--- title: "Fun for All the Family with Best of the Fest Daytime! | Assembly Festival" meta: "og:description": "Best of the Fest Daytime is back with a bang! Catch bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, for all the family to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful Assembly Rooms Ballroom on George Street." "og:title": "Fun for All the Family with Best of the Fest Daytime!" "twitter:description": "Best of the Fest Daytime is back with a bang! Catch bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, for all the family to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful Assembly Rooms Ballroom on George Street." "twitter:title": "Fun for All the Family with Best of the Fest Daytime!" description: "Best of the Fest Daytime is back with a bang! Catch bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, for all the family to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful Assembly Rooms Ballroom on George Street." --- # Fun for All the Family with Best of the Fest Daytime! [← Back to News](https://assemblyfestival.com/news) **Children's Shows****Event****News** [**Best of the Fest Daytime**](https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on/930-best-of-the-fest-daytime) is back with a bang! Catch bite-size tasters of the best comedy, cabaret, family entertainment and circus, for all the family to enjoy in the heart of the New Town, in the beautiful **Assembly Rooms Ballroom** on George Street. **Check out some highlights!** Jess Robinson Frisky Children Are Stinky John Robertson Shantify **Check out the full lineup:** **Fri 1 Aug** Rosco McClelland | Children Are Stinky | Apocalipsync | Andrew White | 27 Club **Sat 2 Aug** Alison Spittle | Do All The Things | Shantify | Jess Robinson | Lady Macbeth Played Wing Defence **Sun 3 Aug** Susie McCabe | Signor Baffo | HAMLET by New York Circus Project | Ismael Loutfi | Tape Face **Mon 4 Aug** Olga Koch | Grace Mulvey | By a Thread | Monsterrrr! with Trygve Wakensgaw | Ben Hart **Tue 5 Aug** Sikisa | Ironing Board Man | Laser Kiwi | Different Party | Frisky **Thu 7 Aug** Brett Blake | Dangerous Goods | Challeng/Live Manga | Freya McGhee | Ali Woods **Fri 8 Aug** Majorlein Robertson | The Mequetrefo | Malia Walsh | Out of the Blue | Emmanuel Sonubi **Sat 9 Aug** Amy Annette | Out of the Box | I Think It Could Work | Takashi Wakasugi | Little Squirt **Sun 10 Aug** Tamsyn Kelly | Barnie Duncan | Messy Magic Adventure | No Sugar No Milk **Tue 12 Aug** Laura Lexx | Couac | Aunty Ginger | Jenny Tian | Chris Dugdale **Wed 13 Aug** Alison Spittle | Broken Planet Show | Skank Sinatra **Thu 14 Aug** Laura Davis | Woody's Bush Cabaret for Kids | 0G Crush | The Burton Brothers | Rabbits Out of the Hat (Ines Wurth) **Fri 15 Aug** Stuart Laws | Tim Licata | Chun Dance: Trace of Belief | Will Owen | Jess Robinson **Sat 16 Aug** Sharon Wanjohi | The Burton Brothers | Sugar | Sanjay Lago | All Fired Up **Sun 17 Aug** Laura Lexx | Always, Sometimes, Maybe | Rock Hard Acapella | John Robertson | Aideen McQueen **Tue 19 Aug** Zainab Johnson | Virtuoso | Voyeur / Samba and Love | Alice Fraser | Mary Queen of Rock **Wed 20 Aug** Oliver Coleman | Children are Stinky | Delusions and Grandeur | Jodie Sloan | Njambi McGrath **Thu 21 Aug** Michael Shafar | Accordian Ryan | Abby Howells | Aunty Ginger **Fri 22 Aug** Thor Stenhaug | Cameron Sinclair Harris | **Sat 23 Aug** Leila Navabi | Full Lineup TBC Grab your tickets [**here**](https://bit.ly/best-of-the-fest-daytime-2025) or check out the [**full programme!**](https://assemblyfestival.com/whats-on) **Lineup/dates are subject to change.** ### **Follow Us** ### **Sign up to our newsletter** ## 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