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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.

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Article Title: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Festival Name: Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Fringe, Performing Art, Comedy

The Fringe is an immense gathering of artists, musicians, dancers and actors coming from over 40 countries to perform in over 250 venues. Search for a show on the Fringe website and you will have to sift through a mere 1,909 shows. It would take five years, three months, and 25 days to see every performance in the Fringe 2005 back to back.

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Article Title: Hooray For The Fringe! Your Fringe lowdown...

Festival Name: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Festival Country: Scotland

Festival Type(s): Fringe, Comedy, Performing Art

To anyone except the actor, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival is annual paradise. For five frantic weeks the elegant seaside city of Edinburgh resigns itself to theatrical hijack. From all corners of the globe dramatic and musical troupes descend on Scotland's capital to tempt, cajole, and dazzle the spectator into parting with their pounds: in exchange for laughter, tears, derision, and amusement.

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Article Title: The Art of Burning Man

Festival Name: Burning Man

Festival Country: USA

Festival Type(s): Art, Performing Art, Bizarre

Black Rock City, as the town centered around Burning Man is known, is now the third largest city in Nevada, although it exists for only one week a year. It is also perhaps one of the best-designed cities in the world. It works wonderfully. It's safe enough for women to walk around naked. It's chock full of fantastic and real art. Transportation is primarily via bicycle. It's got a world-class view of a unique wilderness. Consumption is low and creation is high.

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Article Title: The African Heritage of Cuban Folklore Lures the Tourists

Festival Name: Tropicana Cabaret

Festival Country: Cuba

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

Every tourist who journeys to Varadero should make at least one visit to the splendid Tropicana in Havana or to this smaller version of that nightclub where Cuban folklore can be seen at its best. It will be a spectacular climax to a lazing vacation on one of the most renowned beaches in the world.

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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

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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: Nueva Ecija, Philippines: home of Araquio

Festival Name: Araquio Festival

Festival Country: Philippines

Festival Type(s): Religious, Cultural, Performing Art

Araquio festival - one of its kind in the Philippines, and maybe in the world as well. It is Nueva Ecija's very own theatrical-cum-religious presentation likened to that of the zarzuelas during the Spaniards regime in the country.

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