List of festivals in the United Kingdom

Last updated February 19, 2025

England

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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 International Film Festival
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
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

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Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park
Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire
Peterborough Festival
Parklife Weekender, Heaton Park

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Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD ^[17]
RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
Romford Film Festival
Romford Horror Film Festival
Ross on Wye International Festival

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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

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Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton
Y Not Festival

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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

Northern Ireland

Belfast Festival at Queens
Belfast Film Festival
Belfast International Arts 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)
Dance & Arts: Lost Village Festival^[23]

References

↑ "Arundel Festival 2016".
↑ Bentley, David (4 May 2021). "Sandwell and Birmingham Mela confirms new 2021 dates in comeback after pandemic". Birmingham Mail .
↑ "是非自分に合う車の「個性」を探してほしい".
↑ "Coventry Kite Festival". Archived from the original on 11 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2004.
↑ "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. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
↑ https://www.fladfest.uk/ ^{[ bare URL ]}
↑ 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. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. 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.
1 2 "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.
↑ "Sound Festival 2016 - Sound Scotland".
↑ "lavery - lab1".
↑ "Lost Village Festival". Visit Lincolnshire. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

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[1] "Arundel Festival 2016".

[2] Bentley, David (4 May 2021). "Sandwell and Birmingham Mela confirms new 2021 dates in comeback after pandemic". Birmingham Mail .

[3] "是非自分に合う車の「個性」を探してほしい".

[4] "Coventry Kite Festival". Archived from the original on 11 August 2004. Retrieved 26 July 2004.

[5] "Royal Agricultural Society of England".

[6] "Deepdale Festival | Music Festival | 21st to 24th September 2023". Deepdale Camping & Rooms | Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, North Norfolk Coast, England.

[7] "Deepdale Hygge | 24th to 26th March 2023". Deepdale Camping & Rooms | Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, North Norfolk Coast, England.

[8] "Dover Carnival Association Limited".

[9] "Esedhvos Festival". Gorsedh Kernow. Archived from the original on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2020.

[10] ttps://www.fladfest.uk/ ^{[ bare URL ]}

[11] ttp://www.h2ofest.net Archived 13 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine

[12] "carnavaldelpueblo.co.uk".

[13] "Oktoberfest". Archived from the original on 6 December 2006.

[14] "PORTOBELLO FILM FESTIVAL LONDON".

[15] "The London History Festival. Dates. Details". Literaryfestivals.co.uk. 28 November 2012. Archived from the original on 30 November 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2014.

[16] "The London History Festival 2013 – fringe events | RBKC Libraries blog". Rbkclibraries.wordpress.com. 20 September 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2014.

[17] "Womad.org - World of Music, Arts & Dance".

[18] "Wonder Fields Festival – Heaven in Devon". Wonder Fields Festival.

[auto-19] 1 2 "Wordfringe: Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland".

[20] "DanceLive 2012". Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 6 March 2013.

[21] "Sound Festival 2016 - Sound Scotland".

[22] "lavery - lab1".

[23] "Lost Village Festival". Visit Lincolnshire. Retrieved 18 February 2025.

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