Festivals in June
June Festivals
29 June Festival Articles 31 June Festival Snippets 57 June Festival Photo Galleries 12 June Festival Videos 179 June Festival Websites
Festivals in June - 29 Articles
Article Title: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Festival Name: Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Music - Varied, Performing Art, Party
Glastonbury - the best known, most written about festival since Woodstock - may seem familiar even to those who haven't been there. Everyone's seen all those images of mud-larking. But it's well worth making the effort to actually attend a 21st century Glasto.
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.
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.
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.
Article Title: World Championship Rotary Tiller Race
Festival Name: World Championship Rotary Tiller Race
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre, Sport - Motor Sport
According to the PurpleHull Pea Festival in Emerson, Arkansas (population 359), the Weyerhaeuser 200 World Championship Rotary Tiller Race is the "highlight of the tiller-racing season." Considering it's the only tiller race around, the "Tiller Thriller" is indeed a highlight.
Article Title: Toe Wrestling
Festival Name: World Toe Wrestling Championships
Festival Country: England
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
Every year, competitors from as far as the United States, Canada, Australia, and Germany travel to the Bentley Brook Inn in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, for the world's least furtive and most aggressive game of footsie: The World Toe Wrestling Championship
Article Title: Rioja's Wine Battle
Festival Name: Battle of the Wine - Batalla del Vino
Festival Country: Spain
Festival Type(s): Wine, Bizarre, Food and Wine
In this juiced-up battle, the grapes have already been squished and fermented, so participants need only wineskins, plastic jugs, trashcans, water guns, or crop sprayers to spill, spritz, and splash the other 9,000 revelers at the Batalla del Vino or Wine Battle, in Haro, part of Spain's Rioja region.
Article Title: Old-Time Tractors and Shoofly Pie
Festival Name: Kutztown Folk Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Folk, Family, Community
Each year from the last week in June through the Fourth of July, the hills around the little college town of Kutztown, Pennsylvania ring out with the sounds of old-time putt-putt farm engines and the oom-pa-pa of brass bands. The air fills with the oily aroma of funnel cakes and the baked goodness of homemade bread and apple dumplings. It's time for the annual Kutztown Folk Festival and everyone's "a-coming."
Article Title: Kiss my neck! Or Painforest Aid
Festival Name: Rainforest Aid
Festival Country: Costa Rica
Festival Type(s): Environmental, Music - World, Music - Folk
Rainforest Aid was a three-day marathon, musical eco-orgy in the middle of an isolated rainy wooded area on the Osa Peninsula, in Costa Rica
Article Title: Samosir Island Summer Festival
Festival Name: Samosir Island Summer Festival
Festival Country: Indonesia
Festival Type(s): Summer, Sport - Combat, Local
The boxing competition is the highlight of the Summer Festival and runs every day for a week. The competitors (mostly boys in their teens) come from as far afield as the Indonesian islands of Papua and Kalimentan and the whole event is taken very seriously by those involved
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
Article Title: Baripada Rath Yatra
Festival Name: Rath Yatra
Festival Country: India
Festival Type(s): Religious, Cultural, Traditional
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
Festivals in June - 31 Snippets
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Festivals in June - 57 Photo Galleries
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Croatia
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Italy
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Brazil
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Italy
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Canada
England
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Cuba
France
Malaysia
England
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Germany
Sweden
Canada
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Denmark
England
Scotland
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Australia
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South Africa
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Festivals in June - 12 Videos
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Festival Country
Austria
Italy
Scotland
Turkey
Croatia
Czech Republic
Costa Rica
India
Uzbekistan
England
Festivals in June - 179 Websites
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Australia
Netherlands
Netherlands
Croatia
Australia
Netherlands
Ireland
Slovakia
Thailand
Greece
New Zealand
England
Estonia
England
Germany
South Africa
Brazil
Netherlands Antilles
France
England
Barbados
Australia
England
Switzerland
Canada
Switzerland
Ireland
England
Australia
France
England
Worldwide
Ireland
Ireland
Italy
England
Norway
Italy
Belgium
France
France
Belgium
Germany
South Africa
Germany
Romania
Scotland
England
Guernsey
Finland
Germany
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Germany
Finland
England
Netherlands
Azerbaijan
Croatia
England
Turkey
Jamaica
France
Slovenia
Switzerland
USA
Finland
England
Turkey
Finland
Croatia
Portugal
Slovenia
Lithuania
Germany
Australia
Finland
Canada
South Africa
Australia
Norway
Austria
Switzerland
Germany
France
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Finland
Puerto Rico
New Zealand
Costa Rica
Latvia
Germany
Germany
Scotland
Greece
Scotland
Wales
Italy
Finland
Poland
South Korea
Singapore
Australia
Spain
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Germany
Portugal
Scotland
Sweden
Australia
Poland
Estonia
Germany
Georgia
England
Australia
Australia
USA
Austria
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
New Zealand
Worldwide
USA
Poland
England
Australia
Wales
England
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