Category Archives: Music

Headlining on Friday 28 April and opening the 2023 Festival is acclaimed American acoustic roots musician Rhiannon Giddens performing with multi-award winning collaborator Francesco Turrisi at the Assembly Rooms. Rhiannon Giddens is a MacArthur Grant recipient, who co-founded the Grammy award-winning band Carolina Chocolate Drops. She is a two-time winner and six-time Grammy nominee for her work as aContinue reading “Edinburgh Tradfest Announce Tickets on Sale for Opening Weekend”

Opera Highlights, the popular tour from Scottish Opera (SO), kicks off on this coming Valentine’s Day at East Kilbride Village Theatre, from where it will travel across the country visiting the Scottish Borders to the Highlands and Islands. Marking its 60th Anniversary, Opera Highlights forms part of SO’s commitment to bring opera to over 60Continue reading “Scottish Opera’s Opera Highlights Tours This Spring to 18 Venues Across Scotland”

This February, the award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents its long-awaited 2nd production Andalucia, a blend of flamenco accompanied by a chamber orchestra. This concert is a musical representation of the 8 regions of Andalucia – Cordoba, Sevilla, Cadiz, Malaga, Jaen, Granada, Huelva and Almeria – that make up their autonomous community in the South of Spain,Continue reading “The Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company Brings Andalucia to Usher Hall”

Scottish Ensemble (SE) will perform in some of Scotland’s most atmospheric venues this December, surrounded by soft flickering candlelight, with the return of their annual Concerts by Candlelight tour. From Cathedrals to Kirks and during the dates 1st to the 8th December, the ensemble will visit some of the country’s finest venues across six ScottishContinue reading “Scottish Ensemble Lights Up Concerts Across Scotland This December”

The Cumnock Tryst and Crawick Multiverse in collaboration with the Coalfield Communities Landscape Partnership (CLLP) and organisation that provides an opportunity to re invigorate life in the landscape based on the lessons of the past, life in the present and a vision of life in the future, announce Compose The Environment. This is a ground-breaking musical project that aims to exploreContinue reading “Compose The Environment: Music for Regeneration Within the Coalfield Communities”

In this 60th Season of Scottish Opera (SO), the Company welcomes its 60th Emerging Artist programme since it began in 2009. Initially set up to offer outstanding young singers a period of full-time work to help them launch their careers, the programme now also includes positions for a repetiteur and a costume trainee. The EmergingContinue reading “Scottish Opera’s 60th Emerging Artist Set to Chime with 60th Anniversary Season“

Music composed by jazz pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington in honour of the late Queen Elizabeth will feature in the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra’s In the Spirit of Duke concerts taking place in Edinburgh, St Andrews and Glasgow from 1st to 3rd December. In 1958, Ellington met Her Majesty following a performance by his orchestraContinue reading “Duke’s “Sweet Letter” to the Queen Features in Orchestral Celebration“

In a celebration of artisan craftsmanship and mixology as well as a celebration of the diamond anniversary of Scottish Opera (SO), the Company has partnered with The Biggar Gin Company to create a new artisan gin called Suonare (Italian ‘to play’), a bespoke gin using botanicals inspired by operas in SO’s 60th Season, Suonare isContinue reading “Scottish Opera Launches New Gin Suonare to Mark 60th Anniversary”

In a new partnership between St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral and the Traverse Theatre, and following an outdoor premiere in 2021 at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, The Covid Requiem, from playwright Jo Clifford and historian and activist Lesley Orr, that is a tribute to lives lost to the pandemic, has evolved for a fresh presentation. Inspired byContinue reading “Traverse Theatre and St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Connect for Covid Requiem“

 Edinburgh-based Russian artist Maria Rud and leading saxophonist Tommy Smith unite to present Luminescence in St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Friday 18th November.  A new project bringing together aural and visual improvisation, Luminescence will be created spontaneously in front of the audience as the artist and musician respond to each other’s ideas and interactContinue reading “Art and Saxophone Music Collaborate at St Giles’ Cathedral“