Beltane Fire Festival - April 30th 2009

Beltane Fire Festival is an annual participatory arts event and ritual drama, held on April 30 on Calton Hill in Edinburgh. It is inspired by the supposed ancient Gaelic festival of Beltane which was allegedly held on an evening after May 1st[1] and marked the beginning of summer. The modern festival was started in 1988 by a small group of enthusiasts including the musical collective Test Dept., with academic support from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Since then the festival has grown, and as of 2006 involved over 300 voluntary collaborators and performers with the 11500 available tickets selling out.

Sorry about the video quality, I was shooting this video using mobile cameras.

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