Gora Rocka, a charity three-day rock festival established in 2005, takes place in late June on Šentviška planota (St. Vitus Plateau).

Grounded is a festival of electronic music, critical thinking and activism, that addresses current social issues by combining the seemingly incompatible: deinstitutionalised theoretical debates, everyday social activism and progressive electronic club culture. The first edition of the festival was held in 2015 with the theme Autonomy of migration. Theme in 2018 was Intimacy in the age of artificial intelligence, in 2019 Automation and Power, in 2020 Truth, in 2021 The State, in 2022 Responsibility, in 2023 Peace and in 2024 Racism.

A three-day electronic dance music festival, the Halamoye Dance Festival is held in the idyllic setting of Tolmin’s Sotočje, a venue at the confluence of two rivers. Launched in 2016, the festival’s name derives from the local dialect and originally means lush vegetation, thus vividly describing the festival venue.

Taking place in Zasavje every August, Hï Festival is the result of the merger of Štuor and Kumfest festivals.

Taking place in Maribor in November, the International Festival of Computer Arts – IFCA has done pioneering work in presenting the theory and artistic practice of computer arts and new media in Slovenia and beyond.

Organised in memory of Slovenian composer Marij Kogoj, the International Festival of Contemporary Music – Kogoj’s Days takes place in the town of Kanal ob Soči. The festival was established in 1979 on the initiative of maestro Anton Nanut and Marjan Gabrijelčič, a composer and long-standing dean of the Academy of Music.

Organised in Nova Gorica since 1996, the International Saxophone Meeting embraces a festival, an international saxophone competition and a workshop on jazz improvisation.

The Festival Jazz Cerkno has been taking place in May since 1996 in the covered town square of Cerkno. Three evenings feature performances by musicians from around the world, ranging from established to less known artists, whose common purpose is inovative jazz music and the broadening of musical horizons in general. The type of jazz music that Jazz Cerkno offers is never obvious, since the programme focuses on unconventional and creative tones, on the collision of cultures and their musical practices, as well as the meshing of different approaches, with which jazz usually seeps into other genres. Rock, electronic, early and contemporary classical music, experimental and traditional ethnic idioms are thus interlaced with jazz music.

Emerging in 1960 as a showcase of local classic jazz bands, the festival evolved throughout the years together with the genre and today provides a discerning insight into contemporary jazz creativity. Each late June, Cankarjev dom’s stages, the Križanke open-air theatre and the park adjacent to Cankarjev dom provide the venue for concerts by world-renowned jazz artists.

Jazz Kamp Kranj was established in 2004. While a ten-day music workshop is given by internationally acclaimed jazz and pop musicians, jazz music is played on August nights in the enjoyable setting of Kranj’s urban pier at Pungert.