What it is
Music festivals are built around concentrated time: several days, many stages and a location that becomes part of the memory. People search them for dates, lineups, tickets, camping, transport and weather.
Music topic
Music Festivals
Destination lineups, fields, stages and summer travel plans.
Where it comes from
Modern festivals grew from folk, jazz and counterculture gatherings into global destination brands. The strongest ones now mix headline acts, local identity, food areas, broadcast clips and travel infrastructure.
- Origin
- Outdoor gatherings and touring circuits
- Era
- 1960s to today
- Core sound
- Multi-stage live music
- Best for
- Weekend trips, camping, lineups and headline sets
How the topic reads
Travel pull95 95
Lineup focus94 94
Camping culture72 72
Broadcast clips80 80
Names people recognise
- Beyonce
- Radiohead
- Daft Punk
- Kendrick Lamar
- Billie Eilish
- Coldplay
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Events
Upcoming events
Countries
Roskilde Festival
Roskilde, Denmark
Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux, Switzerland
White Sensation Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tomorrowland
Boom, Belgium
Fuji Rock Festival
Naeba, Japan
Ultra Music Festival
Miami, United States
CoachellaIndio, United States
Primavera Sound
Parc del Forum, Spain
Glastonbury Festival
Worthy Farm, United Kingdom
Lollapalooza Brazil
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Salzburg Festival
Salzburg, Austria
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