Edinburgh Festival underway
Edinburgh Festival under way
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Sunday, 06, Aug 2006 07:10
This year's Edinburgh Festival has kicked off with a lavish parade of some of the summer's highest profile acts.
The Edinburgh Festival's Cavalcade 2006, which featured the entire cast of the Edinburgh Tattoo as well as participants from the fringe festival, and community groups, commercial floats and worldwide musical acts, paraded its way through Edinburgh's city centre this afternoon.
The parade worked its way from Market Street to Waverley Bridge before advancing along Princes Street and finishing at the end of Castle Terrace.
Brigadier Melville Jameson, producer of the Tattoo, explained to the Scotsman newspaper that "I have been concerned about local people and visitors being unable to see the sold-out production, so these free performances should provide a flavour of the main event".
Among the performers were the Massed Military Bands, the Highland Spring Dancers, Switzerland's Top Secret Drum Corps, the Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda and the New Zealand Army Band.
At least 150,000 people are thought to have attended the parade, which is this year celebrating its 30th anniversary.