For the 80, 000 Bonnaroo Music and Arts festival fans that came to a field just south of Nashville last week, the new Heartland offered a very eclectic mix of music.

FORBES: Defining the New Heartland

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the other major summer music festival in the U.S., has slotted Paul McCartney, Wilco and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers as their headliners this year.

NPR: The Cure, Mumford And Sons To Play Lollapalooza

Let yourself be drawn into the deep end by the wonder of all that is dizzyingly playful, inspirational and downright goofy with an Escape to New York a music and arts festival taking place on the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton that is the ultimate adult swim.

BBC: Daily deal: New York's art and music fesival

The campaign hopes to tap into the arts and music scene from local popstar Ed Sheeran, to the Latitude Festival at Southwold and the Aldeburgh Festival.

BBC: Suffolk: The curious case of a rebranded county

The Urdd claims to be Europe's largest arts youth festival, with thousands of young people due to take part in Welsh language music, dance and other cultural activities.

BBC: A teenage girl prepares to have the MMR jab