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Carnival ,Annual Celebrations,Literature,Classic Music,Popular Music,Albums,Bands,Record Labels,TV Films, and Other
Carnival (disambiguation)
Carnival is a festive season which occurs immediately before Lent.
Traveling Entertainment
- Any traveling carnival, funfair, or other fair
Annual celebrations
- Maltese Carnival, a major celebration of Carnival held in Malta
- Bahian Carnival, a popular street event in the Brazilian state of Bahia
- Brazilian Carnival ("Carnaval" in Portuguese), an annual festival in Brazil held forty days before Easter
- Brazilian Street Carnival, an annual event in California
- Buenos Aires Carnival, an annual event that in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Carnaval Brasileiro in Austin, Texas, the largest indoor Brazilian Carnival in the world
- Carnaval of Santiago de Cuba
- Carnaval San Francisco
- Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, the largest Carnival in the Caribbean
- Carnaval de Cádiz, satirical Carnival in Southern Spain
- Carnaval de las Islas Canarias, exotic and folklorical Carnival held in every island.
Other carnivals
- Barranquilla's Carnival (Carnaval de Barranquilla), a Colombian festival dating back to the 19th century
- Caribbean Carnival, the term used for a number of events that take place in many of the Caribbean islands annually
- Carnaval de Oruro, the biggest annual cultural event in Bolivia
- Carnaval del Pueblo, a celebration of Latin American culture held in London
- Summer Carnaval (Zomercarnaval) is summertime version of Carnival held in the Netherlands
- Quebec Winter Carnival (Carnaval de Québec), the largest winter carnival in the world
- West Country Carnival, an English celebration related to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
- Carnivàle Lune Bleue, a 1930s-style travelling carnival that debuted in Ottawa, Ontario
- Electric Daisy Carnival, a music festival held annually in Los Angeles, California
- Notting Hill Carnival, a caribbean festival in west London
Literature
- Carnival (novel), a 2005 novel by Robert Antoni
- Carnival, a novel by Elizabeth Bear
- Carnival (Compton Mackenzie novel), a novel by Compton Mackenzie
- Carnival, a novel by James Thurber
- O País do Carnaval is a Brazilian Modernist novel
- "Carnival! Carnival!", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
Classical Music
- Carnaval (Schumann), a set of piano pieces by Robert Schumann
- The Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des Animaux), a musical suite by Camille Saint-Saëns
Popular Music
Songs
- Carnaval (song), the first track on the 1977 album Festival by American rock band Santana
- "Carnival", a song from the 1995 album Life by Swedish rock band The Cardigans
- Carnival (Natalie Merchant song), a 1995 song by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant
- "Carnival", a song from the 1976 album No Reason to Cry by singer-songwriter and guitarist Eric Clapton
- "Carnival", a single from the 1997 album Clumsy by Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace
- "Carnival", a song from the 1991 album Revolution Girl Style Now! by American punk rock band Bikini Kill
- Carnival (The Pillows song), a 1999 song by Japanese rock band The Pillows
- "Carnival", a song by Japanese rock guitarist Masatoshi Mashima
- "Carnaval de Paris", a song by English pop group Dario G sometimes played at sporting events
- Manhã De Carnaval (A Day in the Life of a Fool) ("Morning of Carnival"), a song which appeared in the 1959 film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)
Albums and other musical series
- Carnaval (Spyro Gyra album), a 1980 album by American jazz band Spyro Gyra
- Carnival (EP), a 1982 EP by British band Duran Duran
- Carnaval (Barão Vermelho album), a 1988 album by Brazilian rock band Barão Vermelho
- Carnival of Carnage, the 1992 debut album of American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse
- The Carnival, a 1997 album by the Haitian hip hop artist Wyclef Jean
- Carnival (New Model Army album), a 2005 album by English rock band New Model Army
- Carnival (Kasey Chambers album), a 2006 album by Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers
- CARNAVAL, an album by ZELDA
Bands
- The Carnival Band, a Canadian marching band
- The Carnival Band (folk group), an English folk and early music band
- The Carnival (UK band), an English dark cabaret band
- The Carnival, Brazilian flavored pop band from 1969
Record labels
- Carnival Records, a record label started in 1961 by Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert
Organisations
- Carnival Band Secretaries League, the main authoritative organisation in the Carnival Band movement
Performing arts
- Carnival!, a 1960s Broadway musical
- Carnaval (ballet), a ballet of the Ballets Russes, based on the music of Robert Schumann's Carnaval
- Carnaval en Amazonas is a typical dance from the Amazonas Region, Peru
Television and film
- Carnivàle, a US supernatural drama television series that aired on HBO from 2003 through 2005
- Festive Land: Carnaval in Bahia (2000) is a documentary film directed by Carolina Moraes-Liu
- Domingo de carnaval is a 1945 Spanish crime film written, directed and produced by Edgar Neville
- Le Carnaval des vérités is a 1920 French silent film directed and written by Marcel L, 'Herbier
- "Carnival", the 2nd official episode of the animated series The Bellflower Bunnies
- Carnival (1931 film), a 1931 British film
- Carnival (1989 film), a 1989 Malayalam film
Other
- Carnival (arcade game), a 1980 arcade game by Sega
- Carnival Cruise Lines, a large cruise company, and its parent company Carnival Corporation & plc
- Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, a 2006 Miami performing arts center formerly known as the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
- Kia Carnival, a car built by Kia Motors
- A Blog carnival, a blog article that contains links to articles on other blogs covering a specific topic
- Carnival Night Zone, a level in the Sega Genesis video game Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Carnival Food Stores, a grocery chain subsidiary of Minyard Food Stores, Inc. now owned by Fiesta Mart.
- Karneval (manga), a manga by Mikanagi Touya