List of music festivals in the United Kingdom

thumb|260px|[[Glastonbury Festival, England, 2016]]

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

thumb|250px|[[Isle of Wight Festival 1969]]

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 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.

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
Kala 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
Tenby International Music Festival
Three Choirs Festival
Two Moors Festival
York Early Music Festival

Country

C2C: Country to Country
Highways Festival
The Long Road

Dance and Electronic

Bang Face
Beat-Herder
Bloc Festival
Boundary Festival
Chilled in a Field Festival
Creamfields
Doof in the Park
Glade Festival
Infest UK
Live at Loch Lomond
PlanetLove
Play Fest
Shambala Festival
Lost Village Festival

Ethnic

Africa Oyé
Bradford Mela
Cardiff Mela
Edinburgh Mela

Folk

thumb|right|The stage at [[Fairport's Cropredy Convention festival, Oxfordshire, in August 2009]]

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
Moseley Folk and Arts 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
Manchester Jazz Festival
Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival

Metal

Bloodstock Open Air
Damnation Festival
Deathfest
Download Festival
Hammerfest
Hammerdown Festival
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 Ballright|thumb|225px|The stage at the 2010 [[Midlands Music Festival]]
Midlands Music Festival
Mighty Hoopla
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

right|thumb|225px|The Main Stage at the 2006 [[Reading and Leeds Festivals|Reading Festival]]

2000 Trees Festival
ArcTanGent Festival
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
All Points East
ArcTanGent Festival
ArtsFest (inactive)
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend (Traveling)
Bearded Theory Festival
Beautiful Days
Beggars Fair
Bestival (inactive)
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
Devauden Festival
Electric Bay 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
Kernowfornia Festival
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
Morvala Festival of Arts
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
Stendhal Festival
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 Festivalthumb|240px|The stage at the 2010 [[Wireless Festival]]
Wickerman Festival (inactive)
Wickham Festival
Wireless Festival
WOMAD
Worcester Music Festival
Wychwood Music Festival
Y Not Festival
Young London into Music

References

Bibliography

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. .
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. .

External links

Lost Village Festival