Edinburgh festival articles
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Is it true that Grace Kelly performed at the Edinburgh Festival?
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Edinburgh's Christmas and Hogmanay: Council faces possible legal action over 2024 winter festivals contract
Edinburgh council is facing possible legal action over the award of the contract for this year's Winter Festivals amid "serious concerns" raised about the procurement process. Councillors are due to approve the appointment for up to five years of Unique Assembly, the consortium which stepped in to organise Edinburgh's Christmas in 2022 after the original contractor pulled out. Unique Assembly was then given a one-year extension to run last year’s event as well. But rival event planners GC...
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Edinburgh’s Beltane Fire Festival 2024: Thousands attend spectacular Celtic celebration on Calton Hill
Edinburgh’s popular Beltane Fire Festival returned to Calton Hill last night - a celebratory event that attracts thousands each year. The ancient event, that goes back 3,000 years, celebrates new life and purity and marks the end of the darker seasons and the arrival of summer on May Day. The age old tradition, was revived for modern times in Edinburgh in 1988 and is now one the largest celebrations of its kind in the world. Around 8,500 people attended the event where they followed the...