Tag: Music

The MGA Academy of Performing Arts on Balgreen Road is home to many talented performers and this week they're taking their abilities to new pastures.  Or should we say darker pastures?The full-time students are producing...

“Moon, June, Croon, Swoon”The internationally acclaimed vocalist, frequently compared to Harry Connick Jnr and Michael Bublé, performs an eclectic mix of jazz standards, lounge and swing in the intimate surroundings of The Compass Bar...

Fused Edinburgh is a new and exciting acoustic Music Festival being held in The Music Box at Stevenson College Edinburgh, on Friday 3 June 2011.Fused features excellent music from internationally acclaimed artists such as...

Three-piece Edinburgh band Salute Mary are to release a double A-side single costing absolutely nothing to buy. 'Pacifying Hungry Ghosts / Rubella Rubata' is physically available on Monday 23rd May 2011 from the Salute Mary website....

Scotland’s professional contemporary music ensemble Red Note continue their bold path of presenting rarely-heard classics of international new music alongside new work by UK composers. Red Note Tour May 2011, which runs from 11th –...

Mariza, the leading fado singer of her generation, will be giving only one concert in The Usher Hall on Friday, 13 May 2011 at 8.00pm.With her five studio albums, the latest one  being "Fado...

John Rutter, composer of “This is the Day”, an anthem specially commissioned for the Royal Wedding and sung in Westminster Abbey during the wedding ceremony, will be in Edinburgh in August. Rutter will be conducting...

Edinburgh dream quintet ‘The Machine Room’ are one year old exactly. Influenced equally by the tight robotic DMX / Linn Drum hits of “New Order” and the Jangly Pre- Britpop wonder of “The House...

Irish beauty pageant winner, Edinburgh lass Jemma Ferry, showed the spirit of Ireland as she helped launch the Donegal Live music festival today.The event will bring the Donegal craic and culture to Scotland on...

The third ‘Brain Storm’ event is set to take place on Saturday 7th May 2011 at Edinburgh’s Sneaky Pete’s, and will help raise money for Edinburgh’s Sick Kids charity.The event will be headlined by...

If there is going to be a more memorable and moving event than Big Country's home-turf gig at The HMV Picture House on April 21st, it would have to be a tram in operation. Big...

The Royal Highland Centre is to play host to its first pipe band championship on Sunday 24th July.Over 500 of Scotland’s leading pipers and drummers are expected to compete in the inaugural Edinburgh Pipe...

Edinburgh Academy Choir took part in the BBC Songs of Praise Choir competition - and won! You can see the choir performing in the final herehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf

The second annual Haddowfest took place in Edinburgh over the weekend. An eclectic mix of over 100 bands took to the stage at various venues throughout the city at the event organised by local...

Edinburgh based femme-fronted grunge/punk trio Scrap Brain have announced that their debut single, ‘Nal’, will be released at a launch gig on Friday 8th April 2011. That show will take place at Maggies Chamber, and...

Lenny Henry returns to his musical roots in his new one man comedy show Cradle To Rave Tues 26th April 2011 - Festival Theatre, EdinburghMusic has always been a huge part of Lenny’s life and it was...

Boy band sensation Boyzone has today announced an exclusive outdoor summer concert in Edinburgh on Saturday 6th August.The band, which has sold over 15 million records, has had six number one hits and has...

Once again Scotland’s most inimitable contemporary music ensemble Red Note, take to the stage on 21st March with their unique brand of music and this time it’s free! Noisy Nights is a fun evening...

Hot on the heels of its highly successful production of Footloose,The Musical, at the Church Hill Theatre last Spring Edinburgh Music Theatre now presents, Rent, a rock opera based on Puccini’s La Boheme. Set in...

The Royal Highland Centre has secured the UK’s hottest boy band, JLS, for what is expected to be this summer’s biggest outdoor concert in Scotland.JLS, who shot to fame on the 2008 series of...

The Royal Highland Centre has secured the UK’s hottest boy band, JLS, for what is expected to be this summer’s biggest outdoor concert in Scotland.JLS, who shot to fame on the 2008 series of...

Local MP Ian Murray is proud to invite nominations from within South Edinburgh, to be considered for the best live band and best live music venue awards of the first ever parliamentary Rock the...

Edinburgh musicians Withered Hand and Unicorn Kid will showcase in Austin, Texas at at South by Southwest (SxSW), the annual Music, Film and Interactive Festival. More than a dozen bands, six films and an interactive...

Scottish Opera’s new Primary Schools Tour, Scotland, our Scotland!! is set to inspire school pupils across the country. The energetic opera, which P5-P7 pupils all over the country will learn and perform in their own schools,...

A group of talented musicians from Stevenson College Edinburgh are presenting a charity concert on Monday 28 February 2011 at the Quaker Meeting House in Edinburgh,  to help raise funds to provide workshops for...

The question was:- Apart from The Blues Brothers name two other films in which John Belushi starred with Dan Aykroyd.The answer is:- 1941 and NeighborsWe have emailed the winners. Well done to all three...

Back once again to bring soul to the British public The Blues Brothers are about to wreak havoc across the UK. The Blues Brothers Party comes to the Edinburgh Festival Theatre from Tuesday...

An arctic fox cub, listening carefully to Canadian Radio, asks his mother “What is this Edinburgh band, Foxy Freedom?” Edinburgh band, Foxy Freedom, have been quietly carving a niche for themselves, and we were glad...

Broadcaster and musician, Frieda Morrison, and Curator at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, David Mitchell, are at it again! They will be down in the Botanics telling stories and making music... on the...

Janiczek directs CL@SIX: Drum Roll The Voice of a City, a family concert The second in Robin Ticciati’s series Stravinsky: The Chamber Ballets Piemontesi debuts with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25 in C Chamber Concert featuring Piemontesi and...