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Miami’s Ultra Music Festival evolves into the new industry standard for DJs to introduce the latest in sonic-libations and EDM technology all the while sweating under the South Beach sun!

Some locals claim that Montreal has only two seasons: winter and festivals, which means that all spring, summer, and autumn, Montreal is nothing less than an ongoing festival of fun.

If you look at a map of Montreal, you’ll notice that the city is shaped like a pair of lips and it’s fitting that the Tourism Montreal logo, which visitors see all over the city, replaces the O in Montreal with a red-lipsticked kiss.

There are rain dances and sun dances and dances of sheer exultation - and every kind of dance was on display for Divers/Cité’s 20th birthday party in Vieux Montreal.

Founded in 1993 on the principles of diversity, solidarity, and openness, Divers/Cité is one of the most beloved of Montreal’s forty annual festivals, a multi-day LGBT music and arts festival with more than fifty hours of free music and performance.

As the locals like to joke, Montreal is a city of two seasons: festivals - and winter. Fortunately, the city hosts more than forty annual festivals, including Divers/Cite, the weeklong summer music festival - and Black & Blue, now celebrating 21 years.

Pink Monday is when 50,000 gays party at Düsseldorf’s "Biggest Fun Fair on the Rhine," turning the city’s 21-year-old, nine-day outdoor spectacle into the color of cotton candy.

Aruba announced the A-list lineup for the eleventh Annual Soul Beach Music Festival, taking place May 25-30, 2011. This year’s festival offers a live performance by Grammy Award-winning singer, Jennifer Hudson.

A veteran Jazz Fest attendee, Heck has her game plan down: first get food, then pick out a spot in front of a stage. "I love the music," she said. "But I may love the food even more."

The Electric Daisy Carnival - with its towering Ferris wheel, celebrity disc jockeys and pulsating lights - is the largest electronic music party in the United States.