, ballet, and music, including bizet‘s carmen and verdi's nabucco plus a ballet performance by roberto bollegest festivals, the rock werchter, will be welcoming over 100,000 fansto its stagesjune 29 through july 2nd. for four days, this small town located between brussels and antwerp will be hosting some ferocious young talent. this year, there will be the foo fighters, radiohead, kings of leon and linkin park. in the us, the smithsonian folklife festival in washington, dc is celebrating its 50 year anniversary, a free event that takes place around the lithjuly holiday. this year, there will be circus arts, with a behind—the—scenes look at the generations of families involved in this business. there will also be a focus on craft, with chainsaw carvers to religious scroll painters to silversmiths and much of the music, dance and storytelling and performance will be themed around the issue of migration. the event beginsjune 29th, playing through july 4th, then againjuly 6th—9th. if you're looking for more petrol fuelled fun, then head to southern africa where the put foot rally runs from now u