The News Review:
- Ten pairs of tickets to a Taste festival near you | Lifeandhealth |…
- First Night: Iggy And The Stooges Royal Festival Hall London
- Fans heading for ‘green’ festival
- Cool sounds hot time: Summertime Blues Festival brings music food…
- Are Traditional Festivals Crumbling like Cake?
- Glastonbury music madness in England
- Bellevue’s Strawberry Festival finds a new home.
Ten pairs of tickets to a Taste festival near you | Lifeandhealth |…
guardian.co.uk – Jun 21, 2007
1a –> Win a pair of tickets to a Taste Festival near you!If you enjoy treating your tastebuds to delicious food and wine we have just the ticket. Taste Festivals the UK’s most exciting culinary events are back in full force this summer. Not only will London Birmingham and Dublin once more celebrate everything edible and quaffable but for the first time Edinburgh and Bath will be hosting Taste Festivals too. Taste Festivals showcase 130 of the country’s best restaurants and top end speciality fine food and drink companies from around the world. At Taste of London alone you will be able to dine at the ‘chef’s table’ of 50 of the capital’s top restaurants and sample the signature dishes of world famous chefs such as Tom Aikens and Giorgio Locatelli.
First Night: Iggy And The Stooges Royal Festival Hall London
Independent – Jun 21, 2007
Like many of his hard-living contemporaries Iggy’s songs about liquor and drugs get co-opted nowadays to sell cars cruises and other mainstream consumer items and for any other man of such advanced years the deck of a cruise liner would be a more appropriate milieu than a rock stage. Like many of his hard-living contemporaries Iggy’s songs about liquor and drugs get co-opted nowadays to sell cars cruises and other mainstream consumer items and for any other man of such advanced years the deck of a cruise liner would be a more appropriate milieu than a rock stage.
Fans heading for ‘green’ festival
BBC News – Jun 21, 2007
The utsider Festival at Rothiemurchus is on Friday Saturday and Sunday. Singer KT Tunstall and band Crowded House will headline the event which will also have mountain biking running and canoeing. Travel warnings have been issued about busier than usual trains and road works to the south of Aviemore. First ScotRail expect trains to Aviemore to be significantly busier than normal with many fans arriving by train and staying through until Monday.
Cool sounds hot time: Summertime Blues Festival brings music food…
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 21, 2007
(21-JUN-07) Baltimore Sun (Baltimore MD). 21–The Summertime Blues Festival at Steppingstone Museum in Havre de Grace is back Saturday for a sixth year of music food and fun. And with an impressive lineup of local.
Are Traditional Festivals Crumbling like Cake?
ä¸åæ¥æ¥ – ä¸åæ¥æ¥ – Jun 21, 2007
June 19 marked this year’s Duanwujie or Dragon Boat Festival one of the most important traditional festivals in China following the Mid-autumn Festival and the Spring Festival. But how many people still feel the spirit of the day? A community in Shanghai last week planned to host a Dragon Boat Festival folk culture contest inviting young people to learn how to make festival food zongzi and fragrant bags a traditional accessory for the festival. To the organizers’ surprise only 10 young people agreed to take part. Many others turned down the invitation saying that they were too busy to come.
Glastonbury music madness in England
TVNZ – Jun 21, 2007
addParam(“menu” “false”);so. write(“sponsor”);}); Published: 9:24AM Thursday June 21 2007Source: ReutersReadGlastonbury music festival one of the world’s biggest openedon Wednesday with legends such as The Who billed alongside LasVegas rockers The Killers at concerts expected to be played out inslippery mud. Gates opened early on Wednesday and more than 175000 festivalgoers will flock to this peaceful rural venue in southern Englandset up as a hippy haven in the 1970s. The event officially kicks off on Friday for three solid days ofoutdoor music dance market stalls poetry theatre and circusentertainment but enthusiastic fans set up camp first. Headliners include acts such as the Arctic Monkeys ModestMouse Kaiser Chiefs Manic Street Preachers Bjork Bright Eyesand Arcade Fire with classics like Iggy and the Stooges andnewcomers Patrick Wolf and Mr Hudson and the Library. As well as music and performance this year revellers can join”The Big Kiss” a bid to break the Guinness World Record for thebiggest amount of people kissing at one time. Event organiser Jason Stockwood says: “We’re expecting totrounce the current World Record of more than 6400 couples whichwas set in Hungary earlier this year by getting 45000 people tokiss the person next to them.
Bellevue’s Strawberry Festival finds a new home.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 21, 2007
(21-JUN-07) Seattle Times (Seattle WA). 21–Bellevue’s Strawberry Festival has been in a bit of a jam. While success has been sweet as the Eastside Heritage Center event grows a sticky problem challenged o… 21–Bellevue’s Strawberry Festival has been in a bit of a jam. While success has been sweet as the Eastside Heritage Center event grows a sticky problem challenged organizers: No one wanted the festival. First the Strawberry Festival outgrew the Winters House a historic building near the Mercer Slough. A 2003 move to Main Street took the festival back to its roots — the first Strawberry Festival was held there in 1925. Back when Bellevue was bucolic and fewer than 1000.