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The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is a music festival which takes place every year during the second week of July in Llangollen, North Wales. It is one of several large annual Eisteddfodau in Wales. Singers and dancers from around the world are invited to take part in over 20 competitions followed each evening by concerts on the ...
Its eight days of competitions and performances are considered the largest music and poetry festival in Europe. [1] Competitors typically number 6,000 or more, and overall attendance generally exceeds 100,000 visitors, [2] the highest recently being 186,000 attending the 2024 festival in Pontypridd. [3]
The most important is the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the largest festival of competitive music and poetry in Europe. Its eight days of competitions and performances, entirely in the Welsh language, are staged annually in the first week of August in varying locations that usually alternate between north and south Wales. [56]
Comparable to the eisteddfod but without the ancient roots, the Mòd is a festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. There are both local mods and an annual national Mòd, the Royal National Mòd, which take the form of formal competitions, with choral events and traditional music including fiddle, bagpipe and folk groups.
Thanks to a rather lukewarm live music season in 2024, the music fest and concert scene is ready to come back to life in 2025. ... Lineup Highlights: Green Day, Justin Timberlake, Olivia Rodrigo ...
The 1940 Eisteddfod, held in Rhyl, still went ahead, but coming in the same week as the Dunkirk evacuation, it was a reduced festival, covering all the events in a single day. The Eisteddfod returned after the cessation of hostilities by returning to its roots at Corwen in 1946. [ 3 ]
The two-day outdoor music festival will be held Friday, June 21, and Saturday, June 22 on the Great Lawn, 129 River Road at Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville. Doors open at 2 p.m. and the ...
The Royal National Mòd (Scottish Gaelic: Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail) is an Eisteddfod-inspired international Celtic festival focusing upon Scottish Gaelic literature, traditional music, and culture which is held annually in Scotland. It is the largest of several major Scottish Mòds and is often referred to simply as the Mòd.