Essential Music Festival

Date: July 14-15

Location: Hackney Marshes, London
Description: Brighton's festival relocates to Hackney to escape foot and mouth.

Contact: 0870 53 44 44 44

E-mail: events@essentialents .com
Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~30222.jml

Mérida Festival

Date: July 5-August 10

Location: Mérida, Extremadura, Spain
Description: Theatre, ballet and music in a Roman amphitheatre.

Contact: 0034 92 431 5353

Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~55625.jml

Summer Redneck Games

Date: July 7

Location: Buckeye Park, East Dublin, Georgia 31021, US

Description: Ironic celebration of the pickup-driving, Bush-voting fraternity.

Contact: 001 912 272 4422

E-mail: jeffkidd@wqzy.com

Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~52782.jml

Ecosystem 1.0 Date: August 2-5

Location: Amazonas, Brazil

Description: Dance-music festival, backed by Greenpeace, in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

E-mail: liquidskymusic@ hotmail.com

Link: www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~53530.jml

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