Music festivals are what makes a brilliant summer. If you agree, get yourself to these!

If you're visiting Brazil, you should definitely view some Capoeira practice.

The nation's premier jazz museum is based in KC's historic 18th and Vine district.

Each year, residents of Binche don exuberant costumes and host a world-famous three-day carnival of street performances, music and dancing leading up to Ash Wednesday

WorldBeat Center in downtown San Diego, California is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving indigenous cultures of Africa and the rest of the world through Music, Art, Dance, Education & Technology.

The remarkable armadillo shaped building in Glasgow, Scotland is Sir Norman Foster's Clyde Auditorium.

Sete comes alive in July with the Worldwide Festival which was started by Giles Peterson is said to be an "explosion of cutting edge grooves by the best of today's inspirited artist".

The Big Gig in Milwaukee is the world's recognized largest music festival. Rock out over 11 whole days in the Great Place on the Great Lake.

For 22 years, Australia's absolute best roots and blues music festival has been the Byron Bay Blues Fest

The Tamworth Country Music Festival is held every year in Tamworth, New South Wales, celebrating Australian country music.

This is Queensland's largest music festival and features a world class lineup each year.

The Falls Festival has happened every New Years Eve since 1993 and is a staple on the Australian festival circuit.

This free Chicago summer festival takes place in Millenium Park and features world class gospel performers.

St. Jerome's Laneway Festival began in Melbourne in 2004. It was the brainchild of Jerome Borazio and Danny Rogers to create a music festival that would find what was new and great in music and bring it to unique settings.

Founded almost twenty years ago by Ken West and Vivian Lees, the Big Day Out music festival in Australia has become one of the world's most well- known and popular annual music events

If you would like to see live music in Chicago, or even just check out some exceptional architecture, be sure to pay a visit to the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

This annual festival is one of the world's leading jazz music events - each year world class bands headline for amazing music.

Hank Williams, the legendary country music star was born Hiram King Williams in North Alabama, The singer passed away at age 29, in an untimely death in Montgomery, Alabama.

The museum has a rotating collection in addition to a house collection so no trip to this museum is the same. Currently, the Experience Music Project is featuring a Battlestar Galactica exhibit.

Situated at St Pancras in central London this library boasts of its magnificence and glory. It is the world's largest library holding around 150 million items including books, journals, magazines, patents and music recordings.

Usually a fairly tranquil town Vic-Fezensac comes to life in the month of July when the annual Tempo Latino festival is held. Known informally as the Salsa Festival, and the largest of its type in Europe, Tempo Latino showcases the very best of Afro Cuban, Latin and Salsa music accompanied by the wildest of dancers in colourful costumes.

Francophonik is a new service on Facebook that brings you the best new music, trends, and travel for France.

If the Space Needle has evaded your curiosity all you have to do is lay eyes on it. It is awe inspiring and unique structure pulls you in for a breathtaking view of the city, the Cascade mountain range, the Olympic mountain range, the Puget Sound, Lake Washington, Lake Union, and on a clear day several mountains including Mount Rainier.

The haunting tones of the bagpipes and the stirring beat of the drums fill you with heart-pounding excitement. It's the music, the competition, the history and pageantry! It's the annual Pipe Band World Championship, held every August in Glasgow, Scotland, and you are on your way!

This large free world music festival takes place each year in sunny Essouria, Morocco, in June.