List of Best Music Festivals in Europe and The United Kingdom.

With summer almost upon us and so many great events happening, it can be hard to choose which music festivals to go to. To help you decide, here’s our round-up of the best music festivals happening around Europe and the United Kingdom this summer.

Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas.

Boomtown Fair is an annual music festival held in the United Kingdom over the second weekend of August. It started in 2009 and since 2011 has been held at the Matterley Estate in Hampshire, which is part of the South Downs National Park. The festival is run by Boomtown Festival UK Limited company directors Chris Rutherford and Luke Marcus Mitchell, both from Bristol. Prominent Genres of This Music Festival Are Electronic, Rock, Reggae, Dub, Folk, World, Hip Hop.

The Isle of Wight Festival is a British music festival that takes place annually in Newport on the Isle of Wight, England. It was originally a counterculture event held from 1968 to 1970.

The Rock in Rome (until its 2008 edition known as Romarock Festival) is a musical event that takes place annually in Rome at the Capannelle Racecourse usually at the turn of the months of June and July. It does not take place as a classic festival (i.e., it is not of one or more consecutive days in which more groups perform) but as a musical event in which, over a period of a month or so, several groups perform.

Primavera Sound is a music festival that takes place between the end of May and beginning of June in Barcelona, Spain and Porto, Portugal. The first edition took place in 2001 in Poble Espanyol and in 2005 it moved to the Parc del Fòrum, a much larger site on the seafront. The nature of the festival (urban and an integrated part of the city) and the wide range of bands represented have made Primavera Sound a meeting point for artists and spectators from all generations. The festival presents all genres including pop, rock and the most underground tendencies of electronic and dance music.

Ultra Europe is a multi-venue outdoor electronic music festival that is a part of Ultra Music Festival's worldwide expansion, which has now spread to twenty countries Ultra Europe made its debut as a two-day festival during 12–13 July 2013, and took place in Split, Croatia, with an additional Ultra Beach party in Hvar Island, Croatia on 14 July 2013.

Tomorrowland is a Belgium electronic dance music festival held in Boom, Belgium. Tomorrowland was first held in 2005 and has since become one of the world's largest and most notable music festivals. It now stretches over 2 weekends and it usually sells out in minutes.


The Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-Sziget, a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year.

Awakenings Festival is one of the most well known electronic events in Europe and the largest outdoor techno festival in the world With 80.000 visitors in a weekend, Awakenings Festival is the highlight of Europe’s techno music calendar.

The Awakenings Festival is held in Spaarnwoude, located between Amsterdam and Haarlem. It’s one of the most well known electronic music festivals in Europe and the largest outdoor techno festival in the world. 80,000 visitors in just two short days are blasted with more than 100 DJs at Awakenings just outside of Amsterdam.

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