What’s On at St Cecilia’s Hall

 

Edinburgh Renaissance Band: Viol Rackett Show

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Concert

The Edinburgh Renaissance Band with the Edinburgh Early Dancers return for 2025 with a lively performance of their ever-popular Viol Rackett Show, our best-loved programme of music and dance from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The award-winning troupe of eleven musicians show off a large range of period instruments, including shawms, cornetti, sackbuts, nakers,

£10

Sounds of St Cecilia’s IV: L’Homme Armé

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Concert

At the Heart of the Hundred Years' War. An exploration of the music heard during the period of the Hundred Year War – spanning from Burgundy, the Flemish region and England. Programme includes music by Guillaume de Machaut, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay and more.

£5 – £15

Meraviglia d’Amore: The Wonder of Love

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Concert

Be transported to 17th century Venice, Naples... baroque into the 20th century. Packed delighted audiences in 2024. Exciting new programme with beautiful music by the greats – Monteverdi, Caccini, Ferrari, Lundi, Velasquez, Falvo and more. Weep and laugh – the wonder of love. Elspeth McVeigh, accompanied by superb musicians: Sean Heath, historic harpsichord (courtesy museum)

£10 – £20

Meraviglia d’Amore: The Wonder of Love

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Concert

Be transported to 17th century Venice, Naples... baroque into the 20th century. Packed delighted audiences in 2024. Exciting new programme with beautiful music by the greats – Monteverdi, Caccini, Ferrari, Lundi, Velasquez, Falvo and more. Weep and laugh – the wonder of love. Elspeth McVeigh, accompanied by superb musicians: Sean Heath, historic harpsichord (courtesy museum)

£10 – £20

Attila the Stockbroker’s Early Music Show

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Concert

Back by popular demand, the self-taught and self-proclaimed David Munrow of punk brings his Early Music Show to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall for the fourth time. He explains how his fascination with early music came about, inspired by his first encounter with the humble recorder aged six. He'll demonstrate the crumhorn, cornamuse,

Free

Sounds of St Cecilia’s V: The Art of the Arranger

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Concert

The critically acclaimed team of McDonald and Kitchen perform virtuoso works for recorder with continuo and obbligato harpsichord by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Corelli, which also exist in alternative versions. Ever commercially astute, Telemann often specified idiomatic alternative instrumentation for his works. Arranging Italian violin sonatas for recorder was almost a cottage industry, and Bach's

£5 – £15

Maths Week Scotland Family Trail

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Family Activity

Join us this September for our brand new Maths Week Scotland Family Trail! Following the usual route around the museum, see if you can spot Finn Finity hiding in the galleries and answer his musical maths questions! A special Maths Week Scotland badge awaits those who complete the trail. Booking is free, however, we ask

Free/Donations appreciated

Weekly Tour

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tour

Join Claire to learn all about some of the oldest keyed instruments in our collection.

Free/Donations appreciated

Weekly Tour

St Cecilia's Hall 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Tour

Join Jim to learn about the development of instruments over time.

Free/Donations appreciated
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