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| Roskilde Festival | Roskilde Festival is the largest North European popular music festival and has existed since 1971. The website provides information about the history of the festival, the non-profit organisation behind, music programmes, tickets sales, etc. The four-days festival takes place each year around 1st of July. | Resource type: Website |
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| SPOR | Festival in Århus for new sound art and art music. The festival takes place each year in the beginning of May. One special characteristic of SPOR is that the programme is compiled every year by a curator to ensure that there is no compromise in the strong artistic vision. | Resource type: Website |
| Carnival in Aalborg | The musical profile of Carnival in Aalborg is broad, with a programme that offers both World music from Denmark and abroad and a number of Danish pop artistes. The carnival takes place at the end of May, and is the largest carnival in northern Europe in terms of the numbers of participants. Danish name: Karneval i Aalborg |
Resource type: Website |
| Green Concert | Green Concert is a concert tour that travels across the country in July, presenting one-day festivals. The musical profile is broad, and typically focuses on major Danish artists. However, in recent years Green Concert has also given exposure to new Danish bands and musicians. Danish name: Grøn Koncert |
Resource type: Website |
| Friday Rock | Every Friday during the summer season, Tivoli amusement park in Copenhagen presents a concert with big international pop or rock names or major Danish acts. The concerts are free of charge once the admission charge to Tivoli has been paid. Danish name: Fredagsrock |
Resource type: Website |
| Aalborg Metal Festival | A two-day festival founded by Nordic Rock Booking in 2002. The festival concentrates on the heavy metal genre, and features both major international and Danish bands. | Resource type: Website |
| VibraCrunch | The recording company Crunchy Frog organises this one-day festival at the end of August, which promotes both the company's own artistes and the Danish and Swedish indie scene in general. | Resource type: Website |
| Stella Polaris | Stella Polaris is Denmark's biggest chill-out event, held in both Aarhus and Copenhagen on the first weekend in August. The event is free of charge and is held out of doors, with Danish DJs from the club scene providing the music. | Resource type: Website |
| Skanderborg Festival | This festival is based in Mid-Jutland and takes place in the second week of August. The festival's musical profile is broad, mainly consisting of established Danish acts, but it also has a tradition of presenting a couple of major international names. | Resource type: Website |
| Recession | The Recession festival concentrates on underground music, primarily within the genres of rock, electronica and hip hop. The festival takes place in Aarhus. | Resource type: Website |
| Mosstock Festival | A three-day festival held at the start of August near Skanderborg, Jutland. The musical range encompasses many genres, but Mosstock Festival is known for booking only unsigned bands. | Resource type: Website |
| Copenhagen Distortion | Copenhagen Distortion has been held since 1998 and is a tribute to the Copenhagen club scene. DJs are presented from the entire Copenhagen scene. The festival takes place over five days at the start of June at various Copenhagen locations. | Resource type: Website |
| Skagen Festival | An international folk music festival featuring a broad selection of folk artistes from all over the world and a wide range of sub-genres within folk music. The festival has been held since 1971, and takes place on the last weekend in June. | Resource type: Website |
| Scandinavian Country Music Festival | This festival, which takes place close to Silkeborg, is Scandinavia's largest country music festival. The festival lasts for three days in the middle of August, and is typically attended by around 10,000 guests. It has a broad musical profile, and presents country music acts from all over the world. | Resource type: Website |
| Copenhagen Irish Festival | A festival focusing on traditional Irish folk music, during which Copenhagen is host to a wide range of Irish musicians. The festival is organised by the Danish Irish Society and also presents other aspects of Irish culture. | Resource type: Website |
| Aarhus Fesival | The Aarhus Festival is one of the most extensive and enduring multicultural festivals of Scandinavia. It is an annual 10 day festival which takes place in the late summer and includes a broad spectrum of cultural and numerous other events of every type, size and shape. Danish name: Århus Festuge |
Resource type: Website |
| Vendsyssel Festival | This festival is held in North Jutland from the start of July to the middle of August, and features Scandinavia's largest combined selection of classical music. | Resource type: Website |
| Suså Festival | Held in Suså in South Sealand at the end of August. The festival has a sharply-focused profile, concentrating exclusively on contemporary compositional music. | Resource type: Website |
| Sorø International Music Festival | Held in Sorø in south-west Sealand in the course of the summer. The festival has a tradition of concentrating on organ concerts, but now features a much broader range of chamber musicians, with a special focus on young talents. | Resource type: Website |
| Summer Music at Fuglsang | A festival organised by the Danish Chamber Players, held annually in the middle of August at Fuglsang Manor in Lolland. The programme has a broad appeal and includes renaissance works, new opera and jazz fusion. Danish name: Sommermusik på Fuglsang |
Resource type: Website |
| Nyborg Palace Concerts | During the course of the summer, a number of concerts are held in the great hall of Nyborg Castle, featuring both Danish and international chamber musicians. Danish name: Nyborg Slotskoncerter |
Resource type: Website |
| Holmboe in Horsens | The Holmboe in Horsens festival is held in the middle of March every year. The musical range is broad, covering both purely classical music and music from the borderland between classical and folk. There are also special concerts for children. Danish name: Holmboe i Horsens |
Resource type: Website |
| Music Harvest | Festival for contemporary music in Odense, founded by the Carl Nielsen Academy. Since 1985 the festival has presented new music mainly from European countries and USA each year in October. Danish name: Musikhøst |
Resource type: Website |
| Golden Days in Copenhagen | The historically-oriented Golden Days in Copenhagen festival features a number of chamber music concerts as part of the festival's general presentation of Danish art and culture in a particular historical period. | Resource type: Website |
| Esbjerg International Chamber Music Festival | The festival takes place in the last weeks of August in Esbjerg in West Jutland, and features major international chamber musicians in interplay with the Esbjerg Ensemble. The festival usually concentrates on the works of a particular composer. | Resource type: Website |
| Copenhagen Summer Festival | The Copenhagen Summer Festival concerts are held in the concert hall at Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall in the last week in July and the first week in August. Classical chamber music is presented by established artists side by side with young talents. | Resource type: Website |
| Bornholm Music Festival | Bornholm Music Festival takes place from the middle of July to the middle of August in the churches of the island of Bornholm, and encompasses many genres within chamber music. Danish name: Bornholm Musikfestival |
Resource type: Website |
| Aarhus International Jazz Festival | The festival takes place in mid-July and goes on for ten days. The festival was founded in 1989 by Musikhuset Aarhus and several local music venues. | Resource type: Website |
| Copenhagen Jazz festival | Founded in 1979 the festival comprises nearly 700 concerts and events in 10 days each year. The festival takes place all over cenral Copenhagen, indoor and outdoor, in the beginning of July. | Resource type: Website |
| Tønder Festival | The major folk music festival in Denmark taking place in Tønder each year in the last week of August. The festival site has a capacity of nearly 4000 in two large tents. Programmes are presented also at several other venues in the town. | Resource type: Website |
| The Carl Nielsen Academy of Music | Located in Odense, the Academy offers classical and rhythmic music education for professional musicians and music teachers. The website provides information about the academy and its academic degrees, as well as an calendar of events. Danish name: Det Fynske Musikkonservatorium |
Resource type: Website |
| Schubertiade Roskilde | A festival of classical and contemporary works with focus on the works of Franz Schubert. The event takes place in Roskilde, near Copenhagen, and is organized by the Danish Schubert Society. The Schubertiade is part of an international network of similar events held from May to September. |
Resource type: Website |
| Riverboat Jazz Festival | Held in Silkeborg in Mid-Jutland at the end of June. The festival offers a varied programme with many different varieties of jazz. |
Resource type: Website |
| Copenhagen Blues Festival | A four-day festival that takes place at the end of September each year. The concerts are held at music venues in Copenhagen, and the festival presents both international and Scandinavian blues acts. | Resource type: Website |
| Copenhagen Carnival | Copenhagen Carnival is held at the start of July in the city centre and in the park of Fælledparken. Five stages are set up in Fælledparken, presenting all kinds of world music. The traditional parades take place in the city centre. Danish name: Københavns Karneval |
Resource type: Website |
| Danish Metal | Guide to the Danish Metal scene comprising links to bands, record companies, venues, booking, studios, etc. Reviews and concert calendar. Link to the webshop Diehard. | Resource type: Website, Directory, Calendar/Events |
| Spot Festival | Three-day festival presenting up-coming Danish bands and guest bands from the Nordic countries. Including concerts with jazz, world and contemporary music. Organised since 1995 by ROSA – The Danish Rock Council. An imporatnt meeting place for talent spotters, festival organizers, etc. from all over Europe. |
Resource type: Website |
| Wundergrund Music Festival | "Copenhagen cutting edge music experience" is the subtitle of this festival founded in 2006. The festival features contemporary classical, experimenting popular music and electronica, often in cooperation with other art forms such as dance, architecture and design. | Resource type: Website |