Listen to the beat of the music, let yourself go, immerse your soul into the essence of the music, and absorb the atmosphere. Do it all at the European Music Festivals, events that are geared to touch your soul with the beauty of Europe’s oldest and newest forms of music! European music festivals are of a varied and diverse quality, taking place in countries all over Europe with each promising wondrous compositions and lovely harmonies.
Music is food for the soul. Countries in Europe move to exhibit their best melodies and esoteric atmospheres through their own music festivals. Music festivals in Europe are not necessarily large, some consist of new talents proving themselves at a campfire over mugs of hot cider!
Although Europe is host to hundreds of music festivals, there are those which are a must-hear for music fans. Depending on whether you’d go for rock, jazz, or folk, here are a few music festivals in Europe that must be in your itinerary!
Vienna Festival May-June, Vienna Austria
Open for dance and theater too, this fest is one of the most popular in Europe. After all, when you have a chance to listen to a mix of soul-stirring and earthshaking music in a city as superb as Vienna, why give it a miss? It is usually held for two months, May and June. A visit to this beautiful city during these months will guarantee a trip filled with fun, music, beauty and revelry of the highest order!
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White Nights Art festival, June 23-29, St. Petersburg, Russia
Enjoy the endless days in St. Petersburg , listening to the international masters of opera singing arias and watching the graceful pirouettes of the ballerinas! A magnificent city, St. Petersburg is even more impressive during the White Nights! So if you love culture and love music, combine the two for a magnificent experience!
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Festival de Musique de Strasbourg 3-25 June, Strasbourg France
The Strasbourg Music Festival is for contemporary musicians to come, show off their skills and win grand prizes! For the rest of us, it’s a chance to see famous musicians and listen to their music. This European music festival is set in the beautiful city of Strasbourg, where ambience lends itself to sound, and music stirs the heart.
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Glastonbury Festival, June 23-27 Somerset, England
One of the most famous European Music Festivals, the Glastonbury is held in Somerset, England, usually in the last week of June. It consists of different platforms whereby music in the form of soft and hard rock is played! These rock concerts are very popular, such that tickets to them are quite hard to come by! But if you’ve got them: Rock, rock, rock!
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North Sea Jazz Festival, July 9-11, Rotterdam, Netherlands
This European Music festival is the biggest gathering of jazz aficionados in Europe, and perhaps, in the world! Jazz has a worldwide following, and the North Sea Jazz Festival is a way for people with common tastes in music to come together, and jazz their souls out! Usually held for three days in July, this festival brings together more than twenty thousand people who come to watch the jazz greats perform their beautiful masterpieces.
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Salzburg Festival, Salzburg June 30-July 4, Salzburg Austria
Salzburg, birth place of Mozart, holds the Salzburg festival every summer. It is considered to be the best and most prestigious European music festival. Usually held in August, this festival is all about opera and orchestras. The beautiful pieces played by world-famous musicians in the town of Mozart lend a lot of class to the entire event, due to which tickets are very expensive! Nonetheless, for beauty and music, go to Salzburg!
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There is music, and then there’s music! To discover music in its purest forms, be it classical or folk, rock or jazz, head for Europe! There are plenty of European music festivals, and all of them are for pleasing the ears of music aficionados! The atmosphere of these music festivals is so addictive; you’ll never want to leave! So go ahead, and let the music take you to places deep inside your soul!
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