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Jazz & Blues Festival starts today – Cameo cinema revamp – The Portobello Poets – Today’s Photo – St Giles Cathedral

From 10.30 this morning the Tron Kirk will come to life as the Jazz Festival Club, and there are shows on later ranging from Tia Fuller to the Brian Kellock Copenhagen Trio.

Full details of the programme here.

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The Cameo has been having some work done. Today Screen 1 reopens with The World’s End and Breathe In. From all the photos of the new red seats on Twitter it looks really lovely!

Booking details here.

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SONY DSCToday’s photo, and this one above shows the craft bombing that has appeared on the canal at Leamington Lift Quay. We shall have more photos for you later, but the culprits have said that they hope it brings a little cheer to all those people who walk, cycle or boat along the canal.

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At St Giles Cathedral during the festival there will be a whole range of lunchtime concerts starting at 12..15 but this weekend there are two events:-

Saturday 20 July at 12.15pm
Lunchtime Concert
A Choired Taste, Kilmarnock

Sunday 21 July at 6pm
St Giles’ at Six
Sang Scule

Eneados 500: Scotland’s Glory 1513
Robert Carver Mass for Six Voices (1511)