They showed off their elaborate costumes and footwork, and the audience cheered with an occasional shout of "grito," a festive cry.
He still has his acoustic guitar, his three chords and his festive, irreverent marijuana shout-music.
The atmosphere is festive, with triumphant shouts of "Jauchzet auf!" ("Rejoice!") before the exposition ends in a postlude which refers to the "Infirma nostri corporis" music from Part I.
During the reading of the Book of Esther, every mention of Haman's name is drowned out by festive noisemakers (called groggers), shouting, stamping and every manner of booing.
For anyone looking for tidings of comfort and joy this week, turning on EastEnders makes as much sense as cornering an angry drunk at a Christmas party: they might not actually thump you, but their furious shouting is hardly festive.
The mood was festive, marked by drums and loud shouts of "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Rahm Emanuel's got to go!" Kelly Farrell, a kindergarten teacher at Higgins Elementary on the city's South Side, said her class had so many pupils that she did not even have enough seats for them all.
She had to shout to be heard: a minute-long fragment of a festive Chinese tune — heavy on screeching woodwinds — blared in an endless loop.
Seafood is always a good place to start, since it takes so little cooking and always seems so festive (visions of an old friend walking into a cocktail party and shouting, "Look at all that shrimp!").
Hundreds of protesters were praying in the street". The centre of the city was packed "as far as we can see, people shouting slogans against Mubarak and his son Gamal … It is a very festive atmosphere.
In a festive mood, protesters were joined by throngs of tourists snapping pictures, together counting back from 10 and shouting, "Happy New Year".
The festive welcome in Sacramento (bands playing, bells ringing, and people standing on balconies and rooftops waving flags, singing, and shouting) was repeated hours later in San Francisco after the mail was conveyed to its final destination by the large side-wheeler steamboat Antelope.
