Bristol Harbour Festival

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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	26th – 28 July 2013
Location(s)	Bristol, England – Bristol Harbour, Queen Square, Millennium Square, Castle Park, Harbourside
Years active	1971–present
Website
Bristol Harbour Festival Website

The Harbourside in Bristol, England, has hosted the Bristol Harbour Festival since 1971 started to save the docks from being filled in,^[1] with over 250,000 visitors attending live music, street performances and a variety of live entertainment. The festival includes music stages, a dance stage, street theatre performances, and water displays. In 2013 fireworks returned to the festival after a two year hiatus.

Most of the activities are held near the waterfront, in 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 festival celebrates the city's maritime heritage and the importance of Bristol's docks and harbour, and takes place over a weekend at the end of July or beginning of August.

Entertainment

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 Britainhosts 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.

In previous years entertainment has included Beth Rowley, The Hot 8 Brass Band,DJ Derek, Gabby Young and the Other Animals, Sheelanagig, The Blessing and Phantom Limb,Let's Tea Party, Kid Carpet, Nuala and the Alchemy Quartet, The She Creatures, Natty, Barry Adamson Babel, Bobby Andersen and VV Brown.

In 2012 the Bristol Harbour Festival attracted the biggest crowd to date with 300,000 people visiting the festival.^[2] The Irene and The Matthew were two of the tall ships to attend the Harbour Festival this year.^[3]

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

References

↑ https://www.waterways.org.uk/waterways/history/historic_campaigns/bristol_s_floating_harbour
↑ Enjoyed the Harbour Festival? Give us your views for the next festival, WestburyPeople, 24 July 2012
↑ Final preparations being made for Bristol Harbour Festival, Bristol Evening Post, 20July 2012

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v t e Culture in Bristol

Venues	Bierkeller Theatre Bristol Arena (proposed) Bristol Hippodrome Bristol Old Vic Colston Hall list of artists Cube Microplex 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' 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, Bristol 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, Bristol Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles St Mary Redcliffe Redland Chapel St. Augustine Church (Bristol) St Augustine the Less Church, Bristol St George's Church, Brandon Hill St James' Priory, Bristol St John the Baptist, Frenchay St Luke's Church, Brislington St Mark's Church, Bristol St Mary le Port Church, Bristol St Mary on the Quay St Mary's Church, Henbury St Matthews Church, Cotham St Michael on the Mount Without St Nicholas, Bristol St Peter and St Paul, Bristol St Peter, Bristol St Peters Church, Bishopsworth St Philip and Jacob, Bristol St Stephen's Church, Bristol St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol St Werburgh's Church, Bristol St. Paul's Church, Bristol Temple Church, Bristol Trinity Centre Whitefield's Tabernacle, Bristol Whitefield's Tabernacle, Kingswood Woodlands Christian Centre

Pubs	Black Castle Public House Clifton Down railway station The Coronation Tap Hatchet Inn, Bristol 17 King Street, Bristol King William Ale House Llandoger Trow Mauretania Public House Nova Scotia, Bristol The Old Duke Old Post Office, Bristol Palace Hotel, Bristol Printers Devil, Bristol Pump House, Bristol Seven Stars Public House, Bristol Shakespeare Inn, Bristol Shakespeare Public House, Bristol Stag and Hounds Public House The Crown, Bristol Clifton Lido and The Victoria Public House

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Bristol Harbour Festival

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