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The Scotsman's Edinburgh Festival blog

FRIDAY 4 AUGUST
SCOTSMAN FRINGE AWARDS
Andrew Eaton, arts editor
bloggingon@scotsman.com
4 August, 7pm.

MARK the date in your diary. Friday 25 August sees the return of The Scotsman Fringe Awards, our free show at the Assembly Music Hall, featuring live music, celebrity guests and performances from some of the best shows at the festival.

Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden of the Goodies, who are performing throughout the Fringe at the Assembly Rooms, will be among our special guests at the ceremony this year. The duo will present the final week of this year's Scotsman Fringe First awards. And the African Children's Choir, whose show Africa's Heartbeat is at St Andrew's & St George's Church, will sing at the ceremony. We'll be announcing more performers and presenters in the coming weeks.

This is the third year we have staged the awards at the Assembly Music Hall.
If you want to come, you need to buy a copy of the Scotsman magazine on Saturday 5 August, cut out the form, and take it to the box-office at the Assembly Rooms, where you can claim your free tickets. These will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis. The form will appear again in future issues of our daily festival magazine, but you'd be advised to secure your tickets as early as possible, since they tend to disappear quickly.

We will be presenting the following awards at this year's ceremony.

THE FRINGE FIRSTS
The Scotsman has been giving out these awards for more than 30 years, to reward outstanding new writing premiered at the Fringe. One of the most sought-after awards at the Festival, the Fringe Firsts are awarded weekly throughout the Fringe, and we will announce this year's winners in our daily Festival magazine on Friday 11 August, Friday 18 August and Friday 25 August. The final week's winners will be presented with their awards at the Assembly Music Hall on 25 August.

Our judges this year are: Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman's theatre critic; Mark Fisher, theatre critic for Scotland on Sunday; Andrew Eaton, arts editor of The Scotsman; and Andrew Burnet and Jackie McGlone, two experienced and respected arts writers whose work appears regularly in the national press.

We'd like to thank Coppercraft of Edinburgh, who have made our distinctive Fringe First plaques for many years and will do so again this year. We will ask two of this year's winners to perform extracts from their shows at the ceremony - look out for announcements in the coming weeks.

THE CAROL TAMBOR AWARD
This award was established in 2004 by the American portrait artist Carol Tambor, a regular visitor to the Fringe for many years. Working from a shortlist of shows that receive four or five-star reviews in The Scotsman, every year Carol puts up the money for one show from the Fringe to travel to New York.

THE JACK TINKER SPIRIT OF THE FRINGE AWARD Named after the much-loved late theatre critic, this award is given out every year by the Assembly Rooms, in recognition of the show that most embodies the spirit of the Fringe. Last year's winner was Children of the Sea, an adaptation of The Tempest by Sri Lankan children who had lost their homes in the Asian tsunami. The cast, who also won a Fringe First award, performed at our Fringe Awards ceremony.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD This prize, designed by glass artist Anita Pate, is awarded to the production that best portrays a human rights theme. In a year when Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay have been all over the headlines, it is no surprise to find that Amnesty already have 40 nominations for this year's award. Last year the prize was won by The Exonerated, a moving portrayal of lives on death row. Our thanks go to the Assembly Rooms for staging the awards again this year, and we hope to see some of you on 25 August.