The Herald Angels will be awarded at ceremonies on the 11th August, the 18th August, the 25th August and the 1st September. Our team of arts critics will be resident in Edinburgh during the festival, and will be reviewing all the different acts daily in The Herald.

Keep an eye on this page for their latest thoughts on the best acts of the festival, the recipients of the coveted Herald Angels Awards.

Brute force takes the final Angel

Awards draw to a close after another year of Festival brilliance, writes Keith Bruce

THE combination of the entire Argentinian company performing Fuerzabruta (Brute Force) on the Fringe and delegations of young critics from Broughton and Royal High School brought this year's Bank of Scotland Herald Angels to a lively conclusion on Saturday. The students had all participated in The Herald Young Critics project at the Edinburgh International Festival, attending performances and submitting their reviews to a deadline the following day, the best of which were printed as part of our Edinburgh Festival coverage.

The Fuerzabruta company were the final Fringe winners of an Angel award, presented to them by the editor of The Herald, Charles McGhee, and Karen Tighe of the Bank of Scotland on the day of their last performances. If that show was one of this year's most memorable events, so too was the appearance of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Mariss Jansons, giving a concert that was one the greatest of the Festival's 60-year history. The Trisha Brown Dance Company supplied another staging post of the Festival's Orpheus Journey, with Canto/Piano, danced to Monteverdi as part of a triple bill at the Playhouse. Awards to both were collected by EIF general manager Joanna Baker. Scots mezzo Jane Irwin was also unable to pick up her second Angel owing to another performance, and her award for her singing of Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was collected by her friend, Drew Young, EIF artist's co-ordinator.

The visual arts contribution to the Festival was recognised with a Herald Angel to Keith Hartley, curator of the Bank of Scotland totalARTAndy Warhol exhibition at the National Galleries RSA building. A revelatory look at the work of a very well-known artist, it runs until October 7.

The final Bank of Scotland Archangel winner of 2007 was Lee Breuer, the veteran American experimental theatre director, who first visited the city with his Gospel at Colonus in 1982 and who provided a highlight of this year's theatre programme with Mabou Mines Dollhouse. He is currently completing a film of the show at a studio in Glasgow.

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