Salzburg Festival is an annual music festival in Salzburg (Austria), in a program that includes, along with concerts, opera performances also. Since 1870, in Salzburg began to festivals devoted to Mozart. In 1917 was organized by an art committee (which includes Hofmannsthal, R. Strauss and others), to prepare the festival in 1920. Since then, the festivals have become annual. They pass the summer in a big festival palace (2160 seats, built in 1960). 

Initially, the repertoire was mostly essays Austro-German composers (Mozart, Gluck, Richard Strauss and others). In recent years, there are also essays and other sponsors. From 1967 held Easter Festival, organized by Karajan (among the first productions “Der Ring des Nibelungen). Artistic Director of the Easter festival is from 1994 Abbado. In Salzburg were the major conductors of XX century: Toscanini, Walter, Furtvengler, and Karajan. In 1928 the festival is the first time by Russian musicians (opera studio of the Leningrad Conservatory).  

Salzburg Festival is held in Jul - Aug 2009 at Salzburg in Austria.

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Aruba’s International Pro-Am Golf Tournament is held at the luxurious Tierra Del Sol Resort and Golf Course. Teams comprised of one professional and four amateur golfers compete in the 36-hole event.

This Golf Tournament is held on Aug 2009 at Tierra Del Sol Resort and Golf Course in Aruba.

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The ancient Mayan Empire once again revive the San Pedro on the island of Ambergris in Belize, where five of the world will gather together at the Maya International Festival of Costa Maya, which will take place this year from 4 to 7 August.

Belize, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador - all of which are involved in the week, dance, music, carnival procession, the national food and drinks.

The first festival was held in 1991 as the Festival of sea and air. The aim of the festival was to strengthen mutual understanding between the peoples of Central America.

Festival of Costa Maya - this costume processions, parades, daily show. At the public can purchase prilavkah everything - from art handicraft products to clothing and food.

The ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar is devoted to fasting and is observed by Muslims throughout the world as one of the “five pillars” of the religion.

The other four are the declaration of faith, prayer, charity (Zakat), and the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Makkah.

For an entire lunar month of 30 days, devout Muslims are forbidden to eat or drink between sunrise and sunset. The prohibition also extends to other pleasurable consumptions, like cigarettes, and activities such as sex.

The beginning of the observance is calculated by the lunar calendar, which is shorter than the Western Gregorian calendar. Every year Ramadan slides a couple of weeks back through the calendar, until it has covered the entire year.

Ramadan is celebrates in Sep 2009 in Africa.

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The Bermuda Festival of the Performing Arts is a seven-week annual event that features concerts by international classical, jazz, and popular artists, as well as major theatrical and dance events.

At the start of each year, numerous international groups sweeten this holiday destination with the arty flavours of ballet, dance, classical music, gospel and jazz.

Worldwide stars light up the stage at the eagerly awaited annual Bermuda Music Festival, formerly the Bermuda Jazz Festival. This year’s opening night takes place at the Fairmont Southampton Beach Club and thereafter at Bermuda’s National Sports Centre.

This Musical Festival is held in Oct 2009 in Bermuda.

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Tsechus are very popular in Bhutan. It marks the day of birth of the most revered saint, Guru Padmasambhava or the lotus born. All the dzongs in the twenty districts have a few days in their calendar dedicated for the celebration of this auspicious occasion.

They also watch masked dances and colourful allegorical dramas performed in the atmospheric courtyard of the Paro Dzong (temple-fortress). Bhutan is a deeply religious country and Buddhism was first introduced there in around AD800 by the revered Guru Padmasambhava, “he who was born of a lotus flower”, and it is in his honour that the festival is held.

The festival consists of three parts: the “Pre-festival” on the first day, ceremonies inside the Paro Dzong on the second day, and the main festivities on the festival ground on the remaining three days. For the devout, the highlight undoubtedly occurs on the final day when a huge religious picture (thongdrel) is unfurled at dawn. To witness this event is to gain great merit.

Both monks and lay people perform in the festival dances and dramas as an act of meditation, seeking to personify the deity that they portray. Masked and dressed in elaborate costumes of silk brocade, dancers demonstrate the triumph of good over evil and the power of compassion to the haunting sounds of trumpets, cymbals and flutes. Dances are interspersed with folksongs and clowning, while copious amounts of butter tea and potent barley alcohol are consumed.

In autumn in the Kingdom of Bhutan held colorful Buddhist holydays. That is called Teschu, which literally translates as Ten Days. The most ambitious and exciting Teschu, naturally, is the capital of Bhutan, The city of Thimpu.

During the festival you can hear traditional music and chants. And all guests and participants of the festival are waiting for grand entertainment. 

You have a great opportunity to see the ancient scared festival in the capital of the small kingdom. 

This Festival is held on Sep 2009 at Thimpu in Bhutan.

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The tradition of devil dancers derives from a peculiar kind of devil worship. Oruro is a mining town and the locals, spending so much time underground, decided to adopt a god of the underworld. Christian tradition dictates that this must be the devil and the Oruro faithful thus adopted Satan, or Supay, as their god. They would perform sacrifices to the devil on a regular basis to ensure their safety in the mines and the devil dancing in the carnival derives from their belief in Satan as their protector underground.

For three days in spring, Oruro goes into carnival mode. One of the main highlights is the Diablada, or devil dance.

Among the 30 or so carnival groups, there are thousands of people, and a group can consist of up to 300 people. The variety of costumes is phenomenal - including witch doctors, llama herders, Amazonian Indians sporting dazzling feathered head-dresses and morenos (black slaves). The costumes are beyond your wildest imagination: light bulbs replace eyes, mirrors replace teeth. The combination of colour, outlandish masks and costumes, music, dance and fireworks is bound to leave you wide-eyed.

These days, the procession tends to focus more on the patron saint of mining, the Virgen del Sovacón and Pachamama (Mother Earth) than the devil, but devil dances are still an important part of the proceedings. Supay and his wife Supay China are closely followed by a multitude of he-devils and she-devils. Next come a series of animal characters, common to the area during the Middle Ages, including snarling bears, graceful condors and pumas.

The carnival draws to an end on the Monday, known otherwise as the Día del Agua. Revellers gather in the town square for a thunderous exchange of water bombs. Gringos beware!

All things come to an end with the ceremonies of Ch’alla. Liquid, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, is ceremoniously poured onto the ground, back to Mother Nature where it came from. That is, if you don’t mind wasting your drink!

This Carnival is held in Feb 2009 at Oruro in Bolivia.

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Jazz Festival Sarajevo is an annual jazz festival, which takes place in autumn in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The festival emerged in 1997 and has since become one of the major musical events in Sarajevo.

Within a few days at the concert venues the city was musicians from around the world – as those who have already made a confession, and the new group. The main thing is that all of them, as well as students, combine love of jazz music.

This jazz festival is held on Oct-Nov 2009 in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.