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According to event organizers, the Nashville tradition features over 260 merchants from around the country, offering unique gifts including toys for all ages, clothing for children and adults ...
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
The traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), which is also celebrated in overseas ethnic Chinese communities (for example in Malaysia, Thailand, or the USA).
After the first event was successfully held for the first time in the mid-eighties, the festival was seen as a charity festival and the annual event was born. The fundraiser currently helps amass money for scholarships, buildings, technology and "keeps the college strong" for the area's students. [ 4 ]
Beyond the familiar traditions like Santa Claus, a fir tree, caroling and gift-giving, a number of countries—including the U.S.—bring their own unique twists, both old and new, to the holiday.
Josephine E. Moore, The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va. December 3, 2024 at 8:59 PM Beckley Dance Theatre’s annual performance of “The Nutcracker” is truly a family affair. Not only can it ...
There are also a number of darbars where kirtan is sung. It is celebrated by Sikhs across the world as 'Sikh Olympics' with events and competitions of swordsmanship, horse riding, Gatka (Sikh martial arts), falconry and others by Nihang Singhs. Vaisakhi: April 14
Rarely followed today is the tradition that consist in eating lentil stew when the bell tolls midnight, one spoonful per bell. This is supposed to bring good fortune; the round lentils represent coins. [99] Usually the evening is spent with family or friends in a square (where concerts or various parties are organised) but also at home.