What's On in August 2010

• Throughout August 2010 - Edinburgh Art Festival - Established in 2004, the Festival works in partnership with the city’s artists, galleries, museums and visual art spaces to present modern and contemporary visual art.
   
• 16 July to 11 September - BBC Proms
   
• to 29 August 2010 - Glyndebourne Festival East Sussex.
   
• 16 July to 1 August 2010 - Ryedale Festival
   
• 31 July to 7 August 2010 - Cowes Week is the worlds premier sailing regatta, with almost 1,000 yachts and 8,000 competitors taking part in some top-class sailing.
   
• 25 July to 7 August 2010 - Church Stretton and South Shropshire Arts Festival
   
• 30 July to 8 August 2010 - Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
   
• 29 May to 29 August 2010 - Glyndebourne Festival - Opera festival at Glyndebourne in Lewes, (East Sussex) The 2010 Festival includes revivals of Così fan tutte, Macbeth, Hänsel und Gretel and The Rake's Progress as well as two new productions: Mozart's Don Giovanni and our first ever production of Britten's Billy Budd.
   
• 2 August (Monday) 2010 - Summer Bank Holiday (Scotland only - first Monday in August)
   
• 5 to 8 August 2010 - Stokes Bay Festival
   
• 5 to 8 August 2010 - Pickering Steam Traction Engine Rally
   
• 5 to 8 August 2010 - The Big Chill at Eastnor Castle Deer Park (Herefordshire).
   
• 6 to 8 August 2010 - Torbay Steam Fair - (Devon).
   
• 6 to 8 August 2010 - Edinburgh Mela - An annual multicultural arts festival celebrating the wide diversity of cultures in Scotland. Although Edinburgh Mela's roots are in South Asian cultures, this is a festival for everybody. Music, colour, dance, art, fashion, food, children's activities, the Mela bazaar and more.
   
• 6 to 8 August 2010 - One Love Festival 2010 - Reggae music festival at Hainault Forest Country Park, Fox Burrow Road, London.
   
• 6 to 13 August 2010 - Broadstairs Folk Week - (Kent).
   
• 6 to 28 August 2010 - Edinburgh Military Tattoo - Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is held annually at the Edinburgh Castle.
   
• 6 to 30 August 2010 - Edinburgh Festival Fringe the biggest arts festival in the world, with something for everyone: theatre, comedy, music, dance, exhibitions, and more.
   
• 7 & 8 August 2010 - Surrey Mini Bluegrass Festival
   
• 7 to 15 August 2010 - Three Choirs Festival - Held in August of each year in Gloucester, Hereford, or Worcester. In 2010, the festival will be held in Gloucester.
   
• 8 to 13 August 2010 - Skegness Carnival - games, competitions, galas Carnival Procession - A whole week of family fun!
   
• 13 August (Friday) 2010 - Friday the 13th - Having a party for Friday the 13th? For costumes and ideas see Themes4Parties: Spooky.
   
• 13 & 14 August 2010 - Shrewsbury Flower Festival
   
• 13 to 15 August 2010 - Saltburn Folk Festival
   
• 13 to 15 August 2010 - Bloodstock UK Festival - Open air metal festival at Derby, (Derbyshire).
   
• 13 August to 5 September 2010 - Edinburgh International Festival
   
• 14 to 30 August 2010 - Worcester Festival
   
• 14 to 30 August 2010 - Edinburgh International Book Festival - The festival began in 1983 and includes a programme of over 700 events.
   
• 20 to 22 August 2010 - Tribfest - An annual music festival featuring tribute bands. Beverley Polo Club, Tickton, (East Yorkshire).
   
• 26 to 30 August 2010 - Oxfordshire's 46th Towersey Village Festival
   
• 27 & 28 August - Driffield Folk Festival - East Yorkshire
   
• 27 to 29 August 2010 - Limetree Music and Arts Festival
   
• *27 to 29 August 2010 - Solfest - An annual music festival in Cumbria.
   
• 27 to 30 August 2010 - Shrewsbury Folk Festival - (Shropshire).
   
• 28 to 30 August 2010 - Rudgwick Steam Show held between Guildford & Horsham on the Surrey, West Sussex border.
   
• 28 to 30 August 2010 - England's Medieval Festival - Herstmonceux Castle, (East Sussex).
   
• 29 & 30 August 2010 - The County of Salop Steam Engine Rally held just outside of Shrewsbury at Onslow Park (August Bank Holiday Weekend) See more Steam & Traction Engine Rallies
   
• 30 August 2010 - Summer Bank Holiday (Last Monday in August) England, Ireland and Wales
   
• To be confirmed 2010 - Crieff Highland Gathering - Perthshire, Scotland.
   
• To be confirmed 2010 - Reading & Leeds Festival - An annual rock music festival that first began in 1961 as a jazz festival (see accommodation in Reading). 
   
• To be confirmed 2010 - Notting Hill Carnival has evolved into an event that reflects the best of Black Music. Sterling Betancourt, Russ Henderson and others were part of the first steelband and are still very much a part of Carnival playing in steelbands like Nostalgia and Pan Necktar.
   
• See what's on in September

August 2012

• 27 July to 12 August 2012 - London Olympics

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More what's on sites

• BBC last night of the Proms 
• What's On Wales art events in Wales - bilingual site.
• www.artshole.co.uk promotes the work of student and contemporary artists, as well as providing information on art exhibitions across the UK. Covering all genres from fine art to design, pottery to photography, film to fashion and animation to illustration
• Bank holidays in Scotland 
• Bank holidays in England
• RNIB Big fun runs around the UK

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