Tag: Music
Scottish Chamber Orchestra prepare for a busy month in February
The month starts with the last of this Season’s popular early evening CL@SIX series on Tuesday 1 February at 6pm at St Cuthbert’s Parish Church in Edinburgh, with Drum Roll. The concert opens with...
Susan Boyle is Top Scot
Courtesy of Scotcare
ScotsCare, the charity for vulnerable Scots in London, has announced the winner of Scot of the Year 2010. Susan Boyle, who has been overlooked for Music’s Brit Awards, received support...
Lord Provost’s Concert 5 February 2011
On 5 February at 3pm, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra will be joined on the stage of the Usher Hall by singers of all ages from across Edinburgh for a family concert celebrating the city’s...
Indie band Endor – newest track
Our new Edinburgh Reporter contributor, David McGinty, does a lot more than just write for us. He also fronts an indie Glasgow band called Endor....they have their own website too.
And this is their latest...
Foxy Freedom
Has anyone heard of this Edinburgh band? Do you have anything to say about them? Do let us know! We think they are rather good.....ourselves....but what do we know?
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Scotland’s Culture Olympiad promises benefits to all
The significant benefits that culture and creativity are delivering for the people of Scotland have been highlighted by Minister for Culture, Fiona Hyslop. Ahead of this year's Burns Night celebrations, Ms Hyslop attended a...
Greg Sinclair’s Ditto premieres at The Traverse 20 -22 January 2011
Ditto is a music performance which explores the space between sounds; the space between one thought and the next; the space between our emotions.
Composed as a direct response to a research study...
The New Victoria
We spoke recently with the Artistic Director of The New Victoria Limited, Helen Raw. Helen is part of a three woman team trying very hard to save the old Odeon building on South Clerk...
KT Tunstall in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens…
We are spoiled for choice in Edinburgh at the moment and last night was no exception. A concert featuring the Brit Award winning singer KT Tunstall entertained a large crowd in the city centre...
Bring on Edinburgh’s Hogmany!
Now that you have unwrapped all your presents and eaten more than you thought humanly possible, time to think about Hogmanay. Thankfully it is all under control thanks to the efforts of the Edinburgh's...
Have The Assembly Rooms been saved?
Work is set to begin within weeks on the £9.3m refurbishment of one of Edinburgh's best loved historic buildings after councillors voted towards the end of last week to appoint a contractor.
The...
Tattoo gets new chief
The Board of Trustees of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is pleased to announce that Brigadier David Allfrey MBE FRGS is to be the next Chief Executive and Producer of the world’s best known...
Single Review – GG by White Heath
I was told a year or two back that White Heath, an Edinburgh band recently signed to Electric Honey (the label that launched Belle and Sebastian, Snow Patrol and Biffy Clyro) were sort of...
Hog the Stage : The Results
Kitty the Lion triumphed at the Final of Hog The Stage, the new bands competition which has seen Scotland’s best new acts vie for the chance to Hog the Stage at the world’s greatest...
Edinburgh Spotlight On Music
Local website Edinburgh Spotlight has teamed up with Leith-based Bainbridge Music to launch Edinburgh Spotlight on Music, a live platform for unsigned local bands to show what they can do. The evening of music...
Sing a New Song at St Cuthbert’s
by Thomas Haywood
I was attending the lovely St Cuthberts Church last Saturday to take photographs for Waverley Care when the results of a competition to write a new carol were announced. The carols, all...
Bands Battle For Street Party Slot
Hogmanay is one of the biggest events in Edinburgh’s calendar - after all, where better to celebrate the most popular Scottish holiday than the country’s capital? But whilst event headliners Biffy Clyro and special...
Behind The Scenes of Hog The Stage
Last week, organisers of Edinburgh’s Hogmanay announced the five finalists in the competition to support Biffy Clyro and The Charlatans at this year’s New Year celebrations on Princes Street. Come On Gang!, Kitty The...
Subo at Loch Lomond on a Perfect Day
Here is the world premiere of Scotland's own Susan Boyle singing Lou Reed's Perfect Day....
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Watch out Tony Blackburn’s back!
Tony Blackburn is to join BBC Radio 2 to present the iconic Saturday afternoon chart run-down show Pick Of The Pops from this Saturday 6 November 2010.
Each week Pick Of The...
Rat Pack Piano Bar tells customers to leave!
A city live music bar has come up with a unique way to ask its customers to leave at closing time – without the use of door staff.
The Rat Pack Piano Bar play Red...
Mitch Benn & The Distractions at The Queen’s Hall 29 October 2010
From BBC Radio 4’s Sony nominated The Now Show, BBC1’s The One Show and Watchdog, multi-award winner Mitch Benn and his band take to the road in a two hour show packed with new...
What are you doing at Hogmanay?
Yes, yes we know it seems a little premature but you are advancing relentlessly towards Hallowe'en and already the tickets have gone on sale for Edinburgh's Hogmanay.
To whet your appetite here is the video.....
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Review : Frieda Morrison and her band at the Botanics
And a lovely time was had by all. The Reporter was lucky enough to catch one of the events in The Scottish International Storytelling Festival which has just begun in the city.
What made this...
Fiddle 2010 comes to Edinburgh
The world's finest fiddle music will be on display at Fiddle 2010 in The Assembly Rooms, this November.
The Grand Concert on Saturday 13 November (7.30 pm) features Martin Hayes and Denis Cahill, one...
Nils Lofgren at The Queen’s Hall
The Reporter is a big Lofgren fan and is therefore very very upset to find that a prior engagement will prevent attendance. So please go along and let us know what it is like...
Homecoming Concert for The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Featuring The Band of The Royal Regiment of Scotland & Pipes and Drums of The Royal Regiment of Scotland
Established to assume the traditional roles of the Bands of the Scottish Infantry Regiments, the band...
Tonight at The Queen’s Hall
Beethoven Scenes from Prometheus
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat K595*
Mendelssohn Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave)
Mozart Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor K466
Piotr Anderszewski - piano/director*
Alexander Janiczek -...
Music at the Botanics
Broadcaster and singer-songwriter Frieda Morrison joins RBGE horticulturalist David Mitchell to explore the plants in the gardens next Saturday. With songs from Frieda's new album Morven and adventure stories about the...
2 Pianos 4 Hands at the King’s
2 Pianos 4 Hands is the touching and irresistibly funny story of two boys, Ted and Richard, who share one goal: concert pianist stardom. They work fervently towards their dream amidst pushy parents, eccentric...
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