New Orleans Fringe Festival
New Orleans, LA -The first Fringe Festival started in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1947 when eight performing groups were excluded from the mainstream annual arts festival. They decided to perform anyway, finding inexpensive or free venues on the fringes of the city. The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has since grown into one of the largest arts festivals in the world, eclipsing the original festival that was too afraid for fringe.
Great ideas spread. Fringe Festivals have been launched in cities throughout the US, the most well-known being the festivals in Minneapolis and New York. New Orleans has always been a city that embraces artists, where creativity has flourished and the avant-garde has gravitated. These are the roots of the New Orleans Fringe Festival – the festival of the wild, weird, fresh, and original.
The Festival provides the venue and the audience; the performers do the rest. Anything can be performed. The Festival is a forum for emerging and established performing artists to do their creative thing -- whatever it is -- at an annual multi-day, multi-venue event that is affordable and accessible to the community.
The New Orleans Fringe Festival takes place November 13-16, 2008 in several venues in neighborhoods in New Orleans. Most venues will be in or near the St. Claude Arts District. For more information and a complete list of venues please visit nofringe.org 
For the most recent info on this event and others,
check our New Orleans Special Event Calendar.
