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• Albion Fairs
  Albion Fairs
  Albion Fairs was the general name for the second wave of East Anglian Fairs, running from 1978 until 1982. There were further fairs in the same tradition most years until the end of the 1980s....
  
  
• Aldeburgh Festival
  Aldeburgh Festival
  The Aldeburgh Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings...
  
  , Suffolk
  Suffolk
  Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
  
  
• Arundel Festival http://www.arundelfestival.co.uk/
• Appleby Jazz Festival

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• Bath Literature Festival
  Bath Literature Festival
  The Bath Literature Festival held annually in Bath, Somerset, England, has become an important date in the national literary calendar, playing host to an array of journalists, novelists, poets, politicians, actors, comedians, writers and biographers....
  
  
• Bath International Music Festival
  Bath International Music Festival
  The Bath International Music Festival, also known as the Bath Music Fest, is held each summer in Bath, South West England. Inaugurated in 1948, the festival includes many genres such as orchestral, contemporary jazz, folk and electronica...
  
  
• Bath Fringe Festival
  Bath Fringe Festival
  The Bath Fringe Festival is an annual art festival, held in Bath, England.Bath Fringe was founded in 1981 as a counterbalance to the 'classical'-dominated Bath Music Festival, which some people perceived to be elitist and out-of-touch with what a younger local audience wanted...
  
  
• Beached Festival
  Beached Festival
  The Beached Festival was a free festival held annually in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. After 6 years it had grown to become the biggest free festival in the South Bay of Scarborough. It last took place in 2008.-History:...
  
   in Scarborough
• Bedford River Festival
  Bedford River Festival
  The Bedford River Festival is held biannually in Bedford, England, on the banks of the River Great Ouse. It was founded in 1978 to celebrate the completion of a navigable route, by water, between Bedford and the coast and is held over a weekend, normally in July...
  
  
• Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
  Eastnor, Herefordshire
  Eastnor is a village in Herefordshire, England, east of Ledbury. Eastnor Castle is nearby, and named after the village.St John's Church was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1852.-External links:...
  
  
• Birmingham
  Birmingham
  Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
  
  : ArtsFest
  ArtsFest
  ArtsFest is an annual arts festival held in September in Birmingham, England.Since 1997 ArtsFest has brought together free short demonstrations of dance, music, film and theatre to concert halls, theatres, and open-air stages in various parts of central Birmingham...
  
  , Book Festival, International Carnival
  Birmingham International Carnival
  Birmingham International Carnival takes place biennially in August in Birmingham, England. It is a celebration of African-Caribbean culture, arts, food and entertainment.Caribbean style carnivals were held in Handsworth Park, Birmingham, from 1984 to 1994...
  
  
• Blackpool
  Blackpool
  Blackpool is a borough, seaside town, and unitary authority area of Lancashire, in North West England. It is situated along England's west coast by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre estuaries, northwest of Preston, north of Liverpool, and northwest of Manchester...
  
  : Illuminations
  Blackpool Illuminations
  Blackpool Illuminations is an annual Lights Festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the English seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire....
  
  , Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
• Blissfields
  Blissfields
  Blissfields is an annual music festival in Hampshire, England run by Paul and Mel Bliss who also run . Founded in 2001 at Bradley Farm, Bradley, near Alresford, the festival took a break in 2008...
  
  , near Winchester
  Winchester
  Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...
  
  
• Bridgnorth Folk Festival, Shropshire
  Shropshire
  Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
  
  
• Bridgwater
  Bridgwater
  Bridgwater is a market town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is the administrative centre of the Sedgemoor district, and a major industrial centre. Bridgwater is located on the major communication routes through South West England...
  
  : Guy Fawkes Carnival
  West Country Carnival
  The West Country Carnival is an annual celebration featuring a parade of illuminated floats , in the English West Country. The celebration dates back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The purpose is to raise money for local charities....
  
  
• Brighton Festival
  Brighton Festival
  The Brighton Festival is an annual arts festival which takes place in the city of Brighton and Hove in England each May. It was founded in 1966, and is the largest multi-art form festival in England...
  
  
• Brighton Festival Fringe
  Brighton Festival Fringe
  The Brighton Festival Fringe is an open access arts festival held annually in Brighton, England. It is the largest annual arts festival in England.- Introduction :...
  
  
• Bristol
  Bristol
  Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
  
  : Ashton Court
  Ashton Court Festival
  The Ashton Court Festival was an outdoor music festival held annually in mid-July on the grounds of Ashton Court, just outside Bristol, England. The festival was a weekend event which featured a variety of local bands and national headliners...
  
  , Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
  Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
  The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is held annually during August in Bristol, England. Teams from the UK and other parts of the world bring their hot air balloons to the site and participate in mass ascents where as many as 100 balloons may launch at a time.The event was first held in 1979...
  
  , Harbour Festival
  Bristol Harbour
  Bristol Harbour is the harbour in the city of Bristol, England. The harbour covers an area of . It has existed since the 13th century but was developed into its current form in the early 19th century by installing lock gates on a tidal stretch of the River Avon in the centre of the city and...
  
  
• Bromyard Folk Festival
• Bulldog Bash
  Bulldog Bash
  The Bulldog Bash is considered to be one of Europe's most popular, annual, motorcycle festivals with a reported attendance of 50,000 people in 2007...
  
   Motorcycle Festival
• BunkFest
  BunkFest
  BunkFest, a small but growing end-of–summer folk music festival, takes place in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK and combines a broad range of folk music, dance displays, a beer festival and the local steam railway.-Events:...
  
  
• Bury Festival Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
  Suffolk
  Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
  
  
• Buxton Festival
  Buxton Festival
  The Buxton Festival is an annual summer festival of opera, music, and a literary series, held in Buxton, Derbyshire in England since it began in July 1979.-History:...
  
  , Buxton
  Buxton
  Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Located close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park"...
  
  , Derbyshire
  Derbyshire
  Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
  
  

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• Cambridge
  Cambridge
  The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
  
  : Folk Festival
  Cambridge Folk Festival
  The Cambridge Folk Festival is an annual music festival held on the site of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the city of Cambridge, England. The festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. It occurs...
  
  
• Canterbury Cricket Week
  Canterbury Cricket Week
  Canterbury Cricket Week was founded in 1842. It is the oldest cricket festival and since 1847 has taken place at the St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury.-External links:* *...
  
  , founded 1842
• Castlemorton Common Festival
  Castlemorton Common Festival
  The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long free festival and rave held in the Malvern Hills near Malvern, Worcestershire, England in 1992....
  
  
• Cheltenham
  Cheltenham
  Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
  
  : Cheltenham Festivals
• Chicken Stock Festival: Small Arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire
  Malvern, Worcestershire
  Malvern is a town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England, governed by Malvern Town Council. As of the 2001 census it has a population of 28,749, and includes the historical settlement and commercial centre of Great Malvern on the steep eastern flank of the Malvern Hills, and the former...
  
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• Cleveland
  Cleveland, England
  Cleveland is an area in the north east of England. Its name means literally "cliff-land", referring to its hilly southern areas, which rise to nearly...
  
  : Middlesbrough Music Live
  Middlesbrough Music Live
  INTRO Festival is an annual music festival in England held across multiple stages in Middlesbrough town centre. It is run and organised by local promotions company Ten Feet Tall alongside the local council, and is highly regarded as hosting many bands who rose to fame shortly afterwards...
  
   Stockton Riverside Festival
• Coventry
  Coventry
  Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
  
  : Godiva
  Godiva Festival
  The Godiva Festival is a free weekend long music festival held each year in the War Memorial Park, Coventry, England, named after the city's famous former inhabitant Lady Godiva. It first appeared as a day long event in 1997 and became a 3 day event the following year in 1998...
  
  , Jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
  , Town & Country, Kite
  Kite
  A kite is a tethered aircraft. The necessary lift that makes the kite wing fly is generated when air flows over and under the kite's wing, producing low pressure above the wing and high pressure below it. This deflection also generates horizontal drag along the direction of the wind...
  
  http://www.jcronin.clara.net/jimsplace/covfest/frameset1.htm, Royal Show
  Royal Show
  The Royal Show was an annual agricultural show/fair held by the Royal Agricultural Society of England every year from 1839 to 2009. It was held in Stoneleigh Park near Stoneleigh in Warwickshire, England...
  
  http://www.royalshow.org.uk,
• Cropredy Festival
  Cropredy Festival
  Fairport's Cropredy Convention is an annual festival of folk and rock music held on the edge of the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, England. It has taken place in August since 1976....
  
  
• Cypriot Film Festival UK
• Creamfeilds

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• Deepdale Jazz Festival, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
• Dover Carnival , Dover, Kent, England Dover Carnival Association Limited
• Donington
  Castle Donington
  Castle Donington is a village, with a population of around 7000 in the North West of Leicestershire, part of the Derby postcode area and on the edge of the National Forest. It is the closest town to East Midlands Airport.-Transport and housing:...
  
   Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock
  Monsters of Rock was an annual music festival held in England, then moved in other locations like The Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile.The Last show was in 2008....
  
  

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• Frome Festival
  Frome Festival
  The annual ten-day Frome Festival usually starts the first Friday in July, in Frome, Somerset, England.The Frome Festival was conceived by Martin Bax and the inaugural event was held in 2000. He stepped down as Director in 2007, having received the MBE for his services to the Festival...
  
  , Somerset
  Somerset
  The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
  
  
• FuseLeeds
• Endless Festival

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• Glastonbury Festival
  Glastonbury Festival
  The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
  
  
• Glyndebourne Opera Festival
• Godiva Festival
  Godiva Festival
  The Godiva Festival is a free weekend long music festival held each year in the War Memorial Park, Coventry, England, named after the city's famous former inhabitant Lady Godiva. It first appeared as a day long event in 1997 and became a 3 day event the following year in 1998...
  
  
• Golowan Festival
  Golowan Festival
  Golowan is the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations in Cornwall, UK: widespread prior to the late 19th century and most popular in the Penwith area and in particular Penzance and Newlyn...
  
  
• Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne
  Colne
  Colne is the second largest town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 20,118. It lies at the eastern end of the M65, 6 miles north-east of Burnley, with Nelson immediately adjacent, in the Aire Gap with two main roads leading into the Yorkshire...
  
  , Lancashire
  Lancashire
  Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...
  
  
• Green Man Festival
  Green Man Festival
  The Green Man Festival is an independent music festival held annually in the Brecon Beacons, Wales. It has evolved from a one-day, 300 capacity event in 2003, to a three-day festival with live music including psych, folk, indie, dance and Americana across five stages, as well as DJs playing...
  
  
• Greenbelt festival
  Greenbelt festival
  Greenbelt Festival is a festival of arts, faith and justice held annually in England since 1974. Greenbelt has grown from a Christian music festival with an audience of 1,500 young Christians to its current more secular festival attended by around 20,000 - Christians and non-Christians.The festival...
  
  
• Guilfest
  GuilFest
  GuilFest, formerly the Guildford Festival of Folk and Blues is a music festival held in Stoke Park, Guildford, England each July. The festival, like the larger Glastonbury Festival, features a range of genres including rock, folk, blues, and in recent years pop...
  
  

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• Harrogate
  Harrogate
  Harrogate is a spa town in North Yorkshire, England. The town is a tourist destination and its visitor attractions include its spa waters, RHS Harlow Carr gardens, and Betty's Tea Rooms. From the town one can explore the nearby Yorkshire Dales national park. Harrogate originated in the 17th...
  
  : Harrogate International Festival, Great Yorkshire Show
  Great Yorkshire Show
  The Great Yorkshire Show is an agricultural show which takes place on the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate, North Yorkshire in the North of England annually from the second Tuesday of July until the following Thursday...
  
  
• Hay-on-Wye
  Hay-on-Wye
  Hay-on-Wye , often described as "the town of books", is a small market town and community in Powys, Wales.-Location:The town lies on the east bank of the River Wye and is within the Brecon Beacons National Park, just north of the Black Mountains...
  
  : Literature
• Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
• Huddersfield
  Huddersfield
  Huddersfield is a large market town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England, situated halfway between Leeds and Manchester. It lies north of London, and south of Bradford, the nearest city....
  
  : Caribbean Carnival
  Caribbean Carnival
  Caribbean Carnival is the term used for a number of events that take place in many of the Caribbean islands annually.The Caribbean's Carnivals all have several common themes all originating from Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, based on folklore, culture, religion,and tradition, not on amusement...
  
  , Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
  The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...
  
  , Asian Mela
• Hemsby Festival

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• Ilkley Literature Festival
  Ilkley Literature Festival
  The Ilkley Literature Festival is the north of England's oldest and largest literature festival.-Introduction:The Ilkley Literature Festival is an annual event in the spa town of Ilkley and has become one of the UK's top arts festivals...
  
  
• International Festival of the Sea
  International Festivals of the Sea
  The International Festivals of the Sea are a series of maritime festivals, which have been held in various British port cities since 1996. The festivals are intended to be celebrations of the sea, bringing together sailors, musicians, artists, entertainers, ships and boats from all points of the...
  
  
• International Guitar Festival of Great Britain
  International Guitar Festival of Great Britain
  The International Guitar Festival of Great Britain is a music festival, established in 1989, held annually in November on the Wirral Peninsula, England...
  
  , Wirral
  Wirral Peninsula
  Wirral or the Wirral is a peninsula in North West England. It is bounded by three bodies of water: to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey and to the north by the Irish Sea. Both terms "Wirral" and "the Wirral" are used locally , although the...
  
  
• Isle of Wight Festival
  Isle of Wight Festival
  The Isle of Wight Festival is a music festival which takes place every year on the Isle of Wight in England. It was originally held from 1968 to 1970. These original events were promoted and organised by the Foulk brothers under the banner of their company Fiery Creations Limited...
  
   1968, 1969
  Isle of Wight Festival 1969
  The 1969 Isle of Wight Festival was held on August 30–31, 1969, at Wootton, and attracted an audience of approximately 150,000 to see the acts of Bob Dylan, The Who and Free. It was the second of three music festivals held on the Isle of Wight between 1968 and 1970...
  
   and 1970
  Isle of Wight Festival 1970
  The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was held between 26 and 31 August 1970 at East Afton Farm an area on the western side of the Isle of Wight. It was the last of three consecutive music festivals to take place on the island between 1968 and 1970 and widely acknowledged as the largest musical event of...
  
  

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• Keighley
  Keighley
  Keighley is a town and civil parish within the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated northwest of Bradford and is at the confluence of the River Aire and the River Worth...
  
  : Keighley Festival
  Keighley Festival
  The Keighley Festival is a festival held in the town of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England during a two-week period in June or July each year. The festival consists of various local events and Galas...
  
  
• Kendal Mountain Film Festival
• Knebworth
  Concerts at Knebworth House
  The grounds of Knebworth House near the village of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England has become a major venue for open air rock and pop concerts since 1974 when The Allman Brothers Band attracted 60,000 at the first large concert held at the venue....
  
   (occasional)

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• Latitude Festival
  Latitude Festival
  The Latitude Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, England. It was first held in July 2006....
  
   Suffolk
• Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire
  Herefordshire
  Herefordshire is a historic and ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire" NUTS 2 region. It also forms a unitary district known as the...
  
  
• LeeFest
  LeeFest
  LeeFest is a non-profit music festival that takes place every August in Bromley South London. The festival began in founder Lee Denny's garden when his parents went away on holiday in 2006. Despite the festival's small scale in its first two years, LeeFest has now become a 2000 capacity two-day...
  
  , Bromley
  Bromley
  Bromley is a large suburban town in south east London, England and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Bromley. It was historically a market town, and prior to 1963 was in the county of Kent and formed the administrative centre of the Municipal Borough of Bromley...
  
  
• Leicester
  Leicester
  Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
  
  :Leicester Comedy Festival
  Leicester Comedy Festival
  The Leicester Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in a number of venues across Leicester, England early in the year. The festival started in 1994 with 40 events in 23 venues over 7 days throughout Leicestershire, attracting 5,000 people...
  
  , Leicester Caribbean Carnival
  Leicester Caribbean Carnival
  Leicester Caribbean Carnival is an annual event, held in early August in Leicester, England.The community-organised carnival has been held annually since 1985 on the first Saturday in August, with a parade around the city of Leicester , culminating in an event on Victoria Park...
  
  
• Letchworth Garden City:Rap-Aid Music Festival
• Lichfield Festival
• Liverpool
  Liverpool
  Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
  
  :Liverpool Garden Festival (1984)
  
  Portobello Film Festival
  Notting Hill
  Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close to the north-western corner of Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea...
  
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• London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  :Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival held in London, Carnival de Cuba
  Carnival de Cuba
  Carnival de Cuba is one the largest free festivals celebrating Cuban Culture in the United Kingdom and Europe, usually held in London's Southwark Park including live salsa bands, dance, food, drink, and kid's events. The event is normally held around June...
  
  , Covent Garden Festival, City of London Festival
  City of London Festival
  The City of London Festival is an annual arts festival that takes place in the City of London, England, over two to three weeks in June and July. The Festival is strongly geared towards classical music, but also offers a programme that includes jazz, world music, opera, film screenings, lectures...
  
  , Dollshouse Festival, Festival of Britain
  Festival of Britain
  The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition in Britain in the summer of 1951. It was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote good quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities. The Festival's centrepiece was in...
  
   (1951), Greenwich and Docklands Festival, Greenwich Film Festival, Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival takes place every spring in London, England. It began as a season of gay and lesbian films at the National Film Theatre in 1986 and 1987 under the title "Gay's Own Pictures", curated by Peter Packer of the Tyneside Cinema, and was renamed the London...
  
  , Notting Hill Carnival
  Notting Hill Carnival
  The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event which since 1964 has taken place on the streets of Notting Hill, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea , London, UK each August, over two days...
  
  , Oktoberfest, the German cultural festival held in Richmond-upon-Thames, Portobello Film Festival, Spitalfields Festival
• Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
  Shropshire
  Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...
  
  
• Luton Carnival
  Luton Carnival
  Luton International Carnival is a carnival in Luton, Bedfordshire.Taking place on the late May bank holiday Monday every year and attended by over 150,000 people each year, the procession starts at Wardown Park in Luton before making its way down New Bedford Road, around the Town Centre via St...
  
  

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• Newcastle upon Tyne
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  Newcastle upon Tyne is a city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Historically a part of Northumberland, it is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne...
  
  : The Hoppings
  The Hoppings
  The Hoppings is held on the Town Moor in Newcastle upon Tyne during the last week in June.It is recognised to be Europe's largest travelling fun fair....
  
  
• Newlyn Fish Festival
• Norfolk and Norwich Festival
  Norfolk and Norwich Festival
  Norfolk & Norwich Festival is an arts organisation based in Norwich, England which is primarily responsible for the eponymous international arts festival held in annually every May, with events also held throughout the wider county of Norfolk....
  
  

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• Peak Literary Festival
  Peak Literary Festival
  The Peak Literary Festival is held in the Peak District National Park annually in the Spring and Autumn.-Dates and venues:The Spring Festival is held in May and the Autumn Festival in October...
  
  , Peak District National Park
• Peterborough Festival
  Peterborough Festival
  The Peterborough Festival is held annually in the UK city of Peterborough. The festival takes place over a two-week period, usually the last week of June and the first week of July....
  
  
• Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire

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• Reading
  Reading, Berkshire
  Reading is a large town and unitary authority area in England. It is located in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway, some west of London....
  
  : Reading Festival, WOMADhttp://www.womad.org
• RhythmTree World Music
  World music
  World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...
  
   & Didgeridoo
  Didgeridoo
  The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
  
   Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne
  Calbourne
  Calbourne is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. It is located eight kilometres from Newport in the west of the island.The village takes its name from the stream that passes through town, the Caul Bourne...
  
  , Isle of Wight
  Isle of Wight
  The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest island of England, located in the English Channel, on average about 2–4 miles off the south coast of the county of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by a strait called the Solent...
  
  
• Ross on Wye International Festival

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• Salisbury International Arts Festival
  Salisbury International Arts Festival
  Salisbury International Arts Festival is an annual multi-arts festival that delivers over 120 arts events each year, including concerts, comedy, poetry, dance, exhibitions, outdoor spectacles, and commissioned works....
  
  
• Scarborough Literature Festival
• Shakespeare Schools Festival
  Shakespeare Schools Festival
  The Shakespeare Schools Festival charity is the UK’s largest youth drama festival, enabling four schools a night to perform a half hour abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays in local, professional theatres all over the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Sheffield International Documentary Festival
  Sheffield International Documentary Festival
  The Sheffield Doc/Fest, short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival , is an annual documentary and digital media event that is held in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England at the Showroom Workstation and other venues around Sheffield...
  
  
• Shifnal Festival
  Shifnal Festival
  The Shifnal Festival is an annual Music, Arts and Culture Festival held in the market town of Shifnal each year.-History:Little is known about the origins of the festival. A book published in 1904 by Harold Sadler suggests the festival was a local event held in the grounds of Aston Hall to the...
  
  
• Sidmouth International Festival
• Soundwave Festival
  Soundwave Festival
  Soundwave Festival, held every year at the Scarborough Spa Ocean Room, Scarborough, UK, is a music and arts festival created by the DIY Collective, a group of young people from around the Scarborough area. It was first held in 1999 on South Bay Beach, Scarborough and was moved to the Spa Complex...
  
  
• St Barnabas Community Fete (Bowstock)
  St Barnabas Community Fete (Bowstock)
  St Barnabas Community Fete is an annual festival held on Wennington Green in Mile End Park, Bow, London, England. It is run by local volunteers, who started the fete in 2003 as a non-religious, participatory, free and not-for-profit festival to:* bring residents of all ages, faiths, abilities...
  
  , Bow, London
  Bow, London
  Bow is an area of London, England, United Kingdom in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End.-Bridges at Bowe:...
  
  
• Stonehenge Free Festival
  Stonehenge Free Festival
  The Stonehenge Free Festival was a British free festival from 1972 to 1984 held at Stonehenge in England during the month of June, and culminating on the summer solstice on June 21. The festival was a celebration of various alternative cultures...
  
  

T

• Thames Festival
• Three Choirs Festival
  Three Choirs Festival
  The Three Choirs Festival is a music festival held each August alternately at the cathedrals of the Three Counties and originally featuring their three choirs, which remain central to the week-long programme...
  
  
• The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
  Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
  The Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival is an annual festival held in Dorset, England, which celebrates the memory of the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The event is a celebration of trade unionism and labour politics organised by the Dorset Committee of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers now...
  
  
• Towersey Village Festival
  Towersey Village Festival
  Towersey Village Festival is an annual festival of folk and world music and traditional dance held in the village of Towersey in Oxfordshire, England. It has taken place every August bank holiday weekend since its founding in 1965....
  
  

W

• Warwick Folk Festival
• West Country
  West Country
  The West Country is an informal term for the area of south western England roughly corresponding to the modern South West England government region. It is often defined to encompass the historic counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset and the City of Bristol, while the counties of...
  
  : West Country Carnival
  West Country Carnival
  The West Country Carnival is an annual celebration featuring a parade of illuminated floats , in the English West Country. The celebration dates back to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. The purpose is to raise money for local charities....
  
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• Weyfest
  Weyfest
  Weyfest is an annual music festival held at the Rural Life Centre in Tilford, Surrey in the United Kingdom. It usually occurs over the first weekend in September.Music is performed from the main stage, an indoor stage and a smaller outdoor stage...
  
  
• Wirral International Film Festival
• Womad
• Women In Tune
• Worcestershire Literary Festival
• Wimborne Folk Festival
  Wimborne Folk Festival
  Wimborne Folk Festival is an annual festival of English folk music and dance, held in Wimborne Minster in the English county of Dorset.The Festival was founded in 1980, and is billed as a festival of "Traditional Folk Dance, English and Celtic Music and Song"...
  
  

Scotland

• Aberdeen
  Aberdeen
  Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....
  
  : Aberdeen International Youth Festival
  Aberdeen International Youth Festival
  Aberdeen International Youth Festival is a leading Festival of Youth Arts, and one of Scotland's major international cultural events.Every year Aberdeen International Youth Festival attracts over 1000 of the most talented young people in performing arts companies and music groups from across the...
  
   - The World Festival of Youth Arts, Word, Wordfringe http://www.wordfringe.co.uk/, Dance Live http://www.dancelive.org.uk/, Sound http://www.sound-scotland.co.uk/
• Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
  
  : Edinburgh Festival
  Edinburgh Festival
  The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
  
  , Edinburgh International Festival
  Edinburgh International Festival
  The Edinburgh International Festival is a festival of performing arts that takes place in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks from around the middle of August. By invitation from the Festival Director, the International Festival brings top class performers of music , theatre, opera...
  
  , Edinburgh International Science Festival
  Edinburgh International Science Festival
  The Edinburgh International Science Festival is a science festival which takes place each April in Edinburgh, Scotland. The festival features hundreds of talks, tours and exhibitions for children, families and adults in locations around the city...
  
  , Edinburgh Festival Fringe
  Edinburgh Fringe
  The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world’s largest arts festival. Established in 1947 as an alternative to the Edinburgh International Festival, it takes place annually in Scotland's capital, in the month of August...
  
  , Edinburgh International Book Festival
  Edinburgh International Book Festival
  The Edinburgh International Book Festival, is a book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year in Charlotte Square, in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital...
  
  , Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  Edinburgh Military Tattoo
  The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is an annual series of Military tattoos performed by British Armed Forces, Commonwealth and International military bands and display teams in the Scottish capital Edinburgh...
  
  , International Festival of the Sea (Edinburgh)
• Dumfries and Galloway
  Dumfries and Galloway
  Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...
  
  : Gaelfest
• Dundee
  Dundee
  Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and the 39th most populous settlement in the United Kingdom. It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, which feeds into the North Sea...
  
  : Dundee Flower and Food Festival, Dundee Guitar Festival, Dundee Blues Bonanza, Dundee International Book Prize
  Dundee International Book Prize
  The Dundee International Book Prize is a biennial competition open to new authors, offering a prize of £10,000 and publication by Polygon Books. It is organised in Dundee, Scotland....
  
  
• Glamis, by Forfar: Scotland's Countryside Festival
  Scotland's Countryside Festival
  Scotland's Countryside Festival is an annual two day event which takes place at Glamis Castle, by Forfar, in the first weekend of September.The festival has been running since 2003 and originally came about in the wake of the 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth disease...
  
  
• Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
  : Glasgow Jazz Festival, Celtic Connections
  Celtic Connections
  The Celtic Connections festival started in 1994 in Glasgow, Scotland, and has since been held every January. Featuring over 300 concerts, ceilidhs, talks, free events, late night sessions and workshops, the festival focuses on the roots of traditional Scottish music and also features international...
  
  
• Hebridean Celtic Festival
  Hebridean Celtic Festival
  The Hebridean Celtic Festival is an international Celtic music festival, which takes place annually in Stornoway on Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The biggest headliners to date have been Runrig, The Waterboys, Proclaimers and Van Morrison...
  
  
• Inverary: Connect Festival
• Inverness
  Inverness
  Inverness is a city in the Scottish Highlands. It is the administrative centre for the Highland council area, and is regarded as the capital of the Highlands of Scotland...
  
  : Highland Festival
• Pitlochry Festival
• Shetland Folk Festival
• St Magnus Festival
  St Magnus Festival
  The St Magnus Festival is an annual 6-day arts festival which takes place on the islands of Orkney off the north coast of mainland Scotland.-History and Management:...
  
  , Orkney
• Up Helly-Aa
  Up Helly-Aa
  Up Helly Aa refers to any of a variety of fire festivals held in Shetland, in Scotland, annually in the middle of winter to mark the end of the yule season...
  
  , Shetland
• Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
  : MovieMinds - International Online Film Festival
• Scotland
  Scotland
  Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
  
  , various locations: Shakespeare Schools Festival
  Shakespeare Schools Festival
  The Shakespeare Schools Festival charity is the UK’s largest youth drama festival, enabling four schools a night to perform a half hour abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays in local, professional theatres all over the United Kingdom...
  
  

Wales

• Abergavenny Food Festival
• Brecon Jazz Festival
  Brecon Jazz Festival
  Brecon Jazz Festival is a music festival held on an annual basis in the rural surroundings of Brecon, in south Powys, Mid Wales. Normally staged in early August, it plays host to a range of jazz musicians who travel from across the world to take part and to many visiting tourists who are attracted...
  
  
• Cardiff Festival
• Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
• Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
  Hay Festival
  The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales for ten days from May to June. Devised by Norman and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind"...
  
  
• Llangollen International Eisteddfod
  International Eisteddfod
  The Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is a music festival which takes place every year during the second week of July in Llangollen, North Wales. Singers and dancers from around the world are invited to take part in over 20 high quality competitions followed each evening by concerts where...
  
  
• National Eisteddfod of Wales
  National Eisteddfod of Wales
  The National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.- Organisation :...
  
  
• Pontardawe Festival
  Pontardawe Festival
  Pontardawe Festival is an annual festival of world music and dance which is held every August on the playing fields in Pontardawe, Wales, UK....
  
  
• Shakespeare Schools Festival
  Shakespeare Schools Festival
  The Shakespeare Schools Festival charity is the UK’s largest youth drama festival, enabling four schools a night to perform a half hour abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays in local, professional theatres all over the United Kingdom...
  
  , various locations
• Small Nations Festival
• Urdd National Eisteddfod

Northern Ireland

• Belfast Festival at Queens
• Belfast Film Festival
  Belfast Film Festival
  Founded in 1995 by author Laurence McKeown, in its early stages of development the West Belfast Film Festival was part of Féile an Phobail. In its third and fourth year, it was autonomous and under the stewardship of Michele Devlin and Laurence McKeown, the Film Festival ran as a citywide event...
  
  
• Shakespeare Schools Festival
  Shakespeare Schools Festival
  The Shakespeare Schools Festival charity is the UK’s largest youth drama festival, enabling four schools a night to perform a half hour abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays in local, professional theatres all over the United Kingdom...
  
  , Belfast and Derry

Themes

• FILM: Birmingham
  Birmingham
  Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
  
  , Cardiff, Edinburgh
  Edinburgh Festival
  The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
  
  , Greenwich, Lesbian and Gay
  London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
  The London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival takes place every spring in London, England. It began as a season of gay and lesbian films at the National Film Theatre in 1986 and 1987 under the title "Gay's Own Pictures", curated by Peter Packer of the Tyneside Cinema, and was renamed the London...
  
  , Portobello
  Notting Hill
  Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close to the north-western corner of Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea...
  
  , Sheffield
  Sheffield International Documentary Festival
  The Sheffield Doc/Fest, short for Sheffield International Documentary Festival , is an annual documentary and digital media event that is held in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England at the Showroom Workstation and other venues around Sheffield...
  
  

• FOLK: Bridgnorth, Bromyard, Cambridge
  Cambridge Folk Festival
  The Cambridge Folk Festival is an annual music festival held on the site of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the city of Cambridge, England. The festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. It occurs...
  
  , Cropredy
  Cropredy Festival
  Fairport's Cropredy Convention is an annual festival of folk and rock music held on the edge of the village of Cropredy in Oxfordshire, England. It has taken place in August since 1976....
  
  , Fleetwood, Sidmouth
  Sidmouth
  Sidmouth is a small town on the English Channel coast in Devon, South West England. The town lies at the mouth of the River Sid in the East Devon district, south east of Exeter. It has a population of about 15,000, of whom 40% are over 65....
  
  , Towersey
  Towersey Village Festival
  Towersey Village Festival is an annual festival of folk and world music and traditional dance held in the village of Towersey in Oxfordshire, England. It has taken place every August bank holiday weekend since its founding in 1965....
  
  , Warwick, Wimborne
  Wimborne Folk Festival
  Wimborne Folk Festival is an annual festival of English folk music and dance, held in Wimborne Minster in the English county of Dorset.The Festival was founded in 1980, and is billed as a festival of "Traditional Folk Dance, English and Celtic Music and Song"...
  
  

• JAZZ: Bath, Birmingham
  Birmingham
  Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
  
  , Burnham Deepdale, Coventry
  Coventry
  Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom. It is also the second largest city in the English Midlands, after Birmingham, with a population of 300,848, although...
  
  , Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
  , Clitheroe
  Clitheroe
  Clitheroe is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Ribble Valley in Lancashire, England. It is 1½ miles from the Forest of Bowland and is often used as a base for tourists in the area. It has a population of 14,697...
  
  ,

• LITERATURE: Bath
  Bath Literature Festival
  The Bath Literature Festival held annually in Bath, Somerset, England, has become an important date in the national literary calendar, playing host to an array of journalists, novelists, poets, politicians, actors, comedians, writers and biographers....
  
  , Birmingham, Cheltenham
  Cheltenham Festivals
  ]Cheltenham Festivals is a registered charity that organises four festivals every year in the spa town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: the Jazz, Science, Music and Literature. In addition to this it promotes the use of several venues for private and commercial use ]Cheltenham Festivals is a...
  
  , Hay, Ilkley
  Ilkley Literature Festival
  The Ilkley Literature Festival is the north of England's oldest and largest literature festival.-Introduction:The Ilkley Literature Festival is an annual event in the spa town of Ilkley and has become one of the UK's top arts festivals...
  
  , Worcestershire Literary Festival, Wordfringe http://www.wordfringe.co.uk/

• OTHER: Bristol Harbour Festival
  Bristol Harbour Festival
  The Harbourside in Bristol, England, has hosted the Bristol Harbour Festival for 40 years, with over 250,000 visitors attending live music, street performances and a variety of live entertainment. The festival includes music stages, a dance stage, street theatre performances, and water displays...
  
   (maritime)

See also

• List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
• List of festivals
• Free festival
  Free festival
  Free festivals are a combination of music, arts and cultural activities for which, often, no admission is charged, but involvement is preferred. They are identifiable by being multi-day events connected by a camping community without centralised control. The Free festival movement being the...