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European Festivals:
Arts and Folklore

European arts folklore festivals Edinburgh Glastonbury Ennis November Trad Music FestPass Fringe Italian Harrogate Palio di Asti Reykjavik Lorient Interceltic Brittany

ABOVE: The festival city of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Select a country, then a locality to see scheduled festivals and other events. (You can select a date range before searching.)

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Search for music and theatre festivals throughout Europe, or buy the $15.99 FestPass to get free or discounted admission to events at more than 150 events from Andorra to the Ukraine.

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Click the "Things to do" link for an events search engine, then order tickets to festivals and other events online.

Italian Holidays, Festivals, and Street Parties
Select a region and month from the lowermost search menu, then click the "Submit" button for a list of festivals in Italy. From Hostetler.net.

Arts and Folklore Festivals

Note: Some festival sites don't update their pages until the current year's programs have have been finalized. If you visit a site and see last year's listings, try again in a month or two.

Edinburgh Festival
The grandaddy of all-purpose arts festivals has been attracting performers and audiences to Scotland every August since 1947.

Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Scores of "fringe" theatrical, music, and other arts organizations perform their own events during the Edinburgh Festival in August.

Ennis November Trad Music Festival
Irish music is the featured attraction at this fall festival in County Clare, Ireland.

Festival of World Cultures
"Ireland's foremost multicultural event" attracts musicians from more than 50 countries over a three-day period in late August.

Floriade 2002
Holland's once-in-a-decade World's Fair of horticulture ran from April 6 to October 20, 2002.

Glastonbury Festival
"The largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world" is spread over a site that occupies 900 acres and is more than a mile across. The three-day event takes place in Somerset, England, at the end of June.

Go Edinburgh
This site is a gateway to Web pages on children's, film, folk, and other events in Scotland's "Festival City."

Harrogate International Festival
The English spa town presents classical music, big bands, stand-up comedy, street theatre, and more during July and early August.

Lorient Interceltic Festival, Brittany
International artists celebrate all aspects of Celtic culture at the Breton port of Lorient each summer.

Il Palio di Siena
Italy's most famous horse race is tough on horses and their riders. From the Comune di Siena.

Reykjavik Arts Festival
Iceland's arts festival highlights performers of international stature who span "the spectrum from mainstream to fringe and from classical to avant-garde."

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SharonArts
Sharon Kivity, a British arts manager who has directed several music festivals, offers cultural tours in Europe for opera and classical-music fans.

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