The festival's food market, Chow Town, is rightly legendary too, promoting great local restaurants and food spots. Genre: music (multi-genre)Insider tip: Take your swimmers – you won’t be able to resist the temptation to swim in the Murray River between sets, or lounge it out on the banks.Website: strawberry-fields.com.au, Find out where to go on holiday in November. Accommodation is plush too, including Lotus Belle tents and Airstreams. Although this is the city of Beethoven and Brahms, expect more modern, challenging stuff, such as films mixed up with live performance, experimental installations and unusual interpretations of classical song. The Sufi trance musicians from the Southern Rif Mountains offer a tiny group the opportunity to live with them for three days and experience their music in their spectacular landscape. Whites Beach is one of the most secluded.Website: bluesfest.com.au. You’ll find gigs in eight locations, organised by locals, a neon-lit mosque and great food.Website: leguesswho.nl. The food is legendary here (pizza from Roberta’s, cookie dough from Dō, lobster rolls from Luke’s Lobster and giant ice-cream sandwiches from Coolhaus) while the After Dark gigs, held at NYC venues nearby, also pull crowds with cult artists such as US Girls, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, who featured on 2019’s bill. On the Sea Shanty Store page you can click on the song to hear a sample. Seeing his brothers and sisters again, a homecoming parade, etc. It makes each year’s festival T-shirt design competition a particular draw (pun intended). By:Larm is a music conference too, packed with talks by industry gurus, but it’s expanded into a real showcase for bands from Scandinavia, Britain and beyond (Billie Eilish, Black Midi and Georgia have played in recent years). In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. Genre: music (world)Insider tip: Accommodation with locals in comfy houses with fantastic breakfasts starts at a ridiculously cheap £20 a night.Website: guca.rs, Find out where to go on holiday in August. Expect cabaret acts, naked saunas and under-the-radar European indie. In a middle-of-nowhere spot in the Nevada desert at the end of every summer, an eccentric community of 50,000 builds a temporary metropolis, Black Rock City: a ‘crucible of creativity’. Genre: music (multi-genre)Insider tip: The eight-day Icelandic Beats package, turns your experience into a holiday, taking in trips to the Black Sands and the Blue Lagoon.Website: secretsolstice.is. Print + Digital If the idea of a brass band festival conjures up nostalgic images of old men in uniforms to you, it’s time to go to Guca. Wilderness is a haven of barefoot, flower-garland-toting bohemians dancing in woodlands and skinny-dipping in the lake at Cornbury Park. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Edinburgh International Festival take place in tandem, plus there’s a book festival in Charlotte Square Gardens, and brilliant food stalls and bars popping up like whack-a-moles. Genre: music (alternative, indie)Insider tip: Stay until midnight on Sunday to see the huge Green Man by the campfire being set ablaze.Website: greenman.net. The track, employing the services of drummer Gary Chester, was originally intended as a demo for the Shirelles, but … There are somewhere in the vicinity of 243 Lyric pages here. Genre: music (jazz, folk)Insider tip: The views of the Newport Harbour are worth the ferry trip alone.Websites: newportfolk.org newportjazz.org. Accommodation is in rows of peaceful white tents with beds, toilets and washbasins included. But there’s more: the fantastically eclectic World Stage, home to global music, and hidden areas like the nighttime Tipi Forest with its underground DJs, light shows and fire twirlers. Genre: music (indie, pop, rock)Insider tip: There’s usually an indie disco, or a retro light-up dancefloor, to be found in the woods.Website: endoftheroadfestival.com. With a cosy capacity of 1,500 guests, Barn on the Farm is one of the only festivals where you can watch a band and then have a beer with them afterwards. Website: midi-festival.com. Music includes everything from the likes of The Chemical Brothers on the main stage to smaller local DJs in the dance tents dotted around. Missing the headliners never matters, because there’s so much else to do. The Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm hosts the annual Bluesfest music festival, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Emanating Ibiza vibes in the middle of the Caribbean, venues are nestled in private jungle-lined beaches, villas and boats, with 2019’s acts including Ricardo Villalobos, Axel Coman and Apollonia. There are a lot of other sea shanties by other artists available on the page as well. A fantastic international arts festival with experiment and exploration at its heart, which keeps putting more focus on music. FGG Productions who later formed the group the Strangeloves). Music, theatre, dance, circus, art, film, literature and debate at the biggest mixed arts festival in the UK, stretching across the seaside havens of Brighton and Hove. Genre: music (multi-genre)Insider tip: The festival takes over the city, the music echoing round the streets, so you’ll catch even more in the city’s bars.Website: summer-festival.com. The year’s biggest names in contemporary pop and old rock will always will be here (last year saw Guns ’N’ Roses, Billie Eilish and Childish Gambino), and much of the food onsite is Texan, sticky and delicious (vegans, fear not – you’re catered for too). 2020's line-up includes Liam Gallagher, The Streets and Loyle Carner. Genre: music (EDM)Insider tip: It gets hot here, so an apartment in Novi Sad is recommended. A huge parade of elaborately decorated floats sees flashily dressed local ‘krewes’ toss beads, cups, doubloons and stuffed animals to spectators lining the streets (many stake out their spots hours in advance). Three hundred neighbourhood street parties lead up to a week of samba parades, with the champions of the various samba leagues returning to lead the crowds on the concluding Saturday (a separate parade which takes place after the ‘main event’ marches of Carnival Sunday and Monday). Starting as the 1,500-capacity Pilton Pop, Folk & Blues Festival in 1970 (tickets were £1 with free milk from the farm’s cows), Glastonbury (pictured above) has now become the world's biggest festival. It turns the city into a vital stage, the organisers say, to question ‘everyday life and politics through art and celebration’. Held in giant marquees on the outskirts of Wales’s bookshop-filled border town, the Hay Festival is the megastar of literary festivals. Curated by Fabric’s Craig Richards, it feels like a family affair: he personally invites all the acts, and they play long, exploratory sets in the woodlands. This is one of the UK's most inventive festivals, mixing a whimsical woodland setting with a rock-solid line-up of dance acts and DJs. Forty concerts in a stunning colonial walled city that’s a UNESCO World Heritage site – as classical music festivals go, it’s hard to beat Cartagena. Past festivals have staged events such as Maxine Peake’s new work, The Nico Project, inspired by the 1960s Velvet Underground star; conceptual bell-ringing with Yoko Ono; plus star performances by conceptual art-lovers like Janelle Monae and David Lynch. Website: snowbombing.com. Genre: music (alternative, drum and bass)Insider tip: Whistler’s Green gives an amazing view of the whole site, and has fantastic vegan food.Website: boomtownfair.co.uk. Celebrating more than a decade of revelry, The Masked Ball is essentially a giant themed party in a wonderful remote location, with festival-goers expected to dress up and look just as good as those on stage. Weekend ticket options can also include hotels and special-interest tours exploring street art, the city’s surfing and local food. Genre: music (multi-genre)Insider tip: TED-style environment talks here are popular, as is the deep-house yoga.Website: wonderfruit.co. Pretty boa. This two-day celebration of Caribbean culture sees a corner of West London transformed into Europe's biggest street party. Now hosting 2,000 acts from more than 60 countries every year, as well a huge programme of movies, the town’s vibe remains determinedly alternative and independent. The site, on the banks of the River Tiddy, is stunning too. Wellerman Lyrics: There once was a ship that put to sea / And the name of that ship was the Billy o' Tea / The winds blew hard, her bow dipped down / Blow, me bully boys, blow (Huh!) Genre: literary, musicInsider tip: Book accommodation in the jaw-dropping Black Mountains or Golden Valley countryside nearby, and combine it with the literary festival: but get in early. At the top of the Rhodope Mountains on Bulgaria’s Greek border, this festival promises cosmic communion with music and nature. Art and activism are big festival offerings too, with sculpture and talks around the site. Genre: music (multi-genre), ideas, artInsider tip: A great one for young families: the kids even do a Saturday-night pudding procession.Website: also-festival.com. Bring your best dancing boots and your earplugs. Each year revolves around a theme (Future Shock, Presence, Solidarity), and explores these ideas through the gigs, club nights, talks, screenings and art that flood through the city. Expect challenging, jaw-dropping sets from underground heavy-hitters – last year saw Holly Herndon and Sunn O))). Europe’s most lively alternative pop festival is spinning off from its birthplace in Barcelona to outposts in Benidorm, LA and Porto’s tree-laden Parque da Cidade. With stages located on the beach and nestled under a canopy of trees, plus parties taking place on historic wooden boats, it's going to be an idyllic event blessed with Adriatic views. This is the ultimate city-based festival experience for those who love the magic of wandering but want none of the mud. Genre: music (indie)Insider tip: Pack your swimsuit and head to Normandy's lovely coast for a break from the revelry. Enjoy unbelievable costumes set to a theme (examples from the past decade include: horror films, the deep sea and Bollywood; this year’s motif is ‘The Coquette 1950s’), the performances of Spanish ‘murga’ street satirists and the closing ceremonial ritual, the ‘Burning of the Sardine’, in which thousands dress as mourners and carry a huge fish head – no, really. Genre: music (blues, folk, indie)Insider tip: Make some downtime for one (or several) or Byron Bay's paradisiacal beaches. Strawberry Fields was set up by music lovers without any industry connections, and the vibe is loose and relaxed, but with ambitions; among installations of visual art you’ll find international DJs as well as intimate, hidden spaces to relax. I think that Michael has a big heart full of feelings, that he expresses through his music, his love for God and his appreciation for all Gods gifts to us, that we don’t take care of, his people the earth, we should all feel something tug at our hearts when we hear the Earth Song and watch the video, maybe even try to do something ourselves to make a difference, and we can !! Website: parklife.uk.com. Still the definitive city-based electronic music festival, Sonar continues to dominate Barcelona for one weekend every summer. Genre: music (multi-genre)Insider tip: Even Distortion’s campsite has a DJ stage and workshops, plus you can swim there.Website: cphdistortion.dk. Some of these lyrics pages have the chords. Once again thanks for the link to another excellent blog post from you . Spanish Ladies - Roger Chartier's-Yankee Version, OurWholeWorld.com (Irish Songs and Chords), WhalingCity.net (New Bedford, Ma History). The song also reached number two in Australia and ended 1990 as Australia's sixteenth best-selling single. Read more about Port Eliot Festival in our guide to the best music festivals in the UK. For the last time, following a ten year run, 19th-Century Fort Punta Christo and its idyllic surroundings will be reanimated with the booming bass of Outlook Festival's incredibly impressive array of hip-hop, grime, reggae, techno, dub, and more (pictured below). Read more about Womad Festival in our guide to the best music festivals in the UK. Genre: music, art, theatreInsider tip: Head to the Festival Square’s intimate Glass House for Michelin-starred weekend lunches.Website: mif.co.uk. Genre: literaryInsider tip: Book the Woodfired Canteen’s amazing open-air dining, for only £25 a seat.Website: porteliotfestival.com. Jimmy Webb, whose songwriting credits include "Up-Up and Away" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," wrote "MacArthur Park" in the summer of 1967.He offered it to Bones Howe, who produced The Association, for possible inclusion on the group's fourth album.Howe loved it, but The Association didn't want to devote that much space on the album to Webb's project, so … Plus there's nearly 500km of piste, a glacier and an award-winning terrain park. Rock and punk still bare their teeth, but the likes of Ariana Grande and Tame Impala also provide an explosion of pop. Genre: art, cultureInsider tip: If you’d rather avoid the biggest crowds, Sunday’s family-friendly day is the easiest, and the parades are still lively. It’s attracted big international names too, like Mark Ronson, N*E*R*D and 2manydjs, as well as local Australasian stars like Tame Impala, Cut Copy and The Black Seeds. This country town goes crazy every August, filling up with thousands of musicians and music-lovers who come to hear, watch and dance to the cacophonous sounds of Balkan brass and traditional gypsy wedding music. There are a lot of other sea shanties by other artists available on the page as well. It combines a powerful melancholic crescendo with a rich poetic account of the exploits of sailors on shore leave in Amsterdam. The trains take 30 minutes and run frequently.Website: sonar.es. Their thoughts about women, shipmates, jobs of work and a lot of other daily life routines are evidenced here. Website: coachella.com. Genre: music, danceInsider tip: Hang around Mehringdamm/Hallesches for some great music.Website: karneval.berlin. See more of our favourite family-friendly festivals in the UK, Genre: literary, musicInsider tip: You don’t have to buy a ticket before the festival: just turn up and enjoy it via last-minute tickets, returns, free events or as a festival barfly.Website: hayfestival.com. Genre: carnivalInsider tip: Some models are saved every year from the blazes: go to the Fallero Museum and the Museo del Gremio de Artistas Falleros to glory in them.Website: visitvalencia.com, Find out where to go on holiday in March. Bernie Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer. "Secret Love" has subsequently been recorded by a wide range … It’s small – stages are only five minutes apart – but this adds to its sweet, magical atmosphere. Recent line-ups have included Sunn O))), Holly Herndon, James Holden and Jenny Hval. Big-name DJs (Craig Richards, DJ Harvey, Optimo) provide the soundtrack to open-air clubs, beach parties, secret island parties and parties on boats that travel for hours (just don’t miss the departure points). It started out as a travelling farewell to the raucous US band Jane's Addiction, then settled down to live noisily ever after in Chicago's Grant Park. In 1954 George Wein, now in his nineties, set up a small jazz event in Rhode Island; five years later, its folk version followed. Evolving from the anti-Milošević protests of 2000, Exit is now one of the biggest dance-music festival juggernauts in Europe. These days the event is broadening its reach with music and comedy performances appearing on the programme. An impressively eco-friendly four-day festival dedicated to art, music and ideas, Wonderfruit features immersive light installations in secret valleys, trees and on sustainable stages (one was made of parcels of rice in 2017). JANUARY FESTIVALS | FEBRUARY FESTIVALS | MARCH FESTIVALS | APRIL FESTIVALS | MAY FESTIVALS | JUNE FESTIVALS | JULY FESTIVALS | AUGUST FESTIVALS | SEPTEMBER FESTIVALS | OCTOBER FESTIVALS | NOVEMBER FESTIVALS | DECEMBER FESTIVALS, Like this? Nova Batida’s a clever young thing. Last year, Four Tet and Ben UFO provided a cosmic soundtrack to kung-fun classes, audio-haptic theatre and blissed-out rubber-ring floating.