Boardmasters Festival is an annual music & surfing/skateboarding festival in Cornwall, UK.
Boardmasters usually held over 5 days on the second weekend of August. The event is a combination of live music and surfing/skateboarding competitions in and around the town of Newquay.
The festival was founded in 1981 through the surfing competition, but in 2005 the music side of the festival was created, taking place at Watergate Bay. The current capacity of the Boardmasters Festival is 53,000.