The festival is named after Festivus, a holiday celebrated on December 23 which was introduced in the Seinfeld episode The Strike.
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The festival became one of the best-known musical events each fall, but increasing scheduling conflicts between bands and venues, a lack of sponsorship, and the difficulties in keeping an audience for an early-October music festival caused Meloy and Nungesser to cancel the annual event in 2004 and replace it with the Christmastime-themed Festivus Maximus festival, which proved wildly popular during its two-year run at the Southgate House in Newport, Kentucky.
Festivus, another December 23 holiday, made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld