The largest free event in the city: The iconic harbour festival 2024 has been launched

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This years harbour festival will bring the best of Bristol’s emerging artists as well as established and international performers across all genres, with three days full of entertainment, food and fun. The festival opens on Friday the 19th of July.

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00:00 Very exciting to see this sort of like take up and passion for the festival.

00:05 Absolutely yeah, how close it is to like people's hearts.

00:08 The Bristol Harbour Festival is one of the biggest events of the year, showcasing some of the best parts of the city all in one place, the Bristol Harbourside.

00:20 So Bristol Harbour Festival this year will take place from Friday the 19th of July to Sunday the 21st of July.

00:29 And we've been working behind the scenes to create the programme, reach out to all different partners that want to get involved.

00:36 The Bristol Harbour Festival pays tribute to Bristol's rich nautical history and this Harbour Festival is set to be no different.

00:45 Let's find out from the Harbour Festival team why this year's Harbour Festival is going to be so iconic.

00:52 It's a huge festival in Bristol celebrating Bristol as a whole and also the harbour itself.

00:58 We've got lots of different venues including On The Water, which is taking place right here.

01:03 We've got cardboard boat races, model boat races, flyboarding, dragon boat demonstration.

01:09 Bristol Harbour Festival is I believe still the three largest festival to attend for Bristol residents and people outside of Bristol.

01:17 It's also got sort of a long history to it.

01:21 So obviously it's been going on for over 50 years and how it came about I think is why it has got such a close...

01:31 It's very close to people's hearts.

01:33 The history behind it, the heritage and the traditions of it.

01:36 People fought for it so it's definitely got quite a strong passion amongst people that come along to it.

01:43 This year's Harbour Festival will still include the iconic cardboard boat racing,

01:49 which will literally be here behind me in two months,

01:53 as well as a plethora of different food and locally sourced drinks.

01:58 We've also got the amphitheatre, which is literally just over there behind us.

02:03 And that is our main music stage, the Harbour View stage, which is opening from the Friday night.

02:08 And we are partnering with music programmers such as Global Local and Greenpeace as well

02:14 to bring a real variety of national and international artists as well as local artists as well.

02:20 This year's Bristol Harbour Festival will showcase the best of the harbour with a bit of homage to the past,

02:27 but also a bit of fresh perspective on the future.

02:30 So we'll be expecting a lot of different performance areas across the harbour,

02:35 with obviously a big emphasis on the water activities.

02:38 This year's Harbour Festival will bring the best of Bristol's emerging artists,

02:43 as well as established and international performers across all genres,

02:48 with three days full of entertainment, food and fun.

02:52 The festival opens on Friday 19th July to Sunday 21st July.

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