Tag: Edinburgh International Festival
OPINION – Scotland’s dazzling visitor attraction numbers are not quite what they seem
Anna Leask, Edinburgh Napier University
Scotland’s visitor attractions are outstripping those in the rest of the UK, according to a new report. They recorded a whopping 15.6% increase in visitor numbers between 2015 and...
Edinburgh International Festival comes to Craigmillar
Senior Pupils introduce their school as a Festival venue
Pupils at Castlebrae Community High School, in the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh, today hosted their own launch of this year’s International Festival.
As part of the International Festival’s...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – a full and varied anniversary programme
Fergus Linehan, Director of the Edinburgh International Festival announced the 2017 festival programme this morning at the Assembly Hall on The Mound. He had just come off the stage at a new look launch with Festival...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – our first recommendations
EIF unveiled its 70th Anniversary programme from the august Church Of Scotland Assembly Hall on The Mound earlier today.
To an accompanying sleek and chic audio-visual platform, Director, Fergus Linehan, extended the city's welcome to...
Edinburgh festivals – 70 years of culture
As a reminder that this year marks the 70th anniversary year of Edinburgh festivals the overarching body EdinburghFestivals.com has produced a video to remind us what we might have seen in the past, and...
More funding for festivals in their 70th year
The Scottish Government has confirmed a further £300,000 of funding to the Edinburgh festivals to help them celebrate their 70th year.
The various festivals were founded in 1947 and it will be appropriate to mark...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – Mogwai Play Atomic ****
It seemed appropriate to conclude the Festival with Mogwai performing the OST to Mark Cousin’s film, Atomic, live.
Subtitled Living in Dread and Promise, Cousins' film nods to the work of Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi films, an archival...
Edinburgh International Festival – Così Fan Tutte: racial and sexual abuse should shock audiences...
by Eleanor Smith, Edinburgh Napier University
The new production of Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte’s classic opera Così Fan Tutte has attracted no shortage of controversy. After its premiere in Aix-en-Provence in France in July,...
Virgin Money Fireworks attracts audience of 250,000
Last night the festivals which have taken over the city for the last month and more came to a spectacular close.
The Virgin Money Fireworks Concert 2016 filled the sky with giant walls of silver and golden crackle...
Edinburgh International Festival takes over £4million in ticket sales
The announcements are flooding in even before the day is out. It appears that the festivals this year have without exception been record-breaking.
The 2016 International Festival welcomed audiences from 84 countries to Scotland’s capital...
Letter from Scotland
It’s the last weekend of the cultural invasion we call the Edinburgh Festival. The 3,500 shows are taking their last bow and the final firework display is about to light up the sky. But,...
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 REVIEW – Yann Tiersen ****
Whilst sat waiting for French composer, Yann Tiersen, to address the stage, conversing with another journalist sitting in your booth who writes for a German publication, it is precisely then that you understand the “international”...
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 – Songlines
Songlines criss-crosses Edinburgh for a unique celebration of singing
Today the Edinburgh International Festival staged Songlines, a free participatory event at venues across the Lothians celebrating the joy of singing.
A city-wide event took place earlier today and...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – Sigur Ros ****
Sigur Ros met with huge applause and standing ovation on Tuesday night, as they took to the stage of The Edinburgh Playhouse for the last of their two shows. However, the set design took the...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: Measure for Measure ****
From the offset, it’s evident that Declan Donnellan’s Measure for Measure is going to be bold and modern.
There is no elaborate set to establish a sense of place; instead, Vienna has become a sort...
Edinburgh International Festival – Scottish Ballet
Sensuality, brutality and spellbinding spectacle come together in a double bill of major contemporary dance works from Scotland’s national ballet company, radically contrasting in their dance styles, but equally powerful in their extreme emotional...
Edinburgh International Festival – Godspeed You! Black Emperor*****
Setting a desolate Western scene with their raw introduction, Godspeed You! Black Emperor played to a diverse audience last night. With strings, guitars, drums and double bass, the initial introduction of their music, the...
Edinburgh International Festival – Barry Humphries’ Weimar Cabaret ****
Barry Humphries gathered himself on stage and got lost in a monologue about bookshops, one that was a little disconcerting, about their demise and his love for them. But this was the beginning of a...
Edinburgh Festival – Flit at The EICC
Award-winning composer and Lau’s visionary accordionist Martin Green brings together Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Mogwai’s Dominic Aitchison, Becky Unthank from The Unthanks and Edinburgh-born folk singer-songwriter Adam Holmes, with BAFTA-winning animators whiterobot (Will Anderson and...
Edinburgh International Festival – Alan Cumming sings Sappy Songs
The star name of this year's Festival is undoubtedly the boy frae Angus, Alan Cumming.
His Scottish accent has not left him even after living for so long in New York, and it shines through in his singing....
Edinburgh International Festival – Wind Resistance
There can be few more spiritually uplifting experiences in natural world phenomenon than witnessing the spectacular arrival of so many thousands of Pink-footed geese along the East Lothian coastline come mid September. The captivating, ethereal...
Festival poster competition winners announced
Three designs have been chosen as winners of the Edinburgh International Festival Fireworks Concert Poster competition.
At the Virgin Money Lounge yesterday evening the three winners were announced and their designs unveiled.
The winners are :
Ailsa...
Edinburgh International Festival comes to Craigmillar
The Edinburgh International Festival hosted a special programme launch for staff and pupils from Castlebrae Community High School this morning, as part of the International Festival’s three year residency programme with the School. Castlebrae Community...
Edinburgh International Festival 2016 programme online now
Arts writers and critics in Edinburgh had today in their diaries for a long time, as the Edinburgh International Festival programme launch took place earlier.
Festival Director Fergus Linehan unveiled his second programme which runs from Friday 5 to Monday 29 August, and...
TERLive! Edinburgh International Festival Launch 2016
Today the programme for this year's Edinburgh International Festival will be launched.
Last year was Fergus Linehan's debut year and after Harmonium and brass bands on the Water of Leith, we have high hopes for...
The Edinburgh Reporter guide to Edinburgh Festivals 2016
Here in the capital we are very proud of all our festivals.
There really is something for everybody and now it is not just in August that you can find something to entertain you that...
Letter from Scotland
As the Edinburgh Festival comes to an end, I find myself reflecting on the image it has left on modern Scotland. It’s been a popular festival. Ticket sales have been at record levels, the...
Edinburgh International Festival REVIEW – King Creosote, From Scotland with Love ****
Review byKeira Brown. Image - Ross Trevail.
A familiar face in Edinburgh and renowned for his long-standing career in Fife’s music scene, King Creosote, also known as Kenny Anderson, plays for the first time under the...
Royal Mail issue a new Festival postmark
Katrina Coll and Stuart Millar, who both work in Royal Mail's city delivery office, joined Kath M Mainland, Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society to celebrate the new 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe outside the Fringe...
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