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| Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest | |
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Location: Aarau | Switzerland Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Customs - and Yodelling especially - are very important in Switzerland. The original function of yodelling was to convey signals across huge distances, since high pitch tones were, and still are, part.....
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| International Folklore-Festival | |
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Location: Zagreb | Croatia Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Folk festivals have a long tradition in Croatia. From 1930 to 1960 they provided, above all, a meeting point for local participants, who presented Croatian culture to foreign visitors. In 1966 the Int.....
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| JazzAscona | |
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Location: Ascona | Switzerland Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| Ascona, an internationally famous holiday destination with a rich cultural history, lies on the mouth of the river Maggia in a unique, sun-flooded bay.
What makes this little old town extraordinar.....
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| Fete de la Musique | |
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Location: Paris | France Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The 21st of June, the longest day and shortest night of the year, has always held a very special place among the holidays. A new facet was added to this tradition on the 21st of June, 1982: Jack Lang,.....
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| Sziget Festival | |
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Location: Budapest | Hungary Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| “Woodstock at the Danube” is the splendid nickname of the Sziget-Festival which takes place on Óbuda island in Budapest. During the multicultural festival this island, a former shipyard, also known as.....
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| Donauinselfest | |
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Location: Vienna/ Wien | Austria Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The Donauinselfest is a very special festival. From a minor event it has developed into Europe’s biggest open-air festival. Every year more than 2.5 million visitors from Vienna, from the whole of Aus.....
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| Falun Folk Music Festival | |
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Location: Falun | Sweden Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| The Swedish summer has an innumerable quantity of festivals and celebrations to offer – and there’s something in there for every music fan, from rock and pop to folk and jazz. One of these famous fest.....
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| Les Rencontres polyphoniques de Calvi | |
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Location: Calvi | France |
| There is a saying that “one Corsican is a good general (Napoleon), two make a political party and three are a good choir”. Nonetheless, the polyphonic “canta corsu” had for a long time been threatened.....
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| Festival de Lille Wazemmes l´Accordéon | |
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Location: Lille | France |
| Winding Alleys, nostalgic patisseries, and baroque facades – Lille’s old alleys recall its Flemish past and enchant the eye. On the other side of town lies another world: Wazemmes is as simple as the .....
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| Les Francofolies | |
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Location: La Rochelle | France Event period: Feast of Corpus Christi |
| “There are three kinds of humans: the living, the dead and the sailors”. This inscription over the door of the Museum of Nautical Research in La Rochelle could serve equally well as a motto for this w.....
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