The Merchant City Festival returns to Glasgow and will run from 24-28th July. The days will be filled with street art, music, dance, theatre, design, heritage, film, visual art, comedy, food & drink and much more. The traditional footprint of the festival has been expanded by adding a new strand called, Fashion Fiesta, to its programme.
Cruise are pleased to be involved in the Fashion Feista, along with the other retailers on Ingram Street. Cruise will be embracing the buzz of the Merchant City Festival, where festival goers can indulge in some retail therapy and enjoy some drinks in store. Fashion advice is also available from Cruise personal shoppers about the forthcoming Autumn Winter season collections. With every purchase made over the weekend, customers will be entered into a draw to win a designer prize.
Ingram Street and the surrounding areas will be alive with live music, dance routines and roving street theatre; all adding to the incredible buzz that is ever-present during the festival. Expect spontaneous swing in the street as the Nova Scotia Jazz Band and the Dick Lee’s Swingtet pop up and play across the weekend. The popular Kennedy Cupcakes will add a dash of glamour with their show stoppin’ routines to hits like Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Traditional buskers also will join the mix. Two members of Nova Scotia Jazz Band, John Burgess (clarinet) and Lorne Cowieson (trumpet) entertained shoppers in Cruise for a taste of what the Fashion Fiesta promises. Councilor Gordon Matheson, Leader of Glasgow City Council, Chair if the Merchant City Festival and Chair of Glasgow City Marketing Bureau said, ‘The new fashion strand is incredibly exciting. Glasgow is renowned for shopping; rightly ranked 2nd only to London in the UK.’
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