Bristol Harbour Festival
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The Harbourside hosts the Bristol Harbour Festival (now officially named the EDF Energy Bristol Harbour Festival — EDF standing for Électricité de France) for 35 years, with about 200,000 visitors attending live music, street performances and all sorts of live entertainments by choirs, DJs or jazz bands, among others.
This is probably the liveliest part of the festival, quayside, but the main attractions are, of course, seaside — with all the water displays, with tall ships from many countries, some of the Royal Navy's most famous vessels and hundreds of sailing ships and old-time boats of all kinds.
This event is now set to be the «South-West's biggest free festival» (according to a preview by Nowt2Do) and has largely inspired quite identical events across the Channel, like Les jeudis du Port in Brest, Brittany, on the live music side, and a bunch of similar festivals across Western Europe, as it shows with the Fête Internationale de la mer et des marins (better known as Brest 2000 / 2004 etc.), held mid-July, every four years, since 1992 (see the external link below).
Bristol Harbour Festival celebrates the city's maritime heritage and the importance of Bristol's docks and harbour. 2007's edition will be held between the 27th and 29th of July.
[edit] External links
- What's On in Bristol (Bristol's official tourist information site) about the Bristol Harbour Festival
- BBC's Bristol — Going Out page about 2004 Harbourside Festival
- Nowt2Do.com's review of the 2006 EDF Energy Harbour Festival
- one of the Bristol Harbour Festival's official pages (others are available on the same sponsors' site)
