First Lichfield Events Announced
The first events in this year’s Lichfield Festival have been revealed, and include a wealth and diversity of music, theatre, family events and street parades, all taking place between July…
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, 2024
Lana del Rey, Tyler the Creator and Doja Cat headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival held in Indio, Greater Palm Springs, California from 12 to 14 and 19 to 21 April at the Empire Polo Field…
Discover Estonia’s Festival Culture
With Tallinn Music Week just around the corner, these are the most anticipated music festivals in Estonia this year. Whether it’s starting the festival season with a bang at Tallinn…
Colourful Candle Festival Thailand, 2024
Marking the start of the green (or wet) season, the Candle Festival in July is amongst the most beautiful celebrations in Thailand. Extravagant, intricately-carved candle sculptures are shown…
Tallinn Music Week 2024, Estonia
Tallinn with its stunning medieval centre, dating from 1248, and its thriving galleries, restaurants and bars is a must for the traveller. However for one week it is transformed into…
White Nights Festival 2021 Saint Petersburg, Russia
During the period of the White Nights Festival from June to July in Saint Petersburg, the sun never sets and the city never sleeps. Russia’s cultural capital…
Bury St Edmunds Festival 2020, Suffolk
Unfortunately the 2021 Bury St Edmunds Festival was cancelled. The 2022 Festival should go ahead in 2022. Spread over 11 days, in 12 different venues and with 50 different events…
Celebrate New Year in Uzbekistan
Navruz or Norwuz – the Persian New Year – takes place on 21 March and is celebrated enthusiastically across Uzbekistan. Aside from music, dancing and traditional food…
Derby Turns Its Focus on FORMAT
Derby’s FORMAT International Festival of Photography will take place between March 15 and April 14 in 2019. A world class biennale event, FORMAT is widely acknowledged as one of Europe’s…
Discover Lincolnshire in English Tourism Week
Looking for a spring bargain? How about celebrating English Tourism Week and exploring some of Lincolnshire’s top attractions. Head for the county at the end of March…
Rocket Festival Thailand (Bun Bang Fai) 2024
Home-made rockets roaring into the skies, dirty humour, cross-dressing parades, mud fests and lots of rice wine – the centuries-old Rocket Festival Thailand, or Bun Bang Fai, held in May…
See Washington DC’s Cherry Blossom Festival
America’s East Coast may be famed for spectacular fall foliage, but Autumn isn’t the only time the region’s trees put on a show. Springtime is cherry blossom season – and…
Phi Ta Khon Ghost Festival 2024, Thailand
The immensely popular Phi Ta Khon Festival – also known as the Ghost Festival – is the best reason to visit Loei, a Thai province rarely frequented by international tourists. This three-day event…
Isle of Wight Garlic Festival 2024
Newchurch, in the centre of the picturesque Isle of Wight, nestling amidst sloping hills, is the perfect location for a festival. It is here that every year in August the Isle of Wight Garlic…
Gilroy Garlic Festival 2022, California
Garlic lovers get your diaries out now and book in 23 July to 1 August for the Gilroy Garlic Festival. This weekend is full of fun and great garlicky food, such as garlic chips and garlic…
Setouchi Triennale 2022, Japan
Every three years the Setouchi Triennale, one of Japan’s biggest festivals of modern art, takes place in the south-west of the country. Come spring this exceptional celebration…
Frozen Dead Guy Days, Colorado, USA
Come March, Estes Park Nederland in Colorado hosts one of the quirkiest festivals in the US, if not the world. Frozen Dead Guy Days Nederland features frozen festivities with dozens…
National Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington DC
Anyone who has visited the US capital during Spring will find it impossible to forget the overwhelming sight of hundreds upon hundreds of delicate flowering cherry trees, looking like canopies…
Winter Golden Eagle Festival 2022, Mongolia
At Mongolia’s Golden Eagle Festival in winter, ethnic Kazakhs show off the breathtaking skills of their trained hunting eagles, alongside cultural displays of Kazakh…
Camel Festival Mongolia 2022 (Temeenii Bayar)
During the Camel Festival, held in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, nomadic herders show off their skills during the biggest camel race in the world, alongside cultural activities……
Monkey Buffet Festival Lopburi Thailand 2024
Lopburi, in central Thailand, is already famous for its Khmer temple crowded with monkeys, but every year in November the whole town goes ape when visitors from Thailand…
Kanamara Matsuri, Japan Penis Festival 2024
The Japan Penis Festival is arguably the country’s most amusing event when tens of thousands of revellers roam the streets of Kawasaki in April to pay tribute to fertility in an age-old ritual…
Cologne Carnival (Fastelovend), 2024
The Cologne Carnival, Fastelovend or ‘Fasteleer’ in the local dialect is one of the biggest street carnivals in Europe. The Carnival will be from 8 to 14 February, 2024. Officially, the…
Panama Carnival (Panama Carnaval), 2024
The Panama Carnival (or Carnaval in Spanish) is the biggest celebration of the year in the Central American nation. Here’s how it’s done. Bring your water pistol. During the day…
