The News Review:
- Bayreuth Wagner opera festival opens
- Virgin Secret to Good Festival Weather
- FINDING ITS RHYTHM / Belly Dance Fantasy Festival Event hopes to…
- Comedy Festival kicks off in Montreal
- Second time around for CVM TV Port Royal Music Festival
- Pawtucket park to host Pagan Pride festival
Bayreuth Wagner opera festival opens
央è§åé – Jul 26, 2007
A battle between three female descendants of Richard Wagner for the leadership of one of the world’s top operatic events has fixated Germans ahead of the opening of this year’s Bayreuth festival on Wednesday. Wolfgang Wagner the 87-year-old grandson of Hitler’s favourite composer has been in charge of the festival since 1951 but critics say standards are slipping and speculation is rife that his daughter Katharina will soon take over. Her appointment would outrage older family rivals and critics say Katharina a statuesque 29-year-old blonde is too young to run the festival.
Virgin Secret to Good Festival Weather
FXNews – Jul 26, 2007
— rganizers think they’ve found the secret to good weather for this weekend’s Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning _ a virgin. According to an imported superstition good weather can be assured through a ceremony involving a virgin some knives and fresh whole onions and peppers. And no Victoria Brumfield won’t be sacrificed. Festival organizer Howard Freeman said a colleague heard about it in Singapore several years ago. For the past two years it has worked in Readington.
FINDING ITS RHYTHM / Belly Dance Fantasy Festival Event hopes to…
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 26, 2007
“You know it’s kind of interesting – I actually attended Marina High School. I never thought I’d be back there” Tatseena says about the site of her festival. “I’m teaching belly dancing in the old band room dancing on my old high school stage. ” When Tatseena first took a belly dancing class none of this was a glimmer in her eye.
Comedy Festival kicks off in Montreal
央è§åé – Jul 26, 2007
It’s a celebration of laughter that’s become the city’s most famous artistic event. Performers from all over descend on the Canadian city. They showcase their material and hope to become the next King or Queen of comedy. They’re playing it just for laughs which appropriately is the name for Montreal’s world famous comedy festival.
Second time around for CVM TV Port Royal Music Festival
Jamaica Gleaner – Jul 26, 2007
“The second time around the possible tempest of a general election was picked up well over the horizon and the festival shifted to September 7-9 a period in which David McBean CE of title sponsors CVM said: “It will be a good way to come together and play together after the rigours of that campaign. “Pirates and wenchesDetails of the 2007 festival were given at the Morgan’s Harbour Hotel and Marina Port Royal where the first of three events for the weekend will be held. Unlike last year’s all-white affair the Friday September 7 ‘Celebrity Party’ will be geared towards swashbuckling pirates and bawdy wenches.
Pawtucket park to host Pagan Pride festival
Providence Journal – Jul 26, 2007
22 autumnal equinox festival in Slater Memorial Park. There would be opportunities for pagans of all persuasions including Wiccans shamans and druids to practice their religion. There would be an observance of the autumnal equinox during which a priestess would call forth the spirits of the four elements and give thanks to Mother Earth. There would be workshops on drumming creating sacred gardens chant and healing with sound.