List of festivals in the United Kingdom
Festivals in the United Kingdom is a link page for any established festival or carnival in any part of the United Kingdom.
See list of music festivals in the United Kingdom for a list of just the music festivals.
England
- Albion Fairs
- Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
- Arundel Festival
- Appleby Jazz Festival
- Bath: Literature Festival
- Bath International Music Festival
- Beached Festival in Scarborough
- Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival
- Bridgnorth Folk Festival, Shropshire
- Bridgwater: Guy Fawkes Carnival
- Brighton Festival
- Bristol: Ashton Court, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Harbour Festival
- Bromyard Folk Festival
- BunkFest
- Bury Festival Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Buxton Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire
- Cambridge: Folk Festival
- Castlemorton Common Festival
- Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals
- Chicken Stock Festival: Small Arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire.
- Cleveland: Middlesbrough Music Live Stockton Riverside Festival
- Coventry: Godiva, Jazz, Town & Country, Kite[1], Royal Show[2],
- Cropredy Festival
- Deepdale Jazz Festival, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
- Dover Carnival , Dover, Kent, England Dover Carnival Assocation Limited
- Donington Monsters of Rock
- Frome Festival, Somerset
- FuseLeeds
- Endless Festival
- Glastonbury Festival
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- Godiva Festival
- Golowan Festival
- Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire
- Greenbelt festival
- Harrogate: Harrogate International Festival, Great Yorkshire Show
- Hay-on-Wye: Literature
- Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
- Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
- Ilkley Literature Festival
- International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Wirral, Merseyside
- Isle of Wight Festival 1968, 1969 and 1970
- Keighley: Keighley Festival
- Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Knebworth Festival at Knebworth House (occasional)
- Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire
- Leicester:Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Caribbean Carnival
- Letchworth Garden City:Rap-Aid Music Festival
- Lichfield Festival
- Liverpool:Liverpool Garden Festival (1984)
Catwalk at the carnival. The girls dresses in the colours of the elements earth, wind & fire took to the carnival at Notting Hill too walk the walk. The models are chorographer by Reuben P Joseph. Image credit: david mbiyu/sixoone.com www.exhibitafrica.com/gall/o-carni06.php - London:Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival held in London, Covent Garden Festival, City of London Festival, Dollshouse Festival, Festival of Britain (1951), Greenwich and Docklands Festival, Greenwich Film Festival, Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Notting Hill Carnival, Portobello Film Festival, * Oktoberfest, the UK's major German cultural festival held in Richmond-upon-Thames, London, [3], Spitalfields Festival
- Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
- Luton Carnival
- Middlesbrough: Middlesbrough Music Live
- Newcastle upon Tyne: The Hoppings
- Norfolk and Norwich Festival
- Peak Literary Festival,Peak District National Park
- Peterborough Festival
- Portsmouth,International Festival of the Sea (Portsmouth)
- Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD[4]
- Ross on Wye International Festival
- Salisbury International Arts Festival
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival
- Sidmouth International Festival
- Soundwave Festival
- Stonehenge Free Festival
- Thames Festival
- Three Choirs Festival
- The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
- Towersey Village Festival
- Warwick Folk Festival
- West Country: West Country Carnival circuit
- Womad
- Women In Tune
- Wimborne Folk Festival
Scotland
- Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival - The World Festival of Youth Arts
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, International Festival of the Sea (Edinburgh)
- Dumfries and Galloway: Gaelfest
- Glasgow : Glasgow Jazz Festival, Celtic Connections
- Hebridean Celtic Festival
- Inverness: Highland Festival
- Pitlochry Festival
- Shetland Folk Festival
- Up Helly-Aa, Shetland
- Glasgow: MovieMinds - International Online Youth Film Festival
Wales
- Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
- Pontardawe Festival
- Brecon Jazz Festival
- National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Miskin At Easter
- Llangollen International Eisteddfod
- Urdd National Eisteddfod
Northern Ireland
Themes
- FILM: Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Lesbian and Gay, Portobello, Sheffield
- JAZZ: Bath, Birmingham, Burnham Deepdale, Coventry, Glasgow ,
- LITERATURE: Bath, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Hay, Ilkley
- OTHER: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime)