Laura Silverstone – live music today
Laura Silverstone has been busking in Edinburgh throughout the festival, mainly on the High Street, and now she is appearing at St James Quarter Sessions on Wednesday evening from 6pm.
And if you go along and like what you hear then it will be music to your ears to hear that she is appearing at The Mash House on 27 September.
Today at the Festival of Politics
The Festival of Politics takes place at The Scottish Parliament from today with a three day programme of more than 30 events.
This is today’s programme:
- Who gets a say? Environmental justice and the law 10.30am
- Reshaping local government – a vision for Scotland’s future 10.30am
- Peace in the Middle East? 10.45am
- Croft creation 12.30pm
- Making America Great Again? 1pm
- The future of health: innovations in preventive care and wellbeing 1.15pm
- Scotland’s drugs problem 3.15pm
- Action not words: how to be an anti-racist country 3.30pm
- The Atomics: the story of Dounreay’s people 4pm
- In Conversation with Clive Myrie 5.30pm
- Vote Chatbot at the Ballot 5.30pm
https://www.festivalofpolitics.scot
Edinburgh 900 draws to a close
Edinburgh Riding of the Marches will be the finale to the city’s Edinburgh 900 celebrations with a People’s Procession due to take place on Sunday 14 September. The procession will celebrate Edinburgh and all those who live here.
The organisers are now looking for groups and communities in the Edinburgh area who would liketo join the procession. The aim is to have 900 local people processing up the Royal Mile following the pageant of riders in the Riding of the Marches to the Mercat Cross. There, the Lord Provost salutes the riders and receives a ceremonial flag for safe-keeping.
If your community or group could bring colour, noise and interesting pageantry to the procession, then you are invited to register now. Each group may have up to 15 participants.
Fill in the online form of Edinburgh Riding of the Marches’ website to note your interest and they will then get in touch with you.
Anyone who wishes to take part must be available from 1.45pm to 3pm on Saturday 14 September. The group will gather in Queens Drive, Holyrood Park, and The People’s Procession will then follow the participants in the Riding of the Marches up the Royal Mile to the High Street at West Parliament Square.
Everyone can watch the procession and the Riding, joining residents and visitors from across the world who come to watch the historic re-enactment which commemorates Randolph Murray’s return with the ancient Blue Blanket and the tragic news of the defeat of the Scottish Army at the Battle of Flodden.
Another festival!
A food and drink festival at the Caledonian begins on Friday with the best of Scottish food and drink, live music, and food demonstrations by chefs Mark Greenaway and Dean Banks. Tickets are £10 redeemable against the food and drink purchased.
The Caledonian Hotel celebrates award-winning chefs, iconic brands, and a weekend of flavour at the heart of Edinburgh’s festival season
Scotland’s top food and drink producers will gather in the capital on the 22-24 August for The Caledonian Food & Drink Festival, a three-day celebration of culinary talent.
The festival takes place in the heart of the city during the final weekend of the festival season, featuring pop-ups from names including Glenfiddich, Harviestoun Brewery, Arbikie Distillery, Laurent-Perrier, and Discarded Rum, alongside a curated programme of tastings, food markets, live music, and chef-led demonstrations.
Vroni returns to Edinburgh
Edinburgh based pianist Vroni Holzmann has returned home after her European tour with her piano in the back of a van, playing in each location she stopped at for the entertainment of passers by. When she got home she calculated that playing in North Berwick was her 100th city of the tour which celebrated 25 years of street piano playing. She had visited cities including Stockholm, Riga, Zuerich, Paris, Berlin, Oslo, Vienna, Luxembourg and Copenhagen on the way.
Now she is back to her almost daily routine of taking the piano to Middle Meadow Walk (when the sun is shining) and playing to whoever wants to be in her audience. She will also be appearing on Portobello Prom at the Big Beach Busk on the final Saturday of August and at Vogrie Pogrie in September.
