Nauryz is a three-day music festival that welcomes Spring and is celebrated across Central Asia. This music festival is usually held from the 21st of March until the 23rd of March, based on the spring equinox, following the Iranian Solar Hijri calendar. This festival is also listed in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in the year of 2009. During these three days, Kazakhs will celebrate and participate in these music festivals by doing a lot of activities such as concerts, exhibitions, sports competitions, and folk festivals.  Kazakhs who participate will congratulate each other with phrases such as  “Nauryz meiramy kutty bolsyn! Ak mol bolsyn!,” which means “Congratulations on Nauryz! Let there be abundance!” A person replies with “Birge bolsyn,” which means “And the same to you!” 

Celebrated in August, the Jezkiik Ulytau is an international festival that hosts music and food festivals. This festival is held in Ulytau, a special place among the holy sites of Kazakhstan as it is the sacred birthplace of the Kazakhs, representing the country's solidarity and valiant fight for freedom.  This festival is celebrated to raise the popularity of world folklore works, and many countries like Mexico, Peru, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Tajikistan, France, Scotland, and Japan participated in this festival to compete and win the opportunity to have a concert during the festival. Other than that, a tourism forum was also organised within the festival and at the end of it, an excursion to the Ulytau"s sacred places designed for foreign guests is conducted.

Representing the celebration of the four Es: earth, energy, ecstatic, and experience, the Four E festival is an open-air celebration for adults, children, and creative as well as business-minded people. This diverse festival hosts over 10, 000 people from Kazakhstan as well as abroad, and they usually attend to enjoy activities such as music performances, practising yoga sessions and zumba marathons, eating myriad types of cuisine from countries all over the world, and buying handcrafted works.

In Kazakh culture, Besik Toy is a ceremony that is celebrated after the birth of a child and it is one of the most important day in a child's life. This ceremony starts after the baby's umbilical cord dries up and falls off which then this 'toy' will be held and relatives will come bearing gifts. Then, before the baby is placed in the cradle, the cradle is to be cleaned wuth juniper or harmala grass while singing a song that goes like this:

“Alas, alas, 

Survive the moon,

Year after year,

Here comes the boy,

The Lord has given goodness,

The light widened the sun. 

Let our garments be filled with grain, 

Let our mouths be filled with bread,

Let it be as sweet as the baby of a fox 

Alas, alas!”

Finally, to protect the baby from being scared and jinxed, items like eagle feathers, beads from the evil eye, amulets, and an eagle hoof are hung on the cradle, and a wedge or penknife is placed under the pillow.