Following from the overwhelming success of this year’s Lammermuir Festival in September that involved a return to live concerts, the organisation announces its first Winter season of online concerts. Taking account of the fact that not everyone could make it out to East Lothian this year for reasons such not being quite ready to attendContinue reading “Lammermuir Winter Festival of Online Concerts Announced”
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Radio Summerhall Arts Adds an Audio Site
We now have a mixcloud site as a companion to this one, where we will post new editions of the Radio Summerhall shows. At the moment, we have four shows: Music Routes (mainly folk and acoustic music); Ain’t Nobody’s Fault But Mine (blues); No Horse, No Banjo (jazz); and Worldwalking (music from the wider world).Continue reading “Radio Summerhall Arts Adds an Audio Site”
Brunton Theatre Announces Hansel and Gretel as 2021 Pantomime
Musselburgh’s well-loved local theatre joins the ranks of venues returning to live performances for this Yule season. This year’s pantomime, Hansel and Gretel, comes from the pen of award winning writer and theatre maker, John Binnie. John, who was the founder and director of Glasgow’s Clyde Unity Theatre, has been behind past successful pantos inContinue reading “Brunton Theatre Announces Hansel and Gretel as 2021 Pantomime”
Dundee’s Caird Hall Plays Host to Scottish Opera’s Puccini Collection This December
Advent celebrations come to Dundee’s Caird Hall thanks to Scottish Opera with a selection of favourite arias, ensembles and orchestral interludes from Giacomo Puccini’s timeless operas, going under the name of The Puccini Collection. Featuring excerpts from well-known and well-loved works including Tosca, Turandotand La bohème, as well as rarer gems from La Fanciulla delContinue reading “Dundee’s Caird Hall Plays Host to Scottish Opera’s Puccini Collection This December”
Theatre in Schools Scotland Brings New Programme This Autumn
Theatre in Schools Scotland (TISS) is produced by Imaginate and National Theatre of Scotland (NTS) to develop the provision of theatre and dance performances available for schools to host for their pupils. This season sees six leading theatre and dance organisations for children and young people in Scotland come together in a new creative programme for Scotland’s primary schools and nurseries in 2021/22. TheseContinue reading “Theatre in Schools Scotland Brings New Programme This Autumn”
Elvis Inspired Show from Claire Cunningham Set to Tour Parts of Europe
Glasgow-based choreographer and performer Claire Cunningham is one of Europe’s most acclaimed disabled artists who in 2021 was honoured for her Outstanding Artistic Development in dance at the German Dance Awards. Her work is often rooted in the study and use/misuse of her crutches and the exploration of the potential of her own specific physicality with a consciousContinue reading “Elvis Inspired Show from Claire Cunningham Set to Tour Parts of Europe”
Two New Competitions Set to Find Solo Performer and Brass Ensemble of the Year 
Following the success of the long running North Ayrshire Young Musician Competition, the Music Education Partnership Group is now rolling two new competitions out across Scotland that are anticipated as being the next big development in music in the country. Their aim is to find the very best young musicians in the categories of SoloContinue reading “Two New Competitions Set to Find Solo Performer and Brass Ensemble of the Year ”
Richard Wagner in Venice: A Symphony
Fragments of Wagner’s late music heard for the first time For the first time some of Wagner’s late fragments and sketches can be heard in a new work by composer Matthew King who has realised his long-held ambition to compose a new work around and from these fragments in Richard Wagner in Venice: A Symphony. King’s newContinue reading “Richard Wagner in Venice: A Symphony”
Soundhouse Concerts Return to the Traverse
Following its successful return to live events at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Soundhouse Organisation returns to its favourite venue for twice weekly gigs this autumn. Soundhouse will present a season of ten live shows at the Traverse Theatre, featuring the very best in live performance from Scotland’s finest musicians, and a sprinkling of thoseContinue reading “Soundhouse Concerts Return to the Traverse”
Game of Power (15) Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
This Spanish/Argentinian feature, set almost entirely in the office of the editor of a newspaper, makes good use of the claustrophobic atmosphere to ramp up the tension between the protagonists. It’s Christmas Eve, and Antonio (Ernesto Alterio) is retiring due to ill health. He has been tasked by the board of directors to choose hisContinue reading “Game of Power (15) Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival”
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