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2018 International Festival. A celebration of inclusion and Scotland’s Year of Young People
The 2018 Edinburgh International Festival ended last evening with the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert. Drawing hundreds of thousands of Festival-goers from more than 80...
2018 Virgin Money Fireworks Concert
Few words. Just some images from Princes Street Gardens.
La Cenerentola
And not a glass slipper to be seen...
Ingenious optical illusions, sumptuous video projections and unstoppable comedy.
Renowned Norwegian director Stefan Herheim’s extraordinary production of Rossini’s...
National Youth Orchestra of Canada
Edinburgh's City Youth Cafe hosts Canada's National Youth Orchestra
A number of members of Canada's NYO performed an extract earlier today from their upcoming Usher...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018: Notes From Shetland to Shanghai
If you think harps are only played by angels or elderly ladies in ballgowns, think again.
Harpist Sophie Rocks is just 23, and although her...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 Review: The Power of Music – Bernard MacLaverty
In the midst of all the frenzy that is the Old Town in August, St Andrew’s and St George’s West Church on George Street...
Celebrate the words and music of Scotland with The Saltire Society
The Saltire Society will host a series of free events celebrating Scottish music and poetry
during this year’s Edinburgh Festival.
The performances will take place throughout August at...
Glitter Defiance at Jupiter Campout Romanti-Crash!
Romance at a festival is more than just a drunken kiss in a soggy tent when Jupiter Artland gets involved. It’s a chance to...
University team asks Brutal or beautiful?
A team from Edinburgh Napier University is encouraging members of the public to view
brutalist buildings in a different light – through the use of music...
Edinburgh Napier students Rip It Up
Edinburgh Napier students have been helping to tell the story of Scottish pop music through a creative partnership with National Museums Scotland.
As part of National Museum...
40th Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival – 13th-22nd July
Jazz & Blues Festival presents strongest blues programme to celebrate 40th Anniversary
Festival goers will see world-class names from the USA perform alongside our own...
Scotland’s National Music School’s Directors’ Recital Prize 2018
Eighteen year Spanish student wins prestigious music prize
Scotland’s national music school’s highly prestigious Directors’ Recital Prize 2018 has been won by an eighteen year...
Musicians in unique concert performance
A unique musical collaboration reaches its climax on Saturday 2 June in the newly-refurbished McEwan Hall as 150 amateur, professional and student singers join...
Hidden Door: Women with Fierce Words
What is your Fierce Word?
Here are some that others have chosen:
equality, joy, fierce, passion, mirror, truth, spirit, queen, empathy, transformation, thrawn*…
These words were selected...
Brigadoon reinterpreted by contemporary Edinburgh Kiltmaker
Howie Nicholsby of 21st Century Kilts dresses Patricia Ward Kelly
While most people think of dance when they think of Gene Kelly, music was central...
Nationwide Tour Launch for Scotland’s State Band
Representatives of Royal Regiment of Scotland Band gather in Central Edinburgh for Launch
The Band of The Royal Regiment of Scotland – Scotland’s best-known military...
Fundraiser to celebrate new arrivals to Edinburgh at St Mary’s Cathedral
The unique contributions of Edinburgh’s refugee and migrant communities will be celebrated in an exciting evening of music, art and discussion this St Andrews...
Community Project awarded £11,696 Children’s Lottery Grant
Fischy Music awarded a £11,696 grant from the Scottish Children's Lottery.
Fischy Music, a community project based in Edinburgh, uses music and song to support the...
RSNO features China connection
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) presents two concerts celebrating the works of arguably China’s greatest living composer in the Western classical tradition when...
Edinburgh International Festival 2017 – Virgin Money Fireworks
A selection of images captured from the press 'bit of grass around the flower bed' area, which brought the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival to...
Edinburgh Festivals Fringe 2017 – A Heart at Sea
A Heart at Sea at the Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance Courtyard: BELOW 11:50am
Be enthralled by this epic musical folktale told on a miniature scale. A Heart at Sea uses...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – My Leonard Cohen
Assembly Rooms – Ballroom (Venue 20),
Edinburgh │Thursday 3 – Sunday 27 August │ 7.45pm (1 hr 20 min)
Following acclaimed seasons at the Sydney Opera House...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – Scots Plus Cajun – Discover Bonnie Bayou
Mingle heartfelt Scottish songs with Cajun honky tonk and the result is what the Jennifer Ewan Band calls “Bonnie Bayou”.
It’s an acoustic pop sound finely honed on...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – The Agony and the Ivories
Bill Larkin (Comedy Central's "Premium Blend") stands behind his keyboard for an evening of original comedy songs. The Los Angeles Times calls him “bitingly satirical”. ...
One Voice Rally held for The Old Royal High School
A rallying call for two of Scotland’s national treasures to come together took place this week when three of those behind the Perfect Harmony...
THE LOVE BOAT BIG BAND: 20 YEARS ON THE HIGH CS
ALL-STAR LOCAL LEGENDS STEAM INTO PORT FOR 20TH BIRTHDAY CRUISE & EDINBURGH JAZZ FESTIVAL DEBUT!
With very special guests THE BEVVY SISTERS
EMBARKATION 10PM, JULY 21,...
Legends Live UK Tour 2017
Tony Denton Promotions are bringing these four iconic artistes together for the Legends Live arena tour 2017, the tour features Suzi Quatro, David Essex, The...
The Edinburgh Folk Club’s 2017 Song Writing Competition
This year’s competition which takes place this Wednesday has some 25 or so entries – fairly well up on last year’s competition when there...
Community grant gives people with disabilities chance to learn to play and perform music
People with disabilities in Edinburgh will get access to new opportunities to learn to play, perform and record music thanks to a grant of...
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