MUST LOVE FESTIVALS

Belsonic festival takes place in Belfast’s Custom House Square in Northern Ireland, the city’s premier outdoor space. The big sounds music festival features the best in international pop and rock.

US rock stalwarts Queens of the Stone Age, Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro and English singer, songwriter and rapper Example are among the lead acts. Headliners also include Imagine Dragons and Kodaline, with special guest Tom Odell. And if that wasn’t enough Little Matador, featuring  Snow Patrol guitarist Nathan Connolly will also feature. 

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The term MS DOCKVILLE has evolved into a synonym for cultural diversity. What originally set out to be a weekend festival has experienced several add-ons in its eight year of existence. Several weeks before the festival itself, the curated art camp MS ARTVILLE enables a communicative and artistic process for visitors and artists alike. Every weekend, new art projects are inaugurated whilst miscellaneous events take place. The highlight at the end of a summer full of art and music is the famous MS DOCKVILLE festival, where the created art works shape the character of a transdiciplinary festival that combines music and arts of all genres. In 2014, about 130 bands and DJs from all over the world – including Die Antwoord, Birdy, Flume, Chet Faker, Alle Farben and...

Since 1996, Carpino Folk Festival– the festival of folk music attracts every year tens of thousand of people into the heart of Gargano. The hub of the event’s performances (all for free) will be Popolo square, in Carpino. The area in the middle of the picturesque urban agglomeration looping around the lake of Varano, along a road skirting the surrounding foothills which form a natural amphitheater enclosed by Capoiale, San Nicola di Varano, Ischitella, Vito del Gargano up to Rodi Garganico, located in an elevated and panoramic position overlooking Poggio Pastromele, has been the historical setting of this event, built around the knowledge and the stimulating creativity of the new generations, thus...

Bardentreffen festival is one of the biggest annual events in Nuremberg taking place over three days  in the city’s historic city center. The festival is attended by more than 200.000 visitors and across the 8 stages visitors can listen to famous artists from all over the world as well as artists nobody knows.People normally sit in the historic square of the old town, buy a beer and relax with the music played on stage-this is the beauty of this festival.

For more information about this year’s festival, please visit the Tourism Nuremberg website.

The Locus Festival represents one of the lynchpins of the overall cultural offer in Puglia, featuring a rich  program that spans many genres, from jazz and world music to singer-songwriter hits. It’s a happy synthesis between  artistic quality and the popularity of the events offered. Since its inception, the Locus Festival has focused on artists with an original and refined creative soul, able to create a bond with the spellbinding scenery of the Itria Valley, studded with small architectural jewels. An event that matches good music with the promotion of the territory. Locorotondo, a small hamlet...

Bregenz-Bodensee festival is different. An opera festival with two stages: a traditional opera house, home to less-known operas, and an open-air lakeside stage, where productions are held in the most spectacular fashion.

It must have been the wonderful location of the city by the lake and the beautiful environment that made a couple of clever minds set up a stage on two barges in 1946, bringing the Bregenzer Festspiele to life. The lake and the surrounding countryside were thus to be a central part of all productions from the start. 60 years later the Bregenzer Festspiele is an integrated part of...

Sastamala Gregoriana is an early Music Festival that combines an excellent international concert programme from medieval, renaissance and baroque periods, old lakeside churches of Sastamala with unique acoustic space and warm local atmosphere. This is something that deserves to be known and appreciated by local, national and international visitors. Sastamala Old Church is a gem of a venue for the performance of music that is contemporary with its history. Its vaulted wooden ceiling, rough hewn stone walls, dirt floor and quiet location combine to make it one of the finest acoustical environments in the world for solo vocal music and small ensembles. Its peaceful, natural environment gives it a further special character, and the surrounding silence...

The largest city-event in the Netherlands, the Rotterdam Unlimited represents a mix of music, dance, theatre and carnival and is held in Rotterdam’s inner city. The Carnival parade revolves around the Battle of Drums, the street parade and the ‘Queen election’.

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The Kuhmo Chamber Music festival was born in 1970 out of the quirky idea to take chamber music intro pristine nature, far away from the noise and pollution of the urban environment. The aim was to gather the world’s best chamber musicians to perform together in the front of the most knowledgeable chamber music audience. This idea became a reality in Kuhmo, on the eastern border of Finland some 600 km from the capital city of Helsinki.

The festival is Finland’s oldest chamber music festival and the largest when measured in visitor numbers. Each year, some 180 musicians gather together in Kuhmo to perform about 100 events, which together attract around 40,000 visits. Kuhmo has developed into one the most significant music...

PITCH is a festival for lovers of progressive electronic music. This adventurous and intimate festival anticipates the hottest trends in pop and dance. 

This year’s spectacular line-up includes huge names including Massive Attack, Moderat, Mount Kimbie, Richie Hawtin, The Gaslamp Killer and many, many more!

Check the Pitch Festival website for the full line-up, tickets and more information

Parkpop has been Europe’s biggest free festival for years and attracts a large, varied audience in addition to national and international artists! 

Pop city, The Hague is proud of its Parkpop festival. Young and old meet in Zuiderpark and enjoy the sun, music, atmosphere and each other. The festival has become a household name in The Hague with its international allure, three stages and an average of 250,000 visitors! Wanna visit one of Europe’s biggest free pop festivals? Come along and join in the fun at Parkpop! Whoever says pop music, says The Hague. The Hague has been the Netherlands’ number one pop city for years. So there’s every reason for this to be the venue for one of our country’s oldest...