The 2012 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival now celebrating its 45th year, is one of California’s most prominent celebrations of Asian traditions. Each year, over 200,000 people attend this dazzling display showcasing the color and grace of the Japanese culture and the diversity of the Japanese American Community. This year’s Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival [...]

If  you a fan of Harry Potter and on Halloween you’re the first witch to go to a party  you must visit  Prague on April 30. On the night of April 30th, in one of the country’s more colorful traditions, many Czechs gather round hillside bonfires for Pálení čarodějnic (The Burning of the Witches, or [...]

Once again, the skies over Quechee and the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire will be filled with hot air balloons ushering in the annual Quechee Hot Air Balloon, Craft & Music Festival. This event welcomes visitors from all over New England and beyond! The longest continuously running Hot Air Balloon Festival in New [...]

The milder the climate, the earlier the blossoms open. On Japan’s southern, subtropical islands of Okinawa, cherry blossoms open as early as January, while on the northern island of Hokkaido, they bloom as late as May. In most major cities in between, including Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, the cherry blossom season typically takes place in [...]

Warsaw’s Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival honours not just the composer, but the wealth of classical music in the 200 years since Beethoven’s heyday. Numerous concerts, conferences and exhibitions take place in venues across the Polish capital for a fortnight. First held in 1997, the festival began in Krakow with the continued involvement of the [...]