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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.

They may be subdivided by musical genre:

Table of contents

1 Blues festivals 2 Brass Band festivals 3 Classical music festivals 4 Dance and electronic music festivals 5 Folk music festivals 6 Jazz festivals 7 Opera festivals 8 Pop Music Festivals 9 Rock Music festivals 10 Cross-genre festivals 11 External link

Blues festivals

• Chicago Blues Festival

Brass Band festivals

• Great American Brass Band Festival

Classical music festivals

• Chichester Festival
• Salzburg Festival
• Three Choirs Festival
• European Festival of Youth Choirs

Dance and electronic music festivals

• Alpine Unity (New Zealand)
• Boom (Portugal)
• Earthcore (Australia)
• Creamfields (UK and Ireland)
• Homelands (UK)
• Koneisto (Finland)
• Love Parade (Berlin, Germany)
• Mayday (Germany, Poland, Russia and Hungary)
• Rainbow Serpent (Australia)
• Starburst (Nelson, New Zealand)
• The Gathering (Nelson, New Zealand)
• Tribal Council (South Africa)
• Vizionz (Golden Bay, New Zealand)

Folk music festivals

• Kaustinen Folk Music Festival
• Llangollen International Eisteddfod
• Newport Folk Festival

Jazz festivals

• Brecon Jazz Festival
• Chicago Jazz Festival
• Festi Jazz International de Rimouski
• Festival International de Jazz de Montréal
• Montreux Jazz Festival
• North Sea Jazz Festival
• Pori Jazz (Finland)

Opera festivals

• Glyndebourne
• Ilmajoki Music Festival
• Savonlinna Opera Festival

Pop Music Festivals

• Acapulco
• Eurovision
• OTI-Same as Eurovision, but in Iberoamerica.
• San Remo
• Viña del Mar

Rock Music festivals

(see also Rock festival)

• Big Day Out, Australia
• Bonnaroo
• Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
• Cornerstone Festival
• Download Festival, UK
• ENIT
• Falls Festival, Australia
• Fuji Rock Festival Japan
• Family Values Tour, US
• Glastonbury festival, UK
• Gone South, Australia
• Greenbelt_festival, in Cheltenham, UK
• Homebake, Australia
• Hultsfred Festival, in Hultsfred, Sweden
• Isle of Wight Festival, UK
• Lillith Fair
• Livid, Australia
• Lollapalooza
• Oxegen, in Ireland
• Ozzfest
• Pinkpop
• Printemps de Bourges, in Bourges, France
• Provinssirock, in Seinäjoki, Finland
• Reading and Leeds Festivals, (UK)
• Rock Werchter, in Werchter, Belgium
• Roskilde Festival, in Roskilde, Denmark
• Ruisrock, in Turku, Finland
• Samstock Music Festival in New Zealand
• Splendour in the Grass, Australia
• Tuska, in Helsinki, Finland
• US Festival, (US)
• V Festival, (UK)
• Warped Tour,(US)
• Woodstock (and Woodstock '94 and Woodstock 1999)

Cross-genre festivals

• Northwest Region Music Festival
• Music Midtown (Atlanta)

External link

• Music Festivals Festivals.com

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