The Living Mountain is an evocative, uplifting and compelling audio-visual performance inspired by the celebrated book of the same name, written by Aberdonian Nan Shepherd in the 1940s and still hugely relevant today. Devised and performed by musician Jenny Sturgeon, The Living Mountain considers human connections with wild places through lyrical and melodic interpretation of […]
Perthshire farmer and side-splitting funny man Jim Smith on tour with his pals! Join Jim Smith and his funny pals as they try out some brand new material... Line-up TBC Host Gus Lymburn: "Unpredictable, hilarious, a seriously amazing comedian" Herald on Elaine Malcolmson: "bone-dry and talented…exquisite material" Edinburgh Evening News and Stuart Mitchell "A work of genius" Daily Record.
An Tobar & Mull Theatre presents Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe Directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. 1. […]
An Tobar & Mull Theatre presents Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe Directed by Rebecca Atkinson-Lord You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. 1. […]
Shona is a bright, occasionally explosive, new voice in Scottish storytelling whose highly physical style and knack for facilitation has taken her around the world uncovering, gathering and sharing remarkable stories. She was a family story guide in the Musee du Louvre, Paris, ran story education company Fosforo, in Sao Paulo, Brazil and has travelled […]
Martin Stephenson has been one of the the UK’s best-loved songwriters for over 30 years, performing as a talented solo artist or with his band The Daintees. Always popular on the circuit, Stephenson’s “must see” live performances are an exuberant tour-de-force combining heart-in-your-mouth intimacy with playful humour and warm self-deprecation. The Daintees’ critically acclaimed 1986 […]
Fara is four musicians at the forefront of today’s Scottish folk scene. Their fiery Orkney sound has won them acclaim, including a nomination for Folk Band of the Year at the 2019 Scots Trad Music awards. Recently joined by Assynt pianist Rory Matheson, the band's sound is as exciting as ever. This December they return […]
Spending October on tour with Roger Taylor (Queen), Lewis singer songwriter Colin Macleod will be back home to entertain island audiences for Christmas with his An Lanntair show on Thursday 23 December. Colin lives an intriguing dual existence. His 2018 debut album ‘Bloodlines’ earned widespread critical acclaim, leading to shows with Roger Waters and Robert […]
A mountain of discarded wrapping. A lonely child with an active imagination. A shiny new toy. A mountain of discarded wrapping. A lonely child. It's often the cardboard boxes, not the gifts inside that are the most fun. Is the true gift the joy that can come from the imagination? This is a story reversing […]
A unique sensory space to play, move and discover for very young children. Join us this Christmas for your child’s first theatrical experience in the safe hands of children’s theatre specialists Frozen Charlotte. Inspired by circles and cycles and everything round, Luna is a gentle and interactive show with live music and dance created especially […]
Elephant Sessions exploded onto the indie folk scene to unparalleled effect with their last album. The band have since gone on to be finalists as Best Group at the BBC Radio 2 awards and are already winners of the 2018 Scots Trad Live Act of the Year. A truly great band to see live in […]
Flitsang takes the union of Christie Williamson’s poetry with Christopher Stout’s music that set off with Da Flit for Refresh Now and makes for deep waters. With their sails full of Catriona McKay’s Scottish Harp music, come and join them with special guest Ainsley Hamill and the North Ness Boys at Mareel to explore family and migration, land […]
Vienna – the city where the concert halls are golden and the music simply sparkles! It wouldn’t be New Year without the music of Vienna’s most famous son Johann Strauss and his friends: let us whirl you away to a world of elegant waltzes, playful polkas and good old-fashioned romance with Scottish tenor Jamie MacDougall. […]
The Skids featuring Richard Jobson, Bruce Watson and Jamie Watson will be touring the UK with a series of 'Unplugged' dates in support of their recent acoustic album 'Peaceful Times' and upcoming new acoustic album due to be released soon. Don’t miss your chance to see them perform these classic songs and listen to the […]
Costumes plucked from the most gorgeous chocolate box; Tchaikovsky’s score to transport you to a land of dreams; and a story lifted straight from the pages of a classic fairy tale. We follow Clara on a journey through the worlds of her imagination, as she drifts off to sleep on Christmas Eve. She meets the […]
The brainchild of Scottish-Canadian reggae artist Jason Wilson, Ashara presents a joyful blend of Scottish folk and reggae that surveys those rebel musics that have traversed the Black Atlantic over the past 400 years. Wilson, who provides vocals, guitar and piano, is joined by Jamaican-Canadian guitarist Carl Harvey (Toots & The Maytals) and award-winning Scottish […]
Leading-edge East Coast pop/folk trio The East Pointers have always been furiously energetic, musically complex and technically brilliant and now a family grounding as the seventh generations of traditional Prince Edward Island and Ontario-based Celtic players and writers has effortlessly parlayed into the folk/pop arena. Fiddle tunes are grounded in irresistible EDM-style bass lines, a […]
Written and illustrated by Jason Chapman Music by Paul Rissmann Enjoy all the fun-filled musical adventures of our favourite dog-and-cat duo – live! When their flute-playing neighbour heads to La Scala Opera House in Milan to judge the competition for the Greatest Orchestra in the World, Stan and Mabel decide to follow – and to […]
In February 2020 Astrid released the first single from their Storm Sessions EP. It was an acoustic re-working of one of their popular early singles Distance. A cover of Jeff Bridges’ Falling & Flying from the movie Crazy Heart came next - it charted at number 20 in the Scottish Singles Chart a few months […]
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle – Name a more iconic trio… I’ll wait. Each having undertaken many other musical projects in the past, these veteran musicians have played with the likes of Bob Dylan, John Cale, Joan Baez, Eddi Reader and Paolo Nutini. McGoldrick is first-class in flutes, whistles and Uillean pipes. McCusker, […]
An old-school drag artist sees his father's face looking back at him in a dressing room mirror. It's time to see what's beneath the make-up. Lady Christina leaves the stage at the end of another performance in another venue above another pub. She's tired of metro-sexual audiences looking for something a little risqué to tell […]
A wonderful show that weaves together song, stories and personal anecdotes, exploring themes of marine conservation, exploration and the magnitude of the sea. Armed with a guitar and her mesmerising clear voice, Nicolette creates a beautiful seascape of sounds, overlaid with folk songs, her originals and some popular classics. This show gives us the opportunity […]
Featuring the hits and lesser-known gems of the repertoire - think La Bohème, Faust, Billy Bud, Die Fladermaus, and more - in one fast-paced, heartfelt show. These memorable melodies are mixed into an original story celebrating the grit and glamour of old-fashioned vaudeville, as well as (many!) talents of a brilliant cast of four fingers […]
The acclaimed Edinburgh/LA-based theatre company Paper Doll Militia, known for bringing a Tim Burton-vibe to the stage, brings this show to us. Flying above a PVC- clad set, the talented Sarah Bebe Holmes gives a grounded re-telling of her personal journey to donate eggs to her best friend. Accompanied by live bassy- music composed and […]
With 14 Scottish trad music album releases since forming in 1992, these Old Blind Dogs never run out of new tricks. Join us to hear their latest effort live, the uplifting ‘Knucklehead Circus’, released this winter. They will play a mix of songs and tunes with guitars, pipes, whistles, percussion instruments, bass, vocals and even […]
Suzi Cunningham is a Scottish live-performance artist and Scotland’s foremost female Butoh (Japanese dance theatre) artist. Her work has a strong ecological and political focus, exploring how the primal body meets the modern world. In a raw and riotous movement-led tribute to Mark E. Smith (lead singer of The Fall), Rules to Live By was […]
Would you like to live for an extra 200 years? Only catch is, you’re a mega corporation’s guinea pig – a cutting edge technologically enhanced super-human. Meet our guide to the future, KID_X (Malick Bright aka AndroidX the flex and krump dance prodigy), fitted with a Lazarus Industries prototype bionic heart, who falls for Gabriella, […]
A wonderful show that weaves together song, stories and personal anecdotes, exploring themes of marine conservation, exploration and the magnitude of the sea. Armed with a guitar and her mesmerising clear voice, Nicolette creates a beautiful seascape of sounds, overlaid with folk songs, her originals and some popular classics. This show gives us the opportunity […]
Step off the stage, leave the glamour and the costumes behind, and get to know the person behind the make-up… Lady Christina leaves the stage at the end of another performance in another venue above another pub. She's tired of metro-sexual audiences looking for something a little risqué to tell their mothers about, she's tired […]
A nomad, both geographically and musically, Ross Wilson aka Blue Rose Code writes straight from – and to - the heart. His songs address universal themes of love, loss, travel, home, accepting the past and embracing the future in a deeply personal way. They are variously painted with the vibrant colours of folk, Americana, jazz, […]
A wonderful show that weaves together song, stories and personal anecdotes, exploring themes of marine conservation, exploration and the magnitude of the sea. Armed with a guitar and her mesmerising clear voice, Nicolette creates a beautiful seascape of sounds, overlaid with folk songs, her originals and some popular classics. This show gives us the opportunity […]
“Once upon a time… I don’t have time.” There are many sisters in this story. One of them is bouncing on a Pilates ball in The Land of Lounge Room – a recovering mum and love-struck, sleep-deprived teat desperate to soothe her baby – so she can finish her sentence and tell you this tale […]
In the retelling of a Scottish tragedy, Newell invites awareness of the universal story of the displacement of native peoples and the consequent loss of ancient wisdom. In Hebridean Treasure: Lost & Found internationally acclaimed writer, John Philip Newell, works with some of Scotland’s most talented young artists to tell the story of the Celtic […]
Based on Franz Kafka’s brilliantly funny and compelling story, The Metamorphosis: Unplugged is a warm-hearted retelling of the mysterious tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find he’s turned into a giant insect. Told from the perspective of his sister Greta, it’s an acoustic, musical, cabaret-style night out from the team that brought you The […]
Don’t think that this is any regular gig from Rowan Rheingans – it’s also a masterpiece of storytelling. Soothing fiddle, banjo, viola & electric guitar music is stitched together with heartfelt narration in this 80-minute, one-woman tour de force. The story takes a clear stand against fascism in this retelling of her own grandmother’s triumphs […]
Brownbear bring their soulful alternative indie/rock sound to an intimate gig at An Tobar & Mull Theatre. See one of Scotland’s fastest rising and best bands in this relaxed and friendly setting. Hailing from Ayrshire, in just a few years Brownbear have taken themselves from a band tipped to do big things to selling out […]
Since issuing their superb Songs of The Hollow album in 2017, Cua have gone on to become a band that has gathered in more praise than most from all the best sections of the media. The band caused a sensation when they attracted a capacity crowd to their Celtic Connections show in Glasgow, just before […]
A catwalk. A soundtrack. A journey. A fashion show like no other, Fault Lines features five diverse female performers presenting a catwalk parade of costumes and characters from different walks of life. They are ‘models’ of a different kind, playing with our perceptions and preconceptions as they reveal hints of who they are through movement, […]
Four Police Officers sit in a riot van. Called out to a domestic dispute, which may turn violent, they are on stand by; waiting to enter a flat where a man is wielding a samurai sword. We wait with them, experiencing the relationships, forged through the stress of the job and the turmoil of being […]
‘Two in a Barrel’ is a clown-inspired, physical theatre performance for young audiences. Two lively quirky best friends – Riri and Moku – are confined to a barrel sitting on top of an island of rubbish in the ocean. They love finding treasures in the heaps of plastic on the stage to make their own […]