List of festivals in the United Kingdom

England

A

Albion Fairs
Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
Appleby Jazz Festival
Arundel Festival^[1]

B

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

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

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

Endless Festival
Esedhvos Kernow, Cornwall^[9]

F

Frome Festival, Somerset
FuseLeeds
FladFest, Fladbury^[10]

J

K

L

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

O

P

R

Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD^[17]
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 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

U

V

V Festival
Vegfest (UK)

W

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

Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton

Z

Scotland

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

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

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^[19]
Other: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime), HowTheLightGetsIn (philosophy and music)

References

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^ "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/
^ 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.
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