A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre.
They may be subdivided by musical genre:
Blues festivals
Classical music festivals
Folk music festivals
Jazz festivals
Opera festivals
Pop Music Festivals
- Acapulco
- Eurovision
- OTI-Same as Eurovision, but in Iberoamerica.
- San Remo
- Viña del Mar
Rock Music festivals
(see also Rock festival)
- Big Day Out
- Bonnaroo
- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
- Cornerstone Festival
- Creamfields
- ENIT
- Fuji Rock Festival Japan
- Family Values Tour
- Glastonbury festival
- Greenbelt_festival, in Cheltenham, UK
- Hultsfred Festival, in Hultsfred, Sweden
- Lillith Fair
- Lollapalooza
- Ozzfest
- Pinkpop
- Printemps de Bourges, in Bourges, France
- Provinssirock, in Seinäjoki, Finland
- Reading Festival & Leeds Festival
- Rock Werchter, in Werchter, Belgium
- Roskilde Festival, in Roskilde, Denmark
- Ruisrock, in Turku, Finland
- Samstock Music Festival in New Zealand
- Tuska, in Helsinki, Finland
- US Festival
- Warped Tour
- Woodstock (and Woodstock '94 and Woodstock 1999)
Dance music festivals
- Alpine Unity (New Zealand)
- Boom (Portugal)
- Earthcore (Australia)
- Homelands (UK)
- Mayday (Germany, Poland, Russia and Hungary)
- Love Parade (Berlin, Germany)
- Rainbow Serpent (Australia)
- Starburst (Nelson, New Zealand)
- The Gathering (Nelson, New Zealand)
- Tribal Council (South Africa)
- Vizionz (Golden Bay, New Zealand)