The phrase "a festival performance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a performance that takes place during a festival, often highlighting the celebratory or cultural aspects of the event.
Example: "The local theater group put on a stunning festival performance that captivated the audience with its vibrant costumes and lively music."
Alternatives: "a festival show" or "a festival event".
Years later, Mackerras orchestrated it for a festival performance, the country's greatest musician paying his dues to his pioneering forebear.
It felt like a festival performance too far for Florence and the Machine, though, her strident vocals and witchy dancing made irksome by their ubiquity.
"I don't know why I like dance so much," a man said to a friend as they left City Center after a festival performance last week.
Their set delivered epic silliness (Bing Bong), blissed-out wishful thinking (Hello Sunshine) and emotional potency (Mountain People), proving that you can deliver a big reassuring hug of a festival performance without sacrificing wit and invention.
For those looking for crowd interaction and easy instruction this won't work at all, but if you want to see a festival performance that's genuinely trying to shift what we expect from "live" performance this is as intriguing as it gets in 2016.
This is the case as much as for traditional courts as it is for contemporary ceremonials, such as the Hong Kong handover ceremony in 1997, at which an array of entertainments (including a banquet, a parade, fireworks, a festival performance and an art spectacle) were put to the service of highlighting a change in political power.
So it was fitting that Flowers joined New Order for a live festival performance in 2005, during which he attempted to outstrut a posturing Peter Hook.
The Rev. Stephanie G. Kershner, a Lutheran minister, led the ceremony at the Altamura Center for Arts and Cultures, a summer festival performance center attached to the bride's parents' summer house in Round Top, N.Y.
Lucky Sydney audiences get the first look though with a Sydney festival performance.
They were taken from a Salzburg festival concert of August 1994 - plainly an astonishing occasion - and on the last disc, it is a Salzburg festival performance of 1975 that shines out above all: André Previn's electrifying reading of Elgar's Cockaigne Overture.
After a cancelled festival performance and three hours waiting in the street on blind faith, the kids in the crowd had earned a show, and the jolt of West's presence reawakened the endless possibilities of a city that had been temporarily seized by a rapper.
