Oyster festival
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An oyster festival is a food festival
Food festival
A food festival is a festival, usually held annually, that uses food, often produce, as its central theme. "These festivals have always been a means of uniting communities through celebrations of harvests and giving thanks for a plentiful growing season...

 centered around the oyster
Oyster
The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified....

. There are a number of oyster festivals worldwide, including the following:

Australia

  • The Brisbane Water Oyster Festival — Woy Woy, New South Wales
  • Narooma, New South Wales
    Narooma, New South Wales
    Narooma is a town in the Australian state of New South Wales on the far south coast. The town is on the Princes Highway. The name is said to be derived from the Aboriginal word meaning ‘clear blue waters’. At the 2006 census, Narooma had a population of 3,100 people.Montague Island, a National...

     — Narooma, New South Wales

Canada

  • The Tyne Valley Oyster Festival, an annual festival in Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island, featuring the Canadian Oyster Shucking Championship, the PEI Oyster Grading Championship, Miss Oyster Pearl Pageant, Best Decorated Oyster Box, Best Dressed Oyster Fisher, Oyster Suppers and More...

England

  • Oyster Feast
    Oyster Feast
    The Oyster Feast is the centrepiece of the annual civic calendar in the ancient borough of Colchester located in Essex in the East of England.- The Colchester Natives :The Colne oyster fishery dates to the Roman era. It was mentioned in the Domesday Book....

     is an annual event in Colchester, Essex, England, held since the 14th century. The modern feast has been held since 1845.
  • Whitstable Oyster Festival
    Whitstable Oyster Festival
    The Whitstable Oyster Festival is an annual event held in Whitstable, Kent, England, each year to celebrate the town's links with the oyster industry .-External links:* *...

    , a July Oyster Festival taking place in Whitstable
    Whitstable
    Whitstable is a seaside town in Northeast Kent, Southeast England. It is approximately north of the city of Canterbury and approximately west of the seaside town of Herne Bay. It is part of the City of Canterbury district and has a population of about 30,000.Whitstable is famous for its oysters,...

    , Kent, England.
  • Falmouth Oyster Festival held at Falmouth
    Falmouth, Cornwall
    Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

    , Cornwall, England in October.
  • Woburn Oyster Festival held in Woburn, Bedfordshire, England in September.
  • Easton Oyster Festival held in Easton, Bristol, England in October.

France

  • La fête de l’huître, a July festival that takes place at Riec-sur-Belon
    Riec-sur-Belon
    Riec-sur-Belon is a commune in the Finistère departmentof Brittany in north-western France.-Population:Inhabitants of Riec-sur-Belon are called in French Riécois.-Breton language:...

    , in the region
    Régions of France
    France is divided into 27 administrative regions , 22 of which are in Metropolitan France, and five of which are overseas. Corsica is a territorial collectivity , but is considered a region in mainstream usage, and is even shown as such on the INSEE website...

     of Brittany.
  • Oyster festivals around Arcachon Bay
    Arcachon Bay
    Arcachon Bay is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest coast of France, situated between the Côte d'Argent and the Côte des Landes, in the region of Aquitaine. The bay covers an area of 150 km² at high tide and 40 km² at low tide...

    : every year each municipality of the bay celebrate Arcachon oyster in its own way in the course of the summer.

Ireland

  • Galway International Oyster Festival
    Galway International Oyster Festival
    The Galway International Oyster Festival is a food festival held annually in Galway during September, the first month of the oyster season. Inaugurated in 1954, it was begun by Great Southern Hotel manager, Brian Collins, and in 2000 was described by the Sunday Times as "one of the 12 greatest...

    , an annual food festival in Galway, Ireland.
  • Ballylongford International Oyster Festival in Ballylongford
    Ballylongford
    Ballylongford is a village near Listowel in north County Kerry, Ireland.-Geography:The village is situated at the top of a creek of Ballylongford Bay on the tidal estuary of the River Shannon, close to Carrigafoyle Island and on the coast road between Tarbert and the seaside town of...

    , County Kerry, Ireland.

Northern Ireland

  • Hillsborough Oyster Festival in Hillsborough, County Down, Northern Ireland.

South Africa

  • The Knysna Oyster Festival, an annual winter festival held in Knysna
    Knysna
    Knysna is a town with 76,431 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa and is part of the Garden Route. It lies 34 degrees south of the equator, and is 72 kilometres east from the town of George on the N2 highway, and 25 kilometres west of Plettenberg Bay on the same road.-History:A...

    , South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...


United States of America

  • Amite Oyster Festival annual festival in Amite, Louisiana
  • Arcata Bay Oyster Festival — annually celebrated in June on the plaza in Arcata, California
    Arcata, California
    -Demographics:-2010 Census data:The 2010 United States Census reported that Arcata had a population of 17,231. The population density was 1,567.4 people per square mile...

  • Berks County Celtic Oyster Festival — Mohnton, Pennsylvania celebration in St. Michaels, MD falls the first Saturday in November and offers food, entertainment, vendors, educational opportunities, boat rides, hands-on oyster tonging all on the beautiful Miles River.
  • Chincoteague Oyster Festival — Chincoteague, Virginia
  • Florida Seafood Festival
    Florida Seafood Festival
    The Florida Seafood Festival is an annual public event held in Apalachicola, Florida on the first weekend of November. It features a parade, A carnival, blue crab races, an oyster eating contest, an oyster shucking contest, a 3.1 mile road race, a country music concert,arts and craft booths, and...

     — Apalachicola, Florida
  • Lowcountry Oyster Festival — Charleston, South Carolina
  • Milford Oyster Festival
    Milford Oyster Festival
    Milford Oyster Festival, sometimes shortened as "Oysterfest," is an annual cultural festival held on the third Saturday of August throughout the city of Milford, Connecticut. As a major tourist attraction—billed as the largest one-day festival in the New England region and listed among the top 10...

     — an annual food and entertainment festival in Milford, Connecticut, since 1975.
  • Norwalk Oyster Festival — an annual food and entertainment festival in Norwalk, Connecticut, since 1978.
  • OysterFest — in Shelton, Washington
  • The Oyster Festival — Oyster Bay, New York
  • San Francisco Oyster Fest — San Francisco, Californiahttp://www.sfoysterfest.com
  • St. Mary's County Oyster Festival and U.S. National Oyster Shucking Contest — Leonardtown, Maryland
  • Oysterfest — Fulton, Texas

Red Bank Guinness Oyster Festival, NJ held every September
  • Urbanna Oyster Festival — Urbanna, Virginia, since 1957
  • Wellfleet OysterFest — an annual festival in Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Cape Cod)
  • Bluefield, West Virginia Shriner Patrol Annual Oyster Dinner every October since 1975.
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