List of music festivals in the United Kingdom

There are many notable music festivals in the United Kingdom, covering a wide variety of genres, which are usually run from late May to early September. Some are world-renowned and have been held for many years, including the world's largest greenfield festival, Glastonbury, which has been held since the 1970s.

History

Large-scale modern music festivals began in the 1960s with festivals such as the Isle of Wight Festival and following the success of Woodstock in the United States^{[citation needed]} and free festivals. Some began as jazz festivals such as the Reading Festival which began as the National Jazz and Blues Festival in the 1960s and the first Glastonbury Festival was the 1970 Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival.

In the 21st century the number of festivals has grown significantly,

Events

Bluegrass

• Didmarton Bluegrass Festival

Classical and opera

• Aldeburgh Festival
• BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
• Buxton Festival
• Cheltenham Music Festival
• Cymanfa Ganu
• East Neuk Festival
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Garsington Opera
• Glyndebourne Opera Festival
• Grange Park Opera
• Grimeborn
• Harrogate International Festivals
• Henley Festival
• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
• Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
• Lake District Summer Music
• London International Festival of Early Music
• Nevill Holt Opera
• Oxford Lieder Festival
• The Proms
• Prom on The Close
• Spitalfields Music
• St Albans International Organ Festival
• St Magnus Festival
• Southern Cathedrals Festival
• Swaledale Festival
• Three Choirs Festival
• Two Moors Festival
• York Early Music Festival

Country

• C2C: Country to Country

Dance and Electronic

• Bang Face
• Beat-Herder
• Bloc Festival
• Chilled in a Field Festival
• Creamfields
• Glade Festival
• Infest UK
• Live at Loch Lomond
• PlanetLove
• Play Fest
• Shambala Festival

Ethnic

• Africa Oyé
• Bradford Mela
• Cardiff Mela
• Edinburgh Mela

Folk

• Beverley Folk Festival
• Big Burns Supper Festival
• BunkFest
• Cambridge Folk Festival
• Celtic Connections
• Cropredy Festival
• Folk East
• Hop Farm Festival (inactive)
• International Eisteddfod
• IVFDF
• Middlewich Folk And Boat Festival
• Royal National Mòd
• Shrewsbury Folk Festival
• Sidmouth Folk Festival
• Soma Festival, Castlewellan
• Towersey Festival
• Trowbridge Village Pump Festival
• Glasgow West End Festival
• Wickham Festival

Jazz

• Brecon Jazz Festival
• Cheltenham Jazz Festival
• City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival
• Glasgow Jazz Festival
• Glenn Miller Festival
• London Jazz Festival
• Love Supreme Jazz Festival

Metal

• Bloodstock Open Air
• Damnation Festival
• Deathfest
• Download Festival
• Hammerfest
• Hard Rock Hell
• Hellfire Festival
• In-Fest
• Ozzfest
• ProgPower UK
• Sonisphere Festival

Pop

• Guernsey Festival Of Performing Arts
• Jack Up The Summer Festival
• Jersey Live
• Jingle Bell Ball

  

• Midlands Music Festival
• Osfest
• Party in the Park
• Summertime Ball
• T4 on the Beach

Punk

• Common Ground Festival
• Give it a Name Festival
• Outbreak Festival
• Rebellion Festival
• Slam Dunk Festival

Rock

• Boardmasters
• Bourne Festival
• Damnation Festival
• Download Festival
• Forfey Festival
• Headlander Festival
• Hevy Music Festival
• High Voltage Festival
• Isle of Wight Festival
• Jersey Live
• Marvellous Festivals
• Play Fest
• Projekt Revolution
• Ramblin' Man Fair
• Sonisphere Festival
• Stamford Festival
• Steelhouse Festival
• Summer Sundae
• Garden Party Festival
• TRNSMT
• Tennents ViTal
• Uxfest
• Whitby Gothic Weekend
• Walk the Line Festival

Tribute act festivals

• Glastonbudget
• Marvellous Festivals

Cross-genre

• Lytham Festival
• 110 Above Festival (formerly Lainfest)
• 2000trees Festival
• All Tomorrow's Parties
• ArtsFest (inactive)
• BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (Traveling)
• Bearded Theory Festival
• Beautiful Days
• Beggars Fair
• Bestival
• Big in Falkirk (inactive)
• Blissfields
• Boardmasters
• The Bollington Festival
• Boomtown
• Brentwood Festival
• British Summer Time
• Brownstock Festival
• Camp Bestival
• Cardiff Big Weekend
• Celtic Blue Rock Community Arts Festival
• City of London Festival
• Clarence Park Festival
• End of the Road Festival
• Evolution Emerging
• Evolution Festival
• Fairport's Cropredy Convention
• Farmfestival
• Festival Too
• Field Day
• Forest Tour
• Fusion Festival
• Garforth Arts Festival
• Glastonbury Festival
• Godiva Festival
• The Great Escape Festival
• Greenbelt festival
• Green Man Festival
• Guilfest
• Hampton Court Palace Festival
• Hastings Musical Festival
• HowTheLightGetsIn
• Isle of Wight Festival
• Kendal Calling
• Killin Music Festival
• Knebworth Festival
• Knockengorroch Festival
• Larmer Tree Festival
• Latitude Festival
• LeeStock Music Festival
• Let's Rock
• Limetree Festival
• Lindisfarne Festival
• Mathew Street Fringe Festival
• Looe Music Festival
• Loopallu Festival
• Lounge On The Farm (inactive)
• The Magic Loungeabout (inactive)
• Marvellous Festivals
• Meltdown
• Monmouth Music Festival
• Montrose Music Festival
• Norfolk and Norwich Festival
• Nozstock
• Offset Festival
• Outbreak Festival
• Outlines Festival
• The Outsider Festival (inactive)
• Oxjam
• Parklife
• Phoenix Festival (inactive)
• Play Fest
• Reading and Leeds Festivals
• Redfest
• Rewind Festival
• Rhythm Festival (inactive)
• Rise Festival (inactive)
• RockNess (inactive)
• Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival
• Scarborough Fair Festival
• St. Magnus International Festival
• Stamford Riverside Festival
• Strawberry Fair
• Seahouses Festival
• Secret Garden Party
• Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau
• Sheep Music
• Shifnal Festival
• Skye Music Festival (inactive)
• Solfest
• Splendour in Nottingham
• Standon Calling
• Sunrise Celebration
• Supersonic Festival
• Sŵn Festival
• T in the Park
• Tartan Heart Festival
• Tafwyl
• Tramlines Festival
• Truck Festival
• Twinwood Festival
• Underage Festival (inactive)
• V Festival
• Vale Festival
• Victorious Festival
• Wakestock
• Walk the Line Festival
• Weyfest
• Whitwell Music Festival

  

• Wickerman Festival (inactive)
• Wickham Festival
• Wireless Festival
• WOMAD
• Worcester Music Festival
• Wychwood Music Festival
• Y Not Festival
• Young London into Music

See also

• List of festivals in the United Kingdom

References

Bibliography

• Andrew Blake (1997). The Land Without Music: Music, Culture and Society in Twentieth Century Britain. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719042997.
• 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.

External links

• "Music Festivals UK 2016". Festivalsearcher.com. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• "UK Festivals 2016, 2017 - UK Music Festivals 2016, 2017". Findfestival.com. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• "music festivals news, info, tickets, reviews and photos". Efestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• "Festivals 2016: The UK's Biggest 2016 Music Festival Guide". Skiddle.com. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• "Festival Planel". Festivalplanet.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• "Music Festivals In The UK With Video Trailers". Concertflow.com. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
• Katie Antoniou. "Top 25 summer festivals for music and arts lovers, foodies and families | Travel". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2016.