Heritage and Festivals in Europe critically investigates the purpose, reach and effects of heritage festivals.

Ullrich Kockel is Professor of Cultural Ecology at the Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot- Watt University, UK.

Cristina Clopot is Postdoctoral Researcher in Heritage Diplomacy at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, UK.

Baiba Tjarve is Senior Researcher and Project Manager in the Research Centre at the Latvian Academy of Culture.

M á ir é ad Nic Craith is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Anthropology at the Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot- Watt University, UK.

Foreword 1. Heritages, identities and Europe: exploring cultural forms and expressions 2. On the relationship between performance and intangible cultural heritage 3. Comparative aspects of the Song and Dance Celebration of the Baltic countries in the context of nation branding processes 4. The construction of belonging and Otherness in heritage events 5. Nostalgic festivals: the case of Cappadox 6. Events that want to become heritage: vernacularisation of ICH and the politics of culture and identity in European public rituals 7. Performing identities and communicating ICH: from local to international strategies 8. Memory, pride and politics on Parade: the Durham Miners' Gala 9. Sound Structure as political structure in the European folk festival orchestra La Banda Europa 10. Performing Scots-European heritage, 'For A' That!' 11. European Capitals of Culture: discourses of Europeanness in Valletta, Plovdiv and Galway 12. Negotiating contested heritages through theatre and storytelling 13. Commemorating vanished 'homelands': displaced Germans and their Heimat Europa Afterword: festival as heritage / heritage as festival