Scotland’s contemporary music group Red Note Ensemble, founded by cellist Robert Irvine and including violinist Jacqueline Shave are joined on this maiden voyage by prolific internationally acclaimed tabla player Kuljit Bhamra.
Young Sinfonia is the prestigious regional youth orchestra based at Sage Gateshead made up of around 40 players and trained by visiting conductors and members of Royal Northern Sinfonia.
“Set in Edinburgh, in areas not unlike those featured in Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting”
– Aonghas MacNeacail, Scottish Review of Books
It's a story designed to be listened to: a mystery about loneliness and the mind, inspired by a train ride through Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest and abstract ideas about Little Red Riding Hood.
All the excitement and razzmatazz of New York!
2015 has been an epic year for Shooglenifty, a band formed 25 years ago in Edinburgh.
Based on the true story of a crofter’s son who became a Knight of the Realm and Queen Victoria’s favourite general – this touching drama shines new light on the Scottish legend and fallen hero Sir Hector MacDonald.
Leighton Jones, pianist and composer from Skye has been working on a project during the summer to bring together a group of young musicians from Skye to create a new CD. Tonight’s concert is the end result and is part of the Skye and Lochalsh Talent Development project managed by Atlas.
Eden Court Theatre presents ‘Not about Heroes’
The 5th Hippodrome Festival of Silent Cinema
BELIEF is a one-woman play featuring Salish actress Julie Cajune.
Join Seasaidh Lexy in her hit theatre show, Gaol ’s Gàire: Love & Laughter.
"The best band to come out of Scotland in 100 years" - Dougie MacLean
A beautiful, fun, poetic show for all the family.
Based around Scottish stepdance and Irish sean-nòs dancing,
Last year Alasdair jammed in well over 1001 fiddlers, cellists and soloists to entertain a full house of excited listeners. Who knows what might happen this year!
A literary salon showcasing musicians, writers and poets, accompanied by new animation, music, dance and art from this year's Edinburgh Festival.
Inner Sound from the Isle of Skye will be performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Gondoliers’.
Inner Sound from the Isle of Skye will be performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘The Gondoliers’.
As one of Scotland's foremost youth jazz ensembles, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland represents the wealth of innovation and skill possessed by Scotland's talented young jazz musicians.
A weekend of workshops and shows with the the travelling cirus school and international team of circus heroes.
A weekend of workshops and shows with the the travelling cirus school and international team of circus heroes.
A 50 minute piece of innovative visual theatre for adults that combines puppetry, film and live sound to create and destroy a world in front of its audience’s eyes.
Another wonderful comedy from the Moray based company bringing us "an evening of immersive comedy, set in Sleat during a flood!". This is theatre with hidden depths.
World War II and the islands of Great Todday and Little Todday are suffering a severe whisky shortage; but things change dramatically when a ship runs aground carrying 50 thousand cases of whisky!
Forsaken is the story of an island set at the moment of depopulation, of a struggle for survival and a struggle with the past.
A gentle horror for little horrors! A treat not to be missed!
Set in the first half of the eighteenth century, 'The Straw Chair' is Sue Glover’s internationally renowned play of profound power about liberty and love – both lost and discovered in the unlikeliest of settings.
“An engaging storyteller ably assisted by a cast of beautifully-made puppets” The Scotsman
Winner of the Barclay’s Stage Award for Best Show, ‘Lifeboat’ tells the tale of two 15-year-old evacuees who spent 19 terrifying hours in the water on an upturned lifeboat.
Skye and Lochalsh’s enthusiastic and highly talented group of singers, young and old, give a concert of solo and group pieces.
* * * * “Zany melodies, striking harmonies, breakneck rhythms and a kaleidoscope of styles… a major achievement” KENNY MATHIESON (THE SCOTSMAN)
A tender and unique exploration on the impact of Alzheimer’s on family relations.
Summer 2014 has seen renowned Scottish fiddler and composer Mike Vass undertake a mirror voyage of writer Neil Gunn’s 1937 adventure round the west coast of Scotland, performing community concerts along the way featuring stories, music and local history.
Come along and join Alasdair, with over 100 fiddlers and some guest artists, to celebrate 28 years of Alasdair’s Summer Fiddle Schools.
Sotho Sounds, shepherd musicians, bring pure, raw organic roots music with instruments made from throwaway junk - wood, wire, tin cans, metal.
In an old wooden house by the shore of Lake Ontario in Canada, Louis battles with his elderly father, Don, whose decline into dementia is gradually robbing him of the ability to speak. Louis’ professional success as a university teacher of Classics belies an emotional inarticulacy which matches his father’s inability to express himself in […]
The Mikado or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on 14 March 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second longest run […]
NYJOS spend a week on Skye and then their big band set off on a Scottish Tour. Some of the best young Scottish Jazz musicians around.
Mary Ann Kennedy, Scott MacMillan and Colin Grant create an international dynamic in this small scale version of their epic work, Aiseag.