It happened Saturday afternoon in the hamlet of Damascus, during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival, an annual celebration of the Appalachian Trail, a majestic hiking route through the Appalachian Mountains that spans 14 states from Georgia to Maine.
On Monday night, Mr. President, we shall celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom, the Celebration of Spring.
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The festival is a popular Hindu celebration that goes on until mid-November.
The island's top celebration is the Tapati Festival (February 1 through 15, 2013), which revolves around a series of competitions based on ancient sports.
It starts with La Festival -a nine-day celebration of tango shows and recitals, classes and milongas (dances), book signings and film screenings at venues across the city-before morphing into the Mundial de Tango, the Tango World Championship, which pits the world's finest tango dancers against one another.
The performer and his troupe of trained house cats entertain regularly at Sunset Celebration, a nightly arts festival at Mallory Square Dock.
We are the home to Brigham Young University, Robert Redford's Sundance resort, and Provo's Freedom Festival, the largest Fourth of July celebration in the country.
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Today, the Jewish people begin their week-long celebration of Passover, the Jewish festival of freedom.
From mid-April through the end of November, the festival will be the biggest and most varied celebration of the Bard ever attempted, with thousands of actors and more than 70 activities, including exhibitions, art installations and cutting-edge performances.
Two major events in the 1950s typified this give and take between past and present: the staunchly forward-looking Festival of Britain in 1951, a nationwide celebration of new art, architecture and design, and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, to which millions of Britons tuned in.
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And as during festivals past, Chanel hosted a dinner in celebration of the artist program at the festival on Wednesday at the Odeon.
Starting in 1955, Brubeck ended up playing the Newport festival more than any other musician, and the celebration ended with trumpeter Jon Faddis and Chris Brubeck on trombone blowing up a storm on "Blues For Newport, " a tune Brubeck composed backstage at the festival.
And in case your festival proclivities are of a fierier nature, the annual Celebration of Light (late July-early August) illuminates the city skies for its 20th year in 2010, with four countries vying for the best display of fireworks set to music.
Annual events include the Orinda Film Festival, the California Shakespeare Theater and an annual daylong 4th of July celebration that kicks off with a pancake breakfast.
Festivals occur several times throughout the year (January: Mahasankranti, February to March: Sivaratri and Holi, March to April: the celebration of the marriage of Virupaksha and Pampa with a chariot festival, November to December: the betrothal ceremony of Virupaksha and Pampa), and often at night, with drumming and dancing in the street and locals offering pujas in the main temple, Virupaksha.
But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.
For the most flavourful celebration of pagan rituals, visit Ukraine in the summer for the Ivana Kupala festival of making wreaths, jumping over bonfires and peeking into the future.
Tickets to the afternoon celebration cost 120 Danish krone, but the fee also covers a morning open air church service, a festival for families and admission to the Lincoln Log Cabin, a cedar log cabin within the park that serves as a museum for the history of the Danish emigrant experience.
Many of you were here when I was honored to become the first President to help celebrate Diwali -- the Festival of Lights. (Applause.) Some of you were here for the first White House celebration of the birth of the founder of Sikhism -- Guru Nanak. (Applause.) Tonight, we gather again, for the first state dinner of my presidency -- with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs.
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