Tag: Music

Skerryvore, the multi-award-winning Scottish band, have announced a special livestream show to be broadcast from Edinburgh’s exclusive floating hotel, Fingal on Saturday 24 April 2021 – and tickets go on sale at 9am today,...

With BBC Radio Scotland’s Vic Galloway hosting, 'Live in Leith' streams over three consecutive Saturdays - starting this weekend with Bellshill boy Connor Fyfe and Edinburgh-based Retro Video Club - via the online platform...

Making music with other people is good for your wellbeing, even if you are not in the same room, according to a study by Edinburgh College of Art.The study funded by Creative Scotland looked...

Today (4th Feb.), Scottish Ensemble (SE) revealed Sally Beamish as the latest classical music star to grace its Musical Book Club guest list.Taking place on Wednesday 24 February at 7.30pm, Sally will be joined...

Starting 2021 as it means to go on, Scottish Ensemble opens the year with the appointment of three new board members by chair Samantha Barber. Scotland’s award-winning ensemble has been treating audiences both old...

Lothians- born singer/songwriter Matt Cairns has released his first EP which is a mix of two cultures, half American and with one foot firmly planted in his native Scotland.Matt was born in Edinburgh and...

During this year's various lock-downs and other restrictions choirs and singing communities have proved adaptable, willing to address enforced isolation by embracing new technologies, and able to rise to the challenges of messy complicated...

In an early celebration of St. Andrew's Day, an all-Scottish line-up of stars of stage and screen will perform in 'Scots in the City' on Sunday 29 November. The concert, held in celebration of...

St James Scottish Episcopal Church in Leith is ending the year with music, following repeated postponements due to the Covid-19 pandemic, of concerts that were due to take place in the John’s Place building...

The RSNO performed Beethoven’s First Symphony and Violin Concerto as part of their streamed ‘Digital Season’, with solo violinist Midori, conducted by Thomas Søndergård.The performance was shown on Friday 23 October 2020 as...

Edinburgh Tradfest’s new Spotlight season of online concerts continues tonight (Mon 19 Oct, 8pm) with Shetland Springs featuring musicians Catriona MacDonald (fiddle, String Sisters) and Margaret Robertson (fiddle, piano, Edinburgh Military Tattoo).A ‘spring’ is...

She’s supremely talented. She’s inventive. She’s very switched on and she’s not afraid to speak her mind. She is Jazzmeia Horn and when she made her Scottish debut with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO)...

The Edinburgh Highland Reel & Strathspey Society (EHRSS) is pleased to return to the Queen’s Hall on Saturday 21 March 2020 to present another varied programme of traditional Scottish fiddle music.The evening will...

Edinburgh Studio Opera is a student opera society within Edinburgh University which serves to nurture Edinburgh’s young opera talent, putting on two main productions a year. Last Saturday’s gala performance by ESO really emphasised...

Edinburgh Art Fair 2019 will feature SHAMANIC - the collective made up of acclaimed Russian artist Maria Rud, iconic punk rock legend, Fay Fife of the Rezillos and Martin Metcalfe, the frontman of Goodbye...

An after dark programme of art and music is coming to Leith this November for a new seasonGlow Art TrailFriday 15 November 2019 - Sunday 17 November 20196.00pm - 8.00pmStarting point: Queen Victoria Statue,...

Four acclaimed songwriters, two from Scotland (Annie Booth and Sean McLaughlin) and two from the United States (Dan Sheehan and Andy Krikun) get together this Friday to present the show 3300 Miles – New Jersey...

This August, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Palmerston Place is offering a full and varied programme of music, events and exhibitions to entertain residents and locals alike. From concerts to Cathedral tours, photography to Phoebe...

New Zealand’s most bombastic musical comedy duo, Two Hearts, are back. It’s a comeback tour! With a brand-new arena pop concert (not in an actual arena, it's more of a leaky bridge temporarily converted into...

The talented young musicians at St Mary’s Music School are welcoming the start of the summer and the end of another successful year for Scotland’s national music school with three concerts in the capital...

On 7 June 2019 The Living Memory Association will launch their brand new internet radio station THELMA FM, playing records and reminiscence, in conjunction with an exhibition at Ocean Terminal centred around the history...

The RAz Duo have played concerts all over the world and their visit to The Grey Horse will long live in the memory. Guitar virtuosi Andre Krengel and Roland Krause showcased their immense talent during...

St James Scottish Episcopal Church in Leith and the recentlyrefurbished St Peter’s Church on Linlithgow High Street will offer suitably calm and reflective settings for guitarist and composer Graeme Stephen’s Letters for Peace as...

Globe-trotting The RAZ Duo (Andre Krengel and Roland Krause) are booked into The Grey Horse, Balerno, on Friday, May 10 (7.30pm). They are two brilliant German virtuoso guitarists who first met 20 or so years...

Capital FM's DJ Fat Brestovca puts a spin on Friday night drinks with a live DJ set in The Garden at The Principal Edinburgh Charlotte Square Relax and unwind with friends and colleagues over a cocktail or two and take in...

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 countries, the three-week International Festival staged some of the world’s...

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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 effervescent Cinderella opera is stuffed full of ideas and comic...

A production worthy of a more comprehensive look

Edinburgh's City Youth Cafe hosts Canada's National Youth OrchestraA number of members of Canada's NYO performed an extract earlier today from their upcoming Usher Hall concert at the 6VT Edinburgh City Youth Cafe in...