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Festivals in June

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June Festival Articles

22 festival article(s) returned for June

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Article Title: Bedfordshire Medieval Festival

Festival Name: Bedfordshire Medieval Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Medieval

Fayre opened with a ground-shaking explosion as the gunners from the Compagnie of Saynte Barbara fired their fearsome one-and-a-half tonne siege engine, the Bombard, to let people know that the programme of demonstrations and displays was about to begin

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Article Title: Heart and Soul of Amazonas

Festival Name: Boi Bumba

Festival Country: Brazil

Festival Type(s): Music - Traditional, Cultural, Traditional

To really enjoy Manaus, you need to step outside of the typical tourist mode and experience the spirit of the people and possibly a "festa" (festival or party) or three. Outside of "Carnaval", which is a big festival throughout Brazil (not just Rio) just before the start of the Catholic Lenten season, Boi Bumba is the region's largest and most famous festival.

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Article Title: Calcio Storico

Festival Name: Calcio Storico

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Sport - Football, Sport - Bizarre, Bizarre

Steeped in almost 500 years of tradition and described loosely as a mix between football and rugby - with a good dose of bare-knuckle boxing added to the mix - Calcio Storico is not a game for those who flinch at the site of blood.

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Article Title: Chicago - Festivals, Shopping & Eating Out

Festival Name: Chicago Festivals

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Local, Traditional

As I drove into Chicago recently I asked my limousine driver what he liked best about living in Chicago. He replied, 'Chicago is an exhilarating city with a non-ending variety of activities - a great place to have fun and enjoy yourself.'

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Article Title: The Common Ridings of the Scottish Border

Festival Name: Common Ridings - Hawick

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Traditional, National, Party

For centuries the Scottish border towns of Hawick, Jedburgh, Lauder and Selkirk have been keeping a watchful eye on their southern neighbours, the ever-so-meddlesome English. In years past these Common Ridings of the Scottish border were horseback patrols to ensure those southerners knew where their boundary ended and the Scottish frontier began.

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Article Title: Sardine Heaven - The Feast of St. Anthony

Festival Name: Feast of St. Anthony

Festival Country: Portugal

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Religious, Cultural

The storeowner told me they were the "brides of St. Anthony," and it was part of the saint's feast day traditions. He said the city hall traditionally hosts the bridal couples for free if they are poor.

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Article Title: Baptism By Beat

Festival Name: Fiesta de San Juan Bautista

Festival Country: Venezuela

Festival Type(s): Religious, Music - Varied, Music - Traditional

Down by the sea, the drums call. The villages of Barlovento spring from their sleepy states for the Fiesta de San Juan Bautista (St John the Baptist) in late June.

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Article Title: Game of the Bridge

Festival Name: Game of the Bridge

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Re-enactments, Historical

Rival teams from different quarters of Pisa fought for symbolic possession of a bridge over the Arno River. In those times, the games often degenerated into brutal and bloody man to man fighting.

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Article Title: The Gawai Festival

Festival Name: Gawai Festival

Festival Country: Malaysia

Festival Type(s): New Year, Harvest, Religious

Gawai is an annual festival held every June in the longhouses of lowland tribes in Sarawak. It is a national event, promoted by local brews and municipalities, but in reality everyone leaves the cities empty to return home or visit friends. Gawai is a harvest festival, a New Year celebration, religious ritual and family reunion all at the same time.

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Article Title: Getting Ready for the Glastonbury Festival

Festival Name: Glastonbury Festival

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Music - Rock, Party, Music - World

I want to be buried in mud, rained on in the dance tent by human feces, surrounded by deliciously bizarre people, and maybe (hopefully) catch some of the world's best electronic music performers along the way.

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Article Title: Juneteenth!

Festival Name: Juneteenth

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Multicultural, Historical

On the morning of June 19, 1865, the residents of Galveston, Texas awoke to discover the streets filled with soldiers wearing blue uniforms. The Union Army had arrived in force. A crowd quickly gathered as men and women, blacks and whites, rushed from their homes to learn what was happening.

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Article Title: Luminara and Historical Regatta of Saint Ranieri

Festival Name: Luminara and Historical Regatta of Saint Ranieri

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Sport - Water, Traditional, Historical

Around 9:30 PM on June 16th, the eve of feast day of Saint Ranieri who is the patron saint of Pisa, the buildings along the Arno River are transformed into a fantastical fairyland setting.

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Article Title: Midsummers in Sweden

Festival Name: Midsummer

Festival Country: Sweden

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Summer, Party

I've discovered that Scandinavian summers are different to those in Australia. For instance, they have a middle. The middle in this case being Midsummer, a festival celebrating the longest day of the year, which in this part of the world can be pretty much an entire day.

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Article Title: The Montreal Beer Festival

Festival Name: Montreal Beer Festival

Festival Country: Canada

Festival Type(s): Beer, Party

For five years now, the Mondiale de la Bière in Montreal, Quebec, has proclaimed its mission: 'To restore beer to its rightful and noble place, by offering the general public the opportunity to taste beer from five continents, while encouraging responsible consumption.'

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Article Title: Baripada Rath Yatra

Festival Name: Rath Yatra

Festival Country: India

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Cultural

Think Juggernaut. Your mind evokes images of a huge, crushing rolling force that spares nothing in its way. This word springs from Lord Jagannatha, the presiding deity of the state of Orissa, India.

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Article Title: Sagra di'Pinolo - The Pine Nut Festival

Festival Name: Sagra di'Pinolo - The Pine Nut Festival

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Food, Food and Wine

A couple of years ago, on our last evening in Florence, our friend Monique crammed us into her Fiat and took us for a short drive, just a few minutes away from the city. The place was Chiesanuova, the time was mid-June, and the celebration was the Sagra di'Pinolo -- the Pine Nut festival.

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Article Title: Moments of Magick at the Stones

Festival Name: Summer Solstice

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Solstice, Pagan, Folk

Me, I haven't rebounded on Earth since the Stones. Not yet. I'm a day back and my head is still somewhere on that wind, rain and mist-filled Plain of Salisbury. The Y2K solstice party seemed to be full of good vibes.

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Article Title: The Festival of the Soggy Bed and Some Guy Called Our Pat

Festival Name: The Championships - Wimbledon

Festival Country: England

Festival Type(s): Sport - Racquet, Traditional

As far as sporting festivals go they don't come much purer than the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club's annual Championships, at Wimbledon.

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Article Title: The Dreaming - Australia's International Indigenous Festival

Festival Name: The Dreaming Festival

Festival Country: Australia

Festival Type(s): Indigenous, Cultural, Music - Traditional

Something very special is happening in the hills behind the Sunshine Coast. Something that turns dreams into reality.

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Article Title: The Festival of The Patum

Festival Name: The Patum

Festival Country: Spain

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Dance - Folk, Medieval

Barcelona simmers in June day time heat as the refreshing evenings grow steadily longer. Firecrackers left by teenagers in street rubbish bins explode late at night, reminding us that the longest day of the year celebrated on the eve of Sant Joan, the 23rd of June, is only just round the corner.

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Article Title: Sampling Umbria Jazz

Festival Name: Umbria Jazz Festival

Festival Country: Italy

Festival Type(s): Music - Jazz

The Algiers Brass Band from New Orleans is marching down Corso Vannucci, the main street of Perugia in Italy, led by a grand marshall with purple feathers

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Article Title: Boothbay Harbor Celebrates the Arrival of the Windjammers

Festival Name: Windjammer Days

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Maritime, Sport - Yachting, Sport - Water

The wind fills her sails as the two-masted schooner, Stephen Taber, otherwise known as a windjammer, leans into a turn to starboard. The sun is hot, but her passengers take advantage of a strong sea breeze to read a book or have a cold beer as she heads towards the waterfront at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to head the dramatic parade of sail. For this is Windjammer Days, a celebration of the age of sail, held annually the last week of June.

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