One of the most popular London events, the Ealing Comedy Festival is about to celebrate its 16th year of performance in the summer of 2009. It has already established a reputation of being the biggest crowd puller in terms of comedy gigs that have been held in London over the last decade. This year, the number of reputed names from all mediums in the comedy genre are bound to show-up, making it the biggest comedy shows that London will host in 2009. Being among London’s most exclusive comedy festivals, the Ealing Comedy Festival has always been able to attract the best of performers such as Ed Byrne, Shazia Mirza, Felix Dexter, Rich Hall and Bill Bailey over the last few years. You can be assured of seeing the most sought-after names in London’s social circuit present at this event to be entertained with the anecdotes, hilarious observations and sarcastic social commentary that are an essential part of this comedy festival, making it among London’s most celebrated social events.

The Ealing Comedy Festival will begin on 17th July 2009 and will be held over the next week, ending on the 24th and the venue is the Walpole Park, at Ealing. The entry for this show will begin around 6:30 pm, with the actual performances beginning at around 7:30 pm, ensuring that participants coming back from work too can catch a glimpse of London’s best comic talents. There is already a huge rush for the tickets that went on sale from the 1st of May. To make the entire event more glamorous and add to its reputation of being among London’s more happening social events, special gala nights have been scheduled. The Friday gala evening is already witnessing a frenzy of ticket sales, particularly among the West London crowds. However, comedy shows is not the only thing that Ealing has to offer for satisfying your hunger for entertainment. From 4th July to 2nd August 2009, Ealing will host the most anticipated of summer season London events called the Ealing Summer Festival. It is a true festival with an assortment of entertaining activities on offer including country music performances, discounted shopping and exhibitions of South Asian arts. It can also be counted among London’s outdoor events since a lot of it will involve the local pubs, shops and other local public spaces in the Ealing neighbourhoods.

The entire Walpole Park and surrounding areas will together host this Festival, along with a unique event, titled the Ealing Library Festival. However, Ealing has something more to offer that will be of particular interest to music afficianodas in London — the Ealing Opera in the Park. The Opera in the Park can be described as the best of live music events that London will witness this summer. The Walpole Park is one of the more popular open venues in the world, making it perfect to host local and cross-country music bands to play live music. However, the real highlight of the show will be the Italian opera. It will feature ‘Cosi fan tulle’ which is set against the decadence that surrounded the European cities around in the 1920s and the cultural conflict that was at its extreme with the weakening British colonial empire. Those who have been searching for true jazz-based London events should try and get their hands on tickets for the Ealing Jazz Festival that begins on 29th July and is slated to continue till 2nd August 2009. Tickets for the Ealing Jazz festival have been priced at £1.00 and admission for children under the age of 12 is free of any charge.