Street Performer Billy Watman on the Mound

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Library Item

Item no

37112

Title

Street performer Billy Watman playing guitar on the Mound during the Fringe Festival

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2015

Type

Digital image

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has its roots in the attendance of eight uninvited theatre groups at the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival in 1947. This unofficial adjunct to the festival grew in both size and organisation throughout the 1950's with more and more performers coming to take advantage of the audiences drawn to the capital by the official events. By the end of the decade a well organised Festival Fringe Society had been established with a constitution, brochure, and central ticket sales. In 2015 2.3 million tickets were issued for 50,000 Fringe events.

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Street performer Billy Watman on the Mound