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Jimmy Carr | In 2004 he performed sold out solo shows at Dublin's Vicar Street, Leicester's Comedy Festival, Glasgow Festival, Kilkenny Cat Laughs and the Galway Festival along with appearances at the Bloomsbury Theatre where he filmed his first live DVD. |
Felicity Ward | In 2009, Ward brought her award-winning'' Ugly As A Child Variety Show'' to the Adelaide Fringe (Feb 20 - March 21), the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (April 1 -- 26), the Sydney Comedy Festival (May 12 -- 17) Produced by Laughing Stock Productions, the show was a commercial and critical hit, selling out shows in all cities. |
James Acaster | In 2009 Acaster performed in a show at the Edinburgh festival fringe with fellow comedians Josh Widdicombe and Nick Helm. |
Chris Cox (magician) | Cox took highlights of the show to the Royal Opera House for a weekend of shows in September 2009. |
Jarvis Cocker | He curated the 2007 Meltdown Festival at the South Bank Centre in London. |
Nina Conti | for her, which she took to the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. |
Tanyalee Davis | In August 2003, she was part of the'' US Comedy Invasion'' show, performing at the world's largest arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland. |
Scott Kennedy | In 1994, with his partner Kevin Maye, he co-founded the Gay Comedy Jam, which toured over 150 cities in the US and Canada ; he was the'' Oscar'' character to Maye's'' Felix''. |
Langhorne Slim | In the summer of 2009, Langhorne Slim began playing larger venues including the Newport Folk Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Lollapalooza, and the Philadelphia Folk Festival. |
Robin Ince | He had appeared at the Cafe Royale as part of the Edinburgh Fringe show' Rubbernecker', alongside Stephen Merchant, Jimmy Carr and Ricky Gervais in 2001. |
Kate Smurthwaite | She is also known for her annual political one-woman show, The News at Kate, performed since 2009 at the Edinburgh Fringe. |
Nabil Abdul Rashid | Abdul Rashid delivers a comedy workshop In January 2013, Abdul Rashid co-founded Norbury Comedy Club with Ola Gbaja. |
Adam Kelly | In 2005, Kelly co-founded the Dancing Cock Brothers comedy troupe, who would make several Fringe Festival and other live appearances to mixed reviews. |
Jason Chatfield | • April 2011, Chatfield performed a 22-show encore run of (' ManFace') with Chicago - based Ben Russell at the Forum Theatre for the 2011 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. |
Faye (musician) | In March 2013 Faye performed a set of shows at South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. |
Hope Sandoval | Sandoval and her band were chosen by Matt Groening to perform at the edition of the All Tomorrow's Parties festival he curated in May 2010 in Minehead, England. |
Chip Taylor | At a South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas in 2001, Chip met singer and violinist Carrie Rodriguez, with whom he performed and recorded Americana music for several years. |
Tom Wrigglesworth | Wrigglesworth began performing stand up comedy in 2003 when we won the So You Think You're Funny award. |
Robyn Hitchcock | Hitchcock was chosen by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to perform'' I Often Dream Of Trains'' at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival, to be curated by Mangum in March 2012 in Minehead, England. |
Paul Rodgers | On 5 June 2010 he began a mini-California tour by performing at the Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival. |
Four Tet | He was chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. |
Siri Nilsen | Nilsen made her debut as a stage artist in 2007 and has since performed in venues ranging from small clubs to larger concert halls and festivals. |
Alistair Moffat | Moffat found early success after university, becoming Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1976. |
Alan White (Oasis drummer) | One of White's first live shows with Oasis was in front of a massive crowd at the Glastonbury Festival in June 1995. |
Jan Randall | He was the founding music director for Die-Nasty in the early 1990's and appeared with them off and on at the Varscona Theatre and as part of the Edmonton International Fringe Festival for over 20 years. |
Allan von Schenkel | He Loved The Soft Porn of The City' at Fringe Festivals in Montreal, New York City and Washington DC in 2012. |
Anna Graceman | April 20, 2010 (age 10) -- 36th Alaska Folk Festival : Graceman performed at the 36th Annual Folk Festival along with other folk and bluegrass bands. |
Brooke Fraser | On 4 July 2008 Fraser supported Canadian artist / U2 collaborator Daniel Lanois at the Montreal Jazz Festival. |
John Moran (composer) | Recently (2012), Moran unveiled a new solo-work titled, John Moran : The Con Artist ; a joint production of Mayfest Bristol (England), Spoleto Open (Italy) and Fringe Amsterdam (Netherlands). |
Leron Thomas | Throughout 2013 Thomas also performed with Jason Moran's Fats Waller Dance Party in several states and at the Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal Jazz Festival s. Thomas contributed his'' crowd-pleasing, elegantly delivered vocals'' to Waller's Two Sleepy People. |
Christopher Tin | Baba Yetu'' has been performed at various venues and events around the world, including The Dubai Fountain, the Kennedy Center, Royal Festival Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, In 2009, Tin released his classical crossover album Calling All Dawns. |
Daniel Maier | Since 2008, Maier has been a resident judge at the Karaoke Circus shows, both in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. |
Dan Cummins | In 2010, Dan has appeared in season two of G4's The International Sexy Ladies Show, and has moved to Santa Monica where he has begun working with Creative Artists Agency. |
Rob Rouse | His 2002 solo Edinburgh show was a sell out, gathering positive reviews. |
Nazeem Hussain | In 2006, Hussain hosted the Allah Made Me Funny Official Muslim Comedy Tour featuring American comics Azhar Usman and Preacher Moss, After seeing Hussain compete, Rahman also decided to enter. |
Aamer Rahman | In April 2012, Hussain and Rahman played at the second show of the Melbourne Comedy Festival. |
Flying Lotus | He was chosen by Battles to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that it co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England, UK. |
Justin Kennedy | In 2003, he teamed up with fellow comedians Gavin Baskerville and Dwight Bandy to write and perform the show' Successful Losing : How to be a Spectacular Failure' in both the WA Fringe Festival (where it won Best Comedy) and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. |
Colin Murray | In 2007, Murray directed magician Chris Cox's Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, Everything Happens for a Reason. |
Van Morrison | Van Morrison was a headline act at the international celtic music festival, The Hebridean Celtic Festival in Stornoway Outer Hebrides in the summer of 2005. |
Pablo Minoli | In 1996 he joins an acoustic project of John van der Veer : the Ark and performs at festivals like the International Guitar festival (Bath Spa University - England) and The Sage (New Castle, England). |
Gerry Beckley | On April 14, 2007, Beckley appeared as a special guest at a Ben Kweller show at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. |
Ian Thornley | On November 26, 2010, they were billed as'' Ian Thornley and Big Wreck'' at the Edmonton Grey Cup Festival. |
Omar Souleyman | Souleyman was chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. |
Dick Emery | While working in summer season in 1950 at the Winter Gardens in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight he met Iris Margaret Tully who was also in the show. |
Rachel Jessica Tan | She also played the role of Dorothy in Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008 show We're Off To See Van Gogh and went on to star in numerous primetime Australian TV series including Neighbours, Thank God You're Here and Wilfred. |
Felicity Ward | Her new show,'' The Hedgehog Dilemma'', was performed at the 2012 Adelaide Fringe Festival and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with sell-out seasons and nominated Best Comedy at both festivals. |
Tom Bancroft | In 2006, he launched the new Tom Bancroft 6 Pack, as well as a spin off children's focussed band from the Orchestra called Kidsamonium, which premiered at the Gateshead International Jazz Festival at The Sage, Gateshead, and also at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in 2006, and went on to perform all over Europe. |
Gordon Lightfoot | In 1964, Lightfoot returned again to Canada, appearing at the Mariposa Folk Festival. |
Ramie Leahy | In 1974 Leahy co-founded Ireland's first, and still most highly regarded, international arts festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival. |
Sarah Glendening | During the summer of 2008, Glendening performed with Joe Iconis and The Black Suits alongside Krysta Rodriguez during The Summer Play Festival in New York City. |
Amanda Mabro | Amanda Mabro and her band are part of the 2010 the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, as well as the Montreal Jazz Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
Jan Cornall | In January 2008 Jan took part in Gang Festival in Sydney, an artist-run exchange between Australian and Indonesian artists and wrote, produced and performed in a stage version of Take Me To Paradise, with Indonesian performers : artist Jumaadi, poet Sitok Srengenge, musicians Deva Permana and Wendy Anggerani for OzASia Festival in Adelaide. |
Hans Teeuwen | He also returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008, and performed at Suffolk's 2008 where is performances were received negatively, and was described as'' ramblings of a fucking lunatic'' Latitude Festival. |
Roger Frampton | Frampton toured overseas with Teletopa in 1972, playing in London at the International Carnival of Experimental Sound, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and in Munich, Manila, Tokyo, Amsterdam and Cambridge. |
Matt Murphy (blues guitarist) | He gave a memorable performance in 1963 on the American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe with his'' Matt's Guitar Boogie''. |
Corey Hart (singer) | With the Canadian Top 40 success of'' Truth Will Set You Free'' Hart made selected appearances at Pride celebrations in Toronto and London over the summer of 2012. |
Hisham Fageeh | He was a featured performer in the 2012 New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, both in the'' New Faces'' and'' Haram night'' shows. |
Isy Suttie | She appeared at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in July 2012. |
Charlie Tagawa | A 2003 inductee into the National Four-String Banjo Hall of Fame, Tagawa often performs as the headline act at banjo jazz festivals and shows. |
Mark Radcliffe | Having taken over the graveyard slot from October 1993 onwards, Radcliffe and Riley hosted a show of unprecedented variety incorporating poetry readings from regular guest Ian McMillan, off the wall, irreverent comedy, bizarre quizzes' Fish or Fowl',' Bird or Bloke',' Bard or Blake' (amongst others), and a play list that rivalled John Peel in terms of eclecticism. |
Chris McCausland | His 2007 show Chris McCausland's Planes Trains and Shameful Ordeals will be part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe. |
Charlie Haden | In 1989, Haden was featured at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and performed in concert every night of the festival, with different combos and bands. |
Edmond Hall | The 2nd'' Annual South Shore Jazz Festival'' was on April 7, 1960, where he headlined the show. |
Max Miller (comedian) | Miller much preferred to perform solo, and from 1930 onwards, he appeared in variety in various large theatres including the London Palladium and the Holborn Empire. |
Humphrey Ker | In August 2011, Ker presented a feature-length debut solo show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival entitled' Humphrey Ker is... Dymock Watson : Nazi Smasher !'' |
Abatte Barihun | On May 2007 Barihun played on Melbourne Jazz Festival with Australia n pianist Aaron Choulai, on a concert termed'' the most unique showcase of the entire festival''. |
Chris Douglas | Following this, they also requested that he perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival they curated in April 2003. |
Tim Christensen | The only solo performances with a full set Christensen played in 2010 were held in the Netherlands on 4 -- 7 November, for which he received the Inner Ear Media Award for Best Live Show 2010. |
Bob Golding | In August 2010 Golding was a guest presenter on Absolute Radio's Dave Gorman show for five weeks while regular presenter Martin White was performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Golding runs his own 13 piece soul, rhythm and blues band, The Guild of Thieves. |
Tom Basden | Basden's one man show at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Tom Basden Wo n't Say Anything won the if. |
Mel Campbell | Her comedy cabaret show The Incredible Melk's Booty Pageant was commended in that year's Fringe Awards, and she performed a revised version at the 2005 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. |
Junior Vasquez | In 1997 Ian Jenkinson and Inner Rhythm Artists Tribal Gathering enlisted Vasquez for the Largest single artist DJ event in UK history at the London Arena. |
Minsky Malone | Since 1987 she has performed around the world, first starting with her troupe in the seaside tourist town of Blackpool in northern England. |
Hamish Blake | As a solo performer, Blake has appeared on various Australian television programs, including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's televised 2008 Great Debate, and has been a regular guest on Spicks and Specks, Rove and Thank God You're Here. |
Dave Swarbrick | During 2010 he also joined with another veteran British Folk artist Martin Carthy to play at the Cornwall Folk Festival in Wadebridge. |
Ayeta Anne Wangusa | In September -- October 2003, Wangusa participated in the Cheltenham Literature Festival in the UK as part of the Across Continents Project. |
Danny Barker | He performed at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival with Eubie Blake. |
Psarantonis | In January 2009, he gave memorable performances in the rock music festival All Tomorrow's Parties hosted in Brisbane, Sydney and Mount Buller (in Victoria) and curated by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. |
Rachel Bridge | In August 2010 she took her one woman show How to Make a Million before Lunch to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it played to sell-out audiences at The Pleasance. |
Jenny Morris (musician) | In March 2003, Port Fairy's 27th Annual Folk Festival was staged with Archie Roach, John Williamson, Renée Geyer, Morris and emerging Australian band The Waifs were among the popular performers. |
Rowland S. Howard | Howard appeared at the All Tomorrows Parties rock festival in Australia in January 2009, curated by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. |
Wolfe Bowart | In 2010, Bowart premiered LaLaLuna in New Zealand and Austria, and returned to the UK, where the production was part of the Brighton Festival (curated that year by Brian Eno), the Salisbury International Arts Festival, and completed seasons at the York Theatre Royal (see review), The Lowry in Salford, and Newcastle's Northern Stage, among others. |
Ira Glass | On September 17, 2011, Glass participated in the Drunk Show at the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, during which Glass became so drunk he blacked out and vomited backstage. |
Heath McIvor | In 2012, Heath (as Randy) and Sammy J reunited a third time to deliver The Inheritance which was performed in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Edinburgh. |
Tom Binns | Tom Binns won the Best International Act at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2013. |
James Acaster | Acaster performed'' Prompt'' at 14 venues in England and Wales between January and March 2013, after which he appeared at Auckland Comedy Festival in New Zealand, where he was nominated for an award for'' Best International Show''. |
Matt Kirshen | Since 2001, Kirshen has become a frequent performer at London clubs including the Comedy Store, and has completed several university tours. |
Norman Musa | During summer and autumn 2012, he featured at numerous food festivals around the UK and Ireland including Cardiff, Dublin, Manchester, Liverpool, Abergavenny, Ludlow, Bolton, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cockermouth, Newport and York. |
Willie Rushton | In 1990 he teamed up with his co-panellist Barry Cryer in their own show Two old Farts in the Night, performing to full audiences at the Edinburgh festival, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Festival Hall, touring the country irregularly until Rushton's death. |
Toro y Moi | He was chosen by Caribou to perform at the ATP Nightmare Before Christmas festival that they co-curated in December 2011 in Minehead, England. |
Dan Cummins | Later in June 2009, Dan performed at the second-annual Rooftop Comedy Aspen Comedy Festival. |
Rob Rouse | As part of the successful trio Big and Daft, Rouse took three shows to the Edinburgh Festival culminating in 2001 with the sell-out Big and Daft Christmas show. |
Jerry Sadowitz | In March 2008 as part of the Glasgow Comedy Festival Sadowitz sold out the Glasgow Theatre Royal. |
Maff Brown | In May 2005 he completed the Amused Moose stand up comedy course run by fellow comedian Logan Murray, then began performing in November 2005. |
Pete Firman | In July 2008 he performed his act at Club Soda in Montreal, Canada, as part of the Just for Laughs comedy festival. |
Dave Swarbrick | Swarbrick and Carthy also performed together at the Cambridge Folk Festival on 28th July 2013. |
Raphael Saadiq | Touring with a nine piece band, Saadiq hit the 2009 summer music festival circuit with performances at Bonnaroo, Hollywood Bowl, Outside Lands, Pori Jazz, Stockholm Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz, Essence Music Festival, Summer Spirit Festival, and Nice Jazz Festival, Bumbershoot Music Festival and Austin City Limits. |
Isy Suttie | At the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe, Suttie was one of the acts in stand-up showcase The Comedy Zone. |
Fahad Albutairi | He also took part in the'' New Faces of Arab Comedy'' showcase at the 2010 New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and was one of the'' New Faces'' to be chosen for the'' Best of the Fest'' night of the festival. |