The meals & incidentals rate (M&IE rate) of $71.00 is intended to cover the costs of a single days' worth of meals and incidental costs (such as tips and parking) based on the average cost for these expenses in the Chicago area. If you spend less than the $71.00 per diem, you can generally keep the remainder.
Evolution Festival. Evolution Festival was a music festival held annually across Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead, England from 2002 until 2013. The festival attracted tens of thousands of attendees every year and usually took place on the Quayside.
1 Answer 1. Briefly, a festival is a gathering of people to celebrate something, historically religious holidays (feast days), but now also secular ones, e.g. Kwanzaa, or the Burning Man, initially held to celebrate the summer solstice. Mardi Gras is a famous New Orleans festival, a religious one celebrated more quietly in other areas. A fair is a gathering of vendors or tradespeople for the entertainment and/or commerce/other purpose). There are job fairs (hardly a festival), book fairs, farm shows (also called fairs) where people show their prized livestock or farm products for the entertainment (and often sales for charity) of both fellow farmers and non-farmers alike, county fairs (mostly just summer entertainment), etc.