The CineSkinny have teamed up with MUBI to give audiences a second chance to see one of the most gorgeous films ever made: Tarsem Singh’s cult classic The Fall.
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.
Venue upgrade - all original tickets remain valid. Cosmo is a UK-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, live improviser, and field recordist
Prepare to be moved! Come along to Rock the Boat, Summerhall’s longstanding monthly poetry open mic, put on by Push the Boat Out: Edinburgh’s International Poetry festival. Sign up to perform your work or just drop by to listen – there’s something new every month
The Big Bike Film Night will be celebrating cycling at the Summerhall Cinema at 7pm on Thursday 3rd and Saturday 5th October, with a 2.5 hour programme proclaimed as ‘a feast
The Big Bike Film Night will be celebrating cycling at the Summerhall Cinema at 7pm on Thursday 3rd and Saturday 5th October, with a 2.5 hour programme proclaimed as ‘a feast of short films devised and designed for the two-wheel devotee’. For 10 years, The Big Bike Film Night has focused on one singular goal- to bring together
An American, 8 woman powerhouse Kate Bush tribute is coming to the UK on Tour! The magic and music of Kate Bush is brought to you by this 8-women powerhouse ensemble from San Diego, California who perform a ‘wonderfully bewitching’ operatic pop night of exhilarating music bursting with wit, creativity and humour. With great respect
Only yes means yes. HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks, how can you be the change you want to see in the world, when you feel like the world is fighting against you?
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.
Only yes means yes. HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks, how can you be the change you want to see in the world, when you feel like the world is fighting against you?
Only yes means yes. HER is a play about the damaging effects of gender inequality, the truth about consent and asks, how can you be the change you want to see in the world, when you feel like the world is fighting against you?
To open MegaMix festival, join us for an end-of-residency sharing from the 16th iteration of our legendary creative lab Rough Mix. Five artists from across art forms will share early-stage ideas, following a two-week residency in Summerhall.
An autobiographical performance of personal and political comedowns growing up in the aftermath of New Labour, scored by a live DJ. This is a show about late nights, early mornings, party politics and men who let you down. You know what they say, things can only get better…
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances. This ticket will give you full access to the whole weekend of events at Summerhall
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances.
Saturday’s MegaMix festival line up features early stage sharings, film, live music, dance, and a spoken word performance.
An autobiographical performance of personal and political comedowns growing up in the aftermath of New Labour, scored by a live DJ. This is a show about late nights, early mornings, party politics and men who let you down. You know what they say, things can only get better…
Join us in celebrating 25 years of Magnetic North’s multi-artform and theatre work with some special performances.
Sunday’s MegaMix festival line up features book events, early stage sharings, live music, dance, and a spoken word performance.
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.
John Maus is a truly enigmatic musician. Broadly cut from the synth pop cloth, he’s fashioned the frosty minimalism of its fabric into a cloak of infinite meaning, genuine grace and absurdist humour over the course of three defining albums since 2006. His music is a highly mutable affair, whilst often described as retro-futurist on
Chrysanths (Modern Studies front woman Emily Scott) launches ‘Leave No Shadow’, the lush orchestral LP out on Chemikal Underground September 13th. Joined by full band and strings, this promises to be lush.
Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, composer, writer and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow based band Belle and Sebastian.
Broken Windows launch a new album, Double Measures, in their home town, with friends and special guests Tiptrick. Original roots rockers with a ‘live’ reputation for psychedelic blasts and a light hearted show full of genre blending wholesomeness. For fans of blues and folk rock, and people who like unpolished, real band music.
Edinburgh Dub Club returns to Summerhall for a historic meeting between our own much loved Mighty Oak Sound and Newcastle mainstay Common Unity Sound.
Astrid Sonne is a Danish, London based composer and viola player. Throughout her acclaimed discography, Astrid Sonne has been carefully crafting different moods through electronic and acoustic instrumental endeavours.
The second instalment of bizarre, eerie, and unique animated films from the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997). A surgery is performed on a bust of Joseph Stalin, a yeti living in the mountains of Kazakhstan gets to listen to The B-52s, and a man pawns his face to buy a lottery ticket...
Samizdat presents a unique and vibrant collection of 17 films entered into our Short Film Competition. Out of the 1100+ submissions we received this year, our curators have carefully selected some of the finest contemporary shorts from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
For the first time, Meteor Airlines is set to bring their unique sound to Scotland. This event is an exciting opportunity for Scotland’s audiences to experience the rich, culturally infused rock music of Meteor Airlines, a band that not only entertains but also educates and connects listeners to the Moroccan Amazigh culture.
Celebrating Joni Mitchell: the 7-piece band Hejira performs the greatest works of the genius singer-songwriter. Fronted by the outstanding vocalist/guitarist Hattie Whitehead, this band fully captures the poetry, passion and beauty of Mitchell’s masterpieces.
Afro Celt Sound System are among the pioneers of the contemporary world music scene. Their ground-breaking fusion of African, Gaelic and Bhangra influenced sounds has won the hearts and minds of audiences since the group’s beginnings over 25 years ago.
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.
Los Bitchos is back and better than ever! Since the launch of their much-loved debut album, 'Let the Festivities Begin,' with City Slang in February 2022, the London-based, pan-continental female instrumental four-piece has captivated audiences worldwide. They've performed over 200 shows, including legendary appearances at Glastonbury, and supporting tours with King Gizzard, and a legendary
Beside Trawbreaga Bay, in Co. Donegal, in an old schoolhouse with a suitcase full of borrowed recording gear, Oisin Leech strums gently on an acoustic guitar and watches the tide pull the water away from this ancient inlet. The thickness of Oisin’s voice soothes the old world room as the sound waves bounce around to
Straight from the heart of Nigeria, Rhythm & Revolution welcome for the first time to the UK and Scotland, high-energy Afrobeat band Lagos Thugs, joined by special guest, Indy Dibongue, the official guitarist of Tony Allen (France/Cameroon). Join us to celebrate the life and music of the legendary Fela Kuti and Black History Month.
Last Night From Glasgow are delighted to bring wojtek the bear and Xan Tyler to the capital. They’ll be joined on the evening by very special guest Martin Metcalfe of Goodbye Mr McKenzie & The Filthy Tongues.
Welcome to MICROSTERIA where the micro is made massive. Join us on Saturday 26th October as Summerhall host 2024’s final edition of MICROSTERIA. After an immense year of Dissection Room parties and multiple festival takeovers, Maranta have packed in some astounding and strange acts for the Halloween special.
You're invited: The Creepy Boys, are throwing their 13th birthday party. It will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably Cake. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals, and Willam Dafoe, these horny little boys do whatever it takes to make their birthday dreams come true (think Oh, Hello meets those twins from The Shining, meets My Super Sweet 16).
Darkness treads light as a feather. The sinister yet beguiling images that DARKHER aka Jayn Maiven paints with her ethereal vocals, guitars, and added strings conjure iridescent cinematic scenes, in which it becomes hard to tell whether there lies beauty in darkness or if it is the other
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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.
This gig has been rescheduled for 2025, new date to be announced soon Hailing from the vibrant music scene of Guinea, West Africa, Natu Camara has taken the world stage
Established as the voice of Saturday morning on Rinse FM over the past six years, Jyoty's inimitable skill as an interviewer and musical selector has won her a loyal following the world over. The Amsterdam-born, London-based DJ's rise to becoming one of the underground's most loved figures is a story of sheer dedication. Her introduction
Enter the Hellmouth this Halloween for a club night with 90s bangers, hot vampires, spooky happenings and more. For one night only, Summerhall becomes The Bronze so bring your best Slayer energy! Featuring demon DJs, Halloween treats and a special performance from burlesque star and queer cabaret queen Nova Duh.
How do you anchor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities at once? For Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-raised, Montreal-based songwriter, it requires an intentional and intensive form of world-building. By developing an unmistakable style of folk that merges Eastern scales with the Western pop canon, Raphael reimagines his music as an exploratory tool that allows him
