Join us for our annual celebration of the eclectic music-making that goes on across Edinburgh all-year round. This is a showcase of community talent. You’ll get all ages and a variety of music genres. There will be everything from Big Band to choirs and much more. This is a FREE DROP-IN event. Please note this booking …
Enlightenment Edinburgh. The Social Season is in full swing. Are you a wealthy landowner in town for the duration? Are you one of Edinburgh’s social or intellectual elite? Are you a lady of fashion or a young man in want of a wife? If so, you will certainly be attending the Ladies’ Concert at St …
Join volunteer David to learn about all things keyboard to bagpipes.
The Baroque Ménagerie – an exploration of animal and bird life in music from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Creatures in music vary from the literal to symbolic & they can also serve as moral inspiration for humanity. Whether it’s the recognisable sound of the cuckoo or the lesson in cunning from the fox, animals have …
Join volunteer Dona to learn all about our early keyboard instruments.
Join us at the beautiful venue of St Cecilia's Hall for an afternoon of folk song sung in 3 or 4 part harmony, mostly Scottish and many with a 'coastal' or fishing theme. Sangstream is an Edinburgh-based community choir that focuses on traditional songs. We've been performing for over 25 years, and are led …
Join us for this month's quiet concert featuring music from FOLK(ISH) with the Haver String Quartet. We have thought about some of the sensory issues that can keep people away from many events and made some small but important adjustments. What we will do differently includes: Asking audiences for quiet applause, such as only using …
Música d'Outrora is an early music ensemble founded in 2022 by Spanish director and harpsichordist Pablo Devigo (1989). Specialising in 17th-century Italian repertoire, the ensemble employs historical research methods to develop new interpretative approaches to the Baroque stylus phantasticus. The Continuo Foundation funded the Across the Alps tour throughout the United Kingdom and renewed its …
The Edinburgh Quartet presents the third concert of their series at St. Cecilia's Hall. This concert continues the exploration of Beethoven's magnificent op. 18 quartets with the third of the cycle, paired with another masterpiece of the string quartet repertoire, Mendelssohn's quartet in a minor, op. 13. Since their founding in 1960, 'Scotland's string quartet' has brought …
The best of medieval and Renaissance festive music, on period instruments of every kind. Friendly presentation. For all the family. Children are especially welcome and go free!