2-11 AUGUST 2019 NORTH BERWICK 2019 PROGRAMME SCOTLAND'S FRESHEST FESTIVAL TICKETS ON SALE NOW WWW.FRINGEBYTHESEA.COM #FRINGEBYTHESEA Page 2 VENUE INFO BOOKING INFO 1. Simpson & Marwick Spiegeltent Tickets are available online and in person, both at the event The Harbour, North Berwick EH39 4JL and in a temporary pop-up box office. However, we highly recommend booking online as events are expected to sell-out 2. The Lighthouse Spiegeltent and there is no separate allocation for in-person box office sales, The Harbour, North Berwick EH39 4JL nor is there a difference in price between online or in person. All prices shown are inclusive of booking engine fees. 3. Scottish Seabird Centre Online: The Harbour, North Berwick EH39 4SS fringebythesea.com 4. Scottish Seabird Centre Classroom In Person: FBTS Pop-up Box Office, c/o North Berwick Library, 13 School Road, The Harbour, North Berwick EH39 4SS North Berwick, EH39 4JU. 5. Coastal Communities Museum Thursday 20th June – Thursday 1st August (library opening hours only). School Road, North Berwick, EH39 4JU There will also be a box office open between 10am and 10pm daily at the Harbour during the festival (2-11 August). 6. Abbey Church Tickets are sent as an e-ticket, which can be presented on your 116 High Street, at Church Road, North Berwick EH39 4HE mobile device at the door. Alternatively, print the e-ticket at home 7. St Andrew Blackadder Church and bring it with you. The price for buying online or at the box office is the same. St Regulus, 6 St Andrew St, North Berwick EH39 4NU Programme details are correct at the time of going to press. Fringe 8. North Berwick Library By The Sea reserves the right to alter or cancel events. Tickets are School Road, North Berwick EH39 4JU non-refundable unless an event is cancelled. Please check the festival website and social media feeds for all the latest news and updates. 9. The North Berwick Fry Visitors with additional needs: 11-17 Quality Street, North Berwick EH39 4HJ All venues at Fringe By The Sea are wheelchair accessible. Please let a member of stewarding team know of your needs on arrival. 10. Steampunk Coffee If you have a carer requiring a ticket, please contact 49A Kirk Ports, North Berwick, EH39 4HL [email protected] at least 24 hours in advance of your show to make arrangements, or a steward upon arrival at the event if 11. The Barefoot Sanctuary booking less than 24 hours before the event. 45 Melbourne Place, North Berwick, EH39 4JS Concession tickets: Where applicable, concession tickets are available for children. 12. North Berwick Community Centre Babes in arms go free. Please take note of age suitability of events, 8 Law Road, North Berwick, EH39 4PN where stated. Latecomers: Events start punctually. Members of the audience may not be 1 FESTIVAL permitted entry after the beginning of events. NORTH BERWICK 2 BOX OFFICE 3 4 TRAVEL Melbourne Rd Parking is limited in North Berwick. Information is available at www.northberwickparking.org.uk however we highly recommend using public transport to visit the festival. Late night trains and buses 11 8 callingMarine Parade all stations and stops to Edinburgh will be running – please Forth St consult ScotRail and East Lothian Buses timetables for full details. 9 5 6 10 East Rd NB: ScotRail online timetables may not show the special Westgate 7 Kirk Ports midnight service from North Berwick to Edinburgh that runs on each day of the festival. The N124 nightbus also operates through To the St Andrews St Law Rd To the North the night on Saturday and Sunday mornings. These services train station 12 Berwick Law are ideal should you wish to book a late show and take public transport to stops throughout East Lothian and Edinburgh. www.scotrail.co.uk www.eastcoastbuses.co.uk Our front cover was designed by Emily Cowie, P7 at Gullane Primary School. Page 3 WELCOME A muckle big hello and welcome to another fabulous incarnation of Fringe By The Sea! With OUR STORY last year’s bold approach to programming receiving Founded in 2008, Fringe such lovely feedback, we have been working hard by the Sea is operated to emulate its success and we hope you’ll agree and run by Fringe by the Sea Ltd, a not-for-profit that we have another awesome line-up heading organisation. It is only to this delightful little corner of East Lothian. through the incredible support of numerous Music is once again a strong We’ve been busy beavering We’d like to remind you that community volunteers and varied highlight. With US in the community to develop all this wouldn’t be possible and organisations as well R&B legend Alexander O’Neal, deeper local partnerships with without the support of the as passionate sponsors Scotland’s own super-songstress the North Berwick Community local community, passionate Eddie Reader, electronic music Area Partnership, North Berwick volunteers and generous that the festival is able pioneers Groove Armada and Youth Project, the Scottish sponsors. To all of them we to succeed. The festival the indie-rock giants Idlewild Seabird Centre, North Berwick say an enormous "Thank You", is managed by a team among those taking to the Library, North Berwick Movies, especially the North Berwick headed up by Directors Simpson & Marwick Spiegeltent, East Lothian Countryside Trust. Niall Middleton and Rory you get our drift… And that’s Rangers, North Berwick in Bloom Steel and General Manager We hope you have a wonderful before we even start thinking and North Berwick & District Jackie Shuttleworth. time at the festival and please about gigs in the North Berwick Probus, to name but a few. And do recommend to friends and Fry and elsewhere! from slightly further afield, family near and far Scotland’s Soundhouse and Speaker Buzz As well as keeping the recently Freshest Festival. Enjoy! extended 10-day format, we’re are bringing yet more quality SOCIAL performers to the festival. Niall Middleton & Rory Steel packing lots more family, Directors, Fringe By The Sea Share your day: literature, comedy, film, #fringebythesea community and environmental events into the programme – more than 160 in total. AROUND TOWN Kesley’s Bookshop: ‘Collective Thoughts’ Goodbye1979 ‘Teenage Kicks With 30 years of selling by North Berwick Art Photography Exhibition: 1945 – 2015’: books in Haddington, Kesley’s Collective: Local landscape photographer An exhibition exploring local Bookshop will be popping up, Exhibition from 10 professional Martin Covey (Goodbye1979) youth culture through seven offering a wide range from artists at Rock & Bird, 64 High will be displaying a series of decades of fun, fashion and authors appearing at Fringe Street. his favourite images from the music. Curated by local young by the Sea, all ready for your North Berwick area (framed people, managed by North favourite writers’ signatures. DAILY MON-SAT, 10AM-5PM, prints available from Norden, Berwick Youth Project and SUNDAYS, 11AM-4PM. Pop-up bookshop at various High Street). Steampunk Coffee, supported by National Lottery author events through the 49A Kirk Ports. Heritage Fund. North Berwick festival, 2nd - 11th August. Coastal Communities Museum, DAILY MON - SAT, 9AM-5PM, School Road. SUNDAYS 10AM-5PM. WWW.GOODBYE1979.COM DAILY (EXCEPT TUES 6TH AUGUST), 11AM-4PM. FREE ADMISSION. Page 4 SPONSORS Master Sponsor Key Funding Partner Category Sponsors VENUE SPIEGELTENT VENUE SPIEGELTENT LITERATURE MUSIC FILM COMEDY FAMILY Affiliate Sponsors Partners & Supporters A wild day out! Explore the award-winning Scottish Seabird Centre perched NB on the Firth of Forth. Get up close and personal with MOVIES amazing wildlife using our interactive live cameras and boat trips. Indulge in some retail therapy and experience the best local produce in our popular café. Open All Year Scottish Seabird Centre • North Berwick • 01620 890202 www.seabird.org DISCOVERY CENTRE • BOAT TRIPS • CAFé • GIFT SHOP Thanks also to: North Berwick Fry, Abbey Church, Abbey Church Gospel Choir, pARTicipate, Steampunk Coffee, ScotRail, East Coast Buses, Edinburgh Music Lovers, East Lothian Community Rail Partnership, North Berwick Highland Games, Duff Publicity, Fairground Communications, Eric Wales, North Berwick Community Centre, St Andrew Blackadder Church, Trina Gavan, North Berwick Harbour Trust, No 12. Quality Street Bed & Breakfast, and all of our amazing festival team and volunteers! Page 5 FOOD & DRINK Food & Drink at the Harbourside: At the harbour, a delicious array of streetfood vendors will satisfy all tastes and appetites. We’ve selected local businesses delivering the best of East Lothian’s produce with the maximum of love. Think gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, hand cut fries, and homemade seasonal soups from Wild at Heart; Scotland's finest and tastiest fish and seafood with a modern twist fromHooked ; healthy and delicious Indian-inspired hearty curries and light bites from Spice Pots; Big Blu’s wood fired perfect pizzas;Moules Frites from a horsebox; Alandas’ championship winning gelato ice cream C O F F E E and Hometown Coffee’s wonderful, speciality beans ground by attentive, passionate baristas. OUR ENVIRONMENT We work hard to reduce waste and minimise the impact of the festival on our beautiful local environment. Please help us by doing your bit and disposing of waste thoughtfully and responsibly in the available recycling facilities and bins. We employ a team of litter pickers who help keep the venues and surrounding areas tidy. We encourage all our traders to reduce waste and packaging where possible. If you would like to bring your own reusable containers for food and drink to be served into, please feel free. Multi-award winning gelato made fresh in store every day using locally sourced ingredients with traditional Italian influences Scottish Ice Cream Champions 2018 & 2019 Find us at our Fringe by the Sea pop-up or visit the gelateria at 1 Quality Street North Berwick Page 6 Friday 2nd August Debi Gliori Mind, Body, Soul Collective Thoughts Robert Simpson Drop In Sessions - an exhibition by the North presented by North Berwick @ The Barefoot Sanctuary Berwick Art Collective & District Probus Club Max had lots of ideas for what Ashtanga Yoga with Tasha An exhibition of paintings, Nicholas and Alexandra - The would be his ideal pet.