What's on
Festivals, races, and cultural moments worth planning a trip around, by month. Dates read confirmed where the organizer has published them, and expected where we've projected the recurrence. Always verify before booking.
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78 events upcoming for Music & Culture Festivals.
July 2026
Savonlinna Opera Festival
Savonlinna · Finland
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually across about a month in July, ending in early August, in the courtyard of Olavinlinna castle in Savonlinna. Founded in 1912 by the soprano Aino Ackte and run by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Upcoming: 2026 season 3 July to 1 August; the 2027 season falls in July and is confirmed by the festival nearer the time.
Dates & details →Baalbeck International Festival
Baalbek · Lebanon
Music & Culture Festivals
Held on evenings across July and August each year among the Roman temples of Baalbek. The full programme and exact dates are announced each spring.
Dates & details →Tobago Heritage Festival
Scarborough · Trinidad and Tobago
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually across roughly two weeks from mid-July into early August, staged by the Tobago Festivals Commission, with each participating village given its own night or weekend on a published island-wide schedule. The 2026 edition, the 39th, runs 16 July to 1 August; the 2027 edition is expected on similar mid-July to early-August dates.
Dates & details →Isle of MTV Malta
Floriana · Malta
Music & Culture Festivals
One free open-air concert on a night in mid-to-late July at Il-Fosos, Floriana, opening Malta Music Week. Upcoming: 22 July 2026; a 2027 edition is expected in July.
Dates & details →Viljandi Folk Music Festival
Viljandi · Estonia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over four days in late July each year at the Viljandi Castle Hills and around the town. Upcoming: 23 to 26 July 2026 (the 33rd edition); a 2027 edition is expected in late July.
Dates & details →Festival International de Musique Symphonique d'El Jem
El Jem · Tunisia
Music & Culture Festivals
Concerts across July and August each summer in the Roman amphitheatre of El Jem. Upcoming: the 39th edition runs from about 24 July to 12 August 2026; a 2027 edition is expected across July and August.
Dates & details →Tomorrowland
Boom · Belgium
Music & Culture Festivals
Held across two consecutive weekends in mid to late July at De Schorre in Boom, organised by We Are One World (formerly ID&T). Upcoming: weekend one 17 to 19 July 2026 and weekend two 24 to 26 July 2026; a 2027 edition is expected across two July weekends.
Dates & details →Giornate Medioevali
City of San Marino · San Marino
Music & Culture Festivals
A historical re-enactment festival held over the last weekend of July each year in the old town of San Marino. Upcoming: around 24 to 26 July 2026 (expected, last weekend of July; confirm exact dates on the official site).
Dates & details →Antigua Carnival
St. John's · Antigua and Barbuda
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year over about twelve days from late July into the first week of August in St. John's. The 2026 carnival runs 25 July to 4 August; a further edition is expected in late July 2027.
Dates & details →August 2026
Crop Over
Bridgetown · Barbados
Music & Culture Festivals
Runs each year from late June through early August in and around Bridgetown, produced by the National Cultural Foundation. A season of calypso and soca competitions builds to the pre-dawn Foreday Morning street jump and climaxes on Grand Kadooment Day, the first Monday of August. Upcoming: Grand Kadooment falls on 3 August 2026 and on 2 August 2027.
Dates & details →Harare International Festival of the Arts
Harare · Zimbabwe
Music & Culture Festivals
A six-day multidisciplinary arts festival in Harare, historically held in late April or early May and returning in 2026 after an eight-year break. Upcoming: 3 to 9 August 2026 (the comeback edition, theme Up); further editions are planned through 2028 with dates to be announced.
Dates & details →Spicemas
St. George's · Grenada
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every August, climaxing on the second Monday of August (Carnival Monday) and the following Tuesday (Fancy Mas), with J'ouvert before dawn on the Monday, coordinated by the Spicemas Corporation. Feeder events (Panorama, Soca Monarch, Dimanche Gras, Traditional Mas Festival) run across the preceding days. Upcoming: J'ouvert and Monday Night Mas 10 August 2026, Fancy Mas 11 August 2026; Carnival Monday 9 August 2027.
Dates & details →Sziget Festival
Budapest · Hungary
Music & Culture Festivals
About a week in mid-August each year on Obuda Island, Budapest, with a camper move-in day the day before. Upcoming: 11 to 15 August 2026 (move-in 10 August); a 2027 edition is expected in mid-August.
Dates & details →Music & Culture Festivals in Nis
Nis · Serbia
Music & Culture Festivals
Annual, four days in mid-August.
Dates & details →Flow Festival
Helsinki · Finland
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually over three days in mid-August at the Suvilahti former power-plant site in Helsinki, organised by Flow Festival Oy and running since 2004. Upcoming: 2026 edition 14 to 16 August; the 2027 edition is expected in mid-August and confirmed by the organiser nearer the time.
Dates & details →Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Jamestown · Ghana
Music & Culture Festivals
Held in James Town, Accra for about a week in the second half of August each year, free to attend, with dates announced by ACCRA [dot] ALT around June. Upcoming: expected mid-to-late August 2026 and again in August 2027.
Dates & details →Sharq Taronalari
Samarkand · Uzbekistan
Music & Culture Festivals
Held about every two years in the second half of August at Registan Square, Samarkand. The 13th edition ran 25 to 27 August 2024; the next edition is expected in late August 2026.
Dates & details →Electric Picnic
Stradbally · Ireland
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually over the last weekend of August, Friday to Sunday with Thursday early entry, in the grounds of Stradbally Hall, County Laois. The 2026 edition runs 28 to 30 August.
Dates & details →Hibiscus Festival
Suva · Fiji
Music & Culture Festivals
A week-long festival in the late dry season, usually late August into early September, on a calendar set each year by the organising committee. Upcoming: 29 August to 5 September 2026 (confirmed, the seventieth edition, at Albert Park); around late August to early September 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Teuila Festival
Apia · Samoa
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually in Apia in the first week of September, since 1991. Samoa's tourism authority signalled in mid 2026 that the festival may run under a Samoa Arts and Culture Week banner from 2026; confirm dates and format on the official calendar.
Dates & details →September 2026
Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival
Willemstad · Curacao
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year over three nights in early September at the World Trade Center, Piscadera Bay, Willemstad. The 2026 edition runs 3 to 5 September; a further edition is expected in early September 2027.
Dates & details →Limassol Wine Festival
Limassol · Cyprus
Music & Culture Festivals
Held each autumn in the Limassol Municipal Gardens, organised by the Municipality of Limassol, which first staged it in 1961 and has run it continuously since 1978. It spans roughly nine evenings from late September into early October, with free wine tastings from Cypriot producers alongside folk dance, theatre and traditional food. Upcoming: the 65th festival is expected 26 September to 4 October 2026; exact dates are confirmed by the municipality nearer the time.
Dates & details →October 2026
Lake of Stars
Nkhotakota · Malawi
Music & Culture Festivals
Three days on the Lake Malawi shore, usually late September or early October. Upcoming: October 2 to 4, 2026, at Nkhotakota.
Dates & details →National Wine Day (Ziua Nationala a Vinului)
Chisinau · Moldova
Music & Culture Festivals
The first weekend of October each year, in Chisinau's Great National Assembly Square. The 2026 edition, the 25th, runs 3 to 4 October; the 2027 edition is expected on 2 to 3 October.
Dates & details →Felabration
Lagos · Nigeria
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over about a week each October at the New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, timed around Fela Kuti's 15 October birthday. Dates are confirmed by the organisers nearer the time; the 2026 edition is expected in mid-October.
Dates & details →World Creole Music Festival
Roseau · Dominica
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three nights on the last weekend of October at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, staged by the Discover Dominica Authority as the centrepiece of the island's Independence and Creole season, and running since 1997. Bouyon, cadence-lypso, zouk, soca, reggae, dancehall and afrobeat from across the Creole world. Upcoming: the 26th edition is confirmed for 23 to 25 October 2026.
Dates & details →November 2026
Music & Culture Festivals in Reykjavik
Reykjavik · Iceland
Music & Culture Festivals
Annually across roughly three days in early November.
Dates & details →Nyege Nyege Festival
Jinja · Uganda
Music & Culture Festivals
Four days once a year on the Nile near Jinja, historically in September and moved to November for 2026. Upcoming: November 19 to 22, 2026.
Dates & details →December 2026
MDLBEAST Soundstorm
Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three days in early December each year at the Banban site north of Riyadh. Upcoming: 3 to 5 December 2026; early December 2027 expected.
Dates & details →Clockenflap
Central Harbourfront · Hong Kong
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three days each early December on the Central Harbourfront in Hong Kong, produced by Clockenflap Festivals and running since 2008. A multi-stage outdoor music and arts festival mixing international headliners with Hong Kong and Asian acts, plus film, art and comedy. Upcoming: the 2026 edition is expected 4 to 6 December.
Dates & details →AfroFuture
Accra · Ghana
Music & Culture Festivals
Held in Accra over two days in late December each year as the headline event of Ghana's Detty December. Upcoming: expected 28 to 29 December 2026 and again in late December 2027; dates and venue confirmed by the organisers closer to the time.
Dates & details →Owru Yari
Paramaribo · Suriname
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year on 31 December in downtown Paramaribo, with the Pagara Estafette firecracker relay through the day and street celebrations into New Year's Eve night. Upcoming: 31 December 2026 and 31 December 2027; the pattern repeats every 31 December.
Dates & details →January 2027
Panama Jazz Festival
Panama City · Panama
Music & Culture Festivals
Held each January in Panama City, produced by the Fundacion Danilo Perez, which founded it in 2003. A week of ticketed evening concerts, late-night jam sessions and a large free daytime education programme across the capital's venues. Upcoming: the 2027 edition runs 14 to 16 January.
Dates & details →Festival Internacional Jazz Plaza
Havana · Cuba
Music & Culture Festivals
About a week in late January, occasionally running into early February. Upcoming: the 42nd edition is expected in late January 2027.
Dates & details →February 2027
March 2027
April 2027
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans · United States
Music & Culture Festivals
Late April into early May across two weekends.
Dates & details →Kaunas Jazz
Kaunas · Lithuania
Music & Culture Festivals
The main festival runs over a long weekend in late April each year, near International Jazz Day, centred on Kaunas with concerts extending to Vilnius and Palanga. Upcoming: 24 to 26 April 2026; late April 2027 expected.
Dates & details →FEMUA
Abidjan · Cote d'Ivoire
Music & Culture Festivals
Held each year over about six days spanning late April and early May in Abidjan, with a partner-town leg. The 2026 edition, the eighteenth, ran 28 April to 3 May; the 2027 edition is expected in the same late-April to early-May window.
Dates & details →The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans · United States
Music & Culture Festivals
Late April into early May across two weekends.
Dates & details →Saint Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival
Rodney Bay · Saint Lucia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held each spring, historically late April into May, with main concerts at the Pigeon Island National Landmark near Rodney Bay. Produced by the Saint Lucia Tourism Authority with the Cultural Development Foundation and the Events Company of Saint Lucia. Upcoming: the 2027 edition runs 30 April to 9 May.
Dates & details →May 2027
Prague Spring International Music Festival
Prague · Czechia
Music & Culture Festivals
About three weeks from mid-May into early June each year across Prague's concert halls, opening on 12 May with Smetana's Ma vlast. Upcoming: 12 May to 4 June 2026 (81st edition); a 2027 edition is expected mid-May to early June.
Dates & details →Festival International de Jazz de Saint-Louis
Saint-Louis · Senegal
Music & Culture Festivals
About five nights in mid-May each year on Place Baya in Saint-Louis. Upcoming: 13 to 17 May 2026 (34th edition); a 2027 edition is expected in mid-May.
Dates & details →Gran Carnaval Internacional de La Ceiba
La Ceiba · Honduras
Music & Culture Festivals
Held on a Saturday in May each year as the climax of the Feria Isidra, honouring San Isidro, on Avenida San Isidro in La Ceiba. Upcoming: 23 May 2026 (54th edition); a 2027 edition is expected in May.
Dates & details →MTN Bushfire
Malkerns · Eswatini
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually over the last weekend of May at House on Fire in the Malkerns Valley, a three-day Pan-African music and arts festival organised by the House on Fire arts venue. The 19th edition runs 29 to 31 May 2026; the 20th is expected in late May 2027.
Dates & details →June 2027
Mainstage Festivals
Dhermi · Albania
Music & Culture Festivals
Annual, one week in early June.
Dates & details →St. Kitts Music Festival
Basseterre · Saint Kitts and Nevis
Music & Culture Festivals
A three-night festival held annually in late June at Warner Park Stadium, Basseterre. Upcoming: 25 to 27 June 2026 (confirmed, the 28th edition); late June 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →Music & Culture Festivals in Montreal
Montreal · Canada
Music & Culture Festivals
Roughly ten days from late June into the first week of July, annually.
Dates & details →Rainforest World Music Festival
Kuching · Malaysia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually over a weekend in late June at the Sarawak Cultural Village near Kuching, organised by the Sarawak Tourism Board. The 2026 edition, the 29th, runs 26-28 June; the 2027 edition is expected on the last weekend of June.
Dates & details →Roskilde Festival
Roskilde · Denmark
Music & Culture Festivals
Eight days spanning late June into early July each year, the four main-stage days closing the week. Upcoming: 26 June to 3 July 2027.
Dates & details →Open'er Festival
Gdynia · Poland
Music & Culture Festivals
Held once a year over four days in early July at the Gdynia-Kosakowo airfield, organised by the promoter Alter Art. The 2026 edition ran 1 to 4 July 2026; the next edition is expected in early July 2027.
Dates & details →July 2027
Festival Internacional de Jazz Escaldes-Engordany
Escaldes-Engordany · Andorra
Music & Culture Festivals
About a week in early July each year in Escaldes-Engordany, at the Prat del Roure hall with free open-air concerts on Coprinceps square. The 42nd edition ran 2 to 9 July 2026; the festival returns in early July 2027.
Dates & details →Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Copenhagen · Denmark
Music & Culture Festivals
Ten days starting the first Friday of July each year, across more than 100 venues citywide. Upcoming: the 2027 edition is expected around 2 to 11 July.
Dates & details →Savonlinna Opera Festival
Savonlinna · Finland
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually across about a month in July, ending in early August, in the courtyard of Olavinlinna castle in Savonlinna. Founded in 1912 by the soprano Aino Ackte and run by the Savonlinna Opera Festival. Upcoming: 2026 season 3 July to 1 August; the 2027 season falls in July and is confirmed by the festival nearer the time.
Dates & details →Pohoda Festival
Trencin · Slovakia
Music & Culture Festivals
About four days in early-to-mid July each year on the former military airfield at Trencin (Letisko Trencin). The 30th edition ran 8 to 11 July 2026; the 2027 edition is set for 8 to 10 July.
Dates & details →Colours of Ostrava
Ostrava · Czechia
Music & Culture Festivals
Four days in mid-July each year at Dolni Vitkovice in Ostrava. Upcoming: 15 to 18 July 2026; a 2027 edition is expected in mid-July.
Dates & details →National Mask and Warwagira Festival
Rabaul · Papua New Guinea
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over several days in mid-July each year at the Kokopo showground in East New Britain, the successor to the older Warwagira festival.
Dates & details →Tobago Heritage Festival
Scarborough · Trinidad and Tobago
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually across roughly two weeks from mid-July into early August, staged by the Tobago Festivals Commission, with each participating village given its own night or weekend on a published island-wide schedule. The 2026 edition, the 39th, runs 16 July to 1 August; the 2027 edition is expected on similar mid-July to early-August dates.
Dates & details →Reggae Sumfest
Montego Bay · Jamaica
Music & Culture Festivals
Normally a week of concerts each July at Catherine Hall in Montego Bay. In 2026 it runs as a single night, A Taste of Sumfest, on 18 July at Plantation Cove, St. Ann, while the Montego Bay venue recovers from hurricane damage; a return to the usual July week in Montego Bay is expected for 2027.
Dates & details →Isle of MTV Malta
Floriana · Malta
Music & Culture Festivals
One free open-air concert on a night in mid-to-late July at Il-Fosos, Floriana, opening Malta Music Week. Upcoming: 22 July 2026; a 2027 edition is expected in July.
Dates & details →Viljandi Folk Music Festival
Viljandi · Estonia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over four days in late July each year at the Viljandi Castle Hills and around the town. Upcoming: 23 to 26 July 2026 (the 33rd edition); a 2027 edition is expected in late July.
Dates & details →Festival International de Musique Symphonique d'El Jem
El Jem · Tunisia
Music & Culture Festivals
Concerts across July and August each summer in the Roman amphitheatre of El Jem. Upcoming: the 39th edition runs from about 24 July to 12 August 2026; a 2027 edition is expected across July and August.
Dates & details →Antigua Carnival
St. John's · Antigua and Barbuda
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year over about twelve days from late July into the first week of August in St. John's. The 2026 carnival runs 25 July to 4 August; a further edition is expected in late July 2027.
Dates & details →Crop Over
Bridgetown · Barbados
Music & Culture Festivals
Runs each year from late June through early August in and around Bridgetown, produced by the National Cultural Foundation. A season of calypso and soca competitions builds to the pre-dawn Foreday Morning street jump and climaxes on Grand Kadooment Day, the first Monday of August. Upcoming: Grand Kadooment falls on 3 August 2026 and on 2 August 2027.
Dates & details →August 2027
Spicemas
St. George's · Grenada
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every August, climaxing on the second Monday of August (Carnival Monday) and the following Tuesday (Fancy Mas), with J'ouvert before dawn on the Monday, coordinated by the Spicemas Corporation. Feeder events (Panorama, Soca Monarch, Dimanche Gras, Traditional Mas Festival) run across the preceding days. Upcoming: J'ouvert and Monday Night Mas 10 August 2026, Fancy Mas 11 August 2026; Carnival Monday 9 August 2027.
Dates & details →Sziget Festival
Budapest · Hungary
Music & Culture Festivals
About a week in mid-August each year on Obuda Island, Budapest, with a camper move-in day the day before. Upcoming: 11 to 15 August 2026 (move-in 10 August); a 2027 edition is expected in mid-August.
Dates & details →Flow Festival
Helsinki · Finland
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually over three days in mid-August at the Suvilahti former power-plant site in Helsinki, organised by Flow Festival Oy and running since 2004. Upcoming: 2026 edition 14 to 16 August; the 2027 edition is expected in mid-August and confirmed by the organiser nearer the time.
Dates & details →Chale Wote Street Art Festival
Jamestown · Ghana
Music & Culture Festivals
Held in James Town, Accra for about a week in the second half of August each year, free to attend, with dates announced by ACCRA [dot] ALT around June. Upcoming: expected mid-to-late August 2026 and again in August 2027.
Dates & details →Hibiscus Festival
Suva · Fiji
Music & Culture Festivals
A week-long festival in the late dry season, usually late August into early September, on a calendar set each year by the organising committee. Upcoming: 29 August to 5 September 2026 (confirmed, the seventieth edition, at Albert Park); around late August to early September 2027 (expected).
Dates & details →September 2027
Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival
Willemstad · Curacao
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year over three nights in early September at the World Trade Center, Piscadera Bay, Willemstad. The 2026 edition runs 3 to 5 September; a further edition is expected in early September 2027.
Dates & details →Teuila Festival
Apia · Samoa
Music & Culture Festivals
Held annually in Apia in the first week of September, since 1991. Samoa's tourism authority signalled in mid 2026 that the festival may run under a Samoa Arts and Culture Week banner from 2026; confirm dates and format on the official calendar.
Dates & details →October 2027
National Wine Day (Ziua Nationala a Vinului)
Chisinau · Moldova
Music & Culture Festivals
The first weekend of October each year, in Chisinau's Great National Assembly Square. The 2026 edition, the 25th, runs 3 to 4 October; the 2027 edition is expected on 2 to 3 October.
Dates & details →World Creole Music Festival
Roseau · Dominica
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three nights on the last weekend of October at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, staged by the Discover Dominica Authority as the centrepiece of the island's Independence and Creole season, and running since 1997. Bouyon, cadence-lypso, zouk, soca, reggae, dancehall and afrobeat from across the Creole world. Upcoming: the 26th edition is confirmed for 23 to 25 October 2026.
Dates & details →December 2027
MDLBEAST Soundstorm
Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
Music & Culture Festivals
Held over three days in early December each year at the Banban site north of Riyadh. Upcoming: 3 to 5 December 2026; early December 2027 expected.
Dates & details →AfroFuture
Accra · Ghana
Music & Culture Festivals
Held in Accra over two days in late December each year as the headline event of Ghana's Detty December. Upcoming: expected 28 to 29 December 2026 and again in late December 2027; dates and venue confirmed by the organisers closer to the time.
Dates & details →Owru Yari
Paramaribo · Suriname
Music & Culture Festivals
Held every year on 31 December in downtown Paramaribo, with the Pagara Estafette firecracker relay through the day and street celebrations into New Year's Eve night. Upcoming: 31 December 2026 and 31 December 2027; the pattern repeats every 31 December.
Dates & details →