The Merchant City Festival is a major cultural festival taking place in Glasgow's Merchant City area.
Attracting more than 55,000 people, the four-day Festival presents the cream of Scotland’s theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance, film, fashion and food scene.
The Festival presents opera singers in the courtyards and squares performing alongside cutting-edge live art, street theatre, iconoclastic comedy and music from every genre in the bars and on the street.
The Merchant City Festival has attracted an extensive range of supporters and contributors from festival directors to national organisations such as Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
An international context is provided by the Directors’ Choice programme that provides a remarkable range of street artists selected from festival directors throughout Europe.