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

Music festivals may be subdivided by musical genre:

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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
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

Great American Brass Band Festival

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

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

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 [link]
* Romania
** Transylvania calling / Gathering of the Tribes [link]
* 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)
Homelands (Winchester)
Infest (Bradford)
GuilFest Guildford UK
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

[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)]

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
*
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
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)

Festival of American Folklife (Smithsonian Institution)
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
Dynamo Open Air
Graspop Metal Meeting
Hard Rock Laager
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

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[link]

Europe
Belgium
Blue Note Festival
Gaume Jazz Festival

* 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) [link]
**No Borders Music Festival (Tarvisio) [link]

* 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

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

Acapulco
Eurovision
OTI-Same as Eurovision, but in Iberoamerica.
Sanremo
Viña del Mar

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 [link]
MIDEM Reggae Showcase, Cannes, France
Chiemsee Reggae Summer, Übersee, Germany
Summerjam, Cologne, Germany
LB27 Reggae Camp, Komarom, Hungary
Rototom Sunsplash, Italy [link]
Two 77 Splash, Amsterdam Netherlands [link]
Reggae Sundance, Eindhoven Netherlands [link]
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,
International Reggae Festivals at ReggaeSeen [link]
Spanish Reggae Festivals [link]
Mariporrón, La Rioja, Spain
Welcome To ReggaeTown , Cairns Australia

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

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

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 [link] (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)[link]
** 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)
* Italy
** [Festival del Rock][link] - Travedona-Monate - VA
** Rock In Idro (Milan) [link]
** Milano : MIami Festival [link]
** Independent Days Festival (Bologna) [link]
** Flippaut Festival (Bologna)
** Gods of Metal (Bologna) [link]
** Heineken jammin' Festival (Imola) [link]
** Goa-Boa Festival (Genoa) [link]
** Traffic Torino Free Festival (Turin)[link]
** Neapolis festival (Naples) [link]
** Arezzo Wave (Arezzo) [link]
** Summer Festival (Lucca/Brescia) [link]
** Tora! Tora! Festival [link]
* The Netherlands
** Arrow Rock Festival
** Dynamo Open Air (Hellendoorn)
** Lowlands
** Pinkpop (Landgraaf)
** Progpower Europe (Baarlo)
* Norway
** Inferno Metal Festival (Oslo)
* Poland
** Metalmania
* Portugal
** Paredes de Coura
** Vilar dos mouros
** Festival do Sudoeste
** Ilha do Ermal
* Slovakia
** Pohoda (Trencin)[link]
** Topvar Rock Fest (Nove Mesto nad Vahom)[link]
* 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)
** 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)
** 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)
** , (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 [link] in Columbia SC
All Good Music Festival [link] 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 [link] 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
- 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. [link]
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

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