World+Famous+Festival



**Festivals!!!** **Scotland, Brazil, Canada, or Spain !** **Where would you like to go ?**

 The [|Edinburgh International Festival] may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like it - "the largest show on Earth". The stats bear that out: the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe will see 41,689 performances of 2,542 shows in 258 [|Fringe venues]. It's a sprawling, anarchic, sleepless month of live performances. There are also 607 [|free shows] at the 2011 Fringe. Each year, we follow the drama, on stage and behind the scenes at the Fringe and the festivals within the Fringe.
 * **Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland**

 The main parade of Rio's Carnival is at the Sambodrome, a massive concrete stadium-like structure, built along Avenida Marques de Sapucai. The parade involves more then 50.000 figurants, and a selected number of top samba schools. Most of the schools, representing many districts and social clubs and interests, aren’t present in the main Samba School Parade. Rio's Carnival is centred in samba schools and themes selected for each year. The themes may be very diverse: they can be a myth, a historical or present event, a political or artistic personality, and must embrace every detail of the year’s school presentation. The lyrics, the music itself, the costumes of the figurants, the papier-mâché figures and paintings of the allegoric car, all must accord with the selected theme.
 * **Rio's Carnival in Brazil**

 The gigantic summer music celebration features 11 days of non-stop entertainment, from noon to midnight, right in the heart of downtown Montreal. Several city blocs are closed to traffic, as right of way is given exclusively to pedestrians, creating a festive and secure spot with cafés and bistros, an art gallery, street performers and a musical park for children. It’s the summer celebration par excellence for people of all ages and origins, a cultural breath of fresh air, and a place for incredible musical discoveries with influence such as JAZZ, BLUES, LATIN-JAZZ, BRAZILIAN, CUBAN, AFRICAN, REGGAE, CONTEMPORARY, ELECTRONICA...
 * **Monteal Int'l JASS Festival in Canada**

La Tomatina tomato fight in Buñol near Valencia happens every year on the last Wednesday in August though the partying starts earlier in the week. The highlight of the festival is the tomato fight which takes place between 11am and 1pm on that day. The event has become one of the highlights on Spain's summer festivals calendar with thousands of people flocking to this little Valencian town for this chaotic event. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #a90a0c; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Such are the numbers going to La Tomatina that the event has become a victim of its own success. The sheer number of people means that it's extremely difficult to get anywhere near the central area where the tomato lorries arrive so you may well find yourself a few streets away from the main action. Never mind, there are plenty people in the same boat and the street partying goes on no matter where you are.
 * <span style="color: #a90a0c; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Tomato Festival in Spain <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #a90a0c; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**﻿ [[image:tomato_festival.jpg width="102" height="123" align="left"]] **

<span style="background-color: #faf9cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 40px;">**Festivals!!!** <span style="background-color: #faf9cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;">**Scotland, Brazil, Canada, or Spain <span style="background-color: #faf9cc; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 50px;">? ** <span style="background-color: #faf9cc; color: #1e66d2; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; vertical-align: super;">**Hi, friends!! please share your opinion where you would like to go and why. **