UK and World Music Festivals for your diary/calendar
At some point in your lives thoughts will have turned to holidays and events you’vebeen longing to go to. In the latter scenario, spending a few wild days of partying in some field/beach/some persons’ (overly large) back garden with
several hundred/thousand like-minded revellers ranks highly.
For this reason, we’ve started early and compiled a (not exhaustive) list to what we think are pretty much the majority of the top music festivalsnin the UK and abroad.
It must be added we received lots of great entries for lesser known festivals (dedicated to instruments like Harmonica) so thank you to all. It’s unfortunate that we could not possibly include every entry, however we may well create an ‘alternative’ music festival list in the future if there’s demand and there are enough strange (and downright weird)
suggestions worthy of a mention.
Bluegrass Music
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Cornish Bluegrass
Festival -
Didmarton Bluegrass
Festival -
Grassroots Festival
Jersey -
North Wales Bluegrass
Festival
Classical Music & Opera
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Adur Festival
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Aldeburgh Festival
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BBC Cardiff Singer of the
World -
Cheltenham Music Festival
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Chichester Festival
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Cymanfa Ganu
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Edinburgh’s Ceilidh Culture
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Edinburgh International
Festival -
English Music Festival
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Fishguard International
Music Festival -
Garsington Opera
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Glyndebourne Opera Festival
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Grange Park Opera
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Grimeborn Festival
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Huddersfield Contemporary
Music Festival -
Jersey International Music
Festival -
Llangollen International
Musical Eisteddfod -
Lake District Summer
Music -
Leith Hill Music
Festival -
London Sangerstevne
International Choral Festival -
MasterWorks Festival
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Nevill Holt Opera
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Oxford Lieder Festival
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The Proms
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Proms at St. Jude’s
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Prom on The Close
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Ryedale Festival
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Spitalfields Festival
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Sound Scotland
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St. Albans International
Organ Festival -
St. Magnus Festival
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Swaledale Festival
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Three Choirs Festival
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The Two Moors Festival
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York Early Music Festival
Dance & Electronic Music
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Bang Face Weekender
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Beat-Herder
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Bestival
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Boardmasters
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Creamfields
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Coloursfest
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FutureEverything
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Gatecrasher
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The Glade festival
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Global Gathering
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Gottwood
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Homelands
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Infest UK
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Live at Loch Lomond
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Lovebox
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Mood Indigo
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PlanetLove
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Play Fest
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Glade Festival
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South London Calling
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Shambala
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Glastonbury
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Secret Garden Party
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Brownstock
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Re Arm Your Souls
Festival -
Underhill Festival
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Waveform Festival
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Y Not Festival
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Nozstock Festival of
Performing Arts -
Manx Telecom Bay Festival
Ethnic Music
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Africa Oyé
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Bradford Mela
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Cardiff Mela
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Edinburgh Mela
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Leeds Asian Festival
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Music From A Foreign Land
Folk Music
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Acoustic Gathering
Festival -
Adur festival
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Arran Folk Festival
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Bath Folk Festival
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Bromyard Folk Festival
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BunkFest
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Burnham-on-Sea
Folkfest -
Cambridge Folk Festival
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Celtic Connections
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Chester Folk
Festival -
Crawley Folk
Festival -
Cropredy
Festival -
Fylde Folk
Festival -
Gŵyl Pontardawe Festival
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Hull International Sea
Shanty Festival -
Hop Farm
Festival -
International Eisteddfod
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IVFDF
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Middlewich Folk And Boat
Festival -
Moseley Folk Festival
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Royal National
Mod -
Scots Fiddle Festival
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Shrewsbury Folk
Festival -
Sidmouth Folk
Week -
Shetland Folk
Festival -
Tenby Folk Festival
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Towersey Village
Festival -
Trowbridge Village Pump
Festival -
Two Rivers Folk Festival
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Warwick Folk
Festival -
Glasgow West End
Festival -
The Big Chill
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Whitby Folk
Week -
Woburn Sands Folk
Festival
Jazz Music
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Adur
Festival -
Birmingham International
Jazz Festival -
Brecon Jazz
Festival -
Cheltenham Jazz Festival
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Glasgow Jazz
Festival -
Glenn Miller
Festival -
Hull Jazz
Festival -
Isle of Wight Midsummer Jazz
Festival -
London Jazz
Festival -
Manchester Jazz
Festival -
Mostly Jazz
Festival -
Scarborough Jazz
Festival -
Wigan International Jazz
Festival
Metal Music
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13th Day
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Blastonbury
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Bloodstock
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Bloodstock Open
Air -
Chaosfest
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Damnation Festival
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Deathfest
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Dominion
Festival -
Download
Festival -
Endless
Festival -
Full Throttle Festival
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Ghostfest
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Hammerfest
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Hard Rock
Hell -
Hellfire
Festival -
High Voltage
Festival -
Hull
Metalfest -
In-Fest
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Metievals East
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Ozzfest
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ProgPower
UK -
Sonisphere
Festival -
Summer’s
End -
Total
Carnage -
TekFestival
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Wackoff
Festival
Pop Music
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Guernsey Festival Of
Performing Arts -
Jersey
Live -
Jingle Bell Ball
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Manx Telecom Bay
Festival -
Midlands Music
Festival -
Osfest
-
Party in the
Park -
Summertime
Ball -
T4 On The
Beach
Punk Music
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City Invasion
Festival -
Concrete Jungle
Festival -
Durham Punk
Festival -
F3GC Music & Art
Festival -
Give it a Name
Festival -
Nice n Sleazy Festival
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Rebellion
Festival -
Slam Dunk
Festival -
The Pie Race
Festival
Rock Music
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Beached Festival
Scarborough -
BlastOff! Festival
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Boardmasters
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Bolton Music Showcase
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Boring By The Sea Festival
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Bourne
Festival -
Collision Course
Festival -
Damnation
Festival -
Download
Festival -
Endless Summer
Festival -
Forfey
Festival -
Hevy Music
Festival -
High Voltage
Festival -
Isle of Wight Festival
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Jersey Live
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Lillith Fair
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Marvellous
festivals -
PigStock
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Play Fest
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Projekt
Revolution -
Reading and Leeds
Festivals -
Sonisphere Festival
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Stamford Riverside Festival
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Summer Sundae
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T in the Park
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The Garden Party Festival
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Tennents ViTal
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Uxfest
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Y Not
Festival -
Walk the Line
Festival
Tribute Act Festivals
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Fake Festivals
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Glastonbudget
-
Marvellous
Festivals -
Bootleg Festival 30–31 March
2013 Manchester
Cross-Genre
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2000 Trees
Festival -
Acoustic Gathering
Festival -
Adur
Festival -
All Tomorrow’s
Parties -
Alchemy
Festival -
ArtsFest
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Balstock Free Music Festival
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Basingstoke Live Festival
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Bearded Theory
Festival -
Beautiful Days
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Beggars Fair
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Bestival
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Brownstock
Festival -
The Bollington Festival
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Big in Falkirk
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Bimble
Bandada! -
Blissfields
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Boardmasters
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Brick Lane
Festival -
BrisFest
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Butserfest
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Camp
Bestival -
Castle Calling Music
Festival -
Celtic Blue Rock Community
Arts Festival -
Cardiff Big Weekend
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City of London
Festival -
Clarence Park
Festival -
Cornbury Music
Festival -
Croissant Neuf Summer
Party -
Cross Fest
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Eastern Haze
Festival -
Eden Festival
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Edinburgh Jazz and Blues
Festival -
End of the Road
Festival -
Endless Festival
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F3GC-music and art Festival
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Farmer Phil’s Festival
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Farm festival
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Fairport’s Cropredy
Convention -
Field Day
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Folklore Festival
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Forest Tour
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Get Loaded in The
Park -
Glastonbury
Festival -
Glastonferret
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Good Weekend Music Festival
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GoldCoast
Oceanfest -
Godiva
Festival -
Greenbelt
festival -
Green Man
Festival -
Guilfest
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Hachfest
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Hastings Musical
Festival -
Harvest at Jimmy’s
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How The Light Gets
In -
Hungry Pigeon
Festival -
Hydro Connect Music
Festival -
Indian
Summer -
Jersey Live
Festival -
Kendal
Calling -
Knockengorroch
Festival -
Larmer Tree
Festival -
Latitude
Festival -
LeeStock Music Festival
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Let’s Rock The
Moor! -
Limetree
Festival -
Liverpool Mathew Street
Music Festival -
Mathew Street Fringe
Festival -
Llangollen Fringe
Festival -
Lounge On The Farm
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The Magic
Loungeabout -
Manx Telecom Bay
Festival -
Marvellous Festivals
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Meltdown festival
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Midge Death Free
Festival -
Mill Hill Music
Festival -
Montrose Music
Festival -
Monmouth Music
Festival -
Musicport World Music
Festival -
Norbury Fields
Forever -
Norfolk and Norwich
Festival -
Nozstock Festival of
Performing Arts -
Northern Lights
Festival -
Nozstock Festival of
Performing Arts -
The Northwich Music Festival
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Orchestra in a
Field -
Offset
Festival -
The Outsider Festival
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Penn
Festival -
Pigpen Music
Festival -
Pilton Equinox
Party -
Play
Fest -
Pulse Festival
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Rainbow Spirit Enlightenment
Fayre Music and Arts Festival -
Redfest
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Rewind
Festival -
Rhythm
Festival -
Richmond Live
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Rise Festival
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RockNess
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Stamford Riverside
Festival -
SCIPMYLO
Festival -
St. Magnus International
Festival -
Seahouses
Festival -
Secret Garden
Party -
Sellindge Music Festival
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Sesiwn Fawr
Dolgellau -
Sheep
Music -
Shehennaghys Jiu Celtic
Youth Festival -
Shifnal
Festival -
Skye Music
Festival -
Splendour in
Nottingham -
Standon
Calling -
Sunrise
Celebration -
Supersonic Festival
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Sŵn
Festival -
T in the
Park -
Truck Festival
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Tartan Heart
Festival -
Underage
Festival -
V Festival
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Vale
Festival -
Wakestock
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Walk the Line
Festival -
Weyfest
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Wickerman Festival
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Wireless
Festival -
Worcester Music Festival
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WOMAD
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Woolfire Festival
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Wychwood Music
Festival -
Y Not
Festival -
Young London into Music
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Youth For Youth: The Main
Event