Bath Fringe Festival

Bath Fringe Festival
DatesMay–June
Location(s)Bath, Somerset
Years activeSince 1981
WebsiteFestival website
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The Bath Fringe Festival is an annual art festival, held in Bath, England.

Bath Fringe was founded in 1981 as a counterbalance to the 'classical'-dominated Bath Music Festival, which some people perceived to be elitist and out-of-touch with what a younger local audience wanted.[1] In many ways the Bath Fringe was a direct descendant of the Walcot Festivals of the 1970s and 1980s, which had included elements of theatre, pop festival, ‘happening’, eco-activism and local creativity, supported by Bath Arts Workshop.[2]

The festival is among the oldest continually operating in England,[3] and includes around 200 events, taking place around the late May Bank Holiday, running for 17 days at the end of May and beginning of June.

  1. ^ Bullimore, Tim. "9". Fifty Festivals: The history of the Bath Festival. p. 3.
  2. ^ "History of Bath Fringe Festival". Bath Fringe Festival. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 19 December 2007.
  3. ^ "History of Bath Fringe Festival". Bath Fringe Festival. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011. Retrieved 9 November 2010.