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festival

[fes-tuh-vuhl] / ˈfɛs tə vəl /


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This plane theory had first come from an X account called “TickleTexts,” who did not seem to consider that the Austin City Limits festival draws visitors from all over the country.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

In a 2020 interview with Nashville Lifestyles, Gifford explained that she had visited the city plenty of times throughout her career, recording albums, filming TV shows, and attending the CMA festival.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stephanie Mills, however, is still hot over how the festival was run.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

During the 1980s, it ranked among Israel's more affluent municipalities and hosted the country's largest music festival.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The younger Swanburne girls had lived in terror of her bloodcurdling scream, which was put to good use every autumn at Heathcote’s annual Haunted Hay Maze festival.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

We were moving to release that and put it into the fall festivals.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Queen Camilla has been running her Queen's Reading Room project for five years, a kind of mega book club, with festivals and events and outreach projects, such as bringing books to homeless shelters.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

After celebrating its 25th edition in 2025, one of the country’s longest-running punk festivals was suddenly taking a year off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Its Music Academy hosted traveling festivals and workshops until 2019, and the company still partners with electronic music festivals, including sponsoring a seven-city Midsummer series this past June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Southeast celebrated kudzu festivals and crowned kudzu queens.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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