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Edinburgh Festivals - About the Festivals (268 words) |
 | The Edinburgh Festival is a generic term used to describe the cultural explosion in August each year. |
| Since the late 1940s Edinburgh has become a hotspot for artistic talent beginning with the International Festival and the Fringe. |
| The Jazz festival starting in late July and the Edinburgh Mela in the last days of August bookend a phenomenal six weeks of arts and culture in the city. |
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Edinburgh Fringe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3740 words) |
| The Fringe is regarded as being part of the Edinburgh Festival. |
| While their original objective was to maintain something of the Festival atmosphere in Edinburgh all year round, the Traverse quickly and regularly presented cutting edge drama to an international audience on both the Edinburgh International Festival and on the Fringe during August. |
| Statistics for the 2006 festival which are published on the official website concluded that it was the largest festival on record: there were 28,014 performances of 1867 different shows in 261 venues, while ticket sales reached 1.5 million, the fourth year in a row that they had exceeded 1 million. |
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