Festival - Performing - General

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Burlington's Sound of Music Festival  

Canadian Music Week International - Music festival, conference, and exhibition with thousands of music industry participants from around the world. 350 bands in 35 clubs over three nights. 

Dawson City Music Festival 

Grizfest 

USA

Alexandria Guitar Festival - Annual series of classical salon guitar concerts and seminars. Held in Alexandria, Virginia. Site includes a schedule, artist profiles, and registration information.

Alleyfest 

Austin City Limits Music Festival - Annual end of summer event held in Austin, Texas. Site includes program schedule, photographs, rules, travel information, ticket information, and merchandise.

Bayfest 

Bear Valley Music Festival - Classical, opera, and rock event held every summer in Bear Valley, California. Site includes a schedule, ticket information, and information on the summer music camp.

Bonnaroo Music Festival 

Breckenidge Music Festival

Bumbershoot

CMJ Music Marathon  

Coachella Festival 

Common Ground Music Festival 

Day To Be Gay - An annual event featuring gay and lesbian performers, with food, vendors, activities for children, and sign language interpretation. Site includes musician profiles, history, photographs, and travel directions.

E.A.R.T.H. Awareness Festival 

Electro-Acoustic New Music Festival - An annual event produced by the University of Richmond Music Department. Site contains information about composers, their works, and technical specifications.

Festivall Charleston, West Virginia - Annual week-long arts event featuring jazz and bluegrass with dance, theater and street fair. Includes schedule, ticket information and music competition details.

Grassroots Festival 

Gretna Heritage Festival - Three day event featuring big name entertainment, carnival rides, and crafts. Held in Gretna, Louisiana. Site provides a schedule, map, and an online volunteer form.

Health and Harmony Festival 

High Sierra Music Festival 

High Zero Festival - A festival of experimental improvised music. Held in Baltimore, Maryland

Homo A Go-Go 

Master Musicians Festival - An annual eclectic three-day music festival held in Somerset, Kentucky. Site includes a schedule, band biographies, photographs, review of the previous year, and ticket information.

Michigan Womyn's Music Festival - An all womyn's cultural event held each August. Pages list the performances, workshops, events and activities of the six day festival.

Music in the Air - A program of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department, presenting free concerts and festivals all summer long. Site provides a schedule, poster gallery, and an online application form for musicians.

Musikfest  

National Women's Music Festival - A four-day musical and cultural extravaganza that tries to incorporate just about every facet of women's lives. The Festival is held indoors on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Nemo Boston 

NH Women's Music Festival - Founded in 1993, this festival is sponsored by the New Hampshire Feminist Collective.

Noise Pop 

North By Northwest - Over 300 bands, 20 clubs, 3 nights in Portland, Oregon. Panels and a trade show by day, and music festival by night.

Oregon Festival of American Music - Features classical and jazz music. Held annually in Eugene. Site contains calendar, event information, brochure, and order form.

Prarie Voices - Women's music festival in Iowa City's Upper City Park.

San Diego Street Scene

Schwagstock 

Seattle Improvised Music Festival 

Seattle Music Fest - Annual festival showcasing emerging Northwest music talent. Held at Alki Beach in West Seattle, U.S.A. Site contains news, line-up, schedule, directions, photos, and application information for performers.

Solar Concert Music Series - Music proving ground for renewable, non-polluting and environmentally safe energy sources. Site includes upcoming events and news related to the use of solar energy. 

South By Southwest 

Summerfest 

Summer Jam - SEMCAC benefit concert in Spring Valley, Minnesota. Features several local and touring alternative, indie, rock 'n' roll, and punk bands.

Terrascope  

EU  

Ars Musica (Belgium) 

Athfest (Greece) 

Balelec (Switzerland) 

Bizarre Festival (Germany) 

Exit Festival (Serbia) 

Festival Couleur Cafe (Belgium) 

Festival Internacional de Benicassim (FIB Heineken) (Spain) 

Klara Festival (Belgium) 

Lowlands - Official site. A music festival that covers, not only all sorts of alternative music styles ranging from rock to dance, but all kinds of other modern day art forms as well (Netherlands).

Musikforum Viktring-Klagenfurt (Austria) 

Other World - Youth music festival arranged with the images of the world featuring world culture and trance. (Denmark)

Oulu Music Video Festival and Air Guitar World Championships - Held annually in Oulu, Finland. News, schedule, history, and pictures.

PopKomm (Germany) 

Roskilde Festival (Sweden) 

Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival - An annual festival held in October. Information about the festival and day-by-day festival programme. (Site in English and Norwegian)

Varna Summer International Music Festival (Bulgaria) 

Ireland

Arklow Seabreeze Festival 

UK

Fordstock - Annual one-day mid-July festival offers two stages and features rock, pop, trance, jazz and blues. Harbertonford, Devon.

Homelands Music Festival - Fan site with chat rooms, discussion, reviews, pictures, artist lineups, and news.

Isle of Wight Festival - Official website for the Isle of Wight festival featuring news, line ups, message boards, forums, accommodation providers, ticket and travel information. 

Moor Music Festival 

Planet Tree Music - London-based tonal contemporary music event. Provides a schedule of events, articles, and related links. 

Reading Festival 

Riverside Festival - An annual one day summer event featuring both dance and rock bands. Held in Stamford, England. Site contains a history, lineup, vendor information, and photographs.

Scottish Tattoo - Festival of Scottish history, music and dance held at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sesiwn Fawr, Dolgellau - Annual music festival in Wales; details of bands appearing, with details of events, campsite, tickets, and contact details. (Cymraeg and English)

Smokie Blues Music Festival - Live music and blues bands on an annual summer weekend in Arbroath, Scotland. Information about programme, and practical details for visitors.

Thorney Live Charity Music Festival - Annual event in aid of local charities. Provides a festival history, artist lineup, photos, and directions.

TMF Festival - Rock, indie, alternative and metal in Essex, UK. Contains event history, photographs, band reviews, ticket sales and discussion board

V Festival 

Wickerman Festival 

Workhouse Festival - An annual three-day eclectic music festival in Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales. Information about programme and facilities, with contact details.

Pacific

Australian National Eisteddfod - Annual festival held in Canberra. Competitions covering bands and orchestras; choirs; instrumental; piano; speech and drama; and singing. Includes results, history, contacts, and news.

Hawkesbury National Fiddle Festival - Annual multi-genre festival celebrating the fiddle and all other stringed instruments. Held in Richmond, Australia. Site includes program, ticket information, application for performers and merchant stalls, photos, and merchandise.

Totally Huge New Music Festival - Held annually in April in Perth, Australia, featuring chamber and electronic music, improvisation, sound installations, and outback projects. Site includes past event information and calendar.