Il existe un grand nombre de festivals de musique au Royaume-Uni, couvrant une grande variété de genres. Beaucoup de festivals de musique du Royaume-Uni sont de renommée mondiale. Il existe également de nombreux festivals gratuits de très grande qualité à travers le pays Festivals annuels
Bluegrass Cornish Bluegrass Festival Didmarton Bluegrass Festival Grassroots Festival Jersey North Wales Bluegrass Festival Orwell Bluegrass Festival (Ipswich) Something to Smile About Festival (Yorkshire)
Classique et opéra
Aldeburgh Festival BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Cheltenham Music Festival Cottier Chamber Project Chichester Festival Cymanfa Ganu Edinburgh's Ceilidh Culture Festival international d'Édimbourg Edington Music Festival English Music Festival Fishguard International Music Festival Frinton Festival Garsington Opera Glyndebourne Opera Festival Grange Park Opera Grimeborn Festival Guiting Festival Hampstead Arts Festival Harrogate International Festivals Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Jersey International Music Festival Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod Lake District Summer Music Leith Hill Music Festival MasterWorks Festival Nevill Holt Opera Newcastle under Lyme Music Speech and Drama Festival Oxford Lieder Festival The Proms Proms at St. Jude's Prom on The Close Ryedale Festival Rye Arts Festival Spitalfields Music Sound Scotland Festival international d'orgue de St Albans St Magnus Festival Southern Cathedrals Festival Stogumber Festival Swaledale Festival Three Choirs Festival The Two Moors Festival
York New Musical Festival
Dance & Electronique
Bang Face Weekender Beat-Herder Bestival Bloc Festival Boardmasters Chilled in a Field Festival . Creamfields Cocoon In The Park Coloursfest FutureEverything Gatecrasher Glade Festival Global Gathering Gottwood Homelands Infest UK Live at Loch Lomond Mint Festival Mood Indigo Mutiny In the Park Onelongweekend Electronic Festival Outbreak Festival PlanetLove Play Fest Re Arm Your Souls Festival Shambala Festival Silicon Dreams Festival South London Calling Swingamajig Festival Symmetry Festival Underhill Festival Waveform Festival Secret Music Festival
Ethnique Africa Oyé Bradford Mela Cardiff Mela Edinburgh Mela Leeds Asian Festival Music From A Foreign Land Southburgh World Music Festival
Folk
Acoustic Gathering Festival Arran Folk Festival Bath Folk Festival Bromyard Folk Festival BunkFest Burnham-on-Sea Folkfest Cambridge Folk Festival Celtic Connections Chester Folk Festival Crawley Folk Festival Cropredy Festival Folk by the Oak Fylde Folk Festival Gŵyl Pontardawe Festival Hop Farm Festival Hull International Sea Shanty Festival International Eisteddfod IVFDF Middlewich Folk And Boat Festival Moseley Folk Festival Orkney Folk Festival Royal National Mòd Sark Folk Festival Scots Fiddle Festival Shrewsbury Folk Festival Sidmouth Folk Week Shetland Folk Festival Something to Smile About Festival Speyfest Stogumber Festival Tenby Folk Festival Towersey Village Festival Trowbridge Village Pump Festival Two Rivers Folk Festival Warwick Folk Festival Glasgow West End Festival Whitby Folk Week Wickham Festival Woburn Sands Folk Festival Southwell Folk Festival
Jazz Birmingham International Jazz Festival Brass: Durham International Festival Brecon Jazz Festival Cheltenham Jazz Festival Glasgow Jazz Festival Glenn Miller Festival Guiting Festival Hull Jazz Festival Isle of Wight Midsummer Jazz Festival London Jazz Festival Manchester Jazz Festival Mostly Jazz Festival Scarborough Jazz Festival Stogumber Festival Wigan International Jazz Festival
Métal 13th Day Beermageddon Blastonbury Bloodstock Open Air Chaosfest Castell Roc Damnation Festival Deathfest Dominion Festival Download Festival Eat You Alive Festival Endless Festival Full Throttle Festival Ghostfest Hammerfest Hard Rock Hell Hellfire Festival High Voltage Festival Hull Metalfest In-Fest Metievals East Ozzfest ProgPower UK Sonisphere Festival Summer's End Total Carnage TekFestival Wackoff Festival
Pop Castell Roc Guernsey Festival Of Performing Arts Homegrown Music Festival Jersey Live Jingle Bell Ball Manx Telecom Bay Festival Midlands Music Festival Osfest Party in the Park Summertime Ball T in the Park T4 on the Beach
Punk City Invasion Festival Common Ground Festival Concrete Jungle Festival Durham Punk Festival F3GC Music & Art Festival Give it a Name Festival Manchester Punk Festival Nice n Sleazy Festival Rebellion Festival Slam Dunk Festival The Pie Race Festival
Rock ArcTanGent Beached Festival Scarborough Breaking Bands Festival BlastOff! Festival Boardmasters Bolton Music Showcase Boring By The Sea Festival Bourne Festival Cambridge Rock Festival Camden Rocks Festival Castell Roc Collision Course Festival Damnation Festival Desertfest London Doom Over London Download Festival Endless Summer Festival Forfey Festival Headlander Festival Hevy Music Festival High Voltage Festival Isle of Wight Festival Jersey Live Lilith Fair Marvellous festivals PigStock Play Fest Projekt Revolution Ramblin' Man Fair Reading and Leeds Festivals Something to Smile About Sonisphere Festival Stamford Riverside Festival Summer Sundae The Garden Party Festival Tennents ViTal Uxfest Whitby Goth Weekend Walk the Line Festival
Tribute Act Festivals Castell Roc Fake Festivals Glastonbudget Marvellous Festivals Seaside Rock 14–15 March 2014, Looe, Cornwall Tribfest
Cross-Genre 110 Above Festival 2000 Trees Festival Acoustic Gathering Festival Adur Festival All Tomorrow's Parties Alchemy Festival ArtsFest (inactive) Balstock Free Music Festival Basingstoke Live Festival Bearded Theory Festival Beautiful Days Beggars Fair Bestival Big in Falkirk (inactive) Bimble Bandada! Blissfields Boardmasters The Bollington Festival Boom Bap Festival BoomTown Fair Brick Lane Festival BrisFest British Summer Time Brownstock Festival Butserfest Camp Bestival Castle Calling Music Festival (inactive) Cardiff Big Weekend Castell Roc Celtic Blue Rock Community Arts Festival City of London Festival Clarence Park Festival Cornbury Music Festival Creation Fest UK Creation Fest At Eden Croissant Neuf Summer Party Cross Fest Drum Camp World Music Festival Eastern Haze Festival Eden Festival Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival End of the Road Festival Endless Festival F3GC-music and art Festival Fairport's Cropredy Convention Farmer Phil's Festival Farmfestival Festival no 6 Festival Too Field Day Folklore Festival Forest Tour Fusion Garforth Arts Festival Get Loaded in The Park Glastonbury Festival Glastonferret Godiva Festival GoldCoast Oceanfest Good Weekend Music Festival (inactive) The Great Escape Festival Greenbelt festival Green Man Festival Guilfest Hachfest (inactive) Hastings Musical Festival Harvest at Jimmy's (inactive) HogSozzle Music Festival How The Light Gets In Isle of Wight Hungry Pigeon Festival (inactive) Hydro Connect Music Festival (inactive) Indian Summer In The Woods Festival Jersey Live Festival Kendal Calling Knockengorroch Festival Lainfest Landed Larmer Tree Festival Latitude Festival LeeStock Music Festival Let's Rock The Moor! Limetree Festival Liverpool International Music Festival Lodestar Festival Mathew Street Fringe Festival Llangollen Fringe Festival London Sangerstevne International Choral Festival Loopallu Festival Lounge On The Farm (inactive) The Magic Loungeabout (inactive) Manx Telecom Bay Festival Marvellous Festivals Meltdown Midge Death Free Festival Mill Hill Music Festival Monmouth Music Festival Montrose Music Festival MudFest Mud and Music Festival Musicport World Music Festival Norbury Fields Forever (inactive)
Northern Lights Festival Nozstock Festival of Performing Arts The Northwich Music Festival Orchestra in a Field Offset Festival OutCider Festival The Outsider Festival (inactive) Party in the Park Unsigned (https://web.archive.org/web/20140524024432/http://www.pitpu.co.uk/) Penn Festival Pigpen Music Festival Pilton Equinox Party (inactive) Play Fest Phoenix Festival (inactive) Pulse Festival Radford Mill Festival of Rhythm & Blues Rainbow Spirit Enlightenment Fayre Music and Arts Festival Raunds Community Music Festival Reading and Leeds Redfest Rewind Festival Rhythm Festival (inactive) Richmond Live Rise Festival (inactive) RockNess (inactive) Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival Scarborough Fair Festival SCIPMYLO Festival (inactive) St. Magnus International Festival Stamford Riverside Festival Seahouses Festival Secret Garden Party Sellindge Music Festival Sesiwn Fawr Dolgellau Sheep Music Shehennaghys Jiu Celtic Youth Festival Shifnal Festival Skye Music Festival (inactive) Solfest Something to Smile About Festival Splendour in Nottingham Standon Calling Stogumber Festival Strawberry Fields Festival Sundown Festival Sunrise Celebration Supersonic Festival Sŵn Festival T in the Park Tartan Heart Festival Truck Festival Underage Festival (inactive) V Festival Vale Festival Village Green Arts & Music Festival Visions Festival Wakestock Walk the Line Festival Weyfest Whitwell Music Festival Wickerman Festival Wickham Festival Wilderness Willowman Festival Wireless Festival WOMAD Woolfire Festival (inactive) Worcester Music Festival WoW Music Festival Wychwood Music Festival Y Not Festival York's Little Festival of Live Music Young London into Music Youth For Youth: The Main Event
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:
BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend
Metal Music Ozzfest Bloodstock Open Air Sounds Of The Underground Sonisphere Festival
Rock Music Warped Tour
One-Time Festivals - Live at Woburn 27– - Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music - Live Aid - The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert - Tsunami Relief Cardiff - Live 8 - Live Earth (2007 concert)
Références
A to Z of Music Festivals
Guide to UK Music Festivals
http://www.welovefestivals.com
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. . 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. .
Royaume-Uni Festivals de musique Royaume-Uni