List of music festivals

A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. See also Category:Music festivals

Music festivals may be subdivided by musical genre:

Blues festivals

• United States
  • Chicago Blues Festival
  • Long Beach Blues Festival, Long Beach, California
  • Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland, Oregon

• Australia
  • East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival, Australia

• Canada
  • Ottawa Bluesfest
  • Mont Tremblant Blues Festival

• Europe
  • Rawa Blues Festival (Katowice, Poland)
  • American Folk Blues Festival (1962-1983)
  • August Blues Festival, (Haapsalu, Estonia)
  • Notodden Blues Festival
  • Liri Blues Festival (Isola del Liri, Italy)
  • Pistoia Blues Festival, (Pistoia, Italy)
  • Blues nights, (Varniai, Lithuania)

• Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise

Brass Band festivals

• Great American Brass Band Festival

Classical music festivals

• Argentina
  • Semana Musical Llao Llao

• Austria
  • Salzburg Festival

• Australia
  • Australian Festival of Chamber Music, in Townsville, Queensland
  • Darwin International Guitar Festival, in Darwin, Northern Territory

• Canada
  • Ottawa Chamber Music Festival
• Czech Republic
  • Prague Spring International Music Festival
  • Prague Autumn International Music Festival

• France
  • Aix-en-Provence Festival
  • La Folle Journée, in Nantes
  • Musique-Cordiale, Seillans in the Var

• Germany
  • Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival
  • Classic Open Air am Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin
• Puerto Rico
  • Casals Festival
  • Jazz Meets Classic in Menden NRW

• Italy
  • Rassegna internazionale di Canto Corale di Mel

• Spain
  • Festival de Musica de Canarias
  • Festival de Otoño in Madrid
  • Veranos de la Villa in Madrid
  • Festival de Musica in Santander

• Switzerland
  • Verbier Festival
  • Musikfestwochen Winterthur

• Turkey
  • Istanbul International Music Festival

• United Kingdom
  • The Proms
  • Canterbury Festival
  • Cheltenham Music Festival
  • Chichester Festival
  • Edinburgh International Festival
  • GuilFest
  • The Oxford Lieder Festival
  • St Albans International Organ Festival
  • Three Choirs Festival

• United States
  • Aspen Music Festival and School, in Aspen, Colorado
  • Bellingham Festival of Music, in Bellingham, Washington
  • Hot Springs Music Festival, in Hot Springs, Arkansas
  • Park City International Music Festival, in Park City, Utah
  • Sitka Summer Music Festival, in Sitka, Alaska
  • Spoleto USA, in Charleston, South Carolina
  • Tanglewood, near Lenox, Massachusetts

• Europe
  • European Festival of Youth Choirs

Country music festivals

• Australia
  • Tamworth Country Music Festival
• Canada
  • Merritt Mountain Music Festival
• United States
  • CMA Music Festival (Nashville, Tennessee)
  • Country Stampede Music Festival (Manhattan, Kansas)

Dance and DJ festivals

• North America
  • Canada
    • Mutek
    • World Electronic Music Festival
  • United States
    • Detroit Electronic Music Festival (Detroit, Michigan)
    • Global Gathering (Miami, Florida)
    • Ultra Music Festival (Miami, Florida)
• Europe
  • Czech Republic
    • CzechTek
    • Summer of Love
    • Love Planet
  • Finland
    • Koneisto
  • Germany
    • Love Parade (Berlin)
    • Nature One (Hunsrück)
    • Mayday (Dortmund)
  • Hungary
    • Mayday
  • Italy
    • Dissonanze festival
  • Netherlands
    • Dance Valley
  • Poland
    • Mayday
  • Portugal
    • Boom festival [1]
  • Romania
    • Transylvania calling / Gathering of the Tribes [2]
  • Russia
    • Mayday
  • Serbia
    • EXIT
  • Spain
    • Sueño Verde (Léon)
    • Sónar (Barcelona)
    • Point Sound Festival - Caspe (Zaragoza)
    • Rocket Festival (Andalucia)
  • Switzerland
    • Street Parade
  • United Kingdom and Ireland
    • Creamfields (Liverpool)
    • The Glade (Newbury, Berkshire)
    • Global Gathering (near Stratford-upon-Avon)
    • GuilFest Guildford UK
    • Homelands (Winchester)
    • Infest (Bradford)
    • Lovebox Music weekender (East London)

• Australia
  • Earthcore
  • Rainbow Serpent Festival
  • What Is Music
• South Africa
  • Tribal Council
• New Zealand
  • Nambassa (1976-1981)
  • Alpine Unity
  • Starburst (Nelson)
  • The Gathering (Nelson)
  • Vizionz (Golden Bay)
• Japan
  • The Gathering

Electronic/Electroacoustic/Experimental/Industrial/Noise/Sound Art festivals

• Bent -International Circuit Bending Festival (New York, NY)
• Big Sur Experimental Music Festival (Big Sur, CA)
• Boise Experimental Music Festival (Boise, ID)
• Bonk Festival of New Music (St. Petersburg, FL)
• Edgetone Music Summit (SF Bay Area, CA)
• Electro-Music (Philadelphia, PA)
• Eugene Noise Fest (Eugene, OR)
• Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival (Gainesville, FL)
• Harmonic Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
• High Zero (Baltimore, MD)
• Horrible Noise Festival (Houston, TX)
• International Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville (QC) Canada)
• International New Music Festival (North Las Vegas, NV)
• May Amen Industrial Festival! (London, UK)
• Moogfest (New York, NY)
• Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival (Oakland, CA)
• Mutek (Montreal (QC) Canada)
• New Music & Art Festival (Bowling Green, OH)
• No Future Fest (Chapel Hill, NC)
• Noise Pop Festival (San Francisco, CA)
• Noise! Festival (Victoria, B.C.)
• North California Experimental Music Festival/North California Noise Festival (Sacramento, CA)
• Once.Twice:Festival (Baltimore, MD)
• Other Minds Festival (San Francisco, CA)
• Phoenix Noise Fest (Phoenix, AZ)
• Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art (Minneapolis, MN)
• Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival (Richmond, VA)
• Totally Huge New Music Festival (Australia)
• Tribeca New Music Festival (New York City, NY)
• Ventura New Music Festival (Ventura, CA)

Folk music festivals

• United States
  • The Bluergrass! Acoustic Music Festival(@The AMP,Vienna,NY)
  • Central Ohio Folk Festival
  • Falcon Ridge Folk Festival
  • Great Lakes Folk Festival
  • Hypnotic Clambake Folk Fest
  • Kerrville Folk Festival
  • [Johnstown Folk Festival]
  • MerleFest
  • New England Folk Festival (NEFFA)
  • Newport Folk Festival
  • Pickathon
  • Philadelphia Folk Festival
  • String Band Rendezvous
  • Woody Guthrie Folk Festival

• Australia
  • National Folk Festival (Australia)
  • Port Fairy Folk Festival
  • Woodford Folk Festival

• Canada
  • Calgary Folk Music Festival
  • CKCU Ottawa Folk Festival
  • Edmonton Folk Music Festival
  • Home County Folk Festival
  • Mariposa Folk Festival
  • Northern Lights Festival Boréal
  • Regina Folk Festival
  • Stan Rogers Folk Festival
  • Vancouver Folk Music Festival
  • Winnipeg Folk Festival

• Colombia
  • Vallenato Legend Festival

• Europe
  • Estonia
    • Viljandi Folk Festival (Estonia)

• • Finland
    • Kaustinen Folk Music Festival

• • UK
    • Cornbury Music Festival
    • Cambridge Folk Festival
    • Cheltenham Folk Festival
    • Home County Folk Festival
    • Cropredy Festival
    • Llangollen International Eisteddfod
    • Middlewich Folk And Boat Festival
    • Pontardawe International Folk Festival (Wales)
    • Royal National Mod (Scotland)

Folklife festivals

• Festival of American Folklife (Smithsonian Institution)
• Hillside Festival
• Kentucky Folklife Festival
• Kutztown Festival
• Louisiana Folklife Festival
• Northwest Folklife Festival
• Texas Folklife Festival
• Prout Prout Festival

UK = Green Man Festival. www.greenmanfestival.co.uk

Heavy Metal festivals

• Bang Your Head
• Download Festival
• Dynamo Open Air
• Graspop Metal Meeting
• Hard Rock Laager
• Metal For The Brain - Canberra, Australia
• No Mercy
• OzzFest
• ProgPower
• RockHard
• Tuska - Tuska Open Air Metal Festival
• Wacken Open Air

Hip Hop festivals

• Hip Hop Kemp, Czech Republic
• PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival, Oakland, California
• Splash Festival, Chemnitz, Germany

Jazz festivals

See also List of jazz festivals

• America
  • Chicago Jazz Festival
  • Detroit International Jazz Festival
  • The Lincoln Center’s Folk & Heritage Festival
  • New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
  • Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, California
  • Rochester International Jazz Festival
  • Smithsonian Institution’s Festival of American Folklife

• Canada
  • Festi Jazz International de Rimouski
  • Vancouver International Jazz Festival
  • Montreal International Jazz Festival
  • Toronto Beaches International Jazz Festival[3]

• Europe
  • Belgium
    • Blue Note Festival
    • Gaume Jazz Festival

• • Hungary
    • Cserfő JazzLand

• • Estonia
    • Muhu Future Music Festival (Muhu)

• • France
    • Nice Jazz Festival (Nice)
    • Swing 41 Gypsy Jazz Festival (Salbris, Loir-et-Cher, Centre - Early June)

• • Finland
    • April Jazz
    • Pori Jazz

• • Germany
    • International Dixieland Festival Dresden (the biggest in Europe with 500,000 guests)
    • JazzFest Berlin

• • Ireland
    • Cork Jazz Festival

• • Italy
    • Umbria Jazz
    • Roccella Jazz (Roccella Jonica) [4]
    • No Borders Music Festival (Tarvisio) [5]

• • Lithuania
    • Kaunas Jazz Festival

• • Malaysia
    • Penang Island Jazz Festival

• • Morocco
    • Tanjazz

• • Netherlands
    • North Sea Jazz Festival

• • Prague
    • Prague International Jazz Festival

• • Switzerland
    • Montreux Jazz Festival

• • UK
    • Brecon Jazz Festival
    • Cheltenham Jazz Festival

Opera festivals

• Glimmerglass Opera Festival
• Glyndebourne
• Ilmajoki Music Festival
• Ohio Light Opera
• Savonlinna Opera Festival

Pop Music Festivals

• Acapulco
• Eurovision
• OTI-Same as Eurovision, but in Iberoamerica.
• Sanremo
• Sopot International Song Festival
• Viña del Mar

Reggae music festivals

Jamaican Reggae Festivals

• Splash Festival, Jamaica
• Reggae Sunsplash, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
• Sting reggae music festival, Kingston, Jamaica
• Reggae Sumfest, Montego Bay, Jamaica
• OUR MUSIC FEST, Sherman NY, U.S.A.

International Reggae Festivals

• Bob Marley Outernational Day, Perth, Western Australia
• Seasplash Reggae Festival, Pula, Croatia [6]
• MIDEM Reggae Showcase, Cannes, France
• Chiemsee Reggae Summer, Übersee, Germany
• Summerjam, Cologne, Germany
• LB27 Reggae Camp, Komarom, Hungary
• Rototom Sunsplash, Italy [7]
• Two 77 Splash, Amsterdam Netherlands [8]
• Reggae Sundance, Eindhoven Netherlands [9]
• Ostróda Reggae Festival, Ostróda, Poland
• Soca Reggae Riversplash, Tolmin, Slovenia,
• Uppsala Reggae Festival, Sweden
• Notting Hill Carnival, London, UK
• Reggae on the River, Humboldt County, California, United States
• Reggae on the Rocks (RoR), Morrison, CO, USA,
• Reggae on the Lake, Greenville, North Carolina, USA, [[10]]
• International Reggae Festivals at ReggaeSeen [11]
• Spanish Reggae Festivals [12]
• Mariporrón, La Rioja, Spain
• Welcome To ReggaeTown , Cairns Australia

Religious music festivals

Christian music festivals

• Creation Festival
• Cornerstone Festival
• Ichthus Festival
• Onefest
• Australian Gospel Music Festival
• Parachute
• Sonshine Festival
• Samstock Music http://www.samstock.org.nz
• Purple Door http://www.purpledoor.com
• Flevo Festival http://www.flevofestival.nl
• One Way Festival http://www.onewayfestival.org
• Lifest http://www.lifest.com
• Reggae Festival of Wales 2006 http://www.reggaewales.com
• Joshua Fest http://www.joshuafest.com

Rock Music festivals

Historic festivals

• Monterey Pop Festival (Monterey, California, 1967)
• Woodstock (Bethel, New York, 1969), Woodstock 1994 (Saugerties, New York), and Woodstock 1999 (Rome, New York)
• Altamont Speedway concert (Livermore, California, 1969)
• Festival Express (Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary, Canada), 1970
• Isle of Wight Festival (Isle of Wight, 1970)
• Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (Griffin, Indiana,1972)
• Summer Jam at Watkins Glen (Watkins Glen, New York, (1973))
• California Jam (Ontario, California, 1974)
• Ozark Music Festival (Missouri State Fairgrounds, Sedalia, Missouri, 1974)
• Nambassa Music and Alternatives festival, New Zealand 1976-1981.
• US Festival (San Bernardino, California, 1983 & 1984)
• Live Aid (multi-venue, 1985)
• Rock in Rio (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1985)
• Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003)
• Live 8 (multi-venue, 2005)
• Volunteer Jam (multi-venue in Tennessee)
• Ruisrock (Turku, Finland 1970)

Festivals at multiple venues

• Anger Management Tour
• Area Festival
• Edgefest
• Curiosa
• Family Values Tour
• Gigantour
• Hollywood Rock
• Lilith Fair
• Lollapalooza
• Monsters of Rock
• Music As A Weapon
• Ozzfest
• Sounds Of The Underground
• Summer Sanitarium
• The Unholy Alliance Tour
• Warped Tour
• (Rockin' the Rivers)

Current festivals

• Asia
  • Japan
    • Fuji Rock Festival (Naeba)
  • Taiwan
    • Spring Scream
• Australia and New Zealand
  • Big Day Out (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Perth, Auckland)
  • Bloodlust (Sydney)
  • Edgefest (New Zealand concert tour) New Zealand
  • Falls Festival (Lorne, Victoria and Marion Bay, Tasmania)
  • Gone South (Launceston, Hobart)
  • Hardcore (Sydney)
  • Homebake (Sydney)
  • Livid (Brisbane (and Sydney, Melbourne for 2002))
  • Meredith Music Festival (Meredith, Victoria)
  • Metal for the Brain (Canberra)
  • Melbourne International Music Festival
  • Offshore Festival (Torquay, Victoria)
  • Pyramid Rock Festival Pyramid Rock, Phillip Island, Victoria
  • rock4rights (September 2006, Gold Coast, Australia)
  • Rock-It (Perth)
  • Samstock Music Festival Otago, New Zealand
  • Splendour in the Grass Byron Bay, NSW
  • Stonefest (Canberra)
• Caribbean
  • Dominican Republic
    • Festival Presidente de la Musica Latina (Santo Domingo)
• Europe
  • Austria
    • Aerodrome (Wiener Neustadt)
    • Dunkelheit [13] (Vienna)
    • FM4 Frequency (Salzburg)
    • Nova Rock (Nickelsdorf)
    • Wiesen (Wiesen)
  • Belgium
    • Dour Festival (Dour)
    • Graspop Metal Meeting (Dessel)
    • Pukkelpop (Kiewit)
    • Rock Werchter (Werchter)
    • Sfinks Festival (Boechout)
  • Czech Republic
    • Rock 4 People (Ceský Brod)
    • Trutnov Rock Festival (Trutnov)
  • Denmark
    • Bork Havn Festival (Bork Havn)
    • Danmarks Smukkeste Festival (Skanderborg Festival) (Skanderborg)
    • Haze over Haarum (Harboøre)
    • Jelling Festival (Jelling)
    • Kløften Festival (Haderslev)
    • Langelandsfestival (Rudkøbing)
    • Midtfyns Festival (Ringe)
    • Nibe Festival (Nibe)
    • Roskilde Festival (Roskilde)
    • Samsø Festival (Samsø)
    • Skagen Festival (Skagen)
    • Skive Beachparty (Skive)
    • Tunø Festival (Tunø)
    • Vig Festival (Vig)
  • Estonia
    • Rabarock (Järvakandi)
  • France
    • Crescendo Festival (Royan)
    • Eurockéennes (Belfort)
    • Festi'Val-de-Marne (Val-de-Marne)
    • Festival Art Rock (Saint-Brieuc)
    • Festival Des Artefacts (Strasbourg)
    • Festival des Vieilles Charrues (Carhaix)
    • Festival du Bout du Monde (Brest)
    • Festival Le Chien à Plumes (Montsaugeon)
    • Festival Pantiero (Cannes)
    • Festival Rock En Seine (Saint-Cloud)
    • Festival Sous la Plage (Paris)
    • Fête de l'Humanité
    • Furia Sound Festival (Cergy-pontoise)[14]
    • La Route du Rock (Saint-Mâlo)
    • Le Rock Dans Tous Ses Etats (Evreux)
    • Les 3 Elephants (Lassay-les-Châteaux)
    • Les Francofolies (La Rochelle)
    • Les Transmusicales (Rennes)
    • Les Vaches au Gallo (Louvigné du Désert)
    • Les Volcaniques de Mars (Auvergne)
    • Metal Therapy Festival (Amneville)
    • Musiques en Stock (Cluses)
    • Papillons de Nuit (Saint Laurent de Cuves)
    • Printemps de Bourges (Bourges)
    • Solidays (Longchamp)
  • Finland
    • Ilosaarirock (Joensuu)
    • Provinssirock (Seinäjoki)
    • Ruisrock (Turku)
    • Tuska Open Air Metal Festival (Helsinki)
    • Qstock (Oulu)
    • Ankkarock (Helsinki)
  • Germany
    • Hurricane and Southside
    • M'era luna (Hildesheim)
    • Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park
    • Wacken Open Air (Wacken)
    • With Full Force Open Air (Lobnitz)
  • Hungary
    • Sziget Festival (Budapest)
  • Ireland
    • Oxegen Festival (Kildare)
    • Electric Picnic (Stradbally, Co. Laois)
    • Castle Palooza (Charleville Castle, Tullamore, Co. Offaly)
    • HiFi Ireland (Belvedere House Estate, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath)
  • Italy
    • Festival del Rock[15] - Travedona-Monate - VA
    • Rock In Idro (Milan) [16]
    • Milano  : MIami Festival [17]
    • Independent Days Festival (Bologna) [18]
    • Flippaut Festival (Bologna)
    • Gods of Metal (Bologna) [19]
    • Heineken jammin' Festival (Imola) [20]
    • Goa-Boa Festival (Genoa) [21]
    • Traffic Torino Free Festival (Turin)[22]
    • Neapolis festival (Naples) [23]
    • Arezzo Wave (Arezzo) [24]
    • Summer Festival (Lucca/Brescia) [25]
    • Tora! Tora! Festival [26]
  • The Netherlands
    • Arrow Rock Festival
    • Dynamo Open Air (Hellendoorn)
    • Lowlands
    • Pinkpop (Landgraaf)
    • Progpower Europe (Baarlo)
  • Norway
    • Inferno Metal Festival (Oslo)
  • Poland
    • Metalmania
    • Open'er Festival
    • Przystanek Woodstock
  • Portugal
    • Paredes de Coura
    • Vilar dos mouros
    • Festival do Sudoeste
    • Ilha do Ermal
  • Slovakia
    • Pohoda (Trencin)[27]
    • Topvar Rock Fest (Nove Mesto nad Vahom)[28]
  • Spain
    • Festival Internacional de Benicàssim
    • Primavera Sound (Barcelona)
    • Wintercase (Barcelona, Vitoria, Madrid and Valencia)
    • Summercase (Barcelona and Madrid)
    • Contempopranea (Alburquerque)
    • Azkena Rock Festival (Vitoria)
    • Tanned Tin (Santander firstly, then Castellón)
    • Santander Summer Festival
    • Festimad (Madrid)
  • Sweden
    • Arvika Festival (Arvika)
    • Augustibuller (Lindesberg)
    • Emmaboda Festival (Emmaboda)
    • Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfred)
    • Storsjöyran (Östersund)
    • Sweden Rock Festival (Norje)
    • Uppsala Reggae Festival (Uppsala)
  • Switzerland
    • Balélec Festival (Lausanne (EPFL))
    • Caribana Festival (Crans-près-Céligny)
    • Festival Rock Oz'Arènes (Avenches)
    • Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux)
    • Paléo Festival (Nyon)
  • United Kingdom
    • All Tomorrow's Parties (Camber Sands, East Sussex, England)
    • Ashton Court Festival (Bristol, England)
    • Bloodstock (Derby, England)
    • Cornbury Oxford Music Festival
    • Download Festival
    • ENIT
    • The Full Ponty (Pontypridd, South Wales)
    • Glastonbury Festival (Pilton, Somerset, England)
    • Greenbelt Festival
    • GuilFest Guildford UK www.guilfest.co.uk
    • Isle of Wight Festival (Isle of Wight, England)
    • Lillith Fair
    • Reading and Leeds Festivals (Reading, Berkshire and Leeds, England)
    • Secret Garden (Cambridgeshire, England)
    • Summer Sundae (Leicester, England)
    • St. Augustines Festival (Ipswich, England)
    • T in the Park (Kinross, Scotland)
    • Truck Festival (Oxfordshire, England)
    • V Festival (Chelmsford and Staffordshire, England)
    • Venn Festival (Bristol, England)
    • Wychwood Festival (Cheltenham Racecourse, England)
• North America
  • Canada
    • Edgefest
    • Halifax Pop Explosion Halifax
    • North by Northeast, (Toronto, ON)
  • Mexico
    • BajaProg (Mexicali)
  • USA
    • Motor City Music Conference (MC2), (Detroit, MI)
    • Comerica Taste Fest, (Detroit, MI)
    • Detroit Festival of the Arts, (Detroit, MI)
    • Austin City Limits Music Festival, ([Austin, TX])
    • Big Creek Festival, (Pattonsburg, MO)
    • Bonnaroo Music Festival, (Manchester, TN)
    • Bumbershoot, (Seattle, WA)
    • Bamboozle Festival (Asbury Park, NJ) ([[[East Rutherford, NJ in 2006]])
    • CMJ Music Marathon, (New York, NY)
    • CMJ Rock Hall Music Fest, (Cleveland, OH)
    • Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Indio, CA)
    • Cornerstone Festival
    • Farm Aid
    • Friends of Kevin Festival, (Bellingham, WA)
    • Heathen Crusade Metalfest, (Minneapolis, MN)
    • Hellfest
    • HFStival, (Washington D.C.)
    • Moondance Jam, (Walker, MN)
    • NedFest: The Nederland Music & Arts Festival, (Nederland, CO)
    • New England Metal And Hardcore Festival
    • North Texas Rock Rally and Music Festival, (McKinney, TX)
    • Progpower USA (Atlanta, GA)
    • Rock N Resort Music Festival (Northeast, OH)
    • Sasquatch! Music Festival (George, WA)
    • Seattle Metal Fest, (Seattle, WA)
    • South by Southwest, (Austin, TX)
    • Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival, (Lawrence, KS)
    • Yggdrasil festival, (Geneva, MN)
• South America
  • Argentina
    • Cosquín Rock, Cosquín
    • Quilmes Rock, Buenos Aires
  • Brazil
    • Rock in Rio, Rio de Janeiro
  • Colombia
    • Rock al Parque, Bogotá
• No fixed location
  • Terrastock

School Music Festivals

• Columbus Invitational Music Festival (Columbus, Ga, 2006)

Cross-genre festivals

• 3 Rivers Music Festival [29] in Columbia SC
• All Good Music Festival [30] in Masontown, WV.
• Another Roadside Attraction in Canada
• Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas
• Caribana Festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Festival d'été de Québec in Quebec City, Canada
• Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, New York
• Francofolies de la Rochelle in France
• FrancoFolies de Montréal in Montréal, Canada
• Funky Elephant in Helsinki, Finland
• Global Gathering in Miami, Florida
• High Sierra Music Festival [31] in Quincy, CA
• Iceland Airwaves (Reykjavík, Iceland) (Mostly Rock and Pop)
• Ladyfest (International)
• Melbourne International Festival of Brass in Victoria, Australia
• Music Midtown (Atlanta)
• Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
• North by Northeast (NXNE) (Toronto, Ontario)
• Northwest Region Music Festival
• Open'er Festival in Gdynia, Poland; multi-genre, from hip-hop to rock to electronic music
• Prindle-fest
• Rise: London United - Cross Genre anti-racist music festival, held in London UK.
• Sound of Music Festival in Burlington, Ontario, Canada
• South by Southwest (SXSW) (Austin, Texas) Folk and Rock music, plus film and other media.
• Street Scene San Diego Music festival held in San Diego, California each summer.
• Summerfest, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Annual multi-genre music festival.
• Sunfest, London, Ontario. Annual World Music festival
• Vieilles Charrues Festival, Carhaix, France
• Voix d'Amériques, Montréal, Quebec. Annual spoken word festival. [32]
• WOMAD (World of Music, Arts & Dance) Festival in New Plymouth, New Zealand March 11-13 2005 WOMAD website
• Couleur Café Festival in Brussels, Belgium
• Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee; occurs in early May annually; multi-genre with emphasis on blues and rock
• Crossingborder the Netherlands
• Swing 41 Gypsy Jazz Festival Early June at Salbris, France

See also

• List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
• List of music festivals in the United States
• List of Australian music festivals
• New Zealand music festivals

External links

• Music Festival Finder
• reportage/special on the European Festivals' scene
• World Music Event Calendar
• JamBase Festival List
• Festivals.com
• UK Music Festivals
• Indiana University Guide to Music Festivals
• FestivalWatch.org - Public Music Festival Event Calendar
• German Music Festivals
• French Music Festivals