Festa de São Sebastião
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.
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"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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