Easter Festival

2006

Princes Street Gardens

The Edinburgh Easter Festival, now in its fourth year is to include an 'Easter Sunday Funday' in Princes Street Gardens.  This will include:

-  Maypole dancing

-  Victorian games

-  Bagpipe lessons

-  an Easter Egg Hunt

-  Musical entertainment.

Carnival Cancelled

However, the organisers have announced that, with no public financial and faced with a bill of over £4,000 for policing, they have been forced to cancel event's Cavalcade.

The Cavalcade in 2005, from Market Street to the West End of Princes Street included 4,000 performers and was watched by an estimated 35,000 people.

Edinburgh Evening News   -   March 1, 2006:  p.10

 

 

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