Presenting experimental audio-visual performances in Ljubljana’s Jakopič Gallery, the Sound Explicit Festival was launched in 2003. Produced by the P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute, the event aims to promote a wide spectrum of creative composition and research in the field of sound art.

Spectrum is a chamber music festival. Rather than favouring a particular stylistic period, the festival – true to its name – seeks to encompass a broad spectrum of music, ranging from Baroque to new music.

Established in 2000, the Stična Festival’s cultural programme caters to a broad spectrum of audiences and aims to promote both prominent and newly emerging cultural productions of high quality.

Ljubljana’s Stiropor Festival has achieved distinction as one of the most prominent local events aimed at presenting electronic music.

Both public and intimate one-week songwriting event, the Sub-cultural Couch Festival takes places in the beginning of February in various living rooms of Ljubljana and at other concert venues across Slovenia.

The event was established in 1994 with the intention of completely reinvigorating the cultural image of Slovenian old town centres, squares, religious buildings, castles, museums, and other built heritage with live cultural events. Each summer, the festival brings together 25 Slovenian municipalities and towns that organise, under the IMAGO SLOVENIAE trademark, more than 60 concerts by prominent Slovenian and foreign musicians and other cultural events.

Since 1995 the Summer Music Festival at Podsreda Castle has regularly taken place at Kozjanski park. During summer months, musical performances by masters and their students resonate among the castle walls and the music programme and music seminars contribute significantly to keeping the castle alive with activity. The seminars, which feature internationally renowned musicians, are the only events of this kind in the Kozjanski region. Work at the seminars includes technically focused individual music lessons as well as ensemble music-making. The artistic director of the festival is professor Andrej Zupan.

The Števerjan Folk-pop Music Festival was launched back in 1971. Each July, the event is held "under pine trees" in a village situated on the Italian side of the Brda region and mostly populated by a Slovenian community. It is organised by the Števerjan-based “Frančišek Borgia Sedej” Slovenian Catholic Cultural Society.

An international summer chamber music event, the Tartini Festival is dedicated to the Piran-born composer Giuseppe Tartini. In addition to presenting Tartini’s music, the festival also features great international and Slovenian composers and works by contemporary artists who draw inspiration from Tartini’s art.

The new festival Tolminator builds on the tradition of metal festivals in Tolmin, which has long been considered one of the epicentres of the European metal scene, attracting thousands of people from all over the world. Limiting its capacity to 5000 visitors, Tolminator brings a new focus on fans with the aim to provide a unique festival experience in the most spectacular festival location in Europe.