An evening of good, old-fashioned Scottish entertainment, featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
Of the three composers in Alasdair’s programme, two were forerunners of what was to come.
We have thrilled audiences around the world, but we feel especially at home at the Fringe.
Peter Seivewright {pianoforte} performs the masterpiece of American Transcendentalism Concord Sonata by Charles Ives (1874-1954) and music by Scottish composers Eddie McGuire and T…
Enter a world where the echoes of time reverberate through a tapestry of sound.
From the 18th-century Golden Age of Robert Burns and Niel Gow, to 19th-century virtuoso James Scots Skinner, alongside classic melodies from Ireland and America, Alastair completes…
Step back in time to experience the pleasure of an hour with Bruntsfield Baroque, as Vickie Hobson (viola da gamba), Sheena Jardine (violin), John Sampson (recorders) and Frances S…
Experience the vibrant energy of dance through the centuries in an extraordinary brass ensemble concert! Journey across 400 years showcasing the evolution of the music from Baroque…
A regular sell-out at Edinburgh Fringe (including 2022, 2023 and 2024), Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots folk songs and tune sets, and are popular Fri…
Peter Seivewright {pianoforte} performs Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 by JS Bach (1685-1750), transcribed for pianoforte by Glasgow-born Eugen d’Albert (1864-1932), and Ronald Ste…
Join us for a lunchtime concert recital of romantic art-song from France and Germany! Louise Martyn (soprano), Nadanai Laohakunahorn (piano), Robbie Milner (baritone) and Ben Eames…
Experience the rich traditions of Scottish piping with The Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and friends at this special Fringe event.
Stand Out – a show created to help our students do just that! Join The Performance Academy Scotland as we welcome you to a variety show to remember! Enjoy a show packed full of d…
Enjoy musical satire at its finest: celebrating the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer, performed by Australian entertainer, singer and pianist, Antony (Dr H) Hubmayer.
Judy and Sally perform traditional and contemporary folk music and songs on Scottish smallpipes and English concertina.
Enjoy a chilled afternoon of violin and piano music with Sheena Jardine (violin) and Richard Lewis (piano).
Celebrate the songs and stories of Frank Sinatra with award-winning international piano cabaret entertainer Antony (Dr H) Hubmayer.
Music by JS Bach (1685-1750) transcribed by Ferenc Liszt (1811-1886), and the celebrated Walsingham Variations by the Welsh composer John Bull (1562-1628).
Join the hilarious fun as Dr H revives the great satirical songs from the Monty Python era.
From Caroline’s on Broadway to Mozarthaus in Vienna, Polish pianist Igor Lipinski returns with his one-of-a-kind show of piano and magic at the stunning St Mark’s Unitarian Chu…
Experience the power and beauty of the movies and music in this unique solo piano recital by acclaimed concert pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead.
An exciting collaboration to begin Alastair’s eclectic Fringe programme.
A musical voyage into outer space for solo piano by Scottish composer Morris Pert (1947-2010).
Rock on with the greatest Queen piano cabaret tribute singalong show ever! All the hits, fun stories and lots of laughs as you transform from an audience into the world’s greates…
In Earth Prayers, Carol Ann selects nature poetry from across the ages, from John Clare to Lucille Clifton and Kathleen Jamie, that reflects the fragility of our world and the urge…
‘Best of the Festival and Fringe: Riveting Highland tales fresh from the Gaelic’ (Independent).
Peter Seivewright performs Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and music by the Austrian jazz composer Friedrich Gulda.
Dine out on a hearty serving of your favourite Meat Loaf pieces as we slice through his back catalogue and digest the finest moments.
An evening of good, old-fashioned Scottish entertainment, featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
Peter Seivewright celebrates his 70th birthday with performances of music by JS Bach and Moszkowski.
Indulge in the enchanting melodies of this Italian string quartet at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
From Caroline’s on Broadway in New York City to Mozarthaus in Vienna, Polish pianist Igor Lipinski presents a one-of-a-kind show of piano and magic in his 2024 Edinburgh Festival…
Picked as the Band/Group of the Year in the Hong Kong Music Critics Choice 2022, Sea Island & Ferry is a neo-chamber ensemble featuring members on piano, cello, violin and clar…
Durham University’s Palatinate Award-winning choir return to the festival to bring you their unique blend of a cappella repertoire.
The Moonlight Sonata and Für Elise are among Beethoven’s most popular works.
A regular sell out at Edinburgh Fringe (including 2022 and 2023), Curmudgeon are an Edinburgh-based trio who play (mostly) Scots folk songs and tune sets and are popular Fringe reg…
Climate signals, ice quakes and earth history from leading polar scientists and recent exploration – innovative new music, animation and beautiful images telling the story of the…
Lenka Lichtenberg loves to sing in sacred spaces.
Nominated for Best Composer on the Fringe for Sailing to Tomorrow (Musical Theatre Matters, 2007), Peter D Robinson brings a new setting of Kenneth Steven’s powerful poem.
The acclaimed quintet Brass Tracks, now in their second decade as a group, bring power and fullness of melody to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tasteful, melodic, attractive and readily accessible new music for guitar and double bass.
Going further afield, we have added some real treasures from Eastern Europe and Central America.
Scottish bagpipe music played by solo musicians and groups.
Festival at the Fringe 2024.
We have thrilled audiences around the world, from China to the US, but we’re particularly at home on the Fringe.
Festivo Winds return to the Fringe to present a programme of spirited and soulful music with folk influences.
Nominated for Best Composer on the Fringe for Sailing to Tomorrow (Musical Theatre Matters, 2007), Peter D Robinson brings a variety of music from his musicals and choral works to …
Blowing Through the Ages is a triumphant, engaging ramble across 500 years of music from virtuoso musicians John Sampson, playing a range of period instruments including crumhorn, …
Traditional and contemporary folk music and songs on Scottish smallpipes and English concertina.
Fresh from performing across Malmo and Copenhagen during this year’s Eurovision, Liverpool’s Over the Water Show Choir bring their set of chorally innovative Eurovision classics fr…
Take Note Choir returns to the Fringe for a second year with a performance celebrating life, love, dreams and fantasies.
Enjoy piano musical satire at its finest, celebrating the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer.
Peter Seivewright was described by the late Sir John Dankworth as ‘a great jazz pianist’.
Join the hilarious fun as Dr H revives the great satirical songs from the Monty Python era.
Best of the Festival and Fringe.
For his 25th Fringe Luca Villani plays guitar masterpieces and his own world premiere.
Soprano Silvia Mirarchi and guitarist Luca Villani give an exciting new recital, starting with brilliant Spanish songs by Garcia-Lorca such as El Cafè de Chinitas and classy La Ma…
Nominated for Best Composer in the Fringe (MTM: UK Awards) for Sailing to Tomorrow (2007), Peter D Robinson brings a new setting of the Passion.
Tasteful, melodic, attractive and readily accessible new music for guitar and double bass.
15 years.
An evening of good, old-fashioned Scottish entertainment, featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
Arbroath-born Morris Pert (1947-2010) was best known for his session work with Kate Bush, Mike Oldfield and many others.
Nicola Burnett Smith, together with her ensemble of actor-musicians, explores how the written word can ignite and inspire musical composition.
Nominated for Best Composer in the Fringe (MTM: UK awards) for Sailing to Tomorrow a musical tale of the Highland Clearances, (2007), Peter D Robinson brings an intimate collection…
Come and enjoy our blend of Scottish traditional instruments! In decades of developing our sound we’ve brought together fiddles, concertina, clarsach, wire-strung harp, flute, smal…
Climate signals, ice quakes and earth history from leading polar scientists – inspiring innovative new music, animation and beautiful images, combined to tell the story of the li…
A new take on the ancient Border ballad of Thomas the Rhymer with specially composed music performed by well-known instrumentalist and composer John Sampson and multi-talented musi…
Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s New Frontiers.
Scottish tunes played on bagpipes, performed by groups of players and solo: marches, strathspeys, reels, hornpipes, jigs, piobaireachd, and songs.
Talented flute and piano duo Leila Marshall and Ailsa Aitkenhead return to the fringe for an afternoon concert of varied repertoire.
Pianist Richard Michael delves into the music of Gershwin, Porter, Bacharach and Brubeck demonstrating his virtuosic piano playing with unique insights into some of the finest song…
Formed in 1983 to revive and promote the playing of Scotland’s ‘other’ bagpipes, the LBPS achieved this aim.
This expressive Edinburgh duo return once again with another passionate programme of music for violin and piano including; Schubert Duo Op 162, Debussy Sonata, Bartok Romanian Danc…
A performance of some of Einaudi’s most popular, beautiful and atmospheric music brought to you live by talented pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead.
Apollo calls the poets of the nations, East and West, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modern life, teaching a universal celebration of life.
Brass Tracks celebrate 10 years of live performances to delighted audiences across Scotland.
Evokes and summons up the atrocities we human beings perpetrate on one another and affirms our deepest human capacities for cooperation and peace.
Alafia ensemble aims to build bridges between worlds of sound.
Peter Seivewright is one of the very few British artists in any field to have achieved substantial recognition in both Russia and the United States of America, as well as throughou…
Enjoy musical satire at its finest: celebrating the mischievous wit of Tom Lehrer, performed by Australian entertainer, singer and pianist, Antony (DrH) Hubmayer.
The 19th century was a time of seismic developments for the piano, and Paris was at the epicentre of these as many virtuosi made it their home.
Join classical trio Oscen Ensemble as they explore works by female composers in their Song for the Forgotten Rose.
In this new work, Peter D Robinson – MTM: UK nominee for Best Composer on the Fringe 2007 for Sailing to Tomorrow – combines ancient and contemporary, sacred and secular texts …
A concert of new music for solo piano.
An evening of good old-fashioned Scottish entertainment featuring some of Edinburgh’s best-known performers.
‘Everything starts with a dream’.
A sparkling programme of classical piano music, from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to the magnificent Norma Fantasy by Liszt.
A selection of music by Ludovico Einaudi, performed by talented pianist Ailsa Aitkenhead. Contemplative and beautiful classical piano in a gorgeous ambience.
Performances of Highland bagpipes and small pipes by the Royal Scottish Pipers’ Society and guests. Featuring light music and piobaireachd.
Join us on a tour through medieval and renaissance Europe, playing period instruments of every kind: cornetts, sackbuts, serpents, viols, rebecs, fiddle, violins, shawms, curtals, …
Gunnar Berg (1909-1989) GAFFKY’s.
Join talented duo Leila Marshall and Ailsa Aitkenhead for an evening recital of lyrical and rousing works for flute and piano.
Brass Tracks return triumphant after their last Fringe sell-out success with a new show bringing the excitement of brass to a beautifully balanced programme of classical and contem…
Dynamic Manchester-based wind quintet Festivo Winds present an evening of French music culminating in a performance of Poulenc’s dazzling sextet for piano and winds.
The Gin Chronicles in New York is the latest saga in this well-established series that by now has something of a following.
“All I knew was the playground song Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off,” says opera singer Louise Macdonald, “until I started learning Schumann’s Maria Stuart Lie…
If you want a break from the theatre and live performances, if you want to try a calmer, different kind of show, this late-night screening of The Cabinet of Dr.
Interrupt the Routine returns as 1940s radio group The Misfits of London for another highly enjoyable adventure of The Gin Chronicles.
After their great success last year, Interrupt the Routine are back with a brand new episode of The Gin Chronicles.
It isn’t just through watching the plays of the Bard that you can get a taste of culture here at the Fringe; the Edinburgh Renaissance Band are bards of a different sort.
A comedy that ironically centres around two failing comedians should find humour in the ineptness of these characters.
Interrupt the Routine takes a trip back in time to the 1940s, where their broadcast of a new radio play The Gin Chronicles is about to begin.
Scotsman Richard Michael leads his talented family on piano with his daughters Hilary Michael on violin and saxophone, Joanna Duncan on violin and xylophone, and nephew Paul Michae…
This one-off recital was a showcase of first-year talent from a group of four classical pianists from Edinburgh Napier University.
Give Take’s Musical Remedies are an exploration of the healing powers of the natural world.
Koji Takeuchi was born in Japan and began his search for truth in his teens.
Ivor Novello: glamorous stage and screen star, author and matinee idol is mostly known today as a glorious melodic theatrical composer.
1 or 2 Things About Us is a community production from Mixit Days, an inclusive theatre company who work with disabled people and give them a chance to perform on the stage.
Darling Ghost is a collaboration between singer and pianist Sheena Bernett, four woodwind musicians and two spoken word performers, bringing what they describe as “theatrical a…
Every evening, the understated sacred space of St.