All Tomorrows Parties - An organisation based in London that has been promoting festivals, concerts and records throughout the world for over ten years.
Clearwater Festival - Founded by Pete Seeger. Produced by the nonprofit, member-supported, environmental organization Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. to raise funds and awareness aimed at protecting the river and the earth. All proceeds go directly to support Clearwater’s environmental research, education and advocacy efforts to help preserve and protect the Hudson River and its tributaries, as well as communities in the river valley.
Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) - An annual summer music and opera festival held each June to early July in Spoleto, Italy. It features an array of concerts, opera, dance, drama, visual arts and roundtable discussions on science.
Official site here.
More info here.
MUTEK - Montreal Festival for music and new technologies.
NEARfest/North East Art Rock Festival - Two-day event celebrating progressive and eclectic music in the U.S. and around the world. The event is held annually during the month of June in the Greater Philadelphia area.
Next Wave - Annual three-month celebration of cutting-edge works in dance, theater, music, and opera continuously. The festival comprises exploratory and provocative works, providing American audiences access to artists such as Trisha Brown, Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs, and Laurie Anderson. The Next Wave Festival has nurtured the careers of many other artists such as Mark Morris, Eiko & Koma, Bill T. Jones, Susan Marshall, Robert Lepage, and John Jasperse. Produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival -
With 12 stages of soul-stirring music—jazz, gospel, Cajun, zydeco, blues, R&B, rock, funk, African, Latin, Caribbean, folk, and much more—the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is a singular celebration. The event has showcased most of the great artists of New Orleans and Louisiana of the last half century: Professor Longhair, Fats Domino, The Neville Brothers, Wynton Marsalis, Dr. John, Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Ellis Marsalis, The Radiators, Irma Thomas, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Allen Toussaint, Buckwheat Zydeco, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Better Than Ezra, Ernie K-Doe, Vernel Bagneris, The Zion Harmonizers, Beausoleil and many others.
Opera Festivals - A listing of opera festivals worldwide, resources and information - from Wikipedia.
Parkfield Bluegrass Festival -
Breathtaking natural beauty provides an ideal venue for this bluegrass festival. Dozens of acres of flat "boon-dock" style camping sites, plenty of shade...shared electrical hook-ups, and hot showers available, too.
POLLSTAR - Reliable and accurate source of worldwide concert tour schedules, ticket sales results, music industry contact directories, trade news and unique specialized data services. In addition to publishing the concert industry's leading weekly trade publication, Pollstar also maintains the world's largest database of international concert tour information.
Power to the Peaceful - Produced in San Francisco as an annual open-air series of free, community music and arts festivals.
Roulette - Experimental music venue presenting new jazz, world music, experimental rock, improvisation, multi-media, new technologies, traditional and hybrid ensembles from New York City and around the world.
Royal Festival Hall - Arts centre comprised of the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery.
Sage Gateshead -
Offers performance and participation projects for all tastes – popular, jazz, world, classical, dance, brass bands, experimental, folk and traditional and more, holding numerous festivals throughout the year. Located in Gateshead, England.
Sonic Circuits - Electronic technology (e.g., works for electro-acoustic tape, live performance with electronics, video art, new media art, sound art).
Spoleto Festival USA -
The Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the world's major performing arts festivals. It was founded in 1977 by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gian Carlo Menotti, who sought to establish a counterpart to the Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of Two Worlds) in Spoleto, Italy. The annual 17-day event showcases both established and emerging artists in more than 120 performances of opera, dance, theater, classical music, and jazz.
Taktlos - Improvised and contemporary music festival in Zurich, Switzerland.
Tonic - Avant garde, creative, and experimental music - downtown NYC club.
Transmissions Festival - Chicago experimental minimal electronic sound and art festival.
Ultima Festival - Contemporary music festival, Oslo, Norway.
Ultraschall - Electronic music club, Munchen, Germany.
World Music Insitute (WMI): Events -
WMI presents a full season of concerts between September and June each year at major New York City concert halls and clubs. WMI has presented more than 1500 concerts from more than 100 countries and ethnic minorities in Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East as well as regional music from throughout North America.
Xperipheria - Catalogue of experimental electro live events in Hungary.
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