But because of budget cuts, the previously autonomous Celtic Fest (29 June), Gospel Music Festival (26 June), Latin Music Festival (24 June) and Country Music Festival (1 July) will join the Taste this year.

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The report comes after the newspaper obtained a series of text messages in which Goldenvoice vice president Skip Paige told an Indio official about the plans to move Coachella and also its country music festival, Stagecoach, from the city.

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However, with the Badminton Horse Trials taking place in the West Country and a music festival in Bristol, motoring organisations were warning of heavy congestion on the M4.

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For your enjoyment, a video (mind the quality) of Bono playing at a Tuareg music festival in Mali before the country fell to the rebels.

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Sacra Profanum, run by Filip Berkowicz, also artistic director of Misteria Paschalia, is an innovative new music festival that takes place in September, taking a different country as its theme each year.

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After Merle Watson was killed in a tractor accident in 1985, Mr. Watson hosted Merlefest, an annual roots music festival at North Carolina's Wilkes Community College that attracts top country talent.

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He may run the country's best-loved festival and be one of the most respected figures in British music, but Michael Eavis is still a 69-year-old Somerset dairy farmer first, music mogul second.

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