Bayreuth Festival difficult to get tickets, because demand (estimated at 500,000) greatly exceeds supply (58,000 tickets); the waiting time is between five and ten years (or more). The process entails submitting an order form every summer; applicants are usually successful after about ten years. Failure to make an application every year results in being placed at the back of the queue. Although some tickets are allocated by lottery, preference is given to members of the Society of Friends of Bayreuth (financial donors), famous patrons, and to regional and international Wagner societies, which are distributed to their own members through lottery or the
Festival du Bois Festival du Bois Festival du Bois is the largest and most attended Francophone festival on the west coast of Canada, held in the Maillardville neighbourhood of Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Produced by Societe francophone de Maillardville, Festival du Bois is an annual event scheduled for the first full weekend in March which celebrates French Canadian history, art and culture. The festival site in Mackin Park is dominated by the main stage tent where most of Canadian folk, Celtic and world music artists perform. There is also a children's stage, a workshop tent, art and history displays, tours of the Mackin