Adelaide Cabaret Festival

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The Adelaide Cabaret Festival is an annual festival of cabaret held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is largest festival of its type in the world with more than 48,000 attendances.[1] It is internationally renowned, with The Australian hailing it a potential rival to the Adelaide Festival of Arts.[2]

Begun in 2000, the festival is held at the Adelaide Festival Centre in June each year, usually commencing on the long weekend of the Queen's Birthday. In 2006, the festival comprised around 200 individual shows by more than 400 performers from across Australia and the world, and grossed over AU$1.1 million in ticket sales.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Adelaide Cabaret Festival (2006-10-16). Retrieved on 2006-10-16.
  2. ^ Strahle, Graham. "Songs rule at Adelaide's other festival", The Australian, 2006-06-12. Retrieved on 2006-10-16.
  3. ^ "Our festival a $1.1m class act", Sunday Mail, 2006-06-25. Retrieved on 2006-10-16.

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