Celebrations with families and communities are a common way to enjoy and pass on Danish traditions. Holidays offer a way for Danish immigrants and Danish Americans to celebrate their heritage, sometimes merging Danish customs with American customs. Here are the traditional festivals in Denmark.
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Traditional Festivals In Denmark
Christmas
Christmas traditions often highlight the merging of Danish and American customs. On Christmas Eve (Julaften) Danish immigrants would have the most important feast of the year. The traditional dinner in many families consisted of rice pudding, roast goose with prune sauce or prune and apple stuffing, glazed potatoes, red cabbage with currant jelly, coffee, and pastries. Other maintained regional holiday customs from various parts of Denmark. Adults and children alike fashioned traditional red and white woven heart baskets (Julehjerte) and other paper decorations and garlands of paper Danish flags (Dannebrog) with which they decorated their Christmas tree. Today, Danish-American families continue to express their heritage through Christmas food traditions and decorations.
Easter and spring festivals
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Because Easter is a moving holiday, it sometimes falls in March when Denmark is still quite chilly, and sometimes in late April, when the bright Danish spring is already well underway. Whatever the weather, Easter week is the traditional opening of Tivoli, the beloved amusement park in downtown Copenhagen, which dates from 1843.
Danish families usually get together for a big Easter lunch that lasts all afternoon. Traditions such as painting hard-boiled eggs in Easter colors, going on egg hunts, and rolling eggs downhill are popular among children and adults alike.
The spring holiday calendar in Denmark also includes Whitsunday and Pentecost, as well as Great Prayer Day – a holiday celebrated only in Denmark. These are days off work when many shops are closed, but they have few special traditions surrounding them. Most Danes use them as a chance to escape to their summerhouses in the countryside.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
One of the most stunning and inspirational times in Europe is the Jazz festival in Copenhagen, which takes place each July. The Danish capital is scenic enough, but with special performances and great performances in the streets, it’s spectacular and it’s not surprising that so many people are in love with Denmark.
Aarhus Festuge
Although Roskilde is home to Denmark’s biggest concert event, Aarhus hosts the biggest yearly festival in the world which is one of the grandest and biggest Denmark festivals. Visitors can enjoy a wide variety of attractions and cultural shows, like local bands, dance, documentaries, cultural workshops, and delicious cuisine, for over 10 days from the end of August to the start of September. The festivities include parks, civic halls, churches, and other community buildings throughout the city of Aarhus.
Aarhus Pride
Aarhus Pride is a parade in Aarhus and the biggest Danish occasion in Copenhagen attentive to LGBT issues and even if it’s not one of the major festivals in Denmark, it’s a celebration of one’s being, nevertheless. The first event took place in 2012 and has been held annually since then. It is controlled entirely by private citizens from the LGBT community and funded by Aarhus city. In 2017, approximately 6,000 people participated in a 3.5-kilometer (2.2 mi) parade with balloons and banners.
Moesgård Viking Moot
Moesgård Viking Moot is a yearly historic reenactment event in Aarhus, Denmark with a Viking marketplace for a week and mock battles which makes it one of the traditional festivals in Denmark. It is the biggest reenactment occasion of the Viking Age in Denmark and takes place on and near the coast of the Moesgård Museum. There are no long–term systems in the area so a makeshift tent camp with markets, smiths, and kitchens, modeled after the Glorious Heathen Army, is constructed. during the last two days of the event, tiding matches, single solitary fighting competitions, and pretend duels with up to 1000 athletes and an Icelandic horse infantry will be held.
Aalborg Carnival
Aalborg Carnival is the name for the annual cultural event carnival in the city of Aalborg. The carnival takes place the last week in May and is the largest carnival in Scandinavia. The Aalborg Carnival stands for a week and has 3 main carnival events: The Grand Parade, Battle of Carnival Bands, and Children’s Carnival. The Grand Parade is a carnival event that attracts about 100,000 people to the streets of Aalborg each year. About 15 professional carnival groups from all over the world open the parade and following them are thousands of people dressed out, dancing, and celebrating life. People can listen to live music, dance, see carnival shows, and much more.
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