The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland’s top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
In 2021 Holy Other returned with Lieve, his first new work to be released in nine years, and the start of a new chapter. Emerging from an extended stay at
Wojtek the Bear’s new album Shaking Hands with the NME was recorded in 2023 under the gaze of legendary producer Stephen Street. They will celebrate its launch by sharing their
Yeah You is the Welsh /father/daughter duo Elvin Brandhi and Gustav Thomas. Their spontaneous sonic outpouring spews unfiltered into jagged pop requiems made from a variety of tools in endlessly shifting contexts. With support from Edinburgh’s Off Brand.
Great British Gravel Rides: Cycling the wild trails of England, Scotland and Wales. Great British Gravel Rides pays homage to the very best gravel cycling across England, Wales and Scotland.
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland’s top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
An-Ki is an immersive theatrical experience about the origin and destiny of humankind, set in an intimate and magical tent. It is a compelling story about greed and deforestation and the consequences it has for the environment and its inhabitants.
Sam the Sword is a performance about a transgender tropical fish, and his journey of self-discovery. We are a full gender-non-conforming / trans team making a poetic fishy tale that normalises the idea of trans people for children and their parents, celebrating self-expression. In nature, it’s very common for fish to change gender – and it can happen even in a household tropical fish tank.
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland’s top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
Burd Ellen is a project featuring Debbie Armour (Alasdair Roberts, Green Ribbons) and Gayle Brogan (Pefkin, Electroscope). The group uses traditional song to explore and evoke dark landscapes and deep
NOHOMO, a new dance work in progress that follows a lone astronaut lost in a deep bubblegum space trying desperately to find their own space – a place to call home, to feel like they belong.
Welcome to Rhythm & Revolution! Started a year ago in an intimate cellar in Marchmont, it has become a monthly jazz, fusion and world beat local gathering. For our Summerhall debut, marking Rhythm & Revolution’s first birthday, we are bringing together two of Edinburgh’s new generation jazz groups, Zoracle and Echo Hotel Collective, alongside DJ Mark Quinn!
R.A.P. Ferreira fka milo aka scallops hotel is an MC, producer and theorist working in the Black arts tradition commonly categorised as rap. Having founded the label ruby yacht in 2015 and since releasing all of his music through this channel, Ferreira has earned a sizable following within independent hip hop by rigorous, constant touring and an elevated, explorational style of performance. He is known for an uncompromised, utopic flow that speaks directly to the root of the listener.
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland’s top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
Join the Summerhall Singers community choir at their annual Summer Concert! This year’s repertoire theme is colours! Expect an eclectic mix of songs, old and new. Suitable for all the family, and musical tastes, this will be a wonderful hour of song and merriment.
We are so excited to be back for a summertime Microsteria, exploring the depths of unknown oceans, the integral roots systems of the underearth… the explosion of neurons in our
Part of the Representation of South Asian Women in Scottish Culture showcase. Nina’s Heavenly Delights (2006) – Screening + discussion. Director: Pratibha Parmar. Screenwriter: Andrea Gibb. Featuring Laura Fraser, Shelley
Representation of South Asian Women in Scottish Cinema Curated by Sana Bilgrami South Asian communities appear on the periphery of Scottish cinema where films have predominantly explored narratives about white
A series of short films and discussion, part of the Representation of South Asian Women in Scottish Culture showcase. Across the Waters (Sana Bilgrami, Documentary, 2004) Four months pregnant, in
Part of the Representation of South Asian Women in Scottish Culture showcase. Ae Fond Kiss (2004) – screening and discussion. Director: Ken Loach. Screenwriter: Paul Laverty. Featuring Atta Yaqub, Eva
Following on from the success of our first quarterly Makers Market in March, Summerhall are excited to be hosting our next market in June! Featuring a rotating medley of stall
The world renowned Edinburgh Ceilidh Club brings you the very best in Scottish ceilidh dancing, featuring Scotland’s top ceilidh bands. Brilliant live music and dancing for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers.
Join the Summerhall Singers community choir at their annual Summer Concert! This year’s repertoire theme is colours! Expect an eclectic mix of songs, old and new. Suitable for all the family, and musical tastes, this will be a wonderful hour of song and merriment.
An urgent and compelling solo performance using improvised live double bass, electronic music and experimental film to reflect on the overwhelm of news headlines, government manipulation and the increasingly chaotic
We’re raising the roof and the temperature at Summerhall’s inaugural summer disco, with R&B bangers, sun kissed classics and poolside pop transporting you to the beach. Hawaiian shirts, beach inflatables and sunnies at the ready. Strictly school disco vibes – think glitter, glowsticks and refreshing snacks.
