The Edinburgh People's Festival is an annual event which runs in parallel to the Edinburgh Festival. Inspired by the original aims of the Edinburgh Festival, namely, a celebration of the arts 'for the people, by the people' it looks to celebrate indigenous talent and provide low cost cultural entertainment at several venues across the city, especially in the outer schemes.
In particular it carries on the tradition of the original Edinburgh People's Festival 1951–54 and acknowledge the cultural contribution made by Councillor Jack Kane and the late Hamish Henderson.
The festival was re-established in 2002 by the Scottish Socialist Party MSP, Colin Fox who still heads up the organising committee.