This is a list of festivals in the United Kingdom.
England A–B
C–E Cambridge Folk Festival CarFest Cary Comes Home Festival Castlemorton Common Festival Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals: Cheltenham Cricket Festival Cheltenham Jazz Festival Cheltenham Literature Festival Cheltenham Music Festival Cheltenham Science Festival Chicken Stock Festival, small arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire Clarence Park Festival Clitheroe Food Festival, Lancashire's premier food and drink festival, Clitheroe, Lancashire Coventry: Godiva, Jazz, Town & Country, Kite, Royal Show Creamfields dance music festival Cropredy Festival Cypriot Film Festival UK Damnation Festival (metal music) Deepdale Festival, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk Deepdale Hygge, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk Didsbury Arts Festival Donington Monsters of Rock Dover Carnival, Dover, England Download Festival, annual rock festival held at Donington Park motorsport circuit since 2003 Durham Miners' Gala East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival Ely Arts Festival Endless Festival Esedhvos Kernow, Cornwall Evolution Festival F–J
Forest Live Format International Photography Festival Hull Freedom Festival*Frome Festival, Somerset FuseLeeds FladFest, Fladbury Give It A Name Glastonbury Festival Glowflare Horror Film Festival Glowflare Short Film Festival Glyndebourne Opera Festival Godiva Festival Golowan Festival Great British Rhythm and Blues Festival, Colne, Lancashire Greenbelt festival Green Man Festival Greenwich+Docklands International Festival Guilfest Holi H2OFest Harrogate: Harrogate International Festivals, Great Yorkshire Show Hemsby Festival Henley Festival of Music and the Arts HowTheLightGetsIn Festival Huddersfield: Caribbean Carnival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Asian Mela Hull Freedom Festival Ilkley Literature Festival Infest, University of Bradford (electronic and dance festival)*International Festival of the Sea International Guitar Festival of Great Britain, Wirral International Organ Festival at St Albans Isle of Wight Festival 1968, 1969 and 1970
K–M Keighley: Keighley Festival Kendal Mountain Film Festival Keswick Mountain Festival Knebworth concerts (occasional) Land of Kings, London Borough of Hackney The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Kendal, Cumbria Latitude Festival, Suffolk Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire LeeFest, Bromley Leeds Festival (1999present, Bramham Park, Wetherby) Leeds International Festival of Ideas Leeds International Film Festival Leicester: Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Caribbean Carnival Letchworth Garden City: Rap-Aid Music Festival Lichfield Festival Liverpool: Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool Garden Festival (1984), Look Photo Biennial London: Carnival de Cuba; Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival; City of London Festival; Covent Garden Festival; Fitzrovia Arts 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; Portobello Film Festival; Spitalfields Festival London History Festival Lost Village Festival Love Supreme Jazz Festival Ludlow Festival, Shropshire Lumiere Luton Carnival Lyme Regis Fossil Festival Lytham Festival, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire Lytham International Film Festival, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire Manchester Animation Festival Manchester Day Manchester International Festival Manchester Jazz Festival Manchester Literature Festival Middlesbrough Music Live
N–R Newcastle upon Tyne: The Hoppings Newlyn Fish Festival Norfolk and Norwich Festival Nouka Baich O2 Wireless Festival (2006 and 2007 Harewood House, Harewood, near Wetherby) Out There Festival Party in the Park (Temple Newsam, Colton) Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire Peterborough Festival Parklife Weekender, Heaton Park Reading: .Reading Festival, WOMAD Refract Festival RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight Romford Film Festival Romford Horror Film Festival Ross on Wye International Festival
S–T Salisbury International Arts Festival Sathiyanathan Natarajan Scarborough Literature Festival Shakespeare Schools Festival Sheffield International Documentary Festival Shifnal Festival Sidmouth Folk Festival Slam Dunk Festival (2006 Millennium Square, 2007present Leeds University Union) Slapstick Festival Soundwave Festival St Barnabas Community Fete, Bow, London Stockton Riverside Festival Stonehenge Free Festival StoomFest Rock Music Festival - Stoner, Doom, and Psych Rock Fest, London Strawberry Fair, Cambridge Swan Upping Swaledale Festival Tankfest Thames Festival Thought Bubble Festival Three Choirs Festival The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival The Great Exhibition Road Festival Towersey Village Festival Tramlines Festival Transform Festival Truck Festival
V–Z V Festival Vegfest (UK) Warrington Arts Festival Warwick Folk Festival Weekend at the Asylum West Country: West Country Carnival circuit Weyfest Whitby Goth Weekend Wimborne Folk Festival Wirral International Film Festival Womad Women in Tune Wonderfields, Devon Worcestershire Literary Festival Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton Y Not Festival
Isle of Man
Scotland Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival, The World Festival of Youth Arts; Word; Wordfringe; Dance Live; Sound 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 Film Festival, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Television 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 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 Belfast International Arts Festival Belfast International Tattoo Eastside Arts Festival Orangefest The Eleventh Night The Twelfth 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 Literature: Bath, Birmingham, Cheltenham, Hay, Ilkley, Worcestershire Literary Festival, Wordfringe Music: Jazz: Bath, Birmingham, Burnham Deepdale, Coventry, Glasgow, Clitheroe Other: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime), HowTheLightGetsIn (philosophy and music) Dance & Arts: Lost Village Festival
See also
List of music festivals in the United Kingdom List of festivals Literary festival#Europe Free festival
References