Festivals of music

There are many world music festivals and jazz, folk, roots, and new age crossover events. A small selection is represented here:

• The Serbia World Music Festival is a three-day world music festival held every summer in Takovo, a small village in central Serbia.
• The Ariano Folkfestival is a five-day world music festival held every summer in Ariano Irpino, a small town in southern Italy.
• Sfinks Festival in Boechout, Belgium is a 4-day world music-festival.
• The California World Music Festival is held each July at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
• The World Sacred Music Festival is held annually in Olympia, Washington State, sponsored by Interfaith Works.
• FloydFest in Floyd, Virginia, United States, has featured artists from a wide diversity of styles including Ani DiFranco, Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie, Trumystic, Nickel Creek and Akoya Afrobeat Enemble.
• The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance in Trumansburg, New York, United States, has featured artists from a variety of world and ethnic music genres including Tinariwen, Thomas Mapfumo, Michael Franti, D'Gary, Boubacar Traore, Mamadou Diabate, and many more from around the world.
• The WOMAD Foundation organizes festivals in countries around the world. These festivals have featured artists including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Youssou N'Dour, Robert Plant and Jaojoby.
• The Festival in the Desert takes place every year at Essakane, near Timbuktu, in Mali, West Africa and has achieved international status in spite of the difficulties of reaching its location.
• Rainforest World Music Festival is another world music festival held in Malaysia.
• Stern Grove Festival is a San Francisco celebration of musical and cultural diversity. Examples: Lucinda Williams, John Doe, Ojos de Brujo, O-Maya, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Funk Brothers and also symphony orchestras and operatic stars.
• The Starwood Festival has been held in July every year since 1981. It has featured such world music acts as Amampondo, Babatunde Olatunji, Badal Roy, Sikiru Adepoju, the Prodigals, Yaya Diallo, Merl Saunders and the Rainforest Band, Baka Beyond, Stephen Kent, Cyro Baptista, Airto Moreira, Muruga Booker, Gaelic Storm, and Halim El-Dabh.
• The World Music Festival Lo Sguardo di Ulisse was first held in 1997 in Campania, Italy.
• Festival Músicas do Mundo, Sines, is a world music festival first held in 1998, in a beautiful village near the coast of Portugal.
• Ethnoambient is a two or three-day world music festival held every summer (started 1998) in Solin, a town in center part of Dalmatia, south part of Croatia.

Bangladesh

• The Dhaka World Music Festival takes place in Dhaka.

France

• The Festival de l'Inde takes place in Evian, Haute-Savoie.

Morocco

• Mawazine is a festival of world music that takes place annually in Rabat, Morocco, featuring Arab and international music icons.

Germany

• The TFF Rudolstadt takes place annually on the first full July weekend in Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany.
• The German World Music Festival der Klangfreunde takes place every first weekend of August, at Schlosspark Loshausen. Klangfreunde e. V. is a non-profit organization.
• Wilde Töne, Festival für Folk- und Weltmusik in Braunschweig Germany

Great Britain

• Glastonbury Festival held at Worthy Farm near Glastonbury each Year.
• Isle of Wight Festival
• Music Village Festival is Europe's longest running festival of world cultures. It is held every 2 years in London and has been running since 1983. It is organised by the Cultural Co-operation.
• Radio 1's Big Weekend is held in May annually. It moves from town to town, and is the biggest free ticketed event in Europe.

New Zealand

• Festival in New Plymouth, New Zealand. Early March each year. 

Poland

• The Cross-Culture Warsaw Festival, Poland. September each year.
• Ethno Port, Poznan, Poland. June each year. 
• Ethno Jazz Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Several events throughout the whole year. 
• Different Sounds (Inne brzmienia), Lublin, Poland. July each year. 
• Francophonic Festival in Warsaw, Poland. March each year. 
• Nowa Tradycja (New Tradition), Warsaw, Poland. May each year. 
• Siesta Festival, Gdansk, Poland. First edition in April/May 2011. 

Portugal

• Festival Músicas do Mundo, in Sines, Setúbal District

Romania

• Plai Festival in Timisoara

 Spain

Spain's most important world music festivals are:

• Etnosur, in Alcalá la Real, Jaén (Andalucía region)
• Pirineos Sur, in Aragón region
• Festival in Getxo (Basque country)
• Festival Internacional de Música Popular Tradicional in Vilanova i la Geltrú / Vilanova International World Music Festival (Catalonia)
• Festival in Ortigueira (Galicia)
• La Mar de Músicas, in Cartagena (Murcia region)
• Fira Mediterrània in Manresa (Catalonia)
• The WOMEX when in Seville (2003, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Turkey

• Konya Mystic Music Festival, held annually in Konya since 2004, in recent years in commemoration of Rumi's birthday. The festival features traditional music from around the world with a mystical theme, religious function and/or sacred content.

Ukraine

• Svirzh World Music Festival (Lviv region)