Festival Imperial Imperial 2012. The two new bands added to Festival Imperial are Cage the Elephant and Bonobo (DJ Set), plus on the electronic stage DJ Shadow and Madeon were added as the last inclusions of Festival Imperial lineup. On March 10, 2012, the last two national bands, Dissént and Alphabetics, were selected to be part of Festival Imperial 2012. Festival Imperial Festival Imperial is a major Costa Rican music festival organized by Cerveceria Costa Rica and their flagship beer: Imperial. The first festival took place in April 2006 and brought world-known performers such as Sting, Jamiroquai, Diego Torres, and The Rasmus.
Imperial Count By being seated and allowed to cast a shared vote on a Count's bench an imperial count obtained, the "seat and vote" within the Imperial Diet which, combined with Imperial immediacy, made of his chief land holding an Imperial estate ("Reichsstand") and conferred upon him and his family the status of "Landeshoheit", i.e. the semi-sovereignty which distinguished Germany and Austria's high nobility (the "Hochadel") from the lower nobility ("Niederadel"), who had no representation in the Diet and usually answered to an over-lord. Thus the "reichsständische" imperial counts pegged their interests and status to those of the imperial princes. In 1521