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"Held among Aleijadinho's baroque sculptures and the pilgrimage steps of the Romaria, this 31-year-old free winter festival fills Congonhas's historic streets with theatre, forró, rap and culture popular across twelve consecutive days."

31 Degrees Festival de Inverno de Congonhas

"A 66th-edition harvest festival in this small coffee and cattle town that combines rodeio, an ox-cart parade, a Campo Mass and the blessing of seeds and animals in one of the most enduring rural customs in central Minas Gerais."

Festa da Colheita Entre Rios de Minas 2026

"A key stage of Ceara's premier vaquejada championship held at the traditional Parque Martins, drawing competitors from across the state to this small Vale do Jaguaribe town."

Campeonato Cearense de Vaquejada (CCEVAQ) - 6a Etapa, Parque Martins

"Held at the popular Parque O Estevao in the small Pajeú sertao town of Tabira, this five-day vaquejada draws riders and forro fans to one of Pernambuco's most spirited interior cowboy festivals."

Vaquejada Parque O Estevao - Tabira

"Themed around the town's nickname a Cidade das Rosas, this 31-year-old festival brings local and national artists to Itapecerica's market square, cultural centre and Reinado do Rosario with music, film, craft workshops and a dedicated literary festival."

31 Degrees Festival de Inverno de Itapecerica

"Held in the forecourt of the historic Chapel of Santana, this three-day annual festa in Conceição do Mato Dentro mixes solemn masses and processions with the traditional pau-de-sebo, leilões, and local folk performances."

Festa de Santana

"Founded in 1970 by Padre Joao Cancio and Luiz Gonzaga at a stone altar shaped like a horseshoe in the rural Sitio Lages, this deeply moving outdoor mass draws tens of thousands of vaqueiros in full leather dress for a day of faith, aboio chanting, pifano bands and vaquejada that is the most traditional event of its kind in the Northeast."

56a Missa do Vaqueiro de Serrita

"A nationally ranked Circuito Nacional BYD stage at the Parque Boi Nelore puts the tiny Agreste town of Frei Miguelinho on Brazil's premier vaquejada map for five days of elite bull-running and forró."

Vaquejada Parque Boi Nelore - Circuito Nacional BYD, Frei Miguelinho

"The 36th edition of this small-town São Pedro celebration fills the main praça of a municipality of fewer than 3,000 people with forró, novenas and the Forró do Turista, drawing devotees from across the Paraíba sertão."

São Pedro de Assunção 2026

"Pilgrims walk up to 90 km across the cerrado to the tiny hilltop basilica of Nossa Senhora da Abadia in Romaria, a small town of barely 3,400 people that becomes the devotional heart of Minas Gerais every August for its 156th annual festa."

Festa de Nossa Senhora da Abadia

"The Parque Rufina Borba in Bezerros stages a prestigious six-day Circuito Nacional BYD vaquejada, bringing elite teams and massive crowds to this Agreste town famous equally for its Carnaval papier-mache traditions and its deep cowboy heritage."

Vaquejada Parque Rufina Borba - Circuito Nacional BYD, Bezerros

"A long-running nativist music festival in the Missoes region that pits solo singers, duos and groups against each other in gaucho-themed original compositions before a passionate small-town crowd."

17 Canto Nativo de Santo Augusto

"Rio Pardo, the historic fortress town chosen as the 2026 flame-lighting city, hosts the solemn generation and distribution of the Chama Crioula that will then ride by horseback to all 30 Traditionalist Regions of Rio Grande do Sul."

Acendimento da Chama Crioula 2026

"Held in one of Brazil's best-preserved Italian immigrant towns, this annual dinner-dance recreates the gastronomia and music of the original Veneto settlers across two August evenings in Antônio Prado's timber-frame event centre."

Noite Italiana

"The southernmost qualifying round of Latin America's largest amateur arts festival brings chula dancers, payadores, nativist choirs and gaucho musicians from the Fronteira Sul region to compete on the Pampa's own ground."

ENART 2026 1 Inter-Regional - 18 Regiao Tradicionalista

"Brejo Santo's Parque Zequinha Chicote hosts a full five-day stage of Ceara's state vaquejada championship, celebrating the deep-rooted cattle culture of the Cariri sertao."

Campeonato Cearense de Vaquejada (CCEVAQ) - 7a Etapa, Parque Zequinha Chicote

"A free two-night nativist song contest in one of Rio Grande do Sul's smallest municipalities, featuring school and APAE categories alongside headline gaucho artists, supported by the state Tradicionalismo prize fund."

XVIII Cancioneiro da Cancao Gaucha e Nativista

"A boi-bumbá rivalry rooted in the 1930s pits the Touro Branco against the Touro Preto across three nights in the riverbank town of Barreirinha, keeping a distinctly Amazonian folk tradition alive independent of the Parintins mega-festival."

Festival Folclórico de Barreirinha

"A tradition of more than 80 years rooted in a miraculous healing spring, this single-day pilgrimage festa at the Santuário Ecológico da Água Santa above Bicas draws devotees by foot, horseback, and charrete for mass, cavalgada, and típica food."

Festa dos Romeiros

"One of the most-awaited events on the northern Rio Grande do Sul calendar, this week-long acampamento at the CTG Doze Bracas celebrates gaucho identity through chama crioula rides, CTG invernada performances, campeiro contests and traditional cuisine in a small Planalto town."

Festejos Farroupilha e Acampamento Farrapo Joao Pires de Lima

"One of the Serra Gaucha's most extended gaucho celebrations, Nova Bassano's Festejos Farroupilha traditionally run beyond the state holiday with shows, traditional dances and workshops that keep the centelha of gaucho culture alive in this tiny hilltop community."

Festejos Farroupilha de Nova Bassano

"An open nativist music festival on the southern Pampa that welcomes composers, poets and musicians from across Brazil and Mercosul to celebrate the vocabulary, dress and customs of the gaucho and crioulo culture."

Galponeira de Bage - Festival de Musica Nativista

"Self-styled 'Capital da Vaquejada', Surubim hosts a flagship Circuito Nacional BYD stage at the Parque J. Galdino, where the cowboy sport tradition is woven into every aspect of town life from the June festival to the September championship."

Circuito Nacional BYD de Vaquejada - Etapa Surubim

"A Serra Gaucha highlight where the town's CTGs and community mark the Dia do Gaucho with chama crioula arrivals, invernada dance presentations and traditional gaucho bailes against the backdrop of the region's vine-covered hills."

Semana Farroupilha em Flores da Cunha

"Brazil's original Oktoberfest, launched in 1978 in this small Extremo Oeste farming town, keeps a communitarian spirit rare among larger German-heritage festivals, with events split between the rural Linha Presidente Becker community and the town square."

Oktoberfest Itapiranga

"The Litoral traditionalist region hosts the second of three ENART qualifying rounds in this small Vale do Cai town, gathering dancers, declamadores and payadores from across northeastern Rio Grande do Sul."

ENART 2026 2 Inter-Regional - 15 Regiao Tradicionalista

"A two-century-old Congado celebration in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, registered as Minas Gerais intangible heritage, where tamborzeiros, congadeiros and a royal reinado cortege process through a tiny hillside town to crown Nossa Senhora do Rosário."

Festa de Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos de Chapada do Norte

"The Parque Vitoria em Cristo in Pacajus welcomes the eighth round of Ceara's state vaquejada circuit, uniting professional riders and local families in a five-day celebration of sertao cowboy sport."

Campeonato Cearense de Vaquejada (CCEVAQ) - 8a Etapa, Parque Vitoria em Cristo

"Garibaldi, the self-styled Brazilian capital of sparkling wine, celebrates the moscatel and espumante harvest each October with tastings, gastronomy and cultural performances in its historic town centre."

Festival do Espumante e do Moscatel

"Set in the cattle country of the Vale do Jaguaribe, this four-day CCEVAQ stage at the Parque Wellington Peixoto Maia brings together vaqueiros from across the Northeast in one of the oldest cowboy traditions of the Brazilian interior."

Campeonato Cearense de Vaquejada (CCEVAQ) - 9a Etapa, Parque Wellington Peixoto Maia

"Returning after a 33-year absence, this three-night festival of original nativist compositions is staged alongside the XXI Exposicao Morfologica de Cavalos Crioulos in Lagoa Vermelha's Campos de Cima da Serra showground."

Lagoa da Cancao Nativista - 4 Edicao

"On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, also celebrated as Family Day in Conceição do Mato Dentro, the colonial town hosts traditional processions, novenas, and masses honouring the city's original patroness in one of Minas Gerais's oldest annual religious observances."

Festa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição

"Jacuí's most traditional event, where three historic Congo ternos perform ritual chants and dances across four December days, culminating in packed street performances in the Praça Presidente Vargas."

Festa da Congada de Jacuí

"Pedra Branca's Parque Guarani hosts the closing and season-finale stage of the Campeonato Cearense de Vaquejada, a six-day showdown that has anchored the sertao cowboy calendar for years."

Campeonato Cearense de Vaquejada (CCEVAQ) - 10a Etapa, Parque Guarani

"Organised by the municipal prefecture of Taperoá in the Cariri sertão, this annual patroness festa for Nossa Senhora da Conceição brings together processions, mass and communal celebration in the town made famous by Ariano Suassuna."

Festa da Padroeira Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Taperoá

"Organised by the Paróquia Nossa Senhora Imaculada Conceição in this small Agreste-sertão village of under 5,000 people, this is the most anticipated day in Sertãozinho's calendar, drawing faithful from surrounding municipalities for mass and procession."

Festa da Padroeira Nossa Senhora Imaculada Conceição, Sertãozinho

"Held in a small Seridó sertão town of around 12,000 people, this annual patroness festa organised by the Diocese of Caicó features novenas, a candlelit procession and communal celebrations rooted in centuries of Catholic devotion in the Rio Grande do Norte interior."

Festa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Jardim do Seridó

"Dating to 1887, this is the most celebrated Congada of the south-west Minas Gerais region, where multiple Congo and Moçambique ternos parade through Pratápolis streets from Christmas to New Year honouring Nossa Senhora do Rosário and São Benedito."

Congada de Pratápolis

"On the feast day of São Sebastião, patron saint of cattle in Minas Gerais, farmers and ranchers gather at the Igreja do Rosário in Conceição do Mato Dentro for novenas, processions, folk group performances, fireworks, and a live cattle auction whose proceeds fund church welfare work."

Festa de São Sebastião