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Traditional holidays relating to Bulgarian everyday life and culture (with
Orthodox dates) St. Basil’s Day (January 1/14) St. Jordan’s Day (Theophany) (January 6/19) St. John’s Day (January 7/20) St. Anthony’s Day (January 17/30) St. Atanassius's Day (January 18/31) Martyr Triffon’s Day (January 1/14) St. Theodore’s Day (February 14/27 – First Saturday of Lent) Annunciation (March 25/April 7) Saturday of Lazarus, Palm Sunday, Easter St. George’s Day (May 6) Sts.Constantine and Helen (May 21/June 3) Midsummer Day (Nativity of St. John the Baptist) (June 24/July 7) Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (St. Peter’s Day) (June 29/July 12) Prophet St. Elija’s Day ( July 20/August 2) Transfiguration (August 6/19) Elevation of the Cross (September 14/27) St. Petka’s Day (October 14/27) St. Holy Martyr Dimitri of Thessaloniki’s Day (October 26/November 8) Archangel Michael’s Day (November 8/21) Holy Apostle Andrew’s Day (November 30/December 13) St. Nicholas’s Day (December 6/19) St. Ignatius’s Day (December 20/January 2) Christmas Eve – (celebrated on the eve of the Nativity of our Lord – December 24/January 6) Christmas (December 25/January 7) New Year |
| Customs Sourvakars – Boys going from house to house, wishing people a Happy New Year by slapping them ritually with an ornamented twig for health and prosperity. Martyr Triffon Zarezan (Pruner) – Vine-dresses’ day – first pruning of the vines. Saturday of Lazarus – Dancing to the accompaniment of ritual songs for the Day – a ritual dedicated to the fields, pastures, forests and young girls: Lazarki, performed for health, happiness and fertility. Rose day – Celebrates the start of rose-picking. Nestinars – A ritual dance on live coal (fire dancing). Traditional folk fairs in Koprivshtitza, Shiroka Laka, Rozhen, Predela, as well as numerous festivals across the country, dedicated to folklore, and presenting authentic Bulgarian folklore. |
| Major folk festivals International Folk Festival – Bourgas – in the second half of August – annual. Festival of the Rose – Kazanlak – in early June – annual. Folk festival in the town of Koprivshtitza – A true holiday of Bulgarian folklore, at which singers and musicians gather and perform authentic Bulgarian folk and pop music – held every fifth year. International festival of the Koukers (mummers) and masquerade games – held every other year in the town of Pernik. It gathers dancers from all over Bulgaria, performing kouker folk dances (mummers), observing the old custom of the sourvakars for fertility. |
| Traces of Bulgarian traditions can be found in contemporary Bulgarian art also — literature (fiction), pictorial arts, theatre, and opera. |
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