# List of festivals in the United Kingdom
## England
### A

* Albion Fairs
* Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
* All Points East
* Appleby Jazz Festival
* Arundel Festival

### B

* Bolton food festival
* Barnes Film Festival
* Bath Fringe Festival
* Bath International Music Festival
* Bath Literature Festival
* Beached Festival in Scarborough
* Bedford Fringe Festival - 2023 will be 16th year
* Bedford River Festival
* Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
* Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival, Birmingham International Dance Festival (BIDF), Birmingham Mela, Moseley Folk and Arts Festival, Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival
* Blackpool: Illuminations, Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
* Blissfields, near Winchester
* Bloodstock Open Air
* Boishakhi Mela festival
* Boundary Festival
* Bradford Literature Festival
* Bradford Mela Festival
* Bridgnorth Folk Festival, Shropshire
* Bridgwater: Guy Fawkes Carnival
* Brighton Festival
* Brighton Festival Fringe
* Bristol: Ashton Court, Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, Harbour Festival
* Bromyard Folk Festival
* Bulldog Bash Motorcycle Festival
* BunkFest
* Burtfest, Burton Upon Trent
* Bury Festival, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
* Buxton Festival, Buxton, Derbyshire

### C

* 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
* 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

### D

* Deepdale Festival, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
* Deepdale Hygge, Deepdale Backpackers & Camping, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
* Donington Monsters of Rock
* Dover Carnival, Dover, England
* Download Festival, annual rock festival held at Donington Park motorsport circuit since 2003
* Durham Miners' Gala

### E

* East London LGBTQ+ Film Festival
* Endless Festival
* Esedhvos Kernow, Cornwall

### F

* Frome Festival, Somerset
* FuseLeeds
* FladFest, Fladbury

### G

* Glastonbury 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

### H

* 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

### I

* Ilkley Literature 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

* Keighley: Keighley Festival
* Kendal Mountain Film Festival
* Keswick Mountain Festival
* Knebworth concerts (occasional)

### L

* 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; 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; 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

### M

* Manchester Animation Festival
* Manchester International Festival
* Manchester Jazz Festival
* Manchester Literature Festival
* Middlesbrough Music Live

### N

* Newcastle upon Tyne: The Hoppings
* Newlyn Fish Festival
* Norfolk and Norwich Festival
* Nouka Baich

### P

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

### R

* Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD
* 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

* Salisbury International Arts Festival
* Sathiyanathan Natarajan
* Scarborough Literature Festival
* Shakespeare Schools Festival
* Sheffield International Documentary Festival
* Shifnal Festival
* Sidmouth Folk Festival
* 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

### T

* Tankfest
* Thames Festival
* Thought Bubble Festival
* Three Choirs Festival
* The Tolpuddle Martyrs festival
* The Great Exhibition Road Festival
* Towersey Village Festival
* Tramlines Festival
* Truck Festival

### V

* V Festival
* Vegfest (UK)

### W

* 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
* Worcestershire Literary Festival

### Y

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

### Z
## 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 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 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
* 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
* Other: Bristol Harbour Festival (maritime), HowTheLightGetsIn (philosophy and music)
* Dance & Arts: Lost Village Festival