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Reggae Fest
The Reggae Fest is the most important reggae held in Paraguay. With an annual frequency, the festival takes place at the Rakiura Resort, located in the city of Luque, Paraguay. The first edition took place on September 27th of 2009, reaching an audience of 10000 attendees.Event summary by PyOnline.com (in spanish) The second edition took place on September 26th of 2010 in the same venue reaching 9000 people of attendance.Summary of the event by Paraguay.com (in spanish) Reggae Fest I Bands: * The Wailers * Fidel Nadal * Matamba * Pipa para Tabaco * Cul ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luque
Luque () is a city in Central Department of Paraguay, part of the Gran Asunción metropolitan area. Both 1635 and 1750 have been recorded as dates of its founding. It was temporarily the capital of Paraguay in 1868 during the Paraguayan War before relocation to San Estanislao. It is located at around . Luque is one of the most important cities in the country. The city counts as home of Paraguay's main international airport, Silvio Pettirossi International Airport and the Ñu Guasú Park, which is where the Paraguayan Olympic Committee is also located. The continental governing body of association football in South America, CONMEBOL, has its headquarters approximately 3 minutes from the Airport, consisting of the South American Football Museum and walking distance from the Bourbon CONMEBOL Asunción Convention Hotel. When it existed, ARPA – Aerolíneas Paraguayas had its headquarters in the ARPA Terminal on the grounds of the airport. It is a center of production of Guita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festivals In Paraguay
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reggae Festivals
Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, " Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae", effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience. While sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of popular Jamaican dance music, the term ''reggae'' more properly denotes a particular music style that was strongly influenced by traditional mento as well as American jazz and rhythm and blues, and evolved out of the earlier genres ska and rocksteady. Reggae usually relates news, social gossip, and political commentary. It is instantly recognizable from the counterpoint between the bass and drum downbeat and the offbeat rhythm section. The immediate origins of reggae were in ska and rocksteady; from the latter, reggae took over the use of the bass as a percussion instrument. Reggae is de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Festivals In Paraguay
The following is a list of festivals in Paraguay, including Arts festivals, arts, Music festivals, music, Folk festivals, folk, and cultural festivals, among other types. This list does not include patronal festivals. Folk festivals Ao Po'i Expo-Fair This yearly fair, called in Spanish language, Spanish, takes place in Yataity since 1997. It's usually between November and December. It was declared "of cultural, touristic and departmental interest" by the Paraguayan Institute of Craftsmanship, the National Secretary of Tourism and the Departmental Board of Guairá Department, Guairá. Arary Festival The Arary Festival (Jopara: ) is a folk festival from the district of Ayolas, Paraguay, Ayolas remembering the anniversary of its foundation. It has been celebrated each year since 1999 and takes place in early September. The festival was named after the ''Calophyllum brasiliense'', a local tree species named in Guarani language, Guarani. The event is organized by the Municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
