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Spend a Perfect Day at the Edinburgh Festivals
The City of Edinburgh is the world's leading festival city where people come together to share their passion for arts, culture, and ideas. During the month of August seven different festivals take place, with hundreds of events and performances for you to choose from. World-class performers and world premieres all take place alongside first-timers and amateur groups, providing an eclectic offering of talent for all to enjoy.
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Edinburgh Art Festival
During Homecoming Year, spend time with the visual literati and experience why the 21st Century is the dawn of the visual Enlightenment. From internationally renowned artists to those whose work is more experimental, the Edinburgh Art Festival presents a compelling mix of exhibitions and events. And best of all - it's free!
Exclusive to Perfect Day visitors, the Edinburgh Art Festival are offering personally tailored tours with your very own curator. A 90-minute tour for two people costs £150. Contact us to find out more about group rates and information.
Start Date: 5 August 2009; End Date: 5 September 2009; Website: www.edinburghartfestival.com
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is unique - the largest arts festival on the planet which brings thousands of performances to Scotland's capital city and where many international stars have made their names. A genuine celebration of ambition, passion and creativity for over 50 years, in 2009 the Fringe is encouraging past performers to come home to join the party in a special celebration of Homecoming.
Start Date: 7 August 2009; End Date: 31 August 2009; Website: www.edfringe.com
Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, the largest celebration of the written word in the world will create a series of special events for the 2009 Festival, including Scotland: Culture and Identity, providing a unique opportunity to celebrate and debate Scotland's rich literary and cultural heritage, in particularly the importance of Burns and the Scottish Enlightenment.
Start Date: 15 August 2009; End Date: 31 August 2009; Website: www.edbookfest.co.uk
Edinburgh International Festival
The 2009 Edinburgh International Festival programme will include the themes of Homecoming and the Enlightenment and set them in contemporary and often surprising contexts. The programme highlights Scotland's influence on some of the world's great artists and artistic endeavours, and reflects on that extraordinary moment in Scottish history that was the Enlightenment.
Exclusive to Perfect Day visitors, the Edinburgh International Festival is offering those under 18 or students in full time education 50% discount on all performances.
Start Date: 14 August 2009; End Date: 6 September 2009; Website: www.eif.co.uk
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Spanning the earliest jazz forms to the thriving creativity of today, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is Britain's biggest Jazz Festival, presenting international jazz stars, exciting new-comers, Scottish talent and Jazz On A Summer's Day, the UK's biggest one-day jazz event. Taking place over ten days from late July and into early August, the Jazz & Blues Festival features more than 100 shows and events, from big band sounds to more intimate gigs across a wide variety of city venues.
Exclusive for Perfect Day visitors, Early Bird discounts and offers.
Start Date: 31 July 2009; End Date: 9 August 2009; Website: www.edinburghjazzfestival.co.uk
Edinburgh Mela Festival
The Edinburgh Mela Festival is Scotland's leading multicultural celebration showcasing local and international talent. Founded in 1995 by members of the city's minority ethnic communities the Mela Festival has grown year on year to include acts from around the world as well as the best of multicultural Scotland. Renowned as Scotland's leading celebration of cultural diversity through the arts, the Mela Festival has an array of activities and events from stalls to musical performance debuts and a tantalising variety of food to spectacular dance and movement performances. This year's Festival kick starts with Sakhian Ladies only Night where women from all ages and cultural backgrounds are invited to enjoy a night of drama, dancing and food. The Edinburgh Mela is an exciting window into multi-cultural Scotland where fashion, theatre, dance and music can be found at the one event.
Start Date: 7 August 2009; End Date: 9 August 2009; Website: www.edinburgh-mela.co.uk
Edinburgh Military Tattoo
2009 sees Scotland's colourful military musical spectacular celebrate its 60th season, while paying tribute to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Scotland's national bard, Robert Burns, and playing its part in Scotland's first ever year of Homecoming.
A cosmopolitan cast of top-class talent will be present, including highlights such as the world-famous Massed Pipes & Drums, the Massed Bands of The Royal Air Force, Switzerland's Top Secret Drum Corps, along with highland dancing, the Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland, the traditional haunting notes of the Lone Piper and, in their first Tattoo appearance, the Central Band of the Swiss Army.
Start Date: 7 August 2009; End Date: 29 August 2009; Website: www.edintattoo.co.uk
To find out more about Edinburgh's Festivals please visit www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk