Austria
ID: Festivals
Festivals in Austria
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Alpicon House Music Festival
Alpicon House Music Festival turns the Hochzillertal, Kaltenbach and Fügen ski areas into a multi-day house-music circuit, with DJs playing mountain huts and valley bars across warm-up, festival and recovery sessions.
multiple city-centre venuesArs Electronica Festival
Ars Electronica Festival brings artists, researchers and technologists to Linz for exhibitions, concerts, performances, screenings, conferences and open labs exploring how digital tools reshape society.
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Bass Mountain
Bass Mountain is an Austrian winter day festival pairing skiing with house, techno and drum & bass across alpine dancefloors, rooted at Kasberg and expanding to a second ski area for 2027.
Rotaxhalle Messe WelsBASSMENT Festival
BASSMENT Festival brings international and Austrian drum & bass artists to the Rotaxhalle in Wels for a large-scale indoor bass event presented as Upper Austria’s biggest DnB festival.
BeatPatrol
BeatPatrol is an Austrian multi-genre electronic festival combining big-room EDM, techno and drum & bass with crossover live acts across a two-day open-air programme and Nightparc aftershows.
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donaufestival
Held across two spring weekends in Krems, donaufestival is one of Austria's key meeting points for experimental music, electronic culture and interdisciplinary contemporary art.
DonauinselDonauinselfest
Donauinselfest is Vienna's free three-day open-air festival on the Danube Island, bringing pop, rock, electronic music and other genres to multiple stages in one of the city's largest annual music gatherings.
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Electric Love Festival
Electric Love Festival brings around 200 artists to seven stages at the Salzburgring, spanning EDM, techno, bass and hard dance alongside camping and large-scale audiovisual shows.
Sölden ski areaElectric Mountain Festival
Electric Mountain Festival combines six days of skiing and electronic music across 11 locations in Sölden, with international DJs performing at more than 2,000 metres in the Ötztal Alps.
Stadtpark Wiener NeustadtElectro Garten
Electro Garten is a free open-air electronic event by Spätschicht Techno and Bar Mephisto, bringing DJ sets to the biotope in Wiener Neustadt's Stadtpark.
GrazElevate Festival
Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival in Graz combining adventurous electronic music, installations and performance with workshops, films, lectures and political discourse across multiple city venues.
Tennis Event CenterElysium Electronic Music Festival
Elysium Electronic Music Festival is a two-stage electronic festival in Vorarlberg, Austria, framed as an immersive one-night escape into club music.
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Favorite Fall
Favorite Fall is an annual culture festival across Vienna’s 10th district, presenting concerts, experimental music theatre, exhibitions, readings, public-space performance and participatory formats, largely free of charge.
Flavourama
Flavourama is a Salzburg festival for hip-hop and house dance, bringing international battles together with workshops, club nights and community-focused dance programming.
Green ParkFM4 Frequency Festival
FM4 Frequency Festival is a major three-day open-air event at Green Park in St. Pölten, combining international pop, rock, hip-hop and electronic acts with dedicated night-stage programming and camping.
open-air groundsFree Tree Open Air
Free Tree Open Air is a three-day alternative culture and music festival in Taiskirchen im Innkreis, combining five stages of bands and DJs with workshops, cultural programming and camping.
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Gabonsa Festival
Gabonsa Festival is a nonprofit Innsbruck festival created by the Gans Anders and Bonanza collectives, combining music, installation and performance in a temporary cultural space.
Bad GasteinGrand Lighthouse
Grand Lighthouse is Lighthouse Festival's winter edition in Bad Gastein, presenting three days of electronic music performances across the Alpine town and surrounding mountains.
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KLANGfestival
KLANGfestival is a Gallneukirchen festival for experimental music, sound art, performance and visual art, with live programming alongside film, records and publishing projects.
Schloss EggenbergKlanglicht Festival
Klanglicht is Graz's festival of sound and vision, transforming historic architecture into a public route of contemporary light, sound and media art installations.
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music unlimited Festival
music unlimited is an annual festival in Wels for experimental music, free improvisation, jazz, electronica, noise and punk, staged across the Alter Schl8hof and partner venues.
Musiktheatertage Wien
Musiktheatertage Wien is a Vienna festival for contemporary music theatre, bringing new interdisciplinary productions to theatres and unconventional venues across the city.
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ORF musikprotokoll
ORF musikprotokoll is Austria's festival platform for contemporary and experimental music, founded in 1968 and presented in Graz within steirischer herbst.
Festivalgelände WiesenOutback Festival
Outback Festival is an open-air drum & bass festival in Wiesen, bringing the genre's full spectrum to a multi-day camping weekend in Burgenland.
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Paradies Garten Festival
Paradies Garten Festival is a three-day electronic music festival at Schloss Prugg in Bruck an der Leitha, connecting international artists, Austria's local scene and a green-energy setting.
Altes Hallenbad and ReichenfeldPoolbar Festival
Poolbar Festival is a six-week summer culture festival at Altes Hallenbad and Reichenfeld in Feldkirch, spanning live music, club nights, art, film, architecture and design.
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Shutdown Festival
Shutdown Festival is a one-day hard music festival at the decommissioned Zwentendorf nuclear power plant, presenting 60 artists across five stages spanning hardstyle, hardcore and hard techno.
InnsbruckSilvester Beats
Silvester Beats is an annual indoor New Year’s club event at Congress Innsbruck, connecting four floors for big-room sounds, techno, 90s dance and vintage party music.
Mayrhofen and mountain venues in the Zillertal AlpsSnowbombing
Snowbombing is a week-long electronic music and snow-sports festival in Mayrhofen, using mountain terraces, forest clearings, village clubs and alpine venues across the Zillertal.
ViennaSonic Territories
Founded in 2018, Sonic Territories brings experimental electronic music, sound art and audiovisual performances to Vienna’s decentralised venues. Concerts, installations and listening laboratories connect international artists with the city’s spaces and communities.
KitzbühelSound|Escape Festival
Sound|Escape brings electronic music to mountain and town venues in Kitzbühel. Alongside its March festival, a two-day winter edition has been announced for December 2026 with international DJ performances.
steirischer herbst
steirischer herbst is an international festival of contemporary art in Graz and Styria, bringing together visual art, performance, music, literature and new media across multiple venues.
multiple venuesSTREAM Festival
STREAM Festival is a free music and pop-culture festival in central Linz, combining live acts, electronic music and club culture with talks, workshops and exhibitions.
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Unsafe+Sounds Festival
Unsafe+Sounds is an annual Vienna festival connecting experimental and club music, sound art and discourse through concerts, performances, installations and talks across the city.
Festwiese FrauenhofenUrban Fields
Urban Fields is an open-air electronic music festival in Frauenhofen near Horn, spanning techno, drum & bass and melodic house across four stages with camping and live performances.