List of festivals in the United Kingdom
England
A
B
- Bath Fringe Festival
- Bath International Music Festival
- Bath Literature Festival
- Beached Festival in Scarborough
- Bedford River Festival
- Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
- Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival
- Blackpool: Illuminations, Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
- Blissfields, near Winchester
- 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[2]
- Bury Festival, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Buxton Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire
C
- Cambridge: Folk Festival
- Canterbury Cricket Week, founded 1842
- 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,[3] Royal Show[4]
- Creamfields dance music festival
- Cropredy Festival
- Cypriot Film Festival UK
D
- Deepdale Jazz Festival, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
- Donington Monsters of Rock
- Dover Carnival, Dover, England[5]
- Download Festival, annual rock festival held at Donington Park since 2003
- Durham Miners' Gala
E
- Endless Festival[6]
- Esethvos Kernow, Cornwall
F
- Frome Festival, Somerset
- FuseLeeds
G
- Glastonbury Festival
- Glyndebourne Opera Festival
- Godiva Festival
- Golowan Festival
- Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire
- Green Man Festival
- Greenbelt festival
- Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
- Guilfest
H
- H2OFest[7]
- Harrogate: Harrogate International Festivals, Great Yorkshire Show
- Hay-on-Wye: Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
- Hemsby Festival
- Henley Festival of Music and the Arts
- HogSozzle Music Festival
- Huddersfield: Caribbean Carnival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Asian Mela
I
- Ilkley Literature Festival
- International Festival of the Sea
- International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Wirral
- Isle of Wight Festival 1968, 1969 and 1970
J
K
- Keighley: Keighley Festival
- Kendal Mountain Film Festival
- Keswick Mountain Festival
- Knebworth concerts (occasional)
L
- 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)
Girls dress in the colours of the elements earth, wind and fire at the Notting Hill carnival - London: Carnival de Cuba; Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival;[8] City of London Festival; Covent Garden Festival; 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;[9] Portobello Film Festival;[10] Spitalfields Festival
- Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
- Lumiere festival
- Luton Carnival
M
N
O
P
- Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park
- Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire
- Peterborough Festival
Q
R
- Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD[11]
- RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
- Ross on Wye International Festival
S
- Salisbury International Arts Festival
- Sathiyanathan Natarajan
- Scarborough Literature Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival
- Sheffield International Documentary Festival
- Shifnal Festival
- Sidmouth International Festival
- Soundwave Festival
- St Barnabas Community Fete, Bow, London
- Stonehenge Free Festival
- Strawberry Fair, Cambridge
- Swan Upping
T
- Thames Festival
- Three Choirs Festival
- The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
- Towersey Village Festival
- Tramlines Festival
U
V
W
- Warwick Folk Festival
- West Country: West Country Carnival circuit
- Weyfest
- Wimborne Folk Festival
- Wirral International Film Festival
- Womad
- Women in Tune
- Worcestershire Literary Festival
X
Y
- Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton
Z
- Zebru Festival
Scotland
- Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, The World Festival of Youth Arts; Word; Wordfringe;[12] Dance Live;[13] Sound[14]
- 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 International Science Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, International Festival of the Sea
- Glamis, by Forfar: Scotland's Countryside Festival
- Glasgow: Glasgow Jazz Festival; Celtic Connections; MovieMinds, an international online film festival[15]
- Hebridean Celtic Festival
- Inverary: Connect Festival
- Inverness: Highland Festival
- Loopallu Festival
- Pitlochry Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
- Shetland Folk Festival
- St Magnus Festival, Orkney
- Up Helly-Aa, Shetland
Wales
- Abergavenny Food Festival
- Brecon Jazz Festival
- Cardiff Festival
- Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
- Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
- Llangollen International Eisteddfod
- National Eisteddfod of Wales
- Pontardawe Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, various locations
- Small Nations Festival
- Urdd National Eisteddfod
Northern Ireland
- Belfast Festival at Queens
- Belfast Film Festival
- Shakespeare Schools Festival, Belfast and Derry
Themes
- 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[16]
- Other: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime)
See also
- List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
- List of festivals
- Literary festival#Europe
- Free festival
References
- ^ http://www.arundelfestival.co.uk/
- ^ http://www.burtfest.com
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Dover Carnival Association Limited
- ^ Endless Festival
- ^ http://www.h2ofest.net
- ^ Carnaval Del Pueblo
- ^ Oktoberfest
- ^ Portobello Film Festival
- ^ http://www.womad.org
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ MovieMinds
- ^ http://www.wordfringe.co.uk/