List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
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There are a large number of music festivals in the United Kingdom, covering a wide variety of genres. Many of the UK's music festivals are world renowned, and have been held for a great many years.
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[edit] Annual festivals
[edit] Bluegrass music
- North Wales Bluegrass Festival
- Didmarton Bluegrass Festival
- Cornish Bluegrass Festival
- Harvest Time Blues
[edit] Classical music and opera
see also List of opera festivals
- Aldeburgh Festival
- Cheltenham Music Festival
- Chichester Festival
- Cymanfa Ganu
- Edinburgh International Festival
- English Music Festival at Dorchester-on-Thames[1]
- Garsington Opera
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- MasterWorks Festival [2] - Winchester, England
- The Max Whittaker Festival
- Norfolk and Norwich Festival
- The Proms
- Swaledale Festival
- Three Choirs Festival
- The Two Moors Festival on Dartmoor and Exmoor
- Proms at St Jude's North London [3]
[edit] Dance & Electronic music
- Creamfields
- Futuresonic
- Global Gathering
- Homelands
- The Big Chill (music festival)
- Infest (Festival)
- Glade Festival
- Rockness
- Live at Loch Lommond
- Re Arm Your Souls Festival - 'The Ode'
[edit] Ethnic music
- Africa Oyé
- Edinburgh Mela
- Leeds Mela
- Bradford Mela
[edit] Folk music
- Bromyard Folk Festival
- BunkFest
- Cambridge Folk Festival
- Chester Folk Festival [4]
- Crawley Folk Festival
- Cropredy Festival
- Edinburgh Folk Festival
- Endless Festival[5]
- Green Man Festival [6],
- Hull Sea Shanty Festival
- International Eisteddfod
- Pontardawe International Folk Festival
- Royal National Mod
- Shrewsbury Folk Festival
- Sidmouth Festival
- Shetland Folk Music Festival[7]
- Towersey Village Festival
- Warwick Folk Festival
- Whitby Folk Week
- Two Rivers Folk Festival[8]
[edit] Jazz music
- Brecon Jazz Festival
- Hull Jazz Festival
- Wigan Jazz Festival
[edit] Metal music
- Blastonbury
- Bloodstock
- Bloodstock Open Air
- Chaosfest
- Download Festival
- DOMINION Festival
- Damnation Festival
- Endless Festival[9]
- Full Throttle
- Ghostfest
- Hull Metalfest
- Prog Power UK
- Ragnarök Festival
- Total Carnage
- Twisted Realm @ Download
- 13th Day
[edit] Pop music
[edit] Rock music
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The Main Stage at the 2006 Reading Festival.
- Collision Course Festival
- Damnation Festival
- Download Festival
- Endless Festival[10]
- ENIT
- Give it a Name Festival
- Isle of Wight Festival
- Lillith Fair
- Knebworth (occasional)
- Reading and Leeds Festivals
- Slam Dunk Festival
- Summer Sundae
- T in the Park
- Tennants Vital
- Uxfest
- V Festival
- Donington "Monsters of Rock"
[edit] Cross-genre
- All Tomorrow's Parties
- Ashton Court festival
- Beautiful Days
- Bestival
- Big in Falkirk
- Blissfields [11]
- Brick Lane Festival, London [12]
- City of London Festival
- Connect Music Festival [13]
- Cornbury Oxford Music Festival [14]
- East Park Rocks! [15]
- Eastern Haze Festival [16]
- Endless Festival [17]
- Farmer Phil's Festival [18]
- Get Loaded in The Park
- Glastonbury Festival Of Performing Arts
- Glastonbudget - festival for tribute bands
- Godiva Festival
- Greenbelt festival
- Guilfest
- Isle of Skye Music Festival
- Indian Summer Music Festival
- Knockengorroch
- Latitude Festival
- Matthew Street Festival
- Meltdown
- Mini Glastonbury
- Forest Tour
- Peel Bay
- Rainbow Spirit Enlightenment Fayre Music and Arts Festival[19]
- Rhythm Festival [20]
- Rise Festival
- Rock Ness
- Secret Garden
- Sesiwn Fawr [21]
- Sheep Music [22]
- The Outsider
- Truck Festival
- Wickerman Festival
- Whitby World Music Festival
- Wireless Festival
- WOMAD
- Wychwood Music Festival
[edit] Travelling festivals
Some festivals do not appear in the same location every year, but in different places around the country, or even in other countries. Notable festivals to appear in the UK include:
[edit] Metal music
[edit] Rock music
[edit] One time festivals
[edit] References
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- Andrew Blake (1997) The Land Without Music: Music, Culture and Society in Twentieth Century Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- George McKay (2000) Glastonbury: A Very English Fair, inc. chapter one 'Histories of festival culture', also 'Timeline of British pop festival culture'. London: Victor Gollancz. ISBN 0-575-06807-8.
- George McKay (2005) Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, chapter one 'New Orleans jazz, protest (Aldermaston) and carnival (Beaulieu [Jazz Festival 1956-60])'. Durham NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3573-5.
