Buxton Festival Fringe goes global

PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release May/June 2008

The Buxton Festival Fringe (July 9-27) is justly proud of its many local performers but as word spreads about the Fringe, a strong international element is also building up.

Some truly remarkable, world-class acts include Benny Chi Yum Hui performing Chinese music written after the stultifying period known as the Cultural Revolution and from Greece, Marios Argiros and the award-winning Dimitris Dekavallas performing oboe and guitar music from Greece, France and South America. There is also fascinating music from world-folk duo Katuš, fresh from an international tour, and in a real coup for Buxton, South American music by Brazilian composer João Souza Lima performed by his daughter-in-law, Emma Souza Lima.

Look out too for American Bern Budd, a former Fringe Award Winner who is crossing the Atlantic to put on two shows in which he becomes humourist Mark Twain offering Advice to Humanity and, in a brand new world premiere performance, Notes on the Damned Human Race.

Over from Dublin, Back of the Hand Theatre is performing two shows including Whacker Murphy's Bad Buzz, an original one-man performance about a dodgy dealer, directed by Tom Hickey of the Irish National Theatre.

Sometimes the local and the international go hand in hand. Glossop's Tim Mottershead makes his long-awaited return to the Fringe with piano music from across the globe from Afghanistan to the Balkans in his show Around the World in 60 Minutes.

Further information is available in the free Fringe programme, widely available from June, or on the website http://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk.

The Buxton Festival Fringe complements the official, opera-based Buxton Festival, running at the same time and this year featuring music from Cuba, India and China. So do check out its programme to see just how cosmopolitan Buxton is becoming during the month of July!

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