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New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival attracts a plethora of international headline acts every year with performances spread over two weekends. Concerts take place at the Fair Grounds…
Founded in 1895 by Sir Henry Wood, the Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall take over London's classical musical calendar every summer and, with some justification, can claim to be the…
The Falls Festival is a live music and camping extravaganza held around New Year's Eve at the Falls Festival Farm in the Otway rainforest. An Australian institution, it entices worldwide…
The Coachella Festival returns to the Empire Polo Ground in Indio, California, attracting thousands to see shows spread across two main stages and various tents. A diverse range of stellar…
Prague Spring International Music Festival
This springtime music festival brings the world's best orchestras to Prague's State Opera House. Honouring Bedrich Smetana, father of Czech music, it opens on the anniversary of his death with…
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival
Held on a 700-acre farm near Manchester, Tennessee, the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival attracts some of the music world's leading lights and has built up a fanatical following.
Essaouira Gnaoua and World Music Festival
The Essaouira Gnaoua and World Music Festival celebrates the music of the Gnaouas, the product of a mystic tradition with branches as widespread as Haitian voodoo and Brazilian Candomblé.…
Rock al Parque (Rock in the Park) in Bogotá is the biggest and best annual rock festival in Latin America. Tens of thousands of people squeeze into Simón Bolívar Park to enjoy the consistently…
Exit, one of Europe's largest music festivals, takes place in the Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia's second city, Novi Sad. The event celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2009 with main stage…
FIB Heineken Benicàssim International Festival
The FIB Heineken Benicàssim International Festival is firmly established as one of Europe's premier music festivals. The event takes place each summer on Spain's sun-drenched eastern coast.
World-renowned performers take to the stage for a series of parties and gigs in Montego Bay at Jamaica's Reggae Sumfest, the reggae event of the summer. Styles range from conscious vibes to…
Amid the pine-forest scenery of the Naeba Ski Resort in Niigata, the Fuji Rock Festival presents international bands and the best of the Japanese scene. Performances take place on large…
Each year the medieval town of Marciac in south-western France hosts one of the world's finest jazz festivals. A giant marquee hosts the main evening performances as the town is flooded with…
Bregenz is different. An opera festival with two stages: a traditional opera house (the Festspielhaus), home to rare operas; and a stage under the open sky on the Lake Stage (Seebühne), where…
The fantastic Santa Fe Opera has, since 1957, mounted a summer season of five operas, played al fresco under the awesome New Mexico sky in the hillside-built Crosby Theater. Picnic pre-opera…
One of the great European music festivals, the Lucerne Festival has, since Toscanini conducted in the 1930s, attracted top performers. With Jean Nouvel's breathtaking lakeside Kultur- und…
A crowning glory of the jazz calendar, the San Francisco Jazz Festival brings international artists to the city's great venues. New commissions, the unique "Jazz on Film" presentations, family…
The London Jazz Festival returns with a kaleidoscopic cross-section of the contemporary scene. A UK jazz calendar highpoint, headline shows take place at the Barbican and the Royal Festival…
The annual Festival in the Desert in Essakane welcomes artists from Mali, Mauritania and Niger to perform among the sand dunes of the Sahara. Up to 30 groups perform during the event, now one…
First held in 1985, the Canary Islands Festival brings the best of classical music to the Canaries, with each concert played both in Las Palmas' Auditorio Alfredo Kraus on Gran Canaria and the…
