10 Best destination for travel and music lovers in 2021

5 min readDec 23, 2020

Music and Travel go together like peanut butter and jelly. Traveling isn’t only about moving from one place to another but living those moments, and music creates memories. Every part of the world has the music of its own. Some places have preserved their traditional folk music for ages. Others have created an entirely new genre of music like Jazz, Techno, and Hip Hop. No matter what your taste is, if you’re a music lover, you’re sure to enjoy an amazing travel experience to the land of music.

If your prime destination in Europe, you can get to enjoy different sorts of music in each part of the continent. From historical Baroque and classical music to Italian folk music and Techno, Europe has birthed some of the best quintessential music. While in America, you can taste from soulful Country Music and Southern Jazz to Hard Rock.

Here is the list of ten best destinations for travel and music in 2021.

Havana, Cuba

Havana in Cuba is a haven for music lovers. Many Americans became familiar with Cuban music after absorbing it via 1999’s “Buena Vista Social Club.” Although many Americans traveled to Havana for a long weekend in the first half of the 20th Century, it immediately stopped after the US put an embargo on Cuba.

Today, many travel to Havana to experience pre-revolutionary son-style music, a prototype of salsa, along with Latin Jazz, Timba, and Rumba, which can be heard in the city’s streets and bars.

A tour called “Jazz in Havana” is specially designed to take travelers on the journey to a diverse array of music in Cuba, while meeting many of the musicians who make it. Along with experiencing soulful, you can travel around the city and shop in a farmers’ market with the locals, cook lunch with a Cuban chef, meets a family that restores classic tail-finned cars, etc.

Afrochella, Ghana

Afrochella is a cultural festival that takes place between Christmas and New Year’s eve in the West African City of Accra (Ghana). The event sees more than 10,00 guests all flocking from countries like the U.K., Sweden, Denmark, France, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, and Russia.

You will get to experience some of the Afrobeats culture and West African music like Afropop, Dancehall, Reggae, and fusion music.

Abdul Karim Abdullah, Afrochella’s founder, and CEO sees the festival as a way to encourage people to look at Africa as more than just a vacation spot. He says,

“It’s a festival celebrating all things African culture and helping to promote awareness and bring business to the African community.”

Tastes & Sounds of the South with Jazz Festival, Nashville to New Orleans

Unlike other music festivals, Tastes & Sounds of the South with Jazz is a 10 day Jazz and Rock n’ Roll music fest that journeys from Nashville to New Orleans.

You’ll be traveling the home of Jazz music while experiencing Jazz and Rock n’ Roll in different cities like Nashville, Memphis, Natchez, Charlotte, and New Orleans. This tour also incorporates the historical tour of the birth of Jazz music with a great range of food and drinks.

Leipzig Music Festival, Germany

The city of Leipzig has been bringing music to life for over 800 years. The summertime is when the music scene really comes to life. Bach lovers from all over the world come to celebrate travel and music with a Bach Festival every June.

More than 40 Bach choirs, societies, festivals, and associations from six continents travel to Leipzig. In doing so, they continue a tradition of the extensive Bach family of musicians, who in the 17th and 18th centuries met once a year to play music together.

The famous Leipzig music festival comprises of different music events including:

• Honky Tonk

• KlassikAirleben

• Wave Gothic Festival

• A Cappella Festival

• Leipziger Market Musik

• Leipzig Bach Festival

Trinidad and Tobago

The music of Trinidad and Tobago is best known for its calypso music, Soca music, chutney music, and steelpan.

This tropical island country is home to Soca, a combination of calypso, funk, and soul. While the music has popped up in other areas of the Caribbean, its roots are here.

At the International Soca Monarch competition, you can watch local artists showcase their musical talents in exchange for a prize. Steelpan, a drum that was invented in this country, is also rooted here and used in Carnival celebrations.

At the biggest event of the year, the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival held at the end of February, everyone is asked to participate, including tourists.

Coachella, California

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is probably the most popular music festival in the world. The 10 days festival takes place in Indio, California.

It showcases popular and established musical artists as well as emerging artists. You’ll get to enjoy some of the popular genres of music including rock, pop, indie, hip hop, and EDM. Over 250,000 people attend the festival every year.

You can pay $490 for general admission. The VIP tickets could cost over $1000. Along with enjoying music, you will get to experience great food and art installations.

Lollapalooza, Chicago

Lollapalooza is a 4-Day music festival. It’s also a summer festival which brings performances from around the country. You will get to enjoy alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic music.

The music festival attracts over 400,000 people each year.

The term Lollapalooza stands for a large lollipop. Although it started in 1991, it was stopped in 1997. It was later revived in 2003. Today, it remains one of the most visited music festivals in the US. It has hosted artists from Kanye West, Chance The Rapper, Outkast, Shawn Mendes.

Vienna, Austria

Vienna is also known as the “City of Music.” It’s home to the creations of some of the greatest classical musicians like Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Strauss, Mahler, Haydn, and Schubert.

You can visit Vienna to enjoy annual performances and music festivals all the way from September to June.

Vienna Philharmonic is the primary destination in Austria. Vienna Philharmonic is one of the world’s most regarded orchestras. The tickets are so high in demand that the people choose to wait in the long waiting lists for its weekday and weekend subscription tickets.

London, England

London has always been home to some of the best music and musicians including Beetles and Jimmi Hendrix.

From Camden to Soho and Shoreditch, music oozes from nearly every pore of London. Different musical events and music festivals take place in the capital city every year. Head to the Old Blue Last for punk, Ronnie Scott’s for jazz, and Floridita for Latin. For an alternative, London’s Camden neighborhood is a must.

New York, New York

New York has seen an amalgamation of different music genres and artists over the last two centuries. It also gave birth to some of the most notable music and musicians.

You can find some of the best underground clubs, mainstream venues to Broadway musicals. You can also experience the city’s musical legacy by attending a show at the Knitting Factory, Lincoln Center, Beacon Theater, and Music Hall of Williamsburg.

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