Final Tickets for Fireworks Concert Go On Sale

Submitted by edg on Sat, 23 Aug '08 5.37pm

The final allocation of tickets for the Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert go on sale tomorrow at 10.00am. Tickets will be available only from the counter of the Hub.

For this year's display on 31st August international, fireworks artists Wilf Scott and Keith Webb from Pyrovision will let off over 100,000 fireworks, four tonnes of explosives, and hundreds of firing sequences including the famous waterfall cascading from Edinburgh Castle. The event can be watched for free from vantage points around the city.

The concert component in Princes Street Gardens will feature Hungarian Dances by Brahms and Slavonic Dances by Dvorák, performed live by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra lead by acclaimed "firebrand" Romanian conductor Nicolae Moldoveanu.

Forth 1 and 2 broadcast the concert live on the night, and the event streams live on stv's site, and is broadcast on stv later in the evening at 10.20pm.