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The 15th anniversary Voodoo celebration also marked the debut of City Park’s Festival Grounds, a new permanent home for Voodoo. Home to Voodoo since its 1999 debut—with the exception of Voodoo 2005, which was displaced by the city’s hurricane damage—New Orleans’ 1,300-acre City Park is the region’s principal recreation site that ...
The Voodoo Fest is an annual festival held in City Park featuring national and local acts. It draws a heavy crowd of young people from the city and surrounding areas and is usually held on ...
Vodoun Day or Fête du Vodoun (literally Vodoun Festival, also known as Traditional Religions Day) is a public holiday in Benin that celebrates the nation's history surrounding the West African religion of Vodoun. The celebration is held annually on January 10 throughout the country but most notably in the city of Ouidah.
C3 Presents is a concert promotion, event production and artist management company based in Austin, Texas. [1] C3 also produces several multi-day festivals including Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin Texas, [2] Two Step Inn Music Festival in Georgetown Texas, [3] Voodoo Music + Arts Experience in New Orleans, [4] and Lollapalooza in Chicago along with its six international editions. [5]
The Beninese government planned "Ouidah '92: The First International Festival of Vodun Arts and Cultures," which took place in 1993; [146] among the special guests invited were Pierre Verger and Mama Lola, reflecting attempts to build links across the African diaspora. [128] It also established 10 January as "National Vodún Day."
The festival will be held Friday, August 2 through Sunday, August 4, in Downtown Scranton. On Saturday, August 3, at 7:30 p.m., multi award-winning swing group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will perform as ...
The spelling Voodoo, once common, is now generally avoided by practitioners and scholars when referring to the Haitian religion. [62] This is both to avoid confusion with Louisiana Voodoo, a related but distinct tradition, [63] and to distinguish it from the negative connotations that the term Voodoo has in Western popular culture. [64]
Voodoo's ideology is to push away negative energy and hone in on positivity, and those who practice most often use the religion to bring "good luck, good fortune, money and prosperity," says Megan ...