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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. The most notable include The Proms and Glastonbury Festival.

Contents 1 Annual festivals 1.1 Bluegrass music 1.2 Classical music and opera 1.3 Dance & Electronic music 1.4 Ethnic music 1.5 Folk music 1.6 Jazz music 1.7 Metal music 1.8 Pop music 1.9 Rock music 1.10 Cross-genre 2 Travelling festivals 2.1 Metal music 2.2 Rock music 3 One time festivals 4 External links 5 Bibliography

[edit] Annual festivals

[edit] Bluegrass music

• North Wales Bluegrass Festival
• Didmarton Bluegrass Festival
• Cornish Bluegrass Festival

[edit] Classical music and opera

see also List of opera festivals

• Aldeburgh Festival
• Chichester Festival
• Edinburgh International Festival
• Glyndebourne Opera Festival
• Garsington Opera
• Cymanfa Ganu
• The Proms
• Three Choirs Festival

[edit] Dance & Electronic music

• Creamfields
• Global Gathering
• Homelands
• The Big Chill (music festival)
• Infest (Festival)

[edit] Ethnic music

• Africa Oyé
• Edinburgh Mela
• Leeds Mela
• Bradford Mela

[edit] Folk music

• Bromyard Folk Festival
• BunkFest
• Cambridge Folk Festival
• Chester Folk Festival [1]
• Crawley Folk Festival
• Cropredy Festival
• Green Man Festival [2],
• Hull Sea Shanty Festival
• International Eisteddfod
• Pontardawe International Folk Festival
• Royal National Mod
• Shrewsbury Folk Festival
• Sidmouth Festival
• Shetland Folk Music Festival[3]
• Warwick Folk Festival

[edit] Jazz music

• Brecon Jazz Festival
• Hull Jazz Festival

[edit] Metal music

• Bloodstock
• Bloodstock Open Air
• Download Festival
• DOMINION Festival
• Damnation Festival
• Prog Power UK (Starts 2006)
• Ragnarok (Starts 2006)
• Total Carnage
• 13th Day

[edit] Pop music

• Party in the Park

[edit] Rock music

• Damnation Festival
• ENIT
• Isle of Wight Festival
• Lillith Fair
• Knebworth Festival (occasional)
• Reading and Leeds Festivals
• Summer Sundae
• T in the Park
• V Festival

[edit] Cross-genre

• All Tomorrow's Parties
• Ashton Court festival
• Beautiful Days
• Bestival
• Cornbury Oxford Music Festival [4]
• Farmer Phil's Festival [5]
• Get Loaded in The Park
• Glastonbury Festival Of Performing Arts
• Godiva Festival
• Greenbelt festival
• Guilfest
• Isle of Skye Music Festival
• Knockengorroch
• Latitude Festival
• Matthew Street Festival
• Meltdown
• Mini Glastonbury
• Rhythm Festival [6]
• Rise Festival
• Secret Garden
• Sesiwn Fawr [7]
• Truck Festival
• Wickerman Festival
• Whitby World Music Festival
• Wireless Festival
• WOMAD

[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

• Ozzfest

[edit] Rock music

• Warped Tour

[edit] One time festivals

• The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
• Live Aid
• Live 8

[edit] External links

• Virtual Festivals
• Festival Eye
• UK Festival News

[edit] 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. 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.