The eighth Adelaide Cabaret Festival will take place from 6 to 21 June 2008 at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Since its inception in 2001 it has received rave reviews from the media, audiences and performers for its fabulous atmosphere. People come from across Australia and, increasingly, from overseas to join over 45,000 South Australian’s in kicking up their heels. The Adelaide Cabaret Festival is held every year in June starting on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend and continuing for 16 nights of music, satire, comedy, performance art and dancing the night away.

Cabaret as a performance style is personal, funny, sad and close to the bone, evolving through many years and many different cultures, from the Moulin Rouge days of Paris through to German Kabarett, the English music halls and the New York cabaret clubs. It is opinionated, political, personal and essentially human storytelling – the electric connection between the performer and the audience.

Every June, the Adelaide Festival Centre complex is transformed into ten different cabaret venues plus bars, cafes, restaurants, clubs and comfy nooks to chat and enjoy a drink. The venues have tables and chairs and the audience may take drinks with them into the performances. The intimate atmosphere in the venues is evocative.

Some 400 artists from across Australia and around the world come together to create over 200 performances across the 16 nights of the Festival. Each evening the late night action is the Kool Kat Festival Club, where the drinks flow, the music is engaging, the dance floor is packed and many an artist can be glimpsed amongst the crowd letting their hair down.