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28 September 2015

Celtic Connection, folklore and blends in Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Music, colour, warmth, tradition and innovation. Over 1500 artists in a number of venues throughout the whole of Glasgow, linking Central Glasgow to the furthest outskirts of the city. It is Celtic Connections or rather the Festival of Celtic Music but also much more because the festival is not narrow or self absorbed. Here in […]

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11 February 2016

Temple Bar TradFest, folk music in the heart of Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

The Temple Bar TradFest is an open door to Irish culture. One of those solid wood doors that attracts us when outside it is cold and you need a place to revive both soul and body. It covers rhythms punctuated by tin whistles and handclapping and leads us to an arena of smiles and red […]

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30 September 2015

Water Festival, in Cambodia for the end of the rainy season

PP, Cambodia

There is no better time to visit Cambodia and its capital Phnom Penh than the thousand year old Bon Om Tuk or Water Festival. It is held between October and November during the phase of the full moon at the beginning of the dry season when the River Sap, which flows into the Mekong River […]

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Italian Carnivals from Ivrea to Basilicata

Ivrea, Italy

The Historical Carnival of Ivrea and the war of the oranges In Ivrea you can witness a full scale three day battle fought with oranges through the streets of the town by people dressed in the Parisian “sans-culottes” fashion. But the throwing of oranges is only one of the traditional events in the Historical Carnival […]

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Shanties, in Krakow – seeking out the sense of the sea

Kraków, Poland

There’s a Polish proverb which says “better to call inn-keepers on earth than saints in the sea”. Holy words it would seem. True words if spoken by a sailor. And if the sailor is Polish, they have the weight of a sentence. That’s because Poland and the sea have always gone together, like two lovers […]

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