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Music FestivalA Music Festival is a musical event where live music is played, typically by multiple Musical Artists. A festival may be a singular...
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| Woodstock Festival |
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Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre (2.4 km²; 240 ha) dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18 1969. Bethel (Sullivan County) is 43 miles (69 km)...
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| Big Day Out |
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The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand which originated in Sydney in 1992. As of 2003, it has featured 7 or 8 stages (depending on the venue) accommodating popular contemporary rock music, electronic...
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| Glastonbury Festival |
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The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is one of the largest music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features...
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| Lollapalooza |
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Lollapalooza is an American music festival featuring alternative rock, hip hop, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. Conceived and created in 1991 by...
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| Roskilde Festival |
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Roskilde Festival is held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the four biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe (the other three being the Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival and Rock Werchter). It was created in 1971 by two high...
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| Pinkpop |
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Pinkpop Festival, or Pinkpop for short, is an annual rock festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. According to the Guinness Book of Records, it is the oldest annual festival in the world. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend (Pinksteren in...
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| Bonnaroo Music Festival |
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The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is a four-day annual music festival, created and produced by Superfly Productions and AC Entertainment, first held in 2002. It was recently named “Best Festival” by Rolling Stone Magazine, calling it "the...
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| Montreux Jazz Festival |
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The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland, Europe's most prestigious. It is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The Montreux Jazz Festival was founded in 1967 by Claude Nobs, Géo...
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| Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival |
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The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (commonly known as Coachella) is a three-day (formerly a one or two-day) annual music and arts festival organized by Goldenvoice held at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California. The event features...
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| The Big Chill |
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The Big Chill is an English festival of alternative and chill-out music, started in 1994.
Founded in 1994 by Pete Lawrence and Katrina Larkin it began as a series of ambient parties at the Union Chapel in Islington, but developed into an outdoor...
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| Reading and Leeds Festivals |
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The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festival that take place in Reading and Leeds in the United Kingdom and are run by Festival Republic. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August...
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Rock Werchter is an annual music festival in the village of Werchter in Belgium since 1974. The 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 festivals received the Arthur award for best festival in the world at International Live Music Conference (ILMC). Since 2003...
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| Oxegen |
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Oxegen is an annual music festival, held since 2004, sponsored by Heineken. It was previously called Witnness, which ran from 2000 and was sponsored by Guinness. The event is promoted by MCD. Oxegen was originally a two-day festival but for 2008 was...
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| Download Festival |
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The Download Festival is a three day music festival held annually at Donington Park (which hosted the Monsters of Rock Festivals between 1980 and 1996, and 2002's Ozzfest). It takes place at the end of spring, and is owned and managed by Live Nation...
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| Viljandi Folk Festival |
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The Viljandi Folk Music Festival is a music festival in Estonia with a central focus on European folk music. It is traditionally held in late July, when the otherwise quiet city of Viljandi is completely transformed as the small city center is...
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| Witnness |
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Witnness was an Irish music festival, sponsored by Guinness, which ran for four consecutive summers from 2000 to 2003. Originally it was held at Fairyhouse Racecourse in County Meath, but it was moved to Punchestown Racecourse in County Kildare for...
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| Curiosa |
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Curiosa is the name of a 2004 concert tour in the United States and Toronto (Canada), organized by Robert Smith of The Cure. It began with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 24 and ended in Sacramento, California on August 29.
The...
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| T in the Park |
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T in the Park is a major music festival that has been held annually in Scotland since 1994. It is named after its main sponsor, the brewing company Tennents. It was originally held at Strathclyde Park, but since 1997 has been held at a disused...
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| V Festival |
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The V Festival is an annual music festival in England, the first to be held simultaneously at two sites - currently Hylands Park in Chelmsford and Weston Park in South Staffordshire, organised by SJM Concerts. Previously it had been held at Temple...
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| Fuji Rock Festival |
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Fuji Rock Festival is an annual rock festival held in Naeba ski resort, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The 3 day event, organized by Smash Japan, features more than 200 Japanese and international musicians making it the largest outdoor music event in...
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The Area Festival was a music festival founded by popular electronic musician Moby, who asserted that he was "in large part, inspired by the ethos of Lollapalooza", and wished to create a similarly "genuinely eclectic, interesting, alternative music...
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| HFStival |
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The HFStival was an annual rock festival sponsored by Washington, D.C. / Baltimore, Maryland radio station WHFS. Currently in its seventeenth year, the HFStival is the largest yearly music festival on the East Coast. 55,000 to 90,000 people attend...
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EXIT (also known as State of EXIT) is an annual summer music festival in the Petrovaradin fortress of Novi Sad, Serbia. It is staged annually since 2000 and usually lasts four days (since 2003).
Held in the picturesque setting of an eighteenth...
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| Truck Festival |
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Truck Festival is an annual independent music festival in Oxfordshire, England. It was started in 1998 by the Bennett family (including the brothers Robin and Joe of the band Goldrush), who decided that mainstream festivals such as Glastonbury had...
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| Hultsfred Festival |
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The Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfredsfestivalen in Swedish) is an annual music festival held in Hultsfred, Sweden. It takes place at the lake Hulingen during three days in the middle of June, from Thursday to Saturday. Since the first festival in 1986,...
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| Damnation festival | Event |
Damnation Festival is a one-day metal festival held in the United Kingdom. The festival was started by a group of eight music fans who perceived a lack of extreme metal bands and UK talent appearing at existing British festivals, and therefore...
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| Vallenato Legend Festival |
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The Vallenato Legend Festival is one of the most important musical festivals in Colombia. The Festival features a vallenato music contests for best interpreter of accordion, caja vallenata and guacharaca, as well as piqueria (battle of lyrics) and...
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| Rock am Ring | Event |
The Rock am Ring (Rock at the Ring) and Rock im Park (Rock in the Park) festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually in Germany. While Rock am Ring takes place at the Nürburgring racetrack in the west of Germany, Rock im Park...
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Tibetan Freedom Concert is the name given to a series of rock festival held in North America, Europe and Asia between 1996 and 2001 to support the cause of Tibetan independence. The concerts were organized by the Beastie Boys and the Milarepa Fund....
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| Street Scene |
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Street Scene is a music festival held each summer in San Diego, California. Street Scene has now become one of America's largest annual music festivals, including over 70 musical acts covering different musical genres and styles on multiple stages.
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| Midtfyns Festival | Event |
Midtfyns Festival was a famous rock festival in Denmark. It was closed before the 2004 festival started, due to declining ticket sales. In the festival's heyday it was competing with Roskilde Festival to be the biggest music event in Northern Europe...
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| Summer Sonic Festival | Event |
The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two-day rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and near Tokyo. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Tokyo the following day and vice versa.
The line-up contains many Japanese...
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| Coleford Music Festival | Event |
The Coleford Music Festival is a free two day rock/metal/punk and ska influenced festival held annually in Coleford, Gloucestershire in the heart of the Forest of Dean in the UK. It takes place in late May every year and has been running since 1999....
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| Vale Festival |
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The Vale Festival, commonly abbreviated to Valefest, is a music festival that takes place on the campus of University of Birmingham. Uniquely, it is planned, organised and largely staffed by volunteer students - it is believed to be the largest...
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| Electric Picnic |
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Electric Picnic is an annual boutique arts and music festival which has been staged since 2004 in Stradbally Hall, Stradbally, County Laois in the Republic of Ireland. It is organised by Pod Concerts and Aiken Promotions. Electric Picnic differs...
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| Latitude Festival |
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The Latitude Festival is a recently created annual music festival that takes place in Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk, England. The first Latitude Festival took place on the 14-16 July 2006. The 2007 festival was held on 12-15 July, and Latitude...
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| Orange Evolution Festival | Event |
The Evolution Festival is a music festival held annually in venues across Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Gateshead, England since 2005. Its centre-piece is a two-stage event held on Spring Bank Holiday Monday at two sites beside the River Tyne, though the...
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| Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival |
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Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival is a four-day weekend music festival held annually in early June just outside of Lawrence, Kansas at Clinton State Park. Since its inception in 2004 the festival has grown dramatically with almost 20,000 tickets...
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| Download Festival Ireland | Event |
In 2006, Download Festival Ireland hosted a 2-day event in Dublin at the RDS showgrounds. This event was co-ordinated by Aiken Promotions and was headlined by rock acts Guns N' Roses and Metallica. The event, although smaller than its Donington...
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| Virgin Festival |
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The Virgin Festival (known from 2008 as the Virgin Mobile Festival in the United States) is a rock festival held in the United States and Canada, a spin-off from the V Festival held in the UK. In North America the Virgin name, and recently the...
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| Hard Rock Laager |
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Hard Rock Laager is a two day rock and metal festival held annually in a field in the small Estonia village of Vana-Vigala. It is the largest alternative music festival in Estonia and draws a crowd of approximately 2000 people each year.
The first...
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| Scribble Jam |
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Scribble Jam is an annual hip hop music festival hosted in Cincinnati, Ohio, which has been called "America's Largest Hip Hop Festival." The festival was founded in 1996 by Fat Nick, Founder of Scribble Magazine. Recently, the festival has grown in...
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| Arvika Festival |
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Arvika Festival (Swedish: Arvikafestivalen) is an annual music festival held in Arvika, Sweden. It takes place during three days in the middle of July, from Thursday to Saturday, with camping available from the beginning of the week. The non-profit...
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| Trowbridge Village Pump Festival |
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Trowbridge Village Pump Festival is an annual music festival held at Stowford Manor Farm, Farleigh Hungerford, England.
All events take place in marquees and the compact site includes camping, car parking, three separate stages plus children's tent...
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| Wickerman Festival |
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The Wickerman Festival is an annual music festival held near to Dundrennan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dubbed 'Scotland's Alternative Music festival', Last year it was held on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st of July.
It began in 2002 when...
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| Augustibuller |
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Augustibuller (Swedish for ’August sound pollution’) is a festival in Sweden, hosted by Lindesberg, Örebro County. The festival takes place first weekend in August, hence the name. It was first hosted in 1996, featuring only demo bands, mostly local...
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| Country Stampede Music Festival |
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The Country Stampede Music Festival is an outdoor country music and camping festival held at Tuttle Creek Lake State Park, north of Manhattan, Kansas. The festival has been held annually since 1996 on the last weekend in June.
The festival began as...
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| X-Fest | Event |
X-Fest is an annual music festival held each year in various venues throughout the U.S. by Clear Channel Communications radio stations. It features alternative rock, hard rock, heavy metal, grunge, and industrial rock bands.
The event is hosted by...
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| Copenhagen Jazz Festival | Event |
Copenhagen Jazz Festival is an annual Jazz event held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The 2006 edition comprised around 850 concerts, and in 2005 240,000 people attended the festival."
Musicians who have performed at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival include...
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| Munkyfest |
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Munkyfest was an independent, NPOV, DIY music festival held in Cheshire, England. The festival grew from a small private party to a nationally known event held on a farm. The festival hosted a range of bands, from local unsigned artists, to more...
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| Buzzfest | Event |
Buzzfest is the name of two unrelated rock festivals held in Houston and Nashville The Buzzfest played in Houston is a bi-annual show hosted by the radio station 94.5 The Buzz while the Buzzfest in Nashville is held, usually in the late summer, by...
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| G! Festival |
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The G! Festival (commonly known as G!) is held annually at the seaside village Gøta on Eysturoy. It is one of the two largest music festivals on the Faroe Islands (the other is Summarfestivalurin). It was founded by the local musician Jón Tyril, who...
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| Peace & Love |
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Peace & Love is one of the biggest festivals in Sweden and the only one with an outspoken message of Solidarity, Diversity and Understanding, which runs through the whole event. It started in 1999 and is located in Borlänge, Sweden.
The...
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| Gurtenfestival |
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The Gurtenfestival is a music festival in Switzerland. It is held annually in middle of July on top of Berne's local mountain, the Gurten.
1991: Nazareth, Donovan, Ralph McTell, Flying Pickets, Konstantin Wecker
1992 (July 4 - July 5): Little...
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| Wacken Open Air |
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Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) is a popular German music festival focusing on various forms of extreme metal and heavy metal. It takes place annually in the small town of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With 60,000 festival visitors, and...
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| Graspop Metal Meeting | Event |
Graspop Metal Meeting is a metal festival in Dessel, Belgium that has taken place each year since 1996. Despite the small size of the festival grounds (upholding a perimeter of only ~4 km) the festival draws a large number of international...
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'''KaZantip''' (also known simply as "Z") is an electronic dance music festival held every year on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. The entrance ticket is called a "viZa". It takes place for 4-6 weeks in the summer and more than 100,000 "paradiZers...
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| Beverley Folk Festival | Event |
The Beverley and East Riding Folk Festival is a three day celebration of music, workshops, comedy and spoken word that is held in and around Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
The Festival Village is an outdoor marquee area offering a...
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| Musicport World Music Festival | Event |
Musicport World Music Festival is the UK's largest annual indoor world music festival . It was held in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, from 2000-2007. In 2008 it moves to The Spa, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire with a main hall capacity of...
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