Local festivals? Your favourite?

[SomeRandom]

So in a couple of days there will be an annual agriculture festival near where I live.
We call it “Ekka” and it goes for a few days. There’s food, rides, “showbags” (like bags of goodies you can buy that has themes) and of course farm animals so children can interact and learn about the farming practices.)
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My fave is the local Diwali festival we have here
But I felt obliged to list a big local event lol

What’s yours?
It doesn’t have to be where you live. Any you’ve been to?
Fave part?
My fellow Aussies going to the Ekka or your local equivalent this year?

 

[ChristineM]

We have 4 all are favourites

In early spring there is the children’s carnival and the judgement of Pétassou.
3 local schools get together, dress up in medieval costume and parade the evil wizard Pétassou through the streets before judging him guilty of all sorts of heinous crimes and having a bonfire with Pétassou on top.

A plant festival early in the growing season where smallholders and growers display young plants and vegetables for developing your garden/vegetable plot and exotics too. It's quite a good day.

Then in july comes the gastronomy festival. Local food producers display specialist foods, home made foie grass, wild mushrooms, truffles etc. I just love truffles.

But the biggie is the Fête de la saint Louis held next weekend, it's 4 days of mayhem, parades fireworks, fairs, rock festivals, classical festivals street musicians, dances, organised and impromptu in the street, markets, beer tents, fun and noise. On the Sunday, the busiest day the population of the village rises from just over 500 to around 10,000.

 

[JustGeorge]

I can't say I really care for any of the festivals that roll through here. There was a local fair in the fall that was fun, but it had a shooting las year, and a mass fight the year before(not to mention the prices climb and climb and climb), so I stay home.

We have a local Irish fest and we have a large Pridefest event that goes on, but I've never been to either, nor feel inclined to go.

I like when the petting zoo opens for the summer.