The Čipkarija Festival, which is a representative project of the Idrija Students' Club (KIŠ) and is held in August, is considered one of the most celebrated popular music festivals in the Municipality of Idrija.

For more than three decades the festival Druga Godba has been introducing less well-known musical styles and traditions, alongside big-name acts on the world and indigenous music scenes, and exploring the intersection between old and new musical styles, as well as the fusion of ethnic and modern musical expressions. A festival based in Ljubljana, takes place in Piran from 2017 onward.

The international Festival Etnika was established in 2005 and brings world music to Maribor's stages.

The jazz and world music Festival Glasbe sveta (Music of the World), which takes place in Nova Gorica, focuses on transferring ancestral musical knowledge to younger generations.

Godibodi is a festival of contemporary, authored and ethnic music, which is organized in Ljubljana and other places (MB, KR, KP, Ptuj, Bohinj…) by the Godibodi Institute together with the record label Celinka in the late spring since 2008.

Jazzinty is a boutique summer international jazz festival and a musical workshop that has been taking place every year on the third week of August in the historic city center of Novo mesto for seventeen years., Workshops are attended by a range of young, promising musicians coming from all over Europe, the USA and even Russia, Asia and Africa. Evening concerts fill the old city center and create a metropolitan atmosphere with new trends of jazz, improvised music and creative energy. In addition to the lively concert life, workshops are conducted by up to 15 international mentors, world-renowned musicians and pedagogues.

The Bohinj Festival Kanal (Channel Festival) has been bringing music enthusiasts to the lake's edge and the dried out flood channels since 2005. The festival offers a diverse musical experience, ranging from classical to more popular genres of music.

KantFest, ki od leta 2003 poteka v ruškem Domu kulture, je mednarodni natečaj za avtorsko glasbo in tekst, ki sodi v zvrst kantavtorstva in doslej še ni bila izdana na nosilcih zvoka. V poštev pridejo neizdana in neobjavljena dela, izvedena s klasičnimi kantavtorskimi postopki, kakor tudi drugi glasbeni pristopi (računalnik, posneta glasbena podlaga), ki jih izvedete solo ali največ v dvoje.

The two-day Festival Krawal takes place at an open-air venue in Železniki and offers various genres of noise music, punk, punk crust and metal.

Festival Lakeness, organised since 2014 by the Youth of Renče-Vogrsko Society in the month of August, constitutes the Vipava Valley’s biggest event.