Waking Life: This festival 14 thru 19 August in the wilds of Portugal is one of the most popular with people who like the more intimate settings, camping and outdoor activities. There are at least 150 performers lined up, you can get tickets here starting at 125 euros.

If you’re bored on the beach, this could be just the ticket. Flow Festival is a celebration of music and all the performing arts from street art to light installations. Oh, and there’s an opera. Contemporary dance, electronic music and audiovisual art take over the Finnish National Opera’s Almi Hall Wednesday, 7 Aug…>

We meant to post this earlier because this is the event that got the most positive reaction from our readers last year. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Meadows in the Mountains runs from 6 June thru 9 Junes in the bucolic mountains between Plovdiv and the Black Sea. This is another boutique event that’s not for everyone ……>

IT Arena is a tech event with a global outlook and scale, which takes place in Lviv, Ukraine on the last weekend of September. Productive networking, business matchmaking and festival spirit are IT Arena trademarks. Three intensive conference days catalyze exponential growth and inspire new solutions and business…>

From 3 July to 7 July, a huge lake in rural Hungary is the setting for what is arguably (we’re arguing with ourselves because we tend to call every big festival “the biggest”) the biggest festival of 2019.

We’ve hesitated to recommend Hungary this year because of the politics. But this 12-year-old festival has the…>

File this under “too good to be true” … though it’s totally legit. This is the second year econ-dev group Work Estonia is offering superstar tech talent a free 5-day VIP career trip to Tallinn, one of Europe’s most innovative cities

Here’s the deal: Work Estonia wants you to explore Estonia like a local and c…>

Another mega summer festival with Name acts, Garorock runs from 27 thru 20 June in Marmande southeast of Bordeaux.

Let’s get right to the Names (live acts and DJs), which are semi-huge in the 12th year for this festival: DIMA, Marshmello, Charlotte de Witte, Vici Vici, Ben Harper, Macklemore and DJ Snake, with s…>

Along with Berghain, one of the most famous (and packed, even with a capacity of 4,000 people!) super-clubs in Europe, with the best video, light and sound systems. Trance, techno and hardstyle drive the energy.

The next big FABRIK date is Raul Ortiz with the Resistencia event on…>

RFM Somnii, scheduled for 5 thru 7 July, bills itself as “the largest beach festival in Europe.” And there are seriously big names for 2019 including Afrojack, Radical Redemption, DJ Snake, Jay Hardaway and American rapper Tyga (assuming he’s not in jail) to break up the Dutch monop…>

The founder and director of EDIT Napoli http://www.editnapoli.com (June 6th – 9th, 2019), the innovative design fair debuting this year, focusing on the rise of the designer-maker, reveals her home in Rome, for the first time.

Emilia Petruccelli’s home is set within the secret Quartiere Coppedé, a hidden treasure of a ne…>

Another mega summer festival with Name acts, Garorock runs from 27 thru 20 June in Marmande southeast of Bordeaux.

Let’s get right to the Names (live acts and DJs), which are semi-huge in the 12th year for this festival: DIMA, Marshmello, Charlotte de Witte, Vici Vici, Ben Harper, Macklemore and DJ Snake, with s…>

Cauterets, France – Garosnow: This ski/music event 29 thru 31 March is in the Pyrénés, not the Alps. It’s the winter version of the larger Garorock Festival (see below), but instead of summer in a French meadow, Garosnow is a ski all day, party all night thang in a charming resort. Expect House, techno and disco at la…>

SHIFT, 29 & 30 August in Turku, Finland – Two things jump out at us here. First, who said there are no conferences in August? Second, all anyone wants to talk with us about is artificial intelligence … and this is an AI for industries conference. The 2019 speaker list isn’t public yet, and his is mostly for the theor…>

SuncéBeat Festival Croatia 2019: Is your life missing something? Is EDM really enough? If not, here’s a festival in the sun (as the name suggests) from 24 thru 21 July offering more musically. Not just underground House, Disco, and Techno, but Soul, R&B and Funk. All we can say is, “Turn that Beat Around.” Not many t…>

This is the second year for Instytut Festival and we don’t know that much about it. But the concept is cool – a techno party at a humongous 19th-century fortress (check out the vid above) 50 kilometers outside Warsaw, and overlooking the confluence of two rivers. What’s not to like?

Now, throw in top acts such…>

Ypsigrock Festival 2019: This is an intimate, boutique festival in a medieval Sicilian mountain village. Which sounds sooo cool right off the bat. From 8 thru 11 August, Castelbuono becomes a multi-stage destination for music and art lovers. So far, the only musical act announced is The National from our unofficial…>