Flavour of the Fringe 2026
Enjoy these lively photos - not just from July - celebrating all things Fringe including Hot Spots galore! With thanks to photographers including Stephanie Billen, Dan Osborne, Moira Kean, Rob Harrison, Jeanette Hamilton and Sam Slide, and to everyone who helped make Fringe 2026 such a blast!
It's May and the Fringe programme is coming together (credit: Robbie Carnegie 2026)
Fringe shenanigans at the Buxton Spring Fair in May (credit: Moira Kean 2026)
Moira and Steph at the Spring Fair (RH)
Flyering at the Spring Fair (credit: Moira Kean 2026)
Supportive team from High Peak Buses at the Spring Fair (MK)
Pam, Stephanie, Helen, Rob and Catherine promote train and bus travel to Buxton Fringe at Piccadilly Station in Manchester. With thanks to High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership (credit: Ian Bowns 2026)
Fringe Chair Ian Bowns helps shift Fringe programmes and celebrate sustainable travel at Manchester Piccadilly station (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
The Fringe has a new cap for sale (credit: Promotional Fings)
Bucket hats on sale for Fringe 2026 (credit: Promotional Fings)
The eagerly awaited Fringe and Festival supplement from the Buxton Advertiser (SB)
The newly set up Fringe Desk
These shoes are made for Fringe-ing... (SB)
This Machine Kills Fascists from Australian company Nuworks (DO)
A Punk Opera from Nuworks at St Mary's Church (DO)
The Chapel Arts Creative Writers team (DO)
The Well Dressing meets the Fair - July is a busy time in Buxton (DO)
Sole Rebel brings jazz and tap to the Fringe (credit: Dan Osborne 2026)
Fringe Marketing Officer Stephanie revives some of her tap moves (DO)
The Fringe Marketing Officer meets a dominatrix in Bu the Bi Productions' Unleashed (DO)
Jazz duo Sax 'n' Slide entertains at the Serpentine Community Gardens' Ugly Bug Ball (DO)
The Shakespeare Jukebox (DO)
Life and death courtesy of the Jukebox (SO)
Shakespeare Jukebox going through all the hoops (D)O
The fun continues... (DO)
The Shakespeare Jukebox (SB 2026)
The Shakespeare Jukebox in full stride at Buxton Fringe 2026 (credit: Dan Osborne)
The Jukebox - a roaring success! (DO)
The fabulous Fringe Information Desk (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Flyers galore at the Fringe desk (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Kaleidoscope Choir at BIF's Song at Six (DO)
Sun pours in at the Fringe Desk (SB)
Underground posters adorn the Community Space in Spring Gardens (SB 2026)
A sea of orange at the Fringe Information Desk (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Spot the Fringe programme (SB)
The Fringe regularly makes headlines in the Buxton Advertiser (SB)
Dennis the Menace at Buxton Flowerpot Trail (SB)
The Flowerpot Trail enjoys its Children's Stories theme. SB
Ruth Robinson ceramics at The Great Dome Art Fair (SB)
A warm welcome at the Fringe Desk (SB)
Sally Wilson's lampshades at High Peak Artists' Art in the Octagon (SB)
Downstairs at the Working Men's Club transformed by Underground (SB 2026)
Scrivener's embraces the Flowerpot Trail (SB)
Winnie the Pooh and pals in the Flowerpot Trail (SB)
Check out Catherine Serjeant's amazing wall hanging at the Fringe Desk (SB 2026)
Meet Sammy and Fifi at the Pavilion Gardens during the Fringe. With thanks to artist Andrea Lewis (SB 2026)
Learn more about Sammy and Fifi (SB)
Kate Butch at the High Peak Pride Picnic (credit: Rob Harrison 2026)
Rob Harrison with veteran radio presenter Martin Kelner (RH)
High Peak Pride's Matt Drapper with Rob Harrison at the Pride Picnic (RH)
Rob Harrison and Kate Butch at the High Peak Pride Picnic (RH)
Buxton's amazing Day of Dance organised by Chapel-en-le-Frith Morris (SB 2026)
The Day of Dance is all round the town! (RH)
The Day of Dance organised by Chapel-en-le-Frith Morris enjoys some sunshine! (credit: Rob Harrison 2026)
Day of Dance footwork (Sam Slide 2026)
Colourful costumes abound at the Day of Dance (RH)
The Spider Shed Collective busking outside the Pavilion Gardens (SB 2026)
Jeanette and Ian have a special message (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Tayla Kenyon promotes Tell Me Where it Hurts from Teepee Productions (RH)
Always a packed schedule at the Fringe (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Smile, you are at the Fringe Information Desk! (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Fringe Hot Spots brighten Buxton (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
The Hot Spot tradition continues (SB)
Orange floral fun (SB)
Hot Spots proliferate (SB)
In danger of entertainment overload...? (DO)
Pam and Carole setting up the Fringe Hot Spot outside the Opera House
A blooming success!
The sun brings out even more flowers at the Opera House Hot Spot (SB)
Fabulous from all angles (RH)
A major Hot Spot at the Fringe Desk (SB)
The Fringe's Rob Harrison is part of the winning team with Skye Lilly and Bennet Kavanagh at the Imaginary Porno Charades (credit: Rob Harrison 2026)
Rob Harrison and fellow Porno Charades winners Skye Lilly, Bennet Kavanagh, Heather Rose Andrews, Stewart Taylor and Charles Lloyd (credit: JD Henshaw)
Don't forget to fill in an audience survey! (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Musician Sam Slide and friends at Buxton Carnival (SS)
Guardians of the Wye from Two Left Hands, Spirit of the Fringe award winners in 2026
Two Left Hands' Guardians of the Wye at the Pavilion Gardens (RH)
Part of the colourful cast of Guardians of the Wye (RH)
Pump Room Fringe display (SB 2026)
Going Underground... (SB)
Paddington - part of the Flowerpot Trail.
Canadian performer John Arthur Sweet arrives in Buxton (RH)
The Fringe Desk's Deb Pugh greeting visitors during Fringe 2026 (credit: Stephanie Billen)
The incredible heroes of the Flowerpot Trail (SB)
Shops get onboard to support the Flowerpot Trail (SB)
Laugh for Life Comedy performers visit the Fringe Desk (RH)
Martial arts display as part of I.D.A 26 Inclusive Design + Art Expo (SB)
The Fringe webmaster at Piano Pieces: Dismantled and Displayed by Hugo Edwardes (SB)
Homemade Hot Spot.
Hand-crafted bunting at the Fringe Desk
Songbird Anna busking outside the Fringe Desk (credit: Rob Harrison 2026)
Songbird Anna busking with a song from her show, Bloodlines and Ballads
Tiny! entertains children and adults in the Pavilion Gardens.
A chance to promote The Improvised Surprise Party and Grandma's Shop while visiting the Fringe Desk (RH)
Newest performer at the Tiny! Circus.
The sun pours into Underground at the Working Men's Club (SB)
Celebrating a decade of original piano music, Adrian Lord (credit: Rob Harrison 2026)
Rob Rouse and friends enjoy some Late Night Dirty Scrabble (credit: Rob Harrison 2026)
Edwina Currie flanked by West End star Matthew Croke and singer-songwriter Sophie-Grace at Peak Voices Choir Buxton's Curtain Up! Last Night of the Fringe (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
Still going - those Fringe shoes...
Fab Fringe tribute from plant-based poet John Hobson of Funny Onion fame (credit: Stephanie Billen 2026)
A splash of orange at the Fringe Awards (credit: Sam Slide 2026)
