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The annual Watkins Glen Italian American Festival is just weeks away, and the Village is gearing up for another packed weekend of food, crafts, vendors and music. The two-day event will kick off in Clute Park on Seneca Lake on Friday, August 5 at noon. Open to the public, the festival will continue through Saturday, August 6. The hugely popular eve...

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The St. Mary of Mount Carmel/Blessed Sacrament Parish Italian Festival will take pace Friday through Sunday, July 15-17, after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. The festivities are scheduled for 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. There will be food, games, entertainment and pizza fritta. There also is the Buona Fortu...

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The Santa Marina Society of Inwood’s Santa Marina Feast is back this summer for the first time in three years. The Feast, set for July 15 and 16, will feature amusement park rides, games, music, a live auction, food and more in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church’s parking lot on Wanser Avenue, Inwood. The society is a religious organization establishe...

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It’s time again for the annual Mt. Carmel Feast, a five-day festival full of food, music, games, rides, fireworks, and other family fun, located at Mt. Carmel Field in Berkeley Heights. The fairgrounds will be open from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13 through Sunday, July 17. Those five nights will include concerts, games, and traditional I...

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Thousands of New Yorkers gathered in Williamsburg for a jam-packed Sunday at the 119th annual Giglio Feast. The events kicked off Wednesday, all in the name of tradition. The celebrations continued Sunday, as people walked the streets of Williamsburg carrying the more than two-ton Giglio statue on their backs for the big Giglio Tower Lift.  Towerin...

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Mired in a leadership dispute related to money, factions of two groups vow to hold separate San Rocco Festas this August. Those competing Italian festivals would take place on the same dates, but in different locations. One San Rocco Festa is set for Aug. 12-14 at a new location; a "field next to the Beaver Valley Auto Mall," at 750 Beaver Valley M...

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After a three-year absence, the Stark County Italian-American Festival is back with street food, music, carnival games and the beloved bocce. An annual celebration for the local Stark County Italian-American community since 1987, the festival did not take place in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. The three-day event (Friday, Saturday and Su...

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Harlem Bespoke: The Giglio Festival of East Harlem celebrates a beloved tradition within what used to be the largest Italian neighborhood in the states.  The weekend-long festival culminates with an afternoon fete over at Pleasant Avenue from East 114th to East 116th Street with a crowd of men lifting a massive religious tower that was constructed...

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To me, more than anything else, Festivalbar was a feeling. The feeling that each edition of this internationally-acclaimed singing contest, performed in some of the most important cities and piazzas in Italy, would unfailingly come to mark the beginning of a new summer filled with bouncy mainstream hits and carefree moments. Stages from Milan’s Pia...

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The famed Giglio Feast returned to Williamsburg on Wednesday. The feast, also known as the the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel after the eponymous neighborhood church, kicked off on July 6. Festivities will run through July 17 outside the storied house of worship. The Giglio Feast is centered around a the Giglio, a seven-story-tall, four-ton towe...

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