Famous Music Festivals, Venues, and Concerts

New York

3-day festival of "peace and music" in 1969

Landgraaf, Netherlands

The oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world

Pilton, Somerset, England

Nearly annual, a 5-day festival of music and performing arts, first organized in 1970

Rhode Island, USA

Annual folk festival where Dylan "went electric"

London and Philadelphia

1985 concert held to benefit the famine in Ethiopia

United States

Annual concert organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp

Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

First held in 1991, it is an annual festival focusing mainly on alternative rock

US/Canada

The largest traveling music festival in the US, focused on alternative and punk music

US/Europe/Japan

First held in 1996, a heavy metal festival that Black Sabbath has played several times

US/Canada

From 1997 to 1999, focused mainly on female musicians

Austin, Texas

Annual music (film, arts, etc.) festival

Indio, California

Annual music and arts festival since 1999

Manchester, Tennessee

Annual four-day music festival

Union Park, Chicago, Illinois & Paris

Annual summer music festival organized by American online music publication

Morrison, Colorado

Open-air amphitheatre built into a rock structure