Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party - an exuberant carnival of music, dancing and street theatre - is the most famous aspect of Edinburgh's Hogmanay festival. The street party gets going when the stages and screens go live at 10pm.
It has been scaled back in recent years from around 180,000 of the millennium party to around 100,000 and takes place within a smaller cordoned-off area along Princes Street. This is accessible by free street party ticket. Tickets are also available with other events such as the Concert in the Gardens and the Hoog, a disco/ceilidh in the Assembly Rooms.
Street Theatre
In previous years the Street Party has seen strange ghost-like white men on stilts inflating into huge balloons, a man who rolls around on a large concrete ball until his helper picks him up with a trolley and moves him on, black insect-like stilt-walkers and characters in macks with telescopic necks.
Live Music
Several stages carry music with current bands usually of various flavours - Scottish ceildih bands, folk rock, local bands, world, and glam pop.
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