Carnival: 
The joy of life is reflected in their spontaneity and infectious gaiety. Any excuse is good enough especially a religious festival, for a village fair with singing and dancing.  They love music and break into a 'Mando', a dance which like the Brazilian meringue-- a cross between a Waltz and a Portuguese Fado.
Three days before Lent, season of fasting, Goa busts out, like the rest of the Catholic world, into carnival and fiesta. For three days and nights there is 'revelry by night', and the streets are clogged with banjo playing or guitar strumming crowds in fancy dress, 'King Memo' reigns his fun-loving subjects with commands of "On with the Dance".
 The benevolent Lord of Misrule arrives in Panjim on February 13, 1975 and for three days fantastic pageants wind through the streets and Carnival reigns for three days, rivaling the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Gorgeous floats and carriages are created and come out on the streets.

Shigmo:
March. Every year around the Month of March(Phalgun), the streets of Panjim come alive in a spectacle. From 5 - 6pm in the evening until the early hours of the next day, select streets in Panjim  Held during the full moon period which marks the beginning of Spring, this festival is Goa's version of Holi, an ancient Hindu Festival. Shigmo, besides being an amazing form of entertainment, is also a cultural exhibition of Goa's history from time immemorial upto the present day. The procession begins with the brass bands reminiscent of the Maratha conquerors, followed by a series of Kunbi Folk-Dances performed by village tribal women bedecked in gold and brightly-coloured sarees. Regional dances from the Northern and Southern talukas (counties) of Goa also find expression during Shigmo, as well as various acrobats and 'fire-throwers' from Kerala.
Men marching with poles to the beat of drums, others dancing with decorated umbrellas, both sexes parading in elaborate costumes representing various deities; all can be seen during the Goan Shigmo Parade. The procession culminates in a line of illuminated floats atop which larger-than life mechanical figures represent important deities and some even re-enact their heroic deeds.

Bonderan: 
This 'mini carnival' is celebrated every year on the fourth Saturday of August on the emerald island  of Divar  on  the Mandovi river is celebrated by the locals. Bonderam means the festival of flags; which include colourful processions/floats and mock battles are staged in a recollection of the property wars that raged on this island till a century ago. Thousands converge on the island year after year with  brass bands in attendance!

Shirgao Zatra: 
(Temple feast and procession) no less famous among the Goan Hindu community. People from the surrounding villages arrive in groups to participate in the events which last almost 24 hours. In the early part of may, the small town of Shirgao, in Bicholim taluka. east of Mapusa, comes alive as thousands of devotees of Lairai gather and for the entire day undertake rituals and poojas culminating in the famous jaunt through 'hot coals' raked from an enormous bonfire.