Now Bath's classical music festival plans to get on down with the kids

The organisation behind a world-famous classical music festivalis planning to open up to a new, younger audience by putting on morehip hop and pop events.

Bath Festivals has long been striving to tackle claims that itsBath International Music Festival caters for a well-heeled audience,and has run jazz and world music events alongside its classicalprogramme for years.

At the moment the organisation, which also runs the city'sliterature festival, receives around Pounds 240,000 a year infunding from Bath and North East Somerset Council, although this islikely to dramatically decrease in the future.

At a meeting of the council's enterprise and economic …