Lists of festivals

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Sunset at Coachella, one of the most attended music and arts festivals in the world. Coachella 2012 weekend 2 day 2 sunset.jpg
Sunset at Coachella, one of the most attended music and arts festivals in the world.
The Montreal International Jazz Festival is the most attended annual festival in the world. Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2.jpg
The Montreal International Jazz Festival is the most attended annual festival in the world.

This is a list of festival-related list articles on Wikipedia. A festival is an event of the ordinarily staged by a community, centering on and celebrating some unique aspect of that community and its traditions, often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, usually with a religious focus. Aside from religion, and sometimes folklore, another significant origin is agricultural. Food (and consequently agriculture) is so vital that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.

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Sublists by locale

States


Country

Continent

Sublists by type or topic

Cultural, Religious, and/or Folk

The following lists are for cultural festivals by culture, with location of origin:

Seasonal

Fairs, expositions, and shows

Sporting

Theater, dance, and performing arts

Flower and garden

Music

Film and television

Food and drink

See also