Taking place in August in Velika Polana, the one-week Pomurje Summer Festival is the biggest event of the Pomurje region. The festival follows a programming policy of ‘something for everyone’.

The Ptuj Folk-pop Music Festival is the oldest and most prestigious event of its kind in Slovenia. The first edition was organised in 1969 by Radio Ptuj, which thus joined in the celebrations marking the 1900th anniversary of the first recorded mention of the City of Ptuj. The festival is held in late August or early September.

A result of the merger between two events, the promising Trbovlje-based Šklabfest and Ajdovščina-based Njoki Summer Festival, Punk Rock Holiday has evolved into the biggest punk-rock festival in the region. Tolmin’s Sotočje creates an idyllic setting for the festival that traces its beginnings to 2011. Running over the course of four early-August days, the festival features some of the most prominent international punk-rock acts.

Taking place in the village of Ravne pri Cerknem since 1999, the Rad bi bil normalen Festival (I Want to Be Normal Festival) presents the latest musical offering from Slovenia’s alternative artists and recently also foreign performers. The festival aims to cater for the needs of the local community, a rural region deprived of the vibrant cultural life of big cities.

The Radovljica Festival has been held in the Medieval town of Radovljica each August since 1983. While reputed for its early music orientation, the festival has recently included rarely performed nineteenth- and twentieth-century works, frequently played on period instruments.

Launched in 2000, the annual Rdeče zore (Red Dawns) International Feminist and Queer Festival is held in Ljubljana in early March.

Ritem srca (Rhythm of the Heart) is an annual contemporary Christian music festival organised each October by Radio Ognjišče at the St. Stanislaus Institute in Ljubljana.

The Sajeta Creative Camp was launched in 1998 as the first festival organised in Tolmin’s Sotočje, a venue at the confluence of two rivers. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in early July 2019, the festival provides a platform for interaction among diverse creative practices and experiences of music as its main focus. The Sajeta’s programme thus features a variety of music genres, including electronica, jazz, rock, ethno and classical music, whose common link is experimentation and creativity.

The Scena Festival, taking place each March in the city of Maribor, features local music bands.

The Seviqc Brežice Festival has become the Slovenian synonym for early music. Since the establishment of the International Summer Academy for Early Music in the town of Radovljica in 1982, which stimulated a comprehensive development of early music in Slovenia and is regarded as its beginning, the festival has strengthened its reputation as an event of national importance. The Seviqc Brežice concert programme presents the wealth of the musical heritage of Europe and beyond, ranging from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century, using authentic period instruments and an historically informed approach.