Milford Winter Lights Festival brighten the season

As winter darkness encroaches, once again the Winter Lights Festival approaches.

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My Edinburgh: Joe Dunthorne, writer

My grandmother, who lives in Edinburgh, regards the festival with suspicion. With its queues, traffic, tourists, mimes, jugglers and student experiential theatre troupes, it’s easy to see why.

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Downtown arts fest slated for Saturday

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Downtown Association (BDA) will present its fifth annual Brunswick Outdoor Arts Festival on the sidewalks of Maine Street and on the Brunswick Mall from 9 a.m.

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Next Maine Event: Brunswick fest full of arts to see, hear and do

Brunswick hosts its Outdoor Arts Festival for the fifth time Saturday, and there will be plenty to enjoy, from traditional visual arts to musical performances and in-progress projects like barn building and dragon tunnel making.

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Buskers, stars and tourists crowd Edinburgh Festival

EDINBURGH (Reuters) – The Edinburgh Fringe Festival swung into exuberant action on Friday as 21,000 performers ranging from street buskers and mimes to top-class singers, actors and cabaret stars set out to entertain in a city whose population doubles in size over the coming month.

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Busker Fest welcomes back Ol’ Savannah

The folk/roots rockers are coming to a waterfront near you, and they won’t be breathing fire. by Allison Saunders Somewhere among the magicians, mimes, pyromaniacs and breakdancers that will be stealing your attention as part of the busker festival, you find these gritty folk rockers from Quebec. It’ll be Ol’ Savannah’s second year performing as part of the festival and while they’ll play a …

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On your marks, get set, go for London’s festival of culture

With a year to go, exactly, until the world’s attention focuses on London, the city’s party-planner-in-chief is in bullish, confident mood. Director of the Cultural Olympiad and head honcho of the London 2012 Festival, which starts next Midsummer Day, Ruth Mackenzie is registering a steady tick on her ‘stressometer’ but claims that each new piece of the 2012 arts jigsaw is falling pleasingly …

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