Live music in Denmark is performed at a multitude of different venues and festivals. Most towns possess music venues in the form of community centres, cultural institutions, schools, cafés, music clubs or large concert halls. The rhythmic music venues have been in focus since an amendment to the Danish Music Act empowered the Arts Council to provide subsidies to these venues in 2000.

Regional music venues
Twenty venues throughout the country have been appointed "regional venues" and are subsidised by the Danish Arts Council's Committee for Music. The regional music venues display high musical quality and a particular interest in artistic and musical innovation as regional music venues. Besides, the Arts Council supports other rhythmic music venues by providing a fee subsidy per concert.
List of regional music venues

Music venue organisations
Most venues for rhythmic music are organised in the association Spillesteder.dk, whose website contains a music calendar and the addresses of the member venues. Many community centres are members of the association Huse i Danmark (HiD), while the larger cultural institutions are organised in Culturehouse Network Denmark.
Spillesteder.dk
Huse i Danmark (HiD)
Culturehouse Network Denmark

Concert halls and venues 
List of concert halls and venues

Music Societies
Approximately 150 Music Societies are subsidised by Danish Arts Council's Committee for Music. The local music societies host several classical and contemporary concerts every year. Use the advanced search function for information about some of the music societies.

Festivals
There are approximately 200 festivals in Denmark. Aarhus Festival is Denmark's largest collective cultural festival, which presents an extensive musical programme in all genres at the beginning of September every year.
Aarhus Festival

The largest rock-pop festival is Roskilde Festival. In the jazz field the major festival is Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Tønder Festival specialises mainly in Anglo-American folk and folk-rock.
Roskilde Festival
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
Tønder Festival

Every second year, the Golden Days Festival in Copenhagen takes place, in which a number of cultural institutions co-operate to promote Copenhagen as a city of culture in classical music. The Wundergrund festival is a genre festival with contemporary music as a central stream, but with the main idea to create a framework for collaboration across traditionally separated genres.
Golden Days Festival in Copenhagen
Wundergrund

Further information about genre-related festivals can be found under the genre pages.

August 2007