By Joanne Hughes BBC News Online

It will host the fringe festival, which was set up five years ago when performers and concertgoers converged in a circus tent in the middle of a field.

The Llangollen fringe festival has been running since 1998

Organiser Guy Kennaway said it had gone from strength to strength and drew regular comparisons with the Edinburgh fringe.

"At first we made some big mistakes and we had more people on the stage than in the audience," he said.

"We had one or two events that went really well and it was those two events that made us think that when it goes well it's such good fun that you forget about the disasters."

Along with his partner Dave Lee, Mr Kennaway decided that the best time for an alternative festival would be during the town's international eisteddfod.

"I'd been to Edinburgh University so I'd seen the Edinburgh festival and the Edinburgh fringe so I knew how it worked," said the 46-year-old.

Guy Kennaway says Llangollen's fringe is compared with Edinburgh's

This year the fringe festival, which officially starts on Saturday and runs until 12 July, plays host to a string of names including Portuguese singer Katia Guerreiro and Afghan musicians Ensemble Kaboul.

"Ensemble Kaboul are The Beatles of Afghanistan I was told, they're a huge pull if you happen to be in Kabul, but in Llangollen not a lot of people happen to know them," Mr Kennaway said.

The festival is run by volunteers, who transform the corrugated iron shed with a stage and brightly coloured seats.

Organisers even turf the concrete floor.

We've not had one who's ever complained and the more famous they are the easier they are Volunteer Rebecca Brereton

Mr Kennaway said people soon see what sort of festival they are running.

"People come in and see it's just a shed, it's not like going to a fancy theatre with velvet seats, it's really quite rough in here.

"People say 'Oh it's going to be dreadful,' and that's a great way of starting an audience."

He has fond memories of previous festivals.

"A great highlight last year was when we found someone touting tickets outside the shed.

"We thought it was so fantastic that someone had bothered to try and sell a ticket of ours above its face value.

The shed's concrete floor is covered with turf for that earthy feel

"That was a great moment," he added.

Fellow volunteer Rebecca Brereton said: "The performers are fascinated because we don't describe this shed because if we did I think they'd be a bit put off.

"They have contracts which you fill in and it's got all sorts of things on it, down to what chocolate they would like, but as soon as they arrive they realise that it is totally different.

"We've not had one who's ever complained and the more famous they are the easier they are," she added.