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Record Turn Out for EDF Energy Bristol Harbour Festival
Bristol City Council Events Team has hailed this year's EDF Energy Bristol Harbour Festival the biggest yet with record turn out of an estimated 220,000 visitors.
The festival, now in its 37th year, featured five music stages, three dance stages and an internationally flavoured circus stage, covering 8544sqm of space across Bristol's city centre harbourside.
Festivals and event manager David Whitelock explained: "We are delighted with the festival's support from the public turn out this year and the popularity of our new Dance Village.
"From an operational perspective everything has run very smoothly with no major incidents and positive reports from all the emergency services. We want to thank them for all their support this weekend. We had a fresh new team working on the festival this year and we were really happy with how this worked.
"The music programme over all the stages has been the strongest programme to date. We only had one change to the advertised bill and the replacement of Barry Adamson with Sekou Keita was received with open arms and hearts by the Bristol audience. Local girl Beth Rowley generated the biggest turn-out in Queen's Square since Massive Attack played there in 2003!"
Over 200 boats turned out for the festival filling every mooring in the harbour, with three feature ships in the form of Kaskelot, the Earl of Pembroke and Bristol's very own The Matthew. A stunning firework display choreographed to music rounded off the Saturday night entertainment programme with Pains Fireworks using 400 cues to create over 2000 explosions.
In picture: the Festival organising team.
20th August 2008
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