Little known festivals (not just music) you have attended or know of...

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Ok so I'm (hopefully) taking a couple of years off work at the end of March and I might fancy doing some travelling. I'm not very good at just going somewhere though and city breaks in particular I find a bit boring so there has to be a purpose for going somewhere, like a festival or something. Not just music, local or traditional things, food etc equally wlecome. I'm open to suggestions....probably not interested in any of the bigger music festivals though.

As an example in 2018 I went to Fallas in Valencia and it was amazing. This promotional video doesn't really give much of an idea of how mental it was on the last night when fires are buring all over the city.



In August I'm hoping to go to Meteo in France. Some mates played there this year and said they think I would like it.

Adventures in Sound. Festival for experimental and improvised music in Mulhouse, France.

Météo | Mulhouse Music Festival : 23-26.08 2023 / Workshops 21-25.08 2023 / Météo Campagne : 29.07 - 19.08 2023

www.festival-meteo.fr

Oh and obvs no psytrance...

 

[hitmouse]

This was the first thing that came to mind:

Rhubarb Festival

The Rhubarb Festival is a food and drink festival in Wakefield, Yorkshire, with chef demos, food and drink market, kids' activities and more!

experiencewakefield.co.uk

 

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This was the first thing that came to mind:

Rhubarb Festival

The Rhubarb Festival is a food and drink festival in Wakefield, Yorkshire, with chef demos, food and drink market, kids' activities and more!

experiencewakefield.co.uk

...well it's not too far at least.

 

[souljacker]

I went to Salzburg once and there was a festival of milk happening in one of the parks. Is that the sort of thing you are after?

 

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I went to Salzburg once and there was a festival of milk happening in one of the parks. Is that the sort of thing you are after?

Sounds a bit limited.

I remember reading the reason for Fallas.....The burning of the fallas in Valencian culture is a symbolic rite of cleansing, wherein we leave all the bad events of the previous year behind and start the new year with a fresh, positive attitude.

I imagine there must be a lot of festivals happen around the world particularly in Spring and Autumn for similar reasons and though it worth looking into but haven't really come up with much.

 

[spitfire]

I went to this a couple of times with Alabama 3, it was a very interesting town based music festival, line up is pretty obscure to me but Rennes is a great little town and when we went (20+ years ago) it was brilliant fun.

Programmation 2023 - Les Trans

www.lestrans.com

eta: yes music but 1) in winter, 2) town based.

 

[brogdale]

I've been to a couple of Nuremberg's Bardentreffen; seen some great stuff for free inc. Richard Thompson and the Amsterdam Klezmer band. Listening to Klezmer in the square that the Nazis marched through regularly was particularly fab.

 

[planetgeli]

Not music? Nine Emperor Gods Festival.

I went to it in Malaysia (just good timing, didn't know it was happening). But they hold it in other places too (Phuket for one).

Taoist nine day celebration, vegetarian. They do this and march through the streets, dancing and scraping the poles on the ground.

Nine Emperor Gods festival | The Malaysian Insight

THE Nine Emperor Gods festival is celebrated for nine days by Taoist devotees, beginning on the eve of the ninth lu...

www.themalaysianinsight.com

Not little known in SE Asia obviously, but new to me when I was there.

 

[planetgeli]

And this in Puno, Peru was amazing. Dancing non-stop all day.

Celebration of the birth of the town and the defeat of the Spanish conquistadors. It just didn't stop, everywhere, all day.

 

[chilango]

Wasn't expecting this when I went for a couple of "apres" beers a few years back...

 

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Not music? Nine Emperor Gods Festival.

I went to it in Malaysia (just good timing, didn't know it was happening). But they hold it in other places too (Phuket for one).

Taoist nine day celebration, vegetarian. They do this and march through the streets, dancing and scraping the poles on the ground.

Nine Emperor Gods festival | The Malaysian Insight

THE Nine Emperor Gods festival is celebrated for nine days by Taoist devotees, beginning on the eve of the ninth lu...

www.themalaysianinsight.com

Not little known in SE Asia obviously, but new to me when I was there.

Yes my mate went to this late 80s definitely of interest....despite potential for hippies.