List of music festivals in the United Kingdom

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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 a great many years. The most notable include The Proms and Glastonbury Festival.

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see also List of opera festivals


The Main Stage at the 2006 Reading Festival.
The Main Stage at the 2006 Reading Festival.

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:

  • 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.
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