Summary
WHAT makes a successful festival? There are, in the city where The Herald is based, more than a few souls who still mourn the demise of Mayfest and see Glasgow as lacking the ingredient that makes Edinburgh world famous. It is an attitude that ignores the continuing success of other events, including Celtic Connections at the start of the year and the jazz festival at the start of July and probably the real lament is more for memories of good times past and their own lost youth rather than anything of the festival itself.
It is not as if Glaswegians, should they find nothing of interest in the vast panoply of artistic endeavours regularly on their doorstep, need to travel very far in search of a festival. Sixty miles up the road in the Fair City of Perth, the Perth Festival of the Arts, now in its 33rd year and therefore able to dismiss Mayfest as a deceased whippersnapper, has reached its climactic weekend with concerts by reborn punk band The Stranglers tonight and TV diva Lesley Garrett in concert with the Northern Sinfonia tomorrow.See the full content of this document
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The Fair City Cracks That Elusive Festival Formula
For years an exclusively classical music event run by a lay committee, which produced its own opera and featured an exclusive residency by a top-notch ensemble, Perth has undergone a careful incremental tran...
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