New Year Celebrations

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New Year Celebrations Articles

9 festival article(s) returned for New Year Celebrations

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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.

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Article Title: Christmas in a Muslim Country

Festival Name: Christmas

Festival Country: Indonesia

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

The Equator lies to the south, about a half day's bumpy ride by bus, but the island's elevation negates the tropical latitude. We were dozing, tucked in sleeping bags, when a rousing chorus of Gloria Hallelujah and O Come All Ye Faithful woke us.

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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: Hogmanay

Festival Name: Hogmanay

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): New Year, Party

Hogmanay is the traditional Scottish New Year's Eve festival celebrated on December 31. It is a huge affair which often includes many celebrations and parties for which tickets are sold.

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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.

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Article Title: Gearing up for the Next New Year

Festival Name: New Year

Festival Country: Worldwide

Festival Type(s): New Year

New Years was great. Friends, food, fun - it had it all. Too bad it only comes once a year. Or does it? With some travel and a hefty supply of good cheer, you can celebrate the New Year all year long.

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Article Title: Only Russians Know How to Greet the New Year

Festival Name: New Year in Russia

Festival Country: Russia

Festival Type(s): New Year, Party, Food and Drink

One of the first questions my Russian acquaintances ask me is, "Have you ever celebrated the New Year in Russia?" When I say I haven't, they always laugh. Until I've met the New Year Russian-style, they tell me, I have never really celebrated it at all. My attempts to tell them about the Times Square parties leave them unimpressed.

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Article Title: Sol-nal, Korean New Year's

Festival Name: Sol-nal - Korean New Year

Festival Country: South Korea

Festival Type(s): New Year

Thus, across the Land of the Morning Calm, New Year's Day will be celebrated twice-once according to international convention, and once according to the lunar calendar.

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Article Title: Woodford Connects Folks Down Under

Festival Name: Woodford Folk Festival

Festival Country: Australia

Festival Type(s): Folk, Music - Folk, New Year

Woodford, held on Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland one hour north of Brisbane, is now one of the largest folk festivals in the world, hosting more than 2,000 performers and 120,000 visitors from throughout Australia and overseas for six days from December 27 to January 1 each year.

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