List of festivals in the United Kingdom

Festivals in the United Kingdom is a link page for any established festival or carnival in any part of the United Kingdom.

See also: List of music festivals in the United Kingdom and List of Food Festivals (United Kingdom)

England

A

Albion Fairs
Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
Arundel Festival
Appleby Jazz Festival

B

Bath Literature Festival
Bath International Music Festival
Bath Fringe Festival
Beached Festival in Scarborough
Bedford River Festival
Big Chill Festival in Eastnor
Birmingham: ArtsFest, Book Festival, International Carnival
Blackpool: Illuminations, Festival of Light, Rebellion Festival
Blissfields, near Winchester
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
Baby Birthday

C

Cambridge: Folk Festival
Canterbury Cricket Week, founded 1842
Castlemorton Common Festival
Cheltenham: Cheltenham Festivals
Chicken Stock Festival: Small Arts festival near Malvern, Worcestershire.
Clitheroe Food Festival: Lancashires premier Food and Drink Festival Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Cleveland: Middlesbrough Music Live Stockton Riverside Festival
Coventry: Godiva, Jazz, Town & Country, Kite , Royal Show ,
Cropredy Festival
Cypriot Film Festival UK
Creamfeilds

D

Deepdale Jazz Festival, Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk
Dover Carnival, Dover, Kent, England Dover Carnival Association Limited
Donington Monsters of Rock
Durham Miners' Gala

E

Esethvos Kernow Cornwall

F

J

JB Racing Festival of Speed

K

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

L

Latitude Festival Suffolk
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Herefordshire
LeeFest, Bromley
Leicester:Leicester Comedy Festival, Leicester Caribbean Carnival
Letchworth Garden City:Rap-Aid Music Festival
Lichfield Festival
Liverpool:Liverpool Garden Festival (1984)
Girls dress in the colours of the elements earth, wind and fire at the Notting Hill carnival
Portobello Film Festival[
London:Carnaval Del Pueblo, Europe's biggest Latin American festival held in London, Carnival de Cuba, Covent Garden Festival, City of London Festival, 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
Ludlow Festival, Shropshire
Luton Carnival

M

Middlesbrough: Middlesbrough Music Live
Montol Festival, Penzance

N

P

Peak Literary Festival, Peak District National Park
Peterborough Festival
Pershore Plum Festival, Pershore, Worcestershire

R

Reading: Reading Festival, WOMAD
RhythmTree World Music & Didgeridoo Festival, Calbourne Water Mill, Calbourne, Isle of Wight
Ross on Wye International Festival

S

Salisbury International Arts Festival
Scarborough Literature Festival
Shakespeare Schools Festival
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
Shifnal Festival
Sidmouth International Festival
Soundwave Festival
St Barnabas Community Fete (Bowstock), Bow, London
Stonehenge Free Festival
Sathiyanathan Natarajan
Swan Upping

T

V

V Festival

W

Warwick Folk Festival
West Country: West Country Carnival circuit
Weyfest
Wirral International Film Festival
Womad
Women In Tune
Worcestershire Literary Festival
Wimborne Folk Festival

Y

Young Carer's Festival, Curdridge, Southampton

Z

Zebru festival

Scotland

Aberdeen: Aberdeen International Youth Festival - The World Festival of Youth Arts, Word, Wordfringe , Dance Live , Sound
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh International Science Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh Military Tattoo, International Festival of the Sea (Edinburgh)
Dumfries and Galloway: Gaelfest
Dundee: Dundee Flower and Food Festival, Dundee Guitar Festival, Dundee Blues Bonanza, Dundee International Book Prize
Glamis, by Forfar: Scotland's Countryside Festival
Glasgow: Glasgow Jazz Festival, Celtic Connections
Hebridean Celtic Festival
Inverary: Connect Festival
Inverness: Highland Festival
Loopallu Festival
Pitlochry Festival
Shetland Folk Festival
St Magnus Festival, Orkney
Up Helly-Aa, Shetland
Glasgow: MovieMinds - International Online Film Festival
Scotland, various locations: Shakespeare Schools Festival

Wales

Abergavenny Food Festival
Brecon Jazz Festival
Cardiff Festival
Cardiff International Film Festival Wales
Hay Festival of Literature & Arts
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
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)