Europe
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- Africa Festival - in Wuerzburg, Germany; May 26 - 29, 2005; Europe’s
biggest festival for African music and culture
- Africolor - in Paris, France; November 25 - December 17, 2005
- Amsterdam Roots Festival - in Amsterdam, Netherlands; June 18 - 26, 2005; hear
exciting new sounds on the cutting edge of pop and world music
- Ancient Future - where new cross-cultural music and dance is created by
learning from the world's great ancient traditions
- Babel Med Music, the 1st World Music Forum - in Marseille,
France; March 31 - April 2, 2005
- Barbicon - in London, England; a year-round programme of art, music, film and
theatre.
- Couleur Café Festival - in Brussels, Belgium; July 5, 2005
- Druga Godba - in Ljubljana, Slovenia; June 6 - 11, 2005
- Dunya Festival - in Rotterdam, Netherlands; May 29, 2005
- Falun Folk Music Festival - in Falun, Sweden; July 13 - 16, 2005
- Fiesta Des Suds - in Marseille, France; October 20 - 31, 2005; in French
- Festival Des Hauts De
Garonne - in Bordeaux, France; June 21 - July 8, 2005; in French
- Festival Internacional De Folk De Getxo - in Getxo,
Spain
- Festival Internacional De Musica Castillo De Ainsa - in Spain
- Festival Lantino Americano - in Milano, Verona & Viareggio, Italy
- Festival Mundial - in Tilburg,
Netherlands; June 17 - 18, 2005
- Folk Fiesta Era GSM - in Zabkowice, Poland
- Forde Folk Music - in Forde, Norway; July 7 - 10,
2005
- Gaia Festival - in Thessaloniki, Greece
- Kalaka Folk Festival - in Hungary; at Diosgyor Castle
- Kaustinen Folk Music Festival - in Kaustinen, Finland; July 8 - 16, 2006
- La Mar De Musicas - in Cartagena, Spain
- Les Suds a Arles - in Arles, France; July 10 - 17, 2005
- MASALA Welt-Beat Festival - in Hannover, Germany; May 3 - 14, 2006 & July 14
- 16, 2005
- Med Fest - in the United Kingdom
- Mercat De Musica Viva De Vic - in Vic, Spain
- Musique Metisses - in Angouleme, France
- Musique Sur L'Ile - in Nantes, France
- Nuits Atypiques - in Langon, France; July 26 - 31, 2005
- Festival Pirineos Sur - in Huesca, Spain; July 8 - 30, 2005; in the Aragonese
Pyrenees (Lanuza-Sallent de Gállego)
- Rainforest Music Festival - in Borneo; July 7 - 9, 2006; at Sarawak Cultural Village, only 45 minutes away from Kuching, the capital of
Sarawak, and a stone's throw away from the quiet beach resort area of the Santubong Peninsula
- Riddu Riddu Festival - Sami People of Finland
- Rock Werchter - in Belgium; June 30 - July 3, 2005
- SFINKS - in Boechout, Belgium
- Stimmen Voices - in Loerrach, Germany
- Stockholm Orient Festival - in Stockholm, Sweden; June 9 - 12, 2005
- Tanz & Folkfest Rudolstant - in Rudolstant, Germany; July
7 - 9, 2006; Germany’s biggest folk, roots and world music festival
- Tartu Early Music Festival - in Estonia
- Verden I Norden - in Oslo, Norway
- Viljandi Folk Music - in Viljandi, Estonia; July 28 - 31, 2005
- Weltnacht Festival - in Bielefeld, Germany
- World UK - in Copenhagen, Denmark
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North America
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- Calgary International Children's Festival - in Canada
- California World Music Festival - in Grass Valley, CA; at the Nevada County
Fairgrounds; music, dance, workshops and children's programs
- Festival d'ete de Quebec - in Canada
- Floyd County World Music Festival - world music festival held in the beautiful Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Features bluegrass, roots, reggae, African drums, Latin funk, electronica, and more.
- Gathering of the Tribes - Spring and Fall festivals on the East Coast of the US
- The Great Blue Heron Music Festival - in Jamestown, NY; November 26, 2005
- International African Dance and Drum Festival - in New York
- Monterey World One - in Monterey, California; a supportive festival for
world fusion music acts
- Montreal Throat Singing Festival - in Canada
- San Francisco World Music Festival- in California
- Seattle International Children's Festival - in Washington
- Sunfest - in West Palm Beach, FL; April 28 - May 1, 2005
- Trinity Tribal Stomp - three day annual music festival in early September,
with kids' activities, and more.
- Vancouver Folk Music Festival - in Canada
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- Afromix - database of African and Caribbean music.
- Axe Music - mix of Brazilian rhythms, ijexa, afoxe, frevo, samba, lambada, with reggae,
rock, and merengue.
- Culturebank - offers aboriginal and contemporary music and dance combined.
Provides details of Vision of a Nomad and the show Arc Dreaming.
- European Forum of World Music
- Global Music Centre - music institute based in Helsinki,
Finland dedicated to the different music of the world; organizes events, produces recordings, researches worldwide music
- Ritsu - Tokyo-based postmodern gypsy violinist that redefines the instrument with urban
beats. Influences include classical, blues, jungle and Japanese folk.
- Peace through World Music - global musicians arise and express the vision of
mankind as the leaves of one tree.
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