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Street performer with a young member of the audience
MacLean, Kevin, 2015, Digital image
Street performer with a young member of the audience
Street performer with a young member of the audience
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Street performer with a young member of the audience at the Mound during the Fringe Festival
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MacLean, Kevin
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2015
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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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