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Music of the United Kingdom
Royal Albert Hall, London, a major venue for all forms of music
Timeline
General Topics
Early popular music • 1950s and 60s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Genres
Baroque • Classical • Early music • Folk • Hip Hop • Jazz • Pop • Popular • Rock • Soul
Specific Forms
Ethnic music	Caribbean • England • Ireland • Scotland • Wales
Traditional music	British folk revival • Ballad • Carol • Children's song • Hornpipe • Jig • Morris dance • Protest song • Reel • Sea shanty • Strathspey • War song • Work song
Media and Performance
Music awards	Mercury • The Brit Awards • Gramophone Awards
Music charts	Singles Chart • Classical Chart • Albums Chart • R&B Chart • Indie Chart • Dance Chart • Rock Chart
Music festivals	Cambridge folk • Download • Edinburgh • Eisteddfodd • Glastonbury • Isle of Wight • Knebworth • Royal National Mod • The Proms • Reading and Leeds • T in the Park • V
Music media	NME • Melody Maker • Mojo • Q • The Wire • The Gramophone
National anthem	"God Save the Queen"
Regional Music
Local forms	Birmingham • Cardiff • Cornwall • Liverpool • Manchester • Northumbria • Somerset • Yorkshire
Other regions	Anguilla • Bermuda • Cayman Islands • Gibraltar • Montserrat • Turks and Caicos • Virgin Islands

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 many years including the most famous, Glastonbury.

Annual festivals

Bluegrass music

• North Wales Bluegrass Festival
• Didmarton Bluegrass Festival
• Cornish Bluegrass Festival
• Harvest Time Blues

Classical music and opera

see also List of opera festivals

• Adur Festival - The first two weeks of June every year
• Aldeburgh Festival
• Birmingham Triennial Music Festival (defunct)
• BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
• Cheltenham Music Festival [1]
• Chichester Festival
• Cymanfa Ganu
• Edinburgh's Ceilidh Culture [2]
• Edinburgh International Festival
• English Music Festival at Dorchester-on-Thames[3]
• Garsington Opera
• Glyndebourne Opera Festival
• Grange Park Opera
• Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival [4]
• The Llangollen International Eisteddfod [5]
• Lake District Summer Music [6]
• MasterWorks Festival [7] - Winchester, England
• The Max Whittaker Festival
• Nevill Holt Opera
• Norfolk and Norwich Festival
• The Proms
• Proms at St Jude's North London [8]
• Prom on The Close Clifton, Bristol [9]
• Spitalfields Festival, London [10]
• Sound - North East Scotland's Festival of New Music [11]
• Swaledale Festival
• Three Choirs Festival
• The Two Moors Festival on Dartmoor and Exmoor
• York Early Music Festival

Dance & Electronic music

• Mood festival
• Bang Face Weekender
• Bestival
• Bloc Weekend
• Creamfields
• Coloursfest
• Jersey Live
• Futuresonic
• Gatecrasher
• Global Gathering
• Homelands
• 02 Wireless Festival
• Escape into the Park
• The Big Chill (music festival)
• Infest (Festival)
• Glade Festival
• RockNess
• Live at Loch Lomond
• Planet Love (Northern Ireland Only)
• Southern Sound
• Re Arm Your Souls Festival - 'The Ode'
• Waveform Festival
• Y Not Festival

Ethnic music

• Africa Oyé
• Cardiff Mela[12]
• Bradford Mela
• Edinburgh Mela
• Leeds Mela
• The Llangollen International Eisteddfod [13]
• Music From A Foreign Land [14]

Folk music

• Adur festival[15]
• Bromyard Folk Festival[16]
• BunkFest[17]
• Burnham-on-Sea Folkfest[18]
• Cambridge Folk Festival[19]

The stage at Fairport's Cropredy Convention festival, Oxfordshire, in August 2009 (click for larger image)

• Chester Folk Festival[20]
• Crawley Folk Festival[21]
• Cropredy Festival[22]
• Edinburgh Folk Festival (no longer operating)
• Endless Festival[23]
• Fylde Folk Festival[24]
• Green Man Festival[25]
• Hull International Sea Shanty Festival[26]
• The Llangollen International Eisteddfod [27]
• Moseley Folk Festival[28]
• Gŵyl Pontardawe Festival[29]
• Royal National Mod[30]
• Scots Fiddle Festival[31]
• Shrewsbury Folk Festival[32]
• Sidmouth Folk Week[33]
• Shetland Folk Festival[34]
• Tenby Folk Festival[35]
• Towersey Village Festival[36]
• Trowbridge Village Pump Festival[37]
• Warwick Folk Festival[38]
• Whitby Folk Week[39]
• Two Rivers Folk Festival[40]

Jazz music

• Adur Festival - The first two weeks of June every year
• Birmingham International Jazz Festival
• Brecon Jazz Festival
• Scarborough Jazz Festival
• Glenn Miller Festival
• HSBC Cheltenham Jazz Festival
• Hull Jazz Festival
• Isle of Wight International Jazz Festival
• London Jazz Festival
• Manchester Jazz Festival[41]
• Wigan Jazz Festival

Metal music

• 13th Day
• Blastonbury
• Bloodstock
• Bloodstock Open Air
• Chaosfest
• Damnation Festival
• Deathfest
• DOMINION Festival
• Endless Festival[42]
• Full Throttle
• Ghostfest
• Hammerfest
• Hard Rock Hell
• Hellfire Festival
• Hull Metalfest
• In-Fest
• Metievals East riding rock festival
• Reading Festival
• ProgPower UK
• Sonisphere Festival
• Summer's End
• Total Carnage
• TekFest
• Twisted Realm @ Download
• Wackoff Festival

Pop music

• Party in the Park
• Jersey Live
• T4 On The Beach

Punk music

• City Invasion
• Concrete Jungle Festival
• Durham Punk Festival
• Give it a Name Festival
• Nice n Sleazy Festival
• Rebellion Festival
• Slam Dunk Festival

Rock music

The Main Stage at the 2006 Reading Festival.

• Beached festival Scarborough
• Bickershaw festival (defunct)
• BlastOff! Festival
• Bolton Music Showcase
• Collision Course Festival
• Damnation Festival
• Jersey Live
• Download Festival
• Endless Festival[43]
• ENIT
• Isle of Wight Festival
• Lillith Fair
• Marvellous festivals
• Projekt Revolution
• Knebworth (occasional)
• Reading and Leeds Festivals
• Summer Sundae
• T in the Park
• Tennents ViTal
• Uxfest
• V Festival
• Y Not Festival
• PigStock
• Boring By The Sea Festival
• Stamford Riverside Festival [44]
• Walk the line festival

Tribute Act Festivals

• Glastonbudget [45]
• Marvellous festivals [46]
• Fake festivals [47]

Cross-genre

• Jersey Live
• Adur Festival - The first two weeks of June every year
• All Tomorrow's Parties[48]
• Ashton Court Festival (no longer operating^[1])
• Beautiful Days[49]
• Bestival[50]
• The Bollington Festival [51]
• Big in Falkirk[52]
• Bimble Bandada![53]
• Blissfields[54]
• Brick Lane Festival[55]
• Butserfest[56]
• Castle Calling Music Festival
• Celtic Blue Rock Community Arts Festival[57]
• Cardiff Big Weekend[58]
• City of London Festival[59]
• Cornbury Music Festival[60]
• Eastern Haze Festival[61] (possibly no longer operating)
• End of the Road Festival[62]
• Endless Festival[63] ("collaborative online festival")
• Farmer Phil's Festival[64]
• Farm festival[65]
  • Fairport's Cropredy Convention[66]
• Field Day[67]
• Forest Tour[68]
• Get Loaded in The Park[69]
• Glastonbury Festival[70]
• GoldCoast Oceanfest [71]
• Godiva Festival[72]
• Greenbelt festival[73]
• Green Man Festival[74]
• Guilfest[75]
• How the Light Gets In[76]
• Hachfest[77]
• Hydro Connect Music Festival[78]
• Indian Summer[79]
• Kendal Calling[80]
• Knockengorroch Festival [81]
• Latitude Festival[82]
• Limetree Festival[83]
• Liverpool Mathew Street Music Festival[84]
  • Mathew Street Fringe Festival[85]
• Llangollen Fringe Festival[86]
• Lounge On The Farm[87]
• The Magic Loungeabout[88]
• Marvellous Festivals[89]
• Meltdown[90]
• Midge Death Free Festival, Loch Cluanie, Scotland
• Mill Hill Music Festival[91]
• Musicport World Music Festival[92]
• Nozstock Festival of Performing Arts[93]
• Pilton Equinox Party[94]
• Offset Festival[95]
• The Outsider Festival[96]
• Rainbow Spirit Enlightenment Fayre Music and Arts Festival[97]
• Rewind Festival [98]
• Rhythm Festival[99]
• Richmond Live
• Rise Festival[100]
• RockNess[101]
• Seahouses Festival[102]
• Secret Garden Party[103]
• Sellindge Music Festival[104]
• Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau[105]
• Sheep Music[106]
• Shehennaghys Jiu Celtic Youth Festival, Isle of Man [107]
• Skye Music Festival[108] (possibly no longer operating)
• Sunrise Celebration [109]
• Supersonic Festival[110]
• Sŵn Festival, Cardiff[111]
• Truck Festival[112]
• Tartan Heart Festival[113]
• Underage Festival[114]
• Vale Festival[115]
• Wakestock[116]
• Wickerman Festival[117]
• Wireless Festival[118]
• WOMAD[119]
• Woolfire Festival[120]
• Wychwood Music Festival[121]
• Y Not Festival[122]
• Young London into Music[123]
• Pigpen Music Festival [124]

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:

• Radio 1's Big Weekend

Metal music

• Ozzfest
• Sounds Of The Underground
• Family Values Tour

Rock music

• Warped Tour

One time festivals

• Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970
• The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert
• Live Aid
• Live 8
• Live Earth
• Tsunami Relief Cardiff

See also

• Music festivals in the UK and mainland Europe in 2010
• List of festivals in Britain and mainland Europe in 2009 sorted by date

References

• 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.