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Festivals in October - 12 Articles

Article Title: Celtic Colours International Festival

Festival Name: Celtic Colours International Festival

Festival Country: Canada

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

For nearly two weeks around the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday in mid October each year, the towns and villages and crossroads of Cape Breton are alive with music at the Celtic Colours International Festival

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Article Title: French Festival Akaroa

Festival Name: French Festival Akaroa

Festival Country: New Zealand

Festival Type(s): Multicultural, Food and Wine, Family

Join Akaroa people as they paint the town red, white and blue for a town-wide market day with French food and wine stalls, market stalls, entertainment, fun and frivolous competitions and a re-enactment of the first French landing in Akaroa

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Article Title: One of the Hippest Festivals on The East Coast

Festival Name: LEAF - Lake Eden Arts Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Performing Art, Music - World, Folk

"Being KIND is cool." These are the first words in the Spring 2004 brochure for the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF). Since 1995 this semi-annual festival has nested around Lake Eden in Black Mountain, North Carolina on the site of the historic Black Mountain College (now the site of Camp Rockmont).

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Article Title: Thailand's Loy Krathong

Festival Name: Loy Krathong

Festival Country: Thailand

Festival Type(s): Traditional, Fireworks, Cultural

As with many traditional festivals, the Thai festival of Loy Krathong, known as Yi Peng in the north, has many conflicting explanations of its purposes. Is it a Brahmanic rite honoring the dead? A plea for an end to the rainy season? A celebration of the end of rice planting? An act of repentance for dirtying the river, an act of homage to the River Goddess Mae Khong Kha, or worship of the heavens generally? Is it a way of ridding oneself of bad luck, or the accumulated sins of the year past? Or is it merely another excuse for fun-loving Thais to whoop it up?

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Article Title: Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon - Bumthang Festival

Festival Name: Bumthang Festival

Festival Country: Bhutan

Festival Type(s): Religious, Indigenous

We had flown over eight of the ten highest peaks in the world. The plane banked steeply and dropped through the clouds, skimming the rice paddies and landed at Paro, the only airport in Bhutan. We soon found that the magnificent Terminal Building with over-hanging eaves, elaborately painted walls and carved windows is normal architecture in the country. Another striking feature - everyone wears national dress, so immigration and customs formalities had added interest.

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Article Title: A Laugh a Minute

Festival Name: New York City Underground Comedy Festival

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Comedy

Like to laugh? Who doesn't? Then you'll want to make a point of attending the second annual New York City Underground Comedy Festival. No, you don't venture forth into underground caverns for subway tunnels to enjoy the comedy of up-and coming comics. But you may find yourself in basement cafes and comedy clubs scattered around New York's Greenwich Village.

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Article Title: Loves, Labours, Laos

Festival Name: Boat Racing Festival

Festival Country: Laos

Festival Type(s): National, Party

Every year, in the end of October, Luang Prabang is a town of celebration. They have a boat races on the river followed by a big party and dance. The day after that, the townspeople have a ceremonial feeding of the monks with offerings of food. Then, the following night, culminating and coinciding with the full moon, there's a lantern festival.

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Article Title: Abu Simbel

Festival Name: Solstice at Abu Simbel

Festival Country: Egypt

Festival Type(s): Solstice

Possibly the most astounding piece of Pharaonic Egyptian architecture, Abu Simbel was built by Ramses II, the most prolific pharaoh in terms of building works, and no mean military commander either.

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Article Title: The Dancing Monks of Tengboche

Festival Name: Mani Rimdu Festival

Festival Country: Nepal

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

IT ISN'T MUSIC AND IT HAS NO RHYTHM. Amplified by the clear mountain air, the cacophony of sound is deafening. Conversation becomes impossible and all attention turns to the temple entrance, whence a procession of solemn faced monks is emerging.

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Article Title: Diwali - Festival of Lights

Festival Name: Diwali - Festival of Lights

Festival Country: India

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Traditional

Diwali - The Festival of Lights - apart from being the most widely celebrated is one of the most colorful Indian festivals. It is a festival of joy, splendour, brightness and happiness.

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Article Title: Hallowe'en - Its origins and history

Festival Name: Halloween

Festival Country: Worldwide

Festival Type(s): Halloween, Religious, Traditional

Encyclopaedia Britannica states that Hallowe'en is 'All Hallows' Eve or All Hallows' Evening, a holy or hallowed evening observed on October 31, the eve of All Saints' Day'. This Christian festival was first introduced in the 7th century CE, initially on May 13th.

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Article Title: Hahoe Folk Village

Festival Name: Andong Mask Dance Festival

Festival Country: South Korea

Festival Type(s): Cultural, Historical, Traditional

The restless spirits wanted appeasing so a plan was struck. One night one of them entered the dream of a young member of the Ho clan and instructed him to make wooden masks to be used in a ritual dance for the spirits' pleasure.

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