article Title: Coming of Age Day - Seijin No Hi
Festival Name: Coming of Age Day - Seijin No Hi
Festival Country: Japan
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional
Seijin No Hi was declared a national holiday in Japan in 1948 and in Okinawa in 1961. It is a day of tradition, but also of fun. In addition, it is a day of advice and wise words and a day to begin exercising the rights of adulthood.
Article Title: Cape Town Minstrel Carnival
Festival Name: Cape Town Minstrel Carnival
Festival Country: South Africa
Festival Type(s): Street Parade, Cultural
As the southeast breeze kicks up outside Cape Town's Greenpoint Stadium, the sound of strumming banjos and banging drums reaches a crescendo, and thousands of merry minstrels hold onto their multicolored hats.
Article Title: Happy (Chinese) New Year!
Festival Name: Chinese New Year
Festival Country: China
Festival Type(s): New Year, Traditional
The Chinese calendar is based on lunar-solar cycles. Five cycles of twelve years each make up the entire lunar cycle of 60 years.
Article Title: Camel Wrestling
Festival Name: Camel Wrestling Championship
Festival Country: Turkey
Festival Type(s): Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre, Sport - Combat
While the Spanish have bullfights, and the Italians cockfights, and the English go hunting with hounds, the Turks have camel wrestling.
Article Title: Battle of the Oranges
Festival Name: Battle of the Oranges - Ivrea Carnival
Festival Country: Italy
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Bizarre, Party
That fight for liberty is recreated with the Battles of the Oranges, which substitute stones. Italy exceeds its production quota of oranges as agreed within the EEC (the European Economic Community) , so the excess needs to be destroyed (just to keep up the retail price). My co-citizens cooperate in the difficult path towards a unified Europe by helping to smash some oranges.
Article Title: The Winter's Tale: Barleywine in Alaska
Festival Name: Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Beer, Party
There's no better place to get acquainted with new beer styles than at a beer festival. That's especially true of barleywine. The best showcase for the style, and one of the world's biggest, is The Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival in downtown Anchorage.
Article Title: Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Festival Name: Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival
Festival Country: Mexico
Festival Type(s): Music - Varied, Art, Cultural
For ten days at the end of January, the sleepy town of Alamos, Sonora, wakes up to the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars, all part of the Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival.
Festivals in January - 15 Snippets
Festival Name
Festival Country
Scotland
Canada
Australia
England
Benin
Australia
USA
USA
Festivals in January - 24 Photo Galleries
Festival Name
Festival Country
Australia
Australia
Australia
Cambodia
Australia
Malaysia
Canada
Australia
India
USA
Monaco
USA
Philippines
Philippines
Australia
Australia
Vietnam
Malaysia
Malaysia
England
Australia
Festivals in January - 15 Videos
Festival Name
Festival Country
France
Turkey
Mali
Uruguay
India
Spain
Australia
Trinidad and Tobago
Thailand
New Zealand
France
Festivals in January - 113 Websites
Festival Name
Festival Country
New Zealand
Philippines
Australia
Australia
Barbados
Spain
Australia
France
Bermuda
Australia
Australia
Germany
Wales
Scotland
England
Denmark
Australia
Senegal
United Arab Emirates
New Zealand
Mali
Scotland
Liechtenstein
Egypt
Gibraltar
England
Sweden
Canada
India
Netherlands
Italy
Pakistan
Sweden
Australia
England
Germany
USA
India
Oman
USA
Canada
Norway
Poland
Suriname
Panama
Netherlands
India
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Canada
USA
Turkmenistan
Singapore
Scotland
South Africa
Australia
Australia
Australia
Australia
Finland
Australia
Germany
Australia
England
Malaysia
Australia
Australia
Scotland
England
New Zealand
France







