2012 Taiwan Lantern Festival Set to Light up Changhua The 23rd annual Taiwan Lantern Festival will be held from Feb. 6th to 19th in Changhua County?s Lukang Township. This year?s event will feature a dragon-motif lantern, Soaring Dragon in Radiant Skies, to symbolize Taiwan?s prosperity and peace. Read More...
Aspen Music Festival chairman Alan Fletcher wins a vote of confidence Talk about an up-and-down tenure. Alan Fletcher, president and chief executive of the Aspen Music Festival since 2006, was nearly fired in 2009 and suffered the indignity of a non-binding no-confidence vote a year later by the faculty-dominated Music Associates of Aspen, one of the two bodies that govern the festival. Read More...
Aspen Music Festival's new director Robert Spano rejects wholesale changes When Robert Spano was named last year as the first new music director of the Aspen Music Festival and School in more than a decade, it seemed only natural to expect some noticeable changes. After all, the internationally recognized conductor promised to examine every aspect of the 63-year-old organization's operations and serve as what he called the "ears of the institution." Read More...
Australia agenda: Perth International Arts Festival Hundreds of performers and artists will flood the isolated city of Perth this week, transforming it into a cultural hub of arts, theatre and music for the launch of the Perth International Arts Festival. Read More...
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Do Scalpers Of Festival Tickets Ruin A Festival?
Festival Tickets and Scalpers
Festival tickets are often sold on Ebay, who recently sued Big Day Out for trying to stop scalpers by adding a clause to the back of their festival tickets stating that resold tickets would not be honoured. But how could they know whether specific festival tickets had been resold or not? The courts believed they could not, so ruled in favour of eBay.
While the Festival of Sydney is now over for 2007, there is still Read More...
Ludlow Marches Food and Drink Festival
There is nothing I like better than eating and drinking so the Ludlow Marches Food and Drink Festival is quite possibly the ideal weekend away...but it's the last place to go if you're watching your waistline! Named England's Finest Market Town by Country Life Magazine some years ago, Ludlow has a long tradition of selling quality local foodstuffs from the regular market.
Whether food is a part of your working life or you just appreciate good fo Read More...
The Edinburgh Festival In Scotland
The term – Edinburgh Festival – is used for the collection of various festivals in August and early September of each year in Edinburgh, Scotland. There are about ten major festivals in Edinburgh during August – September.
Some of the Edinburgh Festivals include Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, Edinburgh Internation Read More...