Nordic and Baltic choral music speaks clearly and deeply to the twenty-first century soul. Its mystery and clarity, its enfolding of the traditional and the innovative carry the listener from the ...

After extreme weather forced the late cancellation of the Night Afore Disco Party in Princes Street Gardens, a new, indoor gig has been quickly set up with Hot Dub Time Machine on Hogmanay Night ...

Edinburgh's Hogmanay organiser Unique Assembly has announced that the festival's main outdoor events have been cancelled due to public safety concerns over the bad weather. Around 55,000 revellers had ...

The iconic, opening event of Edinburgh’s four-day Hogmanay Festival was cancelled earlier tonight due to high winds. However, this year’s Hogmanay has coincided with a series of Met Office yellow ...

Submitted by edg on Tue, 26 Nov '24 7.19am The Edinburgh International Festival may have come first, but generally it's the Fringe that Edinburgh is best-known for. There's really nothing quite like ...

Embrace the Christmas spirit with The Edinburgh Singers’ annual concert performed in the iconic Greyfriars Kirk. The choir will perform timeless favourites as well as showcasing some lesser-known ...

The Torchlight Procession - returning in 2024 - is the opening event in the annual Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations with thousands of torchbearers creating a "river of fire" through the city streets.

A Christmas Day Bank Holiday takes place on the 25th December if it's a weekday. If Christmas Day is on the weekend - Christmas Day 2027, for example, is on a Saturday - then the bank holiday takes ...

Edinburgh cinemas, films, film news and screening times. Click the clock for films and screening times in a new window. This week's film reviews: Guardian, Independent, Scotsman The Cameo Cineworld ...

Takes its name from Edinburgh's notorious 19th century serial killers, the former of whom was hung just along the road in the Lawnmarket (see Grassmarket). The Burke and Hare is Edinburgh's best known ...

Submitted by Vivien Devlin on Tue, 29 Aug '23 5.22pm ‘Whether a jazz fan, a history buff or just someone who loves gripping, real life stories, this is a must see.’ Prince Kyril of Preslav, grandson ...

The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill was built between 1807 and 1816 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. A tall tower in the shape of an upturned telescope ...