See the street performers at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival

The Fringe Festival in Edinburgh has started today and the city’s streets are filling up with performers. The Fringe Festival is the largest art festival in the world, and you can expect the sights, sounds, and experiences to be amazing for the entirety of the weekend and up until Tuesday.

The Fringe Festival is “the world’s greatest platform for creative freedom,” as it reads in its official description, and it caters to everyone from the biggest names in showbiz to emerging performers. It also covers all sorts of art forms, from theatre to street performances to everything else.

See some of the quirkiest street performers in the pictures down below.