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Joy Town
Come on down to a one-of-a-kind festival that's going to be an edge-of-your-seat joyride and the talk of the town. Get insider access to the thrilling world of BMW motoring as your favourite BMW gets its drift mode on, witness insane stunts by BMW Motorrad riders, and experience that big love feeling of a MINI. Groove to the beats and tunes of your favourite artists.
7th Jan: RITVIZ | KING | RAJAKUMARI | RAGHAV MEATTLE | TECH PANDA + KENZANI
8th Jan: LUCKY ALI | PETER CAT RECORDING CO. | FARIDKOT FEAT. AMAR JALAL | MITRAZ | DJ TASNNEEM
Indulge in culinary delights and wash it all down with a beer at our exclusive beer garden. Or if you fancy a cocktail, our mixologists will be keeping the mood high and the vibe heady well into the evening.
Experience sheer entertainment at its peak where automotive thrills, music, food, and fun converge. Won't you take me to JoyTown? To drift. To dance. To eat. And to rock out!




Date: - 7th and 8th January 2023, 12 pm
Venue: - MMRDA Grounds, BKC, Bandra (East) Mumbai


Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 - Jaipur Music Stage
The Jaipur Literature Festival 2023 is all set to bring a range of exhilarating performers to the Jaipur Music Stage, which will be running parallel to the Festival. Infusing the audience with a melodic exuberance at the literary extravaganza, the Jaipur Music Stage will be a 3-day long programme, set to run from 19th to 21st January, 2023 featuring a range of celebrated artistes from all around the globe.
Date: - 19th, 20th and 21st January 2023
Venue: - Hotel Clarks, Amer, Jaipur


Mumbai Drum Day 2023
Mumbai Drum Day 2023 is back after a break of two years. A concert dedicated to the Drum set curated by Gino Banks has a great lineup of duet performances this year bringing a fresh concept of the Jugal bandi in Indian Music and Trading in Jazz Music.
This year drumset in partnership with various percussion instruments like the Ghatam, Tabla, and Dholak from India and the Djembe from Africa. This showcases our Greatest Talents on the drumset blend seamlessly with the Masters of our Traditional Percussion Instruments. The theme of Mumbai Drum Day 2023 is Celebrating the Drum set with Rhythms of India.
Date: - 20th January 2023, 6.30 pm
Venue: - St Andrews Auditorum, Bandra, (West), Mumbai


Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival (MSLF)
The much-awaited Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival (MSLF) is back with its 14th edition and is set to run from 03rd to 07th February, 2023. Presenting a five-day programme and a cornucopia of sights, sounds and experiences, the festival celebrates Lucknow and the erstwhile Awadh region and its different historical and cultural aspects. Held at the historical monuments Safed Baradari and the Salempur House, the theme of the festival this year is Raqs-o-Mausiqi, through which the festival will explore the rich musical and dance traditions of Awadh.
Date: - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th February 2023
Venue: - Baradari, Qaiser Bagh, Lucknow, India


Sacred Spirit Festival, 2023
The Mehrangarh Museum Trust, the Sacred Spirit Festival (SSF) brings together musical talents from different parts of the world and showcases the spiritual and sacred music traditions that transcends communities, cultures, and faith. The aim of the Sacred Spirit Festival is to bring together diverse soulful music traditions at a common platform and to conserve these rich oral traditions existing across the globe.
Date: - 10th, 11th and 12th February 2023
Venue: - Mehrangarh Fort, Jodhpur


OddBall Festival
A new festival hits Indian cities in February 2023, with the launch of ODDBALL FESTIVAL – taking place in Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru. Rock/funk trailblazers The Aristocrats will appear as headlining artists in all three cities for the inaugural edition and traveling event put together by promoters and artist management companies BlueTree & ODDC.


Date: - 17th February 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Dublin Square, Phoenix Marketcity, Kurla, Mumbai


Mahindra Roots Festival
The Mahindra Roots festival seeks to reintroduce and celebrate the spectacular amalgamation of India’s vast and diverse cultural heritage through a contemporary lens in Mumbai city on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of February of 2023.
Date: - 24th February 2023, 7 pm
Venue: - Bal Gandharva Mandir, Bandra, Mumbai


Vh1 Supersonic
All the madness. All the love. All our friends - old and new. Save the date - will you be there and be free?

Seeing you guys on 24th - 26th February, 2023! Hop onto www.gosupersonic.in or the link bio for updates.
Date: - 24th, 25th and 26th February 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Laxmi Lawns, Pune, India


Road to Ultra - India 2023 - Mumbai
Road To ULTRA India will make its celebrated return in 2023 following a five-year hiatus kicking off in Mumbai on 14th April 2023, followed by a second show at in Bengaluru on 15th April 2023, both with the same stacked line-up of world class artists.
The lineup in the second edition, has the industry’s most prolific tastemakers, multi-award-winning and platinum-record-selling artist Afrojack, as well as DJ Mag’s #12 DJ in the world KSHMR. The lineup also adds James Hype to its stacked billing, as he is one of the UK’s most hyped musical exports and will be making his India debut at the single day events. The trio will be supported by a plethora of stellar global acts such as Dutch electronic stars Cesqeaux and Chico Rose, ULTRA veteran MYKRIS as well as bubbling regional artists Siana Catherine and Teri Miko who will each be taking to the decks for a pulsating performance.



Date: - 14th April, 3 pm
Venue: - To be announced later


Road to Ultra - India 2023 - Bangalore
Road To ULTRA India will make its celebrated return in 2023 following a five-year hiatus kicking off in Mumbai on 14th April 2023, followed by a second show at in Bengaluru on 15th April 2023, both with the same stacked line-up of world class artists.
The lineup in the second edition, has the industry’s most prolific tastemakers, multi-award-winning and platinum-record-selling artist Afrojack, as well as DJ Mag’s #12 DJ in the world KSHMR. The lineup also adds James Hype to its stacked billing, as he is one of the UK’s most hyped musical exports and will be making his India debut at the single day events. The trio will be supported by a plethora of stellar global acts such as Dutch electronic stars Cesqeaux and Chico Rose, ULTRA veteran MYKRIS as well as bubbling regional artists Siana Catherine and Teri Miko who will each be taking to the decks for a pulsating performance.



Date: - 15th April 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - To be announced later


World Jazz Festival - Mumbai
This year, in its 3rd Edition, the World Jazz Festival grows to newer heights, travelling to 6 cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune, Dehradun & Hyderabad - in 10 days, between the 20th and 30th of April 2023.
The Festival Tour marks the occasion of International Jazz Day, celebrated annually worldwide, on the 30th of April.
The evening features an extraordinary line-up of eminent jazz musicians from the Netherlands, USA, Brazil, Serbia and South Korea.


Date: - 29th and 30th April, 2023, 6.30 pm
Venue: - Bal Gandharva Rang Mandir, Bandra, Mumbai


International Jazz Day 2023
World Jazz Day is Back.
Date: - 30th April 2023, 6. 30 pm
Venue: - Tata Theatre, NCPA, Nariman Point, Mumbai


Palm Expo 2023
PALM Expo is India's foremost tradeshow for the Professional Sound, Audiovisual and Lighting Industry. It provide a robust show which will revive businesses and connect the most important pro AV markets of the subcontinent to the network again. It aims to conquer the challenges to bring to exhibitors a world-class expo, connect exhibitors to a valuable buyer community and host a vibrant exchange of information through the immensely successful PALM highlight features.


Date: - 25th, 26th and 27th May 2023, 10 am
Venue: - Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai


The Outback Festival
Leh, Ladakh was abuzz with excitement in September 2022 as adventure enthusiasts from across the country gathered for the inaugural edition of the extraordinary Outback Festival. The event is held at a breathtaking elevation of 11,500 feet above sea level. It is the world’s highest motorable adventure and music festival.
The festival returns this September from 16th to 17th, 2023.


Date: - 16th and 17th September 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Leh, Ladkh, North India.


Sunburn at MotoGP Bharat
The world of high-speed motorcycle racing has joined hands with the pulsating beats of electrifying music as MotoGP™ Bharat announced its unique experiential partnership with Sunburn, Asia’s premiere electronic dance music festival, to create confluence of speed and music for the first time at a MotoGP™ race track.
This racing arena will be transformed into a fun-filled party zone, rechristened as the Sunburn Arena within the fan zones. Loaded with enthralling moments, the Sunburn Arena will witness performances by some of the most popular and renowned Indian and International artists on both days (Saturday and Sunday) of the racing event.
Date: - 23rd and 24th September 2023
Venue: - Buddh International Circuit, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR


Ziro Festival of Music 2023
The Ziro valley is the home to Apatani tribe. The Apatani tribe is famous for their hospitality and their love for music. The Ziro Festival of Music gives an outlet to this penchant for music and the desire to have an organised music festival. The festival draws music lovers from distant parts of the country. It is an outdoor festival which is celebrated with a lot of energy and enthusiasm. Apart from being a fertile opportunity to showcase the talents and music of North East, the festival also helps to promote tourism in the state

Date: - 28th, 29th, 30th September and 1st October 2023
Venue: - Ziro Valley, Arunachal Pradesh, North East, India


Jodhpur RIFF 2023
The Jodhpur RIFF (Rajasthan International Folk Festival) is “India’s premiere international roots music festival of folk, indigenous, jazz, reggae, classical and world music”. It takes place every October around Sharad Poornima, the night of the brightest full moon in north India, in the intimate setting of the spectacular fifteenth-century Mehrangarh Fort.


Date: - 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th October 2023
Venue: - Mehrangarh Fort. Jodhpur, India


Mahindra Independence Rock Festival
The rock festival was initiated to revive the rock scene in India through music alone besides providing the young independent rock musicians with a creative platform to express non-conformist ideas, freedom of speech, inclusivity, and equality.
Date: - 4th and 5th November, 3 pm
Venue: - Mumbai. Venue to be announced later


Cherry Blossom Festival 2023 - Shillong
The absence of the Festival last year left a void, but his year hopefully something grand is on the cards. Get your tickets for all the three days to enjoy some great Indian and International acts performing.
Date: - 17th, 18th and 19th November 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Shillong, India


The Majuli Music Festival (MMF)
The Majuli Music Festival (MMF) is an annual not-for-profit music festival staged in the picturesque island of Majuli in Assam. It was launched in 2019 by the Majuli Music Festival Foundation, with a break for COVID, it was held again in 2021 and hosts over 30 artists from across India.
Besides watching the amazing performances, attendees can sample tribal cuisine and wine, camp under the stars, fishing and boating, get a glimpse into the way of life at the village and visit the Sri Sri Samaguri Satra to learn about the mask making tradition of the area.
The main purpose of the Music Festival is designed keeping sustainability at its core. The stages and decor are made with locally-sourced bamboo from the village and the installations are created using recycled materials.
The upcoming edition of the festival will be held between 21st to the 24th November 2023.

Date: - 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th November 2023, 4pm
Venue: - Majuli Island, Assam, India


Bacardi NH7 Weekender
The 14th edition of India’s longest-running and much-loved festival is back with a feisty spirit this year, with a milestone record of pre-sale tickets getting sold out within the first 48 minutes of going live. Returning under the theme of #ItsAMood, the organizers recently revealed plans to amplify conversations around sustainability, accessibility, and inclusivity besides gender equality, all of which have for years formed the core fabric of the happiest music festival.
Date: - 1st, 2nd and 3rd December 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Teerth Fields, Pune


Hornbill Festival
Hornbill Festival is celebrated every year on the first week of December. From 1st to 10th December, Nagaland is seen celebrating tribal culture, spectacular diversity, and glorious past and promising future.
Date: - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th December 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Kisama, Nagaland, North East, India


Orange Festival, Dambuk, Adventure and Music Festival
OFAM 2023 is happening at the end of the year.
Festival Dates - 15th -18th December 2023. Don’t delay, grab them now.
Tickets Available here - www.orangefestivaldambuk.in

Date: - 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th December 2022, 4 pm
Venue: - Dambuk, Arunachal Pradesh, North East, India


Mahindra Kabira Festival
The Mahindra Kabira Festival is held annually on the historic ghats of Varanasi with an aim to unleash the mystic melodies and artistic vibes of the Poet-Saint Kabir and convey the essence of Kabir’s philosophy to new-age audiences.
Date: - 15th, 16th and 17th December 2023, 3 pm
Venue: - Varanasi, On the river banks of the Ganga, India


The Serendipity Arts Festival
The Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa was launched in 2016 and since then it has evolved into one of the largest annual interdisciplinary cultural extravaganzas in South Asia. A panel of 14 curators selects the events and experiences, which are presented over eight days in December. Covering the fields of culinary, performing and visual arts, they’re hosted at venues across the city of Panaji. The sites range from heritage buildings and public parks to museums and riverboats.


Date: - 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd December 2023
Venue: - Panjim, Goa


Bandland Festival
Legendary British rock band Deep Purple and American rock icons Goo Goo Dolls are set to headline the festival Bandland. Known for their unforgettable hits like Smoke on the Water and Iris, respectively, Deep Purple are sure to bring in the rockers.
Date: - 16th and 17th December 2023, 5 pm
Venue: - Embassy International Riding School Ground, Bengaluru.


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