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List of electronic music festivals The following is an incomplete list of music festivals that feature electronic music, which encapsulates music featuring electronic instruments such as electric guitar and keyboards, as well as recent genres such as electronic dance music (E ...
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Lilith Fair Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. It took place during the summers of 1997 ...
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Alberta

* Astral Harvest, Driftpile * Beaumont Blues and Roots Festival,
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* Big Valley Jamboree, Camrose * Blues on Whyte Block Party,
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Calgary Folk Music Festival The Calgary Folk Music Festival (also known as "Calgary Folk Fest") is held in late July each year at Prince's Island Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. July 2022 is the Festival's 43rd edition. The four-day Calgary Folk Music Festival annually featu ...
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Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
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Edmonton Folk Music Festival The Edmonton Folk Music Festival (EFMF) is an annual four-day outdoor music event held the second weekend of August in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, established in 1980 by Don Whalen. The festival continues to draw many people from around the world a ...
, Edmonton * Calgary International Blues Festival,
Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
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Interstellar Rodeo Interstellar Rodeo was an annual three-day outdoor music event held the last weekend of July in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, established in 2012 and held at the Heritage Amphitheatre within Hawrelak Park. From 2015 to 2017, Six Shooter Records al ...
, Edmonton * North Country Fair, Driftpile * Reignbough Fiddle Arts & Music Festival, Smokey Lake *
Sled Island The Sled Island Music & Arts Festival is an annual independent music and arts festival formed in 2007 and held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Each June, the five-day festival showcases over 200 bands, visual artists, filmmakers and comedians as ...
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Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, maki ...
* South Country Fair, Ft Macleod * Sasquatch Gathering, Rangeton Park * TD Edmonton International Jazz Festival, Edmonton * Up and DT Festival, Edmonton * Wild Mountain Music Festival, Hinton


British Columbia

*CannaFest Music Festival, Grand Forks *Constellation Festival, Squamish *Fvded In the Park *Shambhala Music Festival * ValhallaFest *
Vancouver Folk Music Festival The Vancouver Folk Music Festival (VFMF), founded in 1978, is an outdoor multistage music festival, located at Jericho Beach Park on the west side of Vancouver, British Columbia. It takes place annually, on the third weekend of July. The fe ...
* Wapiti Music Festival, Fernie


Manitoba

* Big Fun Festival, Winnipeg * Harvest Moon Festival, Clearwater *
Jazz Winnipeg Festival The TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival is a Canadian jazz festival first held in 1989 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is usually held in June. The festival, organized by the Jazz Winnipeg organization and formerly called the Jazz Winnipeg Festiva ...
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Winnipeg Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749 ...
* Manitoba Electronic Music Exhibition, Winnipeg * Matlock Festival of Music Art and Nature, Matlog * Rainbow Trout Music Festival,
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* Real Love Summer Fest, Teulon * sākihiwē festival, Winnipeg *
Winnipeg Folk Festival The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a nonprofit charitable organization with an annual summer folk music festival held in Birds Hill Provincial Park, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The festival features a variety of artists and music from around the ...
, Winnipeg * Winnipeg Music Festival, Winnipeg * Winnipeg New Music Festival, Winnipeg * Whoop & Hollar Folk Festival, Portage la Prairie * YES FEST, Winnipeg


New Brunswick

* List of festivals in New Brunswick


Newfoundland and Labrador

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Tuckamore Festival The Tuckamore Festival is a chamber music festival in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada. It is traditionally held annually in August for two weeks. The festival was co-founded in 20 ...
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Northwest Territories

* Folk on the Rocks


Nova Scotia

* Evolve Festival,
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Halifax Pop Explosion The Halifax Pop Explosion was a music festival and conference that occurred every fall, typically two weeks after Thanksgiving, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The term "Halifax Pop Explosion" also came to be adopted in the 1990s as the name o ...
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Prince Edward Island

* Cavendish Beach Music Festival,
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Quebec

* Eclipse Festival, Sainte-Thérèse-de-la-Gatineau *
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Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple- ...
* Île Soniq, Montreal *
Kinetik Festival ''Kinetik'' is the second and final album by industrial metal Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted ...
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Les Francos de Montréal Les Francos de Montréal is a large annual music and performance festival held in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, featuring French-language performers from all over the world. Many of the performances are free to the public and are held on vario ...
, Montreal * Longueuil International Percussion Festival,
Longueuil Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River directly ac ...
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M for Montreal M for Montreal (M pour Montréal) is an annual 4-day music event produced by Avalanche Prod, which is held in various venues in Montréal, Québec. It usually takes place in the third weekend of November. Description M for Montreal is an indepe ...
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Montreal International Jazz Festival The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal ( en, Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz fes ...
, Montreal * Mundial, Montreal * MUTEK, Montreal *
Osheaga Festival The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival (french: Festival musique et arts Osheaga) is a multi-day indie music festival in Montreal, Quebec, that is held every summer at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène. The festival takes place on six stages ...
, Montreal * Piknic Électronik, Montreal *
Pop Montreal POP Montreal is an annual music festival occurring in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the early fall, usually at the end of September or the beginning of October. More than 400 bands are scheduled to play in more than 50 venues across the city, most ...
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Quebec City Summer Festival Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen p ...
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Quebec City Quebec City ( or ; french: Ville de Québec), officially Québec (), is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. It is t ...
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Rockfest Rockfest was an outdoor, hard rock and Metal music, metal music festival held annually by Kansas City metropolitan area, Kansas City radio station KQRC-FM 98.9 The Rock since 1992. Over the years, the festival was held at various venues around t ...
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See also

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List of festivals in Canada This is an incomplete list of festivals in Canada. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays. Sublists by local ...
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List of music festivals in the United States This is a list of music festivals in the United States organized by state and then by name. It includes current and past notable festivals. Touring festivals * Rolling Loud * Budweiser Made in America Festival * Electric Daisy Carnival * ...


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Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by to ...
Music festivals A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or hol ...
Music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...