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Icestock is an all-day, outdoor music festival held annually at McMurdo Station, Antarctica on or around New Year's Day. It was started in 1989 by three United States Antarctic Program employees who wanted to host a music festival in the style of Woodstock. [1] It is the southern-most music festival in the world. [1] [2]
A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts.
On Feb. 6, 2020, five years ago, Antarctica set its all-time record high of 64.9 degrees (18.3 degrees Celsius) at Esperanza Base, an Argentine research station near the northernmost tip of the ...
In 1898, the crew of the Belgica were the first to spend Midwinter Day in Antarctica, although there was no celebration to commemorate it. [2] The tradition of Midwinter celebration is most often credited to Robert Falcon Scott and the crew of the Discovery Expedition who, on June 23, 1902, observed "mid-winter festival" in a deliberate imitation of Christmas.
This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911.
Despite efforts to resuscitate him, he died. It is the first death in the 12-year history of the annual festival. Global Gathering 2014 recorded the second death during the event's 14-year history. [9] On 26 October 2014 the promoters of Global Gathering, Angel Festivals Limited, announced the festival will not take place in 2015.
The first festival was held in 1951 under the name "Universities' Folk Dancing Festival", hosted in the city of Leeds. [3]The festival was jointly organized by the Hull University College Folk Dance Society and the Leeds University Scottish Dance Society, however, Leeds was chosen over Hull as the location for the festival due to its accessibility and better facilities at the time. [4]
The United Country Western Dance Council (UCWDC) is an organization that advocates for and organizes competitive country/western dancesport events. UCWDC regionally-sanctioned events are hosted in more than two dozen U.S. cities and also in the nations of Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, [1] [2] South Korea, Belgium, Malaysia, Ireland, Japan, China, South Africa, and Lithuania.