Interesting Facts
The Aberdeen International Youth Festival was formerly known as the International Festival of Youth Orchestras (IFYO) and has grown to attract the world's best youth dance, theatre, choral and music companies to the city every August.
The 2011 Festival will be the 39th since IFYO came to Aberdeen in 1973.
AIYF has welcomed over 30,000 performers to Aberdeen since inception.
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