Thread: Annual Festival Edinburgh name???

The Christmas Festival
runs 22/11 to Jan

http://www.edinburgh.org/events/

Originally Posted by joel_nicholson

Whats the name of the annual festival thing at Edinburgh each year around this time? The word is in my head but I cannot unzip the correct file


(And yes I know with a name like mine I SHOULD know this)

List of Edinburgh summer Festivals


The Pleasance Venue


The Edinburgh summer Festivals, in order of the year of their foundation, are as follows. An asterisk indicates that the Festival is a member of Festivals Edinburgh,[3] the umbrella body which represents the Edinburgh Festivals to government.

• Edinburgh International Festival (1947)* — The original and "official" festival consisting of classical and contemporary Theatre, Opera, Music and Dance.
• Edinburgh Fringe (1947)* — Started life as a small scale "fringe" event to the EIF, but is now the largest of all the festivals and indeed the largest arts festival in the world.[4] Includes Theatre, Comedy, Music, Musicals, Dance and Children's shows.
• Edinburgh Military Tattoo (1950)*
• Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival (1978)*
• Edinburgh International Book Festival (1983)*
• Edinburgh Mela (1995) — celebrating Edinburgh's South Asian communities
• Edinburgh International Internet Festival (1999)
• Edinburgh People's Festival (2002, but claims heritage from earlier Festival of same name 1951-1954)
• Edinburgh Interactive Festival (2003)
• Edinburgh Art Festival (2004)*
• Edinburgh Annuale (2004) — contemporary art
• Festival of Politics (2005)
• Festival of Spirituality and Peace (2005)
• iFest (2007) — the Internet Festival and Conference
• Edinburgh Swing Festival

The following Festival also occurs in Edinburgh during August, but is essentially an industry gathering - it does not offer events open to the public.

Ahhhhh that is the one, the Military Tattoo!


"(In Australia the Tattoo is traditionally telecasted by ABC on the evening of New Year's Day, although in a break with tradition, the 2006 Tattoo was broadcast two days earlier on December 30.)" -wikipedia