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391. Matthew Kearns: President and Artistic Director of St. Lou Fringe
Manage episode 430628398 series 1224413
Matthew Kearns: President and Artistic Director of St. Lou Fringe, stopped by to talk with Nancy about this year's festival. ---
About the festival: "It all started in 1947 in Edinburgh, Scotland, as an alternative festival that played concurrently with the Edinburgh International Festival. In 1948, Robert Kemp, a local journalist, gave it the name Fringe: “Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before…” ----
Since then, it has grown into an international phenomenon with more than a hundred Fringe Festivals worldwide. ----
This year's festival runs August 12th through August 18th. ----
405 episodes
Manage episode 430628398 series 1224413
Matthew Kearns: President and Artistic Director of St. Lou Fringe, stopped by to talk with Nancy about this year's festival. ---
About the festival: "It all started in 1947 in Edinburgh, Scotland, as an alternative festival that played concurrently with the Edinburgh International Festival. In 1948, Robert Kemp, a local journalist, gave it the name Fringe: “Round the fringe of official Festival drama, there seems to be more private enterprise than before…” ----
Since then, it has grown into an international phenomenon with more than a hundred Fringe Festivals worldwide. ----
This year's festival runs August 12th through August 18th. ----
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