List of festivals in the United Kingdom
England
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[edit]B
[edit]- Bolton food festival
- Barnes Film Festival
- Bath Fringe Festival
- Bath International Music Festival
- Bath Literature Festival
- Beached Festival in Scarborough
- Bedford Fringe Festival - 2023 will be 16th year
- Bedford River Festival
- Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
- Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival, Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF), Birmingham Mela[2]
- Blackpool: Illuminations, Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
- Blissfields, near Winchester
- Bloodstock Open Air
- Boishakhi Mela festival
- Bradford Literature Festival
- Bradford Mela Festival
- Bridgnorth Folk Festival, Shropshire
- Bridgwater: Guy Fawkes Carnival
- Brighton Festival
- Brighton Festival Fringe
- Bristol: Ashton Court, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Harbour Festival
- Bromyard Folk Festival
- Bulldog Bash Motorcycle Festival
- BunkFest
- Burtfest, Burton Upon Trent[3]
- Bury Festival, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Buxton Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire
C
[edit]- Cambridge Folk Festival
- CarFest
- Cary Comes Home Festival
- Castlemorton Common Festival
- Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals:
- Chicken Stock Festival, small arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire
- Cleveland: Middlesbrough Music Live Stockton Riverside Festival
- Clitheroe Food Festival, Lancashire's premier food and drink festival, Clitheroe, Lancashire
- Coventry: Godiva, Jazz, Town & Country, Kite,[4] Royal Show[5]
- Creamfields dance music festival
- Cropredy Festival
- Cypriot Film Festival UK
D
[edit]- Deepdale Festival, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk[6]
- Deepdale Hygge, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk[7]
- Donington Monsters of Rock
- Dover Carnival, Dover, England[8]
- Download Festival, annual rock festival held at Donington Park motorsport circuit since 2003
- Durham Miners' Gala
E
[edit]- Endless Festival
- Esedhvos Kernow, Cornwall[9]
F
[edit]- Frome Festival, Somerset
- FuseLeeds
- FladFest, Fladbury[10]
G
[edit]- Glastonbury Festival
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- Godiva Festival
- Golowan Festival
- Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire
- Greenbelt festival
- Green Man Festival
- Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
- Guilfest
H
[edit]- H2OFest[11]
- Harrogate: Harrogate International Festivals, Great Yorkshire Show
- Hemsby Festival
- Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
- HowTheLightGetsIn Festival
- Huddersfield: Caribbean Carnival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Asian Mela
I
[edit]- Ilkley Literature Festival
- International Festival of the Sea
- International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Wirral
- International Organ Festival at St Albans
- Isle of Wight Festival 1968, 1969 and 1970
J
[edit]K
[edit]- Keighley: Keighley Festival
- Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Keswick Mountain Festival
- Knebworth concerts (occasional)
L
[edit]- Land of Kings, London Borough of Hackney
- The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal, Cumbria
- Latitude Festival, Suffolk
- Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire
- LeeFest, Bromley
- Leicester: Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Caribbean Carnival
- Letchworth Garden City: Rap-Aid Music Festival
- Lichfield Festival
- Liverpool: Liverpool Garden Festival (1984)
- London: Carnival de Cuba; Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival;[12] City of London Festival; Covent Garden Festival; Kensington Dollshouse Festival; Festival of Britain (1951); Greenwich+Docklands International Festival; Greenwich Film Festival; Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; Notting Hill Carnival; Oktoberfest, the German cultural festival held in Richmond-upon-Thames;[13] Portobello Film Festival;[14] Spitalfields Festival
- London History Festival[15][16]
- Lost Village Festival
- Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
- Lumiere festival
- Luton Carnival
- Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
- Lytham Festival, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire
- Lytham International Film Festival, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire
N
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[edit]P
[edit]- Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park
- Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire
- Peterborough Festival
- Parklife Weekender, Heaton Park
R
[edit]- Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD[17]
- RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
- Ross on Wye International Festival
S
[edit]- Salisbury International Arts Festival
- Sathiyanathan Natarajan
- Scarborough Literature Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival
- Shifnal Festival
- Sidmouth Folk Festival
- Slapstick Festival
- Soundwave Festival
- St Barnabas Community Fete, Bow, London
- Stonehenge Free Festival
- StoomFest Rock Music Festival - Stoner, Doom, and Psych Rock Fest, London
- Strawberry Fair, Cambridge
- Swan Upping
T
[edit]- Tankfest
- Thames Festival
- Thought Bubble Festival
- Three Choirs Festival
- The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
- Towersey Village Festival
- Tramlines Festival
U
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[edit]W
[edit]- Warwick Folk Festival
- Weekend at the Asylum
- West Country: West Country Carnival circuit
- Weyfest
- Wimborne Folk Festival
- Wirral International Film Festival
- Womad
- Women in Tune
- Wonderfields, Devon[18]
- Worcestershire Literary Festival
Y
[edit]- Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton
Z
[edit]Scotland
[edit]- Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, The World Festival of Youth Arts; Word; Wordfringe;[19] Dance Live;[20] Sound[21]
- Dumfries and Galloway: Gaelfest
- Dundee: Dundee Flower and Food Festival, Dundee Guitar Festival, Dundee Blues Bonanza, Dundee International Book Prize
- Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, International Festivals of the Sea
- Glamis, by Forfar: Scotland's Countryside Festival
- Glasgow: Glasgow Jazz Festival; Celtic Connections; MovieMinds, an international online film festival[22] TRNSMT
- Hebridean Celtic Festival
- Inverary: Connect Festival
- Inverness: Highland Festival
- Orkney: St Magnus Festival
- Perth & Kinross: Mugstock Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
- Shetland: Up Helly-Aa
- Ullapool: Loopallu Festival
- Various sites: T in the Park
Wales
[edit]- Abergavenny Food Festival
- Brecon Jazz Festival
- Cardiff Festival
- Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
- Green Man Festival
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
- HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Hay-on-Wye
- Llangollen International Eisteddfod
- National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Pontardawe Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
- Small Nations Festival
- Urdd National Eisteddfod
Northern Ireland
[edit]- Belfast Festival at Queens
- Belfast Film Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, Belfast and Derry
Themes
[edit]- Film: Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Greenwich, Lesbian and Gay, Portobello, Sheffield
- Folk: Bridgnorth, Bromyard, Cambridge, Cropredy, Fleetwood, Sidmouth, Towersey, Warwick, Wimborne
- Jazz: Bath, Birmingham, Burnham Deepdale, Coventry, Glasgow, Clitheroe
- Literature: Bath, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Hay, Ilkley, Worcestershire Literary Festival, Wordfringe[19]
- Other: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime), HowTheLightGetsIn (philosophy and music)
See also
[edit]- List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
- List of festivals
- Literary festival#Europe
- Free festival
References
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- ^ "是非自分に合う車の「個性」を探してほしい".
- ^ "Coventry Kite Festival". Archived from the original on 11 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2004.
- ^ "Royal Agricultural Society of England".
- ^ "Deepdale Festival | Music Festival | 21st to 24th September 2023". Deepdale Camping & Rooms | Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, North Norfolk Coast, England.
- ^ "Deepdale Hygge | 24th to 26th March 2023". Deepdale Camping & Rooms | Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, North Norfolk Coast, England.
- ^ "Dover Carnival Association Limited".
- ^ "Esedhvos Festival". Gorsedh Kernow. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
- ^ https://www.fladfest.uk/ [bare URL]
- ^ http://www.h2ofest.net Archived 13 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk".
- ^ "Oktoberfest". Archived from the original on 6 December 2006.
- ^ "PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL LONDON".
- ^ "The London History Festival. Dates. Details". Literaryfestivals.co.uk. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "The London History Festival 2013 – fringe events | RBKC Libraries blog". Rbkclibraries.wordpress.com. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "Womad.org - World of Music, Arts & Dance".
- ^ "Wonder Fields Festival – Heaven in Devon". Wonder Fields Festival.
- ^ a b "Wordfringe: Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland".
- ^ "DanceLive 2012". Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "Sound Festival 2016 - Sound Scotland".
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