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Upcoming multi-day festivals across the UK, soonest first — the dates they run, where they are, and how long they last. Updated daily from live listings.

14 festivals coming up across the UK, soonest first.

Coming up

Fri 7 Aug – Thu 1 Oct — Big World Festival – Andrew Cronshaw & Tigran Aleksanyan (56 days) at Kollectiv, Folkestone
Thu 20 – Sun 23 Aug — Green Man Festival 2026 (4 days) at Glanusk Estate, Crickhowell
Thu 20 – Sun 23 Aug — Sunrise Film Festival (4 days) at Marina Theatre
Fri 21 – Sat 22 Aug — HMS FEST 2026 (2 days) at Bedford Esquires, Bedford
Thu 27 – Sun 30 Aug — Shambala Festival (4 days) at Kelmarsh Hall and Gardens, Northampton
Thu 27 – Sun 30 Aug — Creamfields (4 days) at Creamfields, Daresbury
Fri 28 – Mon 31 Aug — Shrewsbury Folk Festival (4 days) at West Midlands Showground, Shrewsbury
Thu 3 – Sun 6 Sept — End of The Road Festival 2026 (4 days) at End of The Road Festival 2026, Salisbury
Thu 10 – Sun 13 Sept — Festival of Sound (4 days) at Ramsgate, Ramsgate
Thu 10 – Sun 13 Sept — Folkestone Skabour Festival (4 days) at The Grand Burstin Hotel, Folkestone
Sat 10 – Sun 11 Oct — Folkestone Live ‘26 - Festival of Theatre and Comedy (2 days) at Folkestone Quarterhouse, Folkestone
Fri 16 – Sat 17 Oct — Neighbourhood Festival (2 days) at The Deaf Institute, Manchester
Wed 9 – Thu 10 Dec — Debut 2026 – A Festival of Theatre, Film and Comedy (2 days) at New Adelphi, Salford
Fri 23 – Sun 25 Jul 2027 — Blue Reef Festival 2027 (3 days) at Loddington Farm

A listing appears here when it runs across more than one day and the organiser has published both a start and an end date. One-day events, and multi-day ones whose listing doesn’t say when they finish, are on what’s on and gigs instead.

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