Leave the foul weath­er rag­ing out­side and get all toasty indoors with a ver­i­ta­ble feast of music. Here’s a list of some of the win­ter festies hap­pen­ing around the coun­try, hope­ful­ly you’ll find some­thing to float your musi­cal boat. And if you know of a win­ter music fes­ti­val we’ve left off our list, let us know!

January Blues Festival 3 – 23 January

Jan­u­ary Blues Fes­ti­val is a month of … well, live blues… at 229, Great Port­land Street in cen­tral Lon­don, W1. The Ani­mals, Cur­tis Sal­ga­do, Remi Har­ris, Fan­tas­tic Negri­to and many more set to per­form over the month. Tick­ets are avail­able for indi­vid­ual shows and for the whole month. Tick­ets for Jan­u­ary Blues Festival

Celtic Connections 15 Jan – 1 February

Glas­gow’s annu­al win­ter fes­ti­val has expand­ed into a mul­ti­tude of gen­res over its 30-year his­to­ry and now includes acoustic, tra­di­tion­al, indie, Amer­i­cana, jazz, blues, orches­tral, exper­i­men­tal and more. Fara, Gnoss, Zoe Con­way, The Mag­ic Num­bers, Scot­tish Cham­ber Orches­tra, Lucin­da Williams and Rumac are just a few names lined up for ear­ly 2026. Celtic Con­nec­tions tick­ets here

Independent Venue Week 26 Jan – 1 Feb

Erm ok not strict­ly a fes­ti­val but #IVW is one of the most impor­tant weeks of the music cal­en­dar, espe­cial­ly dur­ing these times of such uncer­tain­ty for our inde­pen­dent grass­roots venues. Get out and sup­port your local music palace – and par­take of this annu­al feast of music which sees numer­ous venues host a whole slew of artists. The Trades in Heb­den Bridge is just one tak­ing part with Antony Szmierek over two nights; The Orielles play The Port­land Arms, Cam­bridge, and False Indi­go will be per­form­ing at Gul­liv­ers in Man­ches­ter. Inde­pen­dent Venue Week

The Orielles play The Port­land Arms, Cam­bridge; Antony Szmierek plays The Trades, Heb­den Bridge.

Music For Midwinter 29 – 31 January

Sounds St Leonards presents Week­end Music For Mid­win­ter fes­ti­val with music that spans folk, choral and acoustic. Lisa Knapp & Ger­ry Div­er (29th Jan) at Stu­dio 27 White Rock The­atre, Mikey Ken­ney & Tarek Elazhary at The Crown House St Leonards (30th Jan), and head­lin­ers The Idrîsî Ensem­ble at Christchurch St Leonards (31st Jan). Week­end tick­et to all 3 gigs. 7–11pm. Tick­ets to Music For Mid­win­ter.

The Winter’s End 30 Jan – 1 February

Hap­pen­ing for the fourth year at Trec­co Bay Hol­i­day Park in South Wales is Plan­et Rock presents The Win­ter’s End fes­ti­val. And for the first time ever, there will be a Winter’s End Warm-up night on the Thurs­day (29th Jan­u­ary) fea­tur­ing three bands on the main stage. Ori­anthi, Sophie Lloyd, GUN and Tyket­to, plus Tail­gun­ner, The Damn Truth, Fury, These Wicked Rivers, Ros­alie Cun­ning­ham, Chez Kane, Pyrog­a­r­ic, Gin Annie, Chantel McGre­gor, Brave Rival, Sleazy Mon­ey, Per­fect Beasts, Straight for the Sun, Blue Nation, and more. Get your tick­ets now for Win­ter’s End 

Ruination Festival 31 January

Ruina­tion Fes­ti­val returns for a third time in 2026 fea­tur­ing a fan­tas­tic line­up of heavy met­al. Tak­ing place at The Under­ground Brad­ford, Duke Street, Brad­ford, from 1–11.45pm, this year’s line­up includes Slo­mat­ics, Witch­sor­row, Nowt and Alu­nah. Tick­ets to Ruination

Indoor Festival of Folk 7 February

A day-long win­ter feast of music and very spe­cial guests under Cecil Sharp House in Lon­don’s his­toric roof, co-host­ed by EFDSS and folk rock super­group The Mag­pie Arc. The fourth iter­a­tion of this warm­ing event takes place from 1pm to 10.30pm. Indoor Fes­ti­val of Folk tickets

The Essex Ska & Reggae festival 21 February

The Essex Indoor SKA & REGGAE Fes­ti­val comes to The Pad­docks in Can­vey Island with live per­for­mances from The Bob Mar­ley Expe­ri­ence, The Moochers with more to be announced. Host­ed by DJ Ska n Mash. From 5pm til 11pm, per­for­mance starts at 6pm. Tick­ets to the Ska and Reg­gae festival

Immersed Festival 5 March to April

Immersed fes­ti­val heads back to Cardiff for an action-packed fusion of music, film, art, fash­ion and  the­atre. There’s a month-long cel­e­bra­tion of cre­ativ­i­ty and imag­i­na­tion, fea­tur­ing over 30 bands and artists across four themed stages. Head­lin­ing this year’s fes­ti­val are acclaimed six-piece CVC, bring­ing their elec­tri­fy­ing sound to Cardiff’s Tramshed on 7th March. Tick­ets for Immersed

Country to Country 13–15 March

Coun­try to Coun­try will bring coun­try music head­lin­ers togeth­er in three loca­tions for one week­end! Way­lon Wyatt, Tyler Braden, Kei­th Urban, Ash­ley Cooke and more. Tick­ets to Coun­try to Coun­try, Lon­don. Coun­try to Coun­try also takes place in Belfast and Glas­gow.

raveCAVE 14 March

The Leg­ends Return.… from 1pm ‑12. Last entry 6pm. rave­CAVE returns to Scot­land’s orig­i­nal Rave Mec­ca. With Slip­matt, Trevor Reil­ly, David Forbes, Mark Sher­ry, George Bowie (Anthems Set) and much more to be announced. Tick­ets here for rave­CAVE

Brick Lane Jazz Festival 24 – 26 April

There’s a stag­ger­ing num­ber of artists tak­ing part in this year’s three-day Brick Lane Jazz Fes­ti­val – Bri­an Back­son, Kyra, Foot­shoot­er, Ali­ci, Boni­ta, King­zoogian­na and many more. Get a three day or one day pass, and there are after-par­ty pass­es too. All hap­pen­ing at the Tru­man Brew­ery plus a host of venues in and around Brick Lane. Brick Lane Jazz Festival

Takedown Festival 3–4 April 

The Portsmouth Guild­hall is the place to be for this annu­al event. Bands tak­ing part include The Hara, Saint Agnes, Mould, Pave, Vexed, Vow­er, The Wild­hearts and many more. For tick­ets, click here

Manchester Punk Festival 3–5 April

MPF2026. Man­ches­ter Punk Fes­ti­val will be tak­ing place across East­er week­end, 3–5 April and there will be over 140 acts play­ing across 7 venues. Dead To Me, Clob­ber, Perkie, Slow Gherkin, Dave Hause, The Men­stru­al Cramps, Soap­box and loads more. Venues include The Union, Goril­la and YES. Check out tick­ets to Man­ches­ter Punk Festival

Counterflows 9–12 April

Tak­ing place in Glas­gow, Coun­ter­flows Fes­ti­val is back with four days of live music from some of the most inter­est­ing artists work­ing on the fringes today. This edi­tion will fea­ture an inter­na­tion­al pro­gram of per­for­mances, new projects, col­lab­o­ra­tions and com­mis­sions, club nights, hang-outs, dis­cus­sions and more. Coun­ter­flows festival

Supersonic Festival 25–26 April

Tick­ets to this event are now on a wait­list. The UK’s pre­mier exper­i­men­tal music fes­ti­val, Super­son­ic returns to Dig­beth, Birm­ing­ham where the film pro­gramme, work­shops and exhi­bi­tions are as para­mount to the event’s atmos­phere as the live per­for­mances. Post-punk and Arab rock band  PROSTITUTE  are the first act on the bill. At The Cross­ing 3:00pm til 12:00am. Join the wait­list here 

Desertfest 15 – 17 May

The UK’s pre­mier inde­pen­dent Ston­er Rock, Doom, Psych & Sludge fes­ti­val that takes place in Cam­den at five venues, The Devon­shire Arms, The Black Heart, The Round­house, Under­world and the Elec­tric Ball­room. Clutch,  Green Lung, Alu­nah , Gnome, Zig Zags, The Grey, Bis­mut , Instar Sling and Nomadic Reign are just a few of the artists head­ing for Desert­fest’s stages. Tick­ets for Desert­fest here

Highways 15 – 17 May

High­ways is a fes­ti­val of Amer­i­cana and coun­try music held over two days at the Roy­al Albert Hall in Lon­don. The two-day fest also promis­es after shows, late night spe­cials, a song­writer gath­er­ing, and coun­try for kids. Car­ly Pearce, Jim Laud­erdale, Emmy­lou Har­ris and Kaitlin Butts – plus more – are per­form­ing. Check out High­ways Music Festival

Dot to Dot festival 23–34 May

The mul­ti venue fes­ti­val takes place in Bris­tol on Sat­ur­day and Not­ting­ham on Sun­day. Tak­ing part on the just-announced line­up are Flood­ing, Marsy, Lawn Hair, Meltt, Sil­ver Gore and many more. Watch out for more line­up addi­tions too. Get your tick­ets now! Dot to Dot festival

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