This years 43nd Brighton Festival (May 2009) promises to be one of the most exciting and dynamic festivals ever, with an international line-up including some of the biggest names and hottest stars from the worlds of classical music, opera, jazz, dance, theatre, modern music and much much more.

About Brighton Festival
Take a bite out of Brighton Festival 2009. This year offers another exhilarating 3 weeks of world-class art and entertainment. Make sure you don’t miss out on the biggest and best mixed arts festival in England.

This year, the Festival has over 800 events within the main international programme and the 'Umbrella" of independently promoted activities.

Brighton Festival also manages and programmes the Brighton Dome.
www.brightonfestival.org/

Then don’t forget the Fringe
England's largest & oldest annual Fringe Festival

Probably the best Fringe in the world!

A brief history…
Brighton & Hove has held Fringe activity since the Brighton Festivals’ creation in 1967. Over the years this has grown significantly and been presented in a number of different ways. In 1967 it was called Fringe, the name was changed to ‘Umbrella’ until 2001, and in 2002 it became ‘The Open’ and then returned to its natural home again as ‘The Brighton Festival Fringe’ in 2002. Between 1985 and 1995 this activity increased ten fold and it hasn’t stopped yet!

The Brighton Festival Fringe works in much the same way as the Edinburgh and the Adelaide Fringe. But unlike them, which were set up independently from festivals on at the same time, it has grown out of, and become separated from, the Brighton