This month, the Isle of Wight festival and Glastonbury launch that British summer season of traipsing around fields to hear live music.

He was the firebrand folk singer who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival, championing freedom and brotherhood while armed with little more than an acoustic guitar.

Today could be the hottest day of the year so far, with temperatures soaring to as high as 32C (89.6F), forecasters said.

This year's Independent Woodstock Literary Festival was once again a melting pot of great writers and bright ideas, says John Walsh

A 16-year-old boy arrested after a man was stabbed at the Notting Hill Carnival remained in custody today.

Hundreds of thousands of Londoners and tourists enjoyed a peaceful start to the Notting Hill Carnival yesterday amid a heavy police presence and an early finish to deter troublemakers.

Bring a book – and beware the Morris dancers

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With music festivals now a major part of the summer calendar, the acts booked are on an increasingly international scale.

One man was killed and two other people were injured by gunfire at a pub in Bristol shortly after the end of a carnival attended by tens of thousands of revellers.

Pimm's the word at capital show's fifth-year party

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Last year it was voted best overseas festival at the UK Festival Awards, meaning 2011 certainly had some big ski boots to fill.

Critics often complain that Ballets Russes's revivals are inauthentic. A century on, many works by the world's most influential ballet company have been lost or smudged. Most complaints concern steps and designs. This season of Diaghilev tributes adds "giant glitterball snake that shoots green lasers" to the list.