Some of the festival’s venues including Summerhall, Assembly and Gilded Balloon are expected to put together limited programmesEdinburgh will stage a “tiny little Fringe” this August but nightclub owners claim a lack of clarity on the new rules will continue to damage business. Donald MacLeod of the Night Time Industries Association criticised the Scottish government for its “open-ended” approach. “We need detail now: to book acts, to bring staff off furlough, to put in extra mitigations that may be required,” said MacLeod, a Glasgow club owner, whose association has begun a legal action against the Covid rules. SponsoredIn Edinburgh some of the festival’s best-known venues including Summerhall, Assembly and Gilded Balloon are expected to put together limited programmes, while organisers of the Free Fringe say “contingency plans” are in place to bring live entertainment back to Old Town bars. Producers reacted

Source: The Times June 22, 2021 22:52 UTC