Edinburgh Festival: an art feast attracts the whole city

Edinburgh is a famous cultural city in the UK and the capital of Scotland. The Old Town of Edinburgh and the New Town are listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. In 2004, Edinburgh became the world's first city of literature. In addition, the famous Edinburgh International Festival often attracts top-notch literary and art groups around the world to perform, and Edinburgh has become the second largest tourist city in the UK after London.

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Every August, Edinburgh caught the attention of the world, only because of the opening of an annual festival event. During this period, the number of tourists in Edinburgh reached its peak; the pub is able to legally extend its business hours, and all the people in Edinburgh were busy and crazy for it. This is Edinburgh Festival.

The official name of Edinburgh Festival is "International Festival of Music and Drama", which is divided into two parts: music and non-music. Openness is a feature of Edinburgh Festival. During more than 1,700 performances throughout the festival, the number of the peripheral art performances has reached 1,500. Many young people won the award and entered the entertainment industry from here.

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Edinburgh Festival has two major features. One is the performance of a military band with unique ethnic characteristics. During the annual music festival, the bagpipes wearing different colors of traditional Scottish costumes will gather in Edinburgh Castle Square to perform military music and delineation. Everything about Edinburgh Festival is new every year. Only the military band performances have not changed much. From the 1950 premiere, 23 times a year, the venue is full of audiences. The second major feature is that the classic selection of repertoires will become the protagonist of the festival every year, which also highlights the taste of the Edinburgh Festival. Although their prices are often the highest during the festival, often more than a month before the show, tickets have been ordered. Edinburgh Festival is open, but not kitsch; it is commercial, but it does not lose its taste. In dealing with popular art, national art and classic art, the organizers of the festival showed their internal strength.

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