Bristol Harbour Festival

Bristol Harbour Festival
Pero's Bridge full of people passing over the harbour at one end of the Bristol Harbour Festival in 2010.
Genre	Music Festival, Community Festival
Dates	18 – 20 July 2014 17 – 19 July 2015
Location(s)	Bristol, England – Bristol Harbour, Queen Square, Millennium Square, Castle Park, Harbourside
Years active	1971–present
Website
Bristol Harbour Festival Website

The Bristol Harbour Festival is a festival held annually in the English city of Bristol, and which the celebrates the city's maritime heritage and the importance of Bristol's docks and harbour. Most of the activities, including live music, street performances, fireworks and a variety of other live entertainments, are held on or near the waterfront of Bristol Harbour. Venues include Queen Square, Lloyds Amphitheatre, Millennium Square and Castle Park, with seagoing vessels moored nearby. The liveliest part of the festival is quayside, but the main attractions are entertainment designed to engage all the communities of Bristol, as well as entertain the thousands of visitors to the city.

The city has hosted the festival since 1971, when it was started as part of an, ultimately successful, attempt to save the docks from being filled in.^[1]^[2] In 2012, the festival attracted over 300,000 visitors, its highest ever attendance, with the Irene and the Matthew being two of the tall ships to attend that year. In 2013 fireworks returned to the festival after a two-year hiatus.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

The festival is typically held over a weekend at the end of July or beginning of August. In 2014, it was held on Friday 18 to Sunday 20 July. In 2016 it is scheduled to take place on Friday 15 to Sunday 17 July.^[7]

Entertainment

The Planetarium (a large stainless-steel sphere), and people outside of "At-Bristol" at the Bristol Harbour Festival in 2008.

The Bristol Harbour Festival has a variety of entertainment from dance acts, interactive theatre, international circus acts and a mix of musicians. The Dance Village, programmed by Swindon Dance, features a main stage and participation area where visitors can learn to dance. Cirque Bijou's famous circus stage takes over Castle Park, next to an interactive Children's Area, which featured a pirate ship in 2013. SS Great Britain hosts an outdoor stage with BBC Radio Bristol, while Happy City creates an interactive area within Lloyds Amphitheatre to demonstrate all the elements which make up a happy life. In 2013 the Thekla Harbour Stage was created in Muddock to showcase up and coming bands alongside a new festival bandstand.^[8]^[9]^[10]

In previous years entertainment has included Beth Rowley, the Hot 8 Brass Band, DJ Derek, Gabby Young and the Other Animals, Sheelanagig, The Blessing, Phantom Limb, Let's Tea Party, Kid Carpet, Nuala and the Alchemy Quartet, The She Creatures, Natty, Barry Adamson and VV Brown.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]

References

↑ "The Plan To Fill In The Docks". Bristol Post. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
↑ "Saving Bristol’s Unique ‘Floating' Harbour". Inland Waterways Association. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
↑ "Saving Bristol’s Unique ‘Floating' Harbour". The Inland Waterways Association. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Enjoyed the Harbour Festival? Give us your views for the next festival". WestburyPeople. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
↑ "Bristol Harbour Festival attracts about 250,000 people". BBC News. BBC. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Fireworks return to Harbour Festival". Bristol Culture. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Bristol Harbour Festival 2016". Bristol Harbour Festival. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
↑ "Summer survival guide - The Big 3: #1 Bristol Harbour Festival". Bristol Post. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Dance Village". Bristol Harbour Festival. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
↑ "Happy City". Bristol Harbour Festival. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
↑ "Bristol Harbour Festival". BBC News (BBC). 4 June 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Bristol legend DJ Derek to scratch outdoor career after fest gig". Bristol Post. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Gabby Young and Other Animals". www.live-music-scene.co.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "A wealth of music and more at Bristol Harbour Festival". Metro. 31 July 2008. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
↑ "Bristol Harbour Festival 2011". efestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
↑ "Your guide to the Bristol Harbour Festival". Bristol Post. 1 August 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
↑ "Bristol Harbour Festival 2008". efestivals.co.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
↑ "Staton headlines Harbour Festival". BBC News (BBC). 26 June 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2015.

External links

Culture in Bristol

Venues	Bierkeller Theatre Bristol Arena (proposed) Bristol Hippodrome Bristol Old Vic Colston Hall list of artists Cube Microplex Everyman Bristol O2 Academy Bristol QEH Theatre Redgrave Theatre St George's, Brandon Hill The Thekla Tobacco Factory Victoria Rooms Watershed Media Centre Wickham Theatre Winston Theatre

Festivals	Bristol Festival of Ideas Bristol Festival of Nature Bristol Harbour Festival Bristol International Balloon Fiesta Bristol International Kite Festival Bristol Shakespeare Festival St Pauls Carnival

Museums, galleries, archives and public art	Arnolfini Blaise Castle Blaise Hamlet At-Bristol Banksy Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol Harbour Railway Bristol Record Office Bristol Zoo Georgian House Glenside Museum Kings Weston Roman Villa M Shed Observatory Red Lodge Museum Royal West of England Academy See No Evil SS Great Britain

Parks	Parks of Bristol Ashton Court Blaise Castle Brandon Hill College Green The Downs Redland Green Queen Square Snuff Mills St George Park

Creative industries	Bristol record labels

Past attractions	Ashton Court Festival British Empire and Commonwealth Museum Industrial Museum

Churches	All Saints' Church Bristol Cathedral Bristol Community Church Buckingham Baptist Chapel Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne Christ Church, Clifton Down Christ Church with St Ewen Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells Church of Holy Trinity, Stapleton Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund Church of St John the Baptist City Road Baptist Church Cotham Church Counterslip Baptist Church Clifton Cathedral Crofts End Church Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym New Room Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles St Mary Redcliffe Redland Chapel St. Augustine's Church, Whitchurch St Augustine the Less Church St George's Church St James' Priory St John the Baptist St Luke's Church St Mark's Church St Mary le Port Church St Mary on the Quay St Mary's Church, Henbury St Matthews Church St Michael on the Mount Without St Nicholas St Peter and St Paul St Peters Church, Bishopsworth St Peter's Church, Castle Park St Philip and Jacob St Stephen's Church St Thomas the Martyr St Werburgh's Church St. Paul's Church Temple Church Trinity Centre Whitefield's Tabernacle, Kingswood Whitefield's Tabernacle, Penn Street Woodlands Christian Centre

Pubs	Black Castle Public House Clifton Lido and The Victoria Public House Hatchet Inn King William Ale House Llandoger Trow Mauretania Public House Nova Scotia Old Post Office Palace Hotel Printers Devil Pump House Seven Stars Public House Shakespeare Inn Shakespeare Public House Stag and Hounds Public House The Coronation Tap The Crown The Famous Royal Naval Volunteer The Old Duke

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