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Gawai Dayak (previously as known as Dayak Day or Sarawak Day) is an annual festival and a public holiday celebrated by the Dayak people in Sarawak, Malaysia on 1 and 2 June. Sarawak Day is now celebrated on July 22 every year. [1] Gawai Dayak was conceived of by the radio producers Tan Kingsley and Owen Liang and then taken up by the Dayak ...
Gaan-Ngai is celebrated on the 13th day of the month of Wakching of the Metei Manipuri calendar. [4] [1] The Kabui Naga people celebrate the Gang Ngai festival during the month of Gaan Bu. [4] It usually falls in the month of November or December in the Gregorian calendar though might some times be celebrated earlier in October or later in ...
The dance is performed while accompanying guests to the leader of the longhouse. This dance is a welcome for guests who come to the long house during Gawai or during other festivals. [12] Ngajat Mai Antu Pala [nga-jat ma-yiq an-tu pa-laq] : Ngajat for those Iban is a welcome dance during Gawai Day, before the war and after the harvest season ...
The sixth category of festivals by the Iban is related to death which is called the Spirit festival for the dead or Gawai Rugan (Dead Soul Altar Festival) or Gawai Sungkop (Tomb Festival) in the Saribas/Skrang region or Gawai Ngelumbong (Entombment Festival) in the Baleh region. This festival is used to be held once every 10 to 30 years per ...
Raja Parba is a four-day-long festival. It inaugurates and welcomes the agricultural year all over Odisha. Guru Purnima: Sanyasi performing Vyasa puja: Full moon of Ashadh (Hindu calendar) Guru Purnima is the day devotees offer puja (worship) to their Guru. This was also the day when Vyasa, author of the Mahabharata was born. Mahalakshmi Vrata. or
Geet-Gawai (Bhojpuri language: 𑂏𑂲𑂞 𑂏𑂫𑂰𑂆) also called Geet Gawai is a pre-wedding ceremony of Bhojpuri speaking people of Indian descent in Mauritius. In 2016, this ritual was added to the UNESCO 's Intangible Cultural Heritage List . [ 1 ]
Chembai had conducted the festival in the temple town on his own for about 60 years. [3] [4] He used to invite anyone interested in Carnatic music, from small children to renowned musicians of his time, to perform at the festival. The Guruvayur Devaswom over the festival after his death in 1974, renaming it Chembai Sangeetholsavam in his memory.
Panchakshara Gawai (2 February 1892 – 11 June 1944) was a blind singer from Gadag, a town in North Karnataka, India. Also known as 'Ganayogi Panchakshara Gavai'. Also known as 'Ganayogi Panchakshara Gavai'.