Parties and festive events

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The Landes are a Mecca for Parties, Festivals, Cultural and Culinary Events throughout the year. Summer is of course the period has the largest density of events, but there are regular entertainment at all festive times of the year. There are major festivals and annual fairs, festivals, but also an important tradition of festivals and fairs in all the small villages and towns of the department. The Gascon tradition, as well as that resulting from cow games, Landes races and cultural festivals related to the nearby Basque Country animate the calendar, all year round.

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Parties and Ferias

The Feria de Dax is 5 days of great celebration in mid-August, the city welcomes up to 800,000 people who participate and celebrate around bandas, costumed groups, concerts. The protagonists are dressed in white with a scarf and red accessories, this festival is the direct heir to the popular, agricultural traditions of the region. We see Landes cow races, cattle exhibitions, there is a day dedicated to children and all kinds of activities patiently prepared by local associations and the population, which vibrate in unison with passing visitors during this week of festivities.

The Fête de la Madeleine is in Mont de Marsan at the end of July. Punctuated by bullfighting shows, it is a popular patronal feast in the purest Spanish and Landes tradition. We bring it closer to the Feast of Saint-Firmin in the Spanish Basque Country and for 5 days, there are many activities to discover throughout the city, which is adorned with white and blue colors, like those of the city's coat of arms. Scarves, costumes, banners, accompany the traditional songs, bodegas, the fairground rides and the many celebrations and processions that take place there.

The other patronal feasts and ferias

• Festivities of Saint Vincent de Tyrosse, mid July
• Hagetmau festivals, late July and early August
• Festivities of Saint-Sever, end of June
• Parentis-en-Born festivals in early August
• Soustons festivals, early August
• Aire-sur-Adour festivals, mid June

Festivals and major events

• Musicalirue in Luxey, a music and street art festival, mid August
• Little Festival in Seignosse in early August, feet in the sand and partying !
• Feriascapade, a running race in Dax, mid August
• Tempos du Monde, a World Music Festival, in Saint-Paul-les-Dax, in early June
• Jazz in March in Tarnos, concerts of jazz and blues music, in March
• Singing under the pines, from mid September to the end of October, a traveling song festival in a rural environment
• Festival International de Contis, a film festival, with international African, Brazilian and European films, mid July
• Boy, La Note à Dax, end of July, end of August. Live concerts played on the terrace in the city's bars. All types of music
• Car'Scène Rock'Son, pop rock music, blues and a DJ set in Carcen-Ponson
• You-F Festival, in Dax, at the beginning of October, it is an international festival of Youth. Concerts and conferences around young talents and international stars
• Jazz Au Pôle Festival, in Mont de Marsan, Jazz from all eras and styles, in February
• Toros Y Salsa in Dax, bullfights and concerts to vibrate to the rhythm of salsa, in September
• August of Jazz in Capbreton: it's all in the title !
• Latinossegor in Hossegor, a salsa festival in early September
• South Town Jazz in Soustons, concerts, aperitifs, dance lessons, conferences, in a very jazz atmosphere… end of March
• Festival de la Rue du Bizeou in Arboucave, a reggae music festival at the end of September
• Songs & Words from Amou to Amou, at the beginning of August, celebrate words and music through concerts, exhibitions, conferences...
• Jazz Manouche Karavan in Lit-et-Mixe, mid August, gypsy jazz, acoustic and free !
• Rock and Roll train festival in Seignosse, mid August
• Jazz in Sanguinet, end of July, festive and family atmosphere, to discover jazz
• 40 in pairs in Mugron, mid July, music and street art, movies and all that free !
• The African House in Saubrigues, mid October, music, dance and African art
• Dax Motors n Blues in Dax, mid July, meeting place for bikers, blues music and friends !
• Festival of the Abbeys of the Landes in Dax, from the end of May to the end of June, festival of classical music and chamber music
• C'Rock Corn in Messanges, mid May, music by young local talents, rap, pop rock, free !
• Conte Festival in Capbreton, early August
• Atout Coeur Festival in Benquet, concerts for an unmissable meeting in April
• Arte Flamenco, Mont de Marsan, early July: the biggest flamenco festival in France
• Folklore Festival of the High Moor in Morcenx, mid July, costumes, music and shows on the theme of the islands

Other gastronomic, culinary and craft activities

• Gourmet autumn in Landes Chalosse, from mid September to the end of November : events around wines and gastronomy
• Foie Gras Festival in St Sever in April
• Asparagus Festival on May 1st in Pontonx sur l'Adour
• Armagnac celebrating at Labastide d'Armagnac, end of October

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