Merchant City Festival Events in partnership with Glasgow City Marketing Bureau. Celtic Music Radio broadcast live from the 2008 festival on 1530kHz and on the internet, from an Outside Broadcast location in Merchant Square. Merchant City Festival The Merchant City Festival is a major cultural festival taking place in Glasgow's Merchant City area. Attracting more than 55,000 people, the four-day Festival presents the cream of Scotland’s theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance, film, fashion and food scene. The Festival presents opera singers in the courtyards and squares performing alongside cutting-edge live art, street theatre, iconoclastic comedy and music from every genre in the
Windy City Burlesque Festival Angeles), Kellita of Hot Pink Feathers (San Francisco), The Amazing Tomas (Chicago), Penny Starr Jr. (Los Angeles), Coco Lectric (Austin, Texas) Windy City Burlesque Festival The Windy City Burlesque Festival is an annual three-day event in Chicago, Illinois occurring each spring which features live burlesque performances by local and international artists. The mission of the festival is to celebrate the present, honor the past, and showcase the future of burlesque performance. The festival was created in response to the resurgence of the classical theatrical styles and growth of the modern era of burlesque and attempts to encompass all of the