National Eisteddfod of Wales
Wales' largest cultural festival pitches its pink pavilion in a different corner of the country each year for a week of Welsh-language song, poetry and ceremony.
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"Marking 850 years since the first eisteddfod held at nearby Cardigan Castle in 1176, this touring Welsh-language cultural festival returns to North Pembrokeshire with 6,000 competitors across music, dance, literature, and visual arts on a maes open to all."
National Eisteddfod of Wales (Eisteddfod y Garreg Las)
"A compact and friendly August show in the ancient county town of Pembroke, with sheep, horses and craft ring set against the walls of one of Britain's finest Norman castles."
Pembroke Town and Country Show
"The 167th year of the largest one-day traditional agricultural show in Pembrokeshire, held at Cefn-y-Dre Fields with cattle, Welsh ponies, Shetlands, show jumping, pigs, vintage machinery, a food and craft marquee and a dog show."
Fishguard Agricultural Show
"Three days at Withybush Showground where West Wales takes its livestock and its leeks equally seriously, a county show with the Atlantic behind it and a natural tendency towards drama."
Pembrokeshire County Show
"The Folly Cross Fields at Camrose host one of Pembrokeshire's most popular community events each August Bank Holiday, where vintage tractors and working machinery are demonstrated alongside heavy horses and stationary engines by families with deep roots in the county's farming past."
Camrose Vintage Working Day
"A tiny Pembrokeshire village hosts one of Wales's smallest but most characterful late-summer agricultural shows, with the evening social at the hall drawing as many locals as the ring."
Clunderwen Show
"A 25,000-capacity festival on a Brecon Beacons estate where ten areas wrap live music around literature, science, comedy and a giant burning Green Man."
Green Man
"The Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells dresses entirely in period costume for a week each August, with residents, traders and visitors all adopting Victorian dress for street entertainment, performances, markets and a grand parade through a town whose architecture still looks exactly as it did when the railway brought Victorian society to drink the waters."
Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival
"An award-winning micro-festival of indie-folk, science and nature set in coastal Candleston Woods, with intimate stages tucked between the trees by the sea."
Between the Trees
"Llandeilo's free three-day pre-Christmas festival fills the independent shops, cafes and streets of this Carmarthenshire market town with food, crafts, live music and a festive lights switch-on every third weekend of November."
Llandeilo Festival of Senses (Llandeilo Christmas Weekend)
"Hosted by Widders Border Morris on the ancient border between England and Wales, this January gathering weaves together West Country apple wassailing, the Welsh Mari Lwyd hobby-horse tradition, Morris dancing, mumming, and a ceilidh into a single boisterous riverside procession through Chepstow town centre."
Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd
"Five days of roots and folk music in the Welsh hills, where the campfire matters as much as the stage and the stars are genuinely good."
Fire in the Mountain