UK Music Festivals

The UK has the world's most celebrated music festival culture — from the legendary fields of Glastonbury to the urban warehouse raves of Manchester, the UK's festival calendar is a year-round institution that draws millions of visitors every summer. UK music festivals span every genre and format: Glastonbury is the gold standard, a five-day city of 200,000 people in Somerset that covers everything from Pyramid Stage headliners to ambient theatre in the woods. Parklife in Manchester is the UK's leading urban festival — two days of electronic music, grime, pop and hip-hop in Heaton Park. Creamfields near Liverpool is Europe's leading dance music festival. Reading & Leeds runs simultaneously in two cities over Bank Holiday weekend. Beyond the titans, the UK festival circuit includes hundreds of smaller events — from folk festivals in village fields to jazz weekenders in seaside towns — that collectively make the UK the world's festival capital.