Arab Strap started out as an intimate project with home-recorded tapes shared between friends, but after the unexpected success of their inimitable debut single ‘The First Big Weekend’ they quickly found themselves, along with pals Mogwai, as some of the most exciting and cherished music coming out of 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.
Join the Summerhall Singers community choir at their 10th Anniversary Winter Concert! This year, our theme is ‘Seasons’! Expect an eclectic mix of songs, old and new, and some Christmas Carols thrown into the mix. Suitable for all the family, and musical tastes, this will be a wonderful hour of song and merriment.
After multiple sell out shows, inc two back-to-back dates at this year’s Fringe, the ‘Transatlantic Ensemble’ return to Summerhall by popular demand, for a Xmas special performing Fleetwood Mac’s iconic ‘Rumours’ album in its entirety, plus loads of other well-known Fleetwood Mac classics. Ask anyone & believe what you hear…
Brooklyn-based rapper Nappy Nina has carved out a distinctive niche within contemporary hip hop. Her storytelling skills and conversational, but precise flow have seen the MC collaborate widely over the course of a young career, with figures ranging from hip hop veterans such as Quelle Chris and Stas Thee Boss, to DIY and avant garde
249 is a Ramshackle Queer Party for All with live music, open-mic and club-anthems. Whether you like this time of year or not, we wanted to throw a gigantic queer party to say, dinnae stress, it’ll be fine xxx So come along to the inaugural Dinnae Stress December Disco for a stress-free night of titillating
HUMBUG! is the annual festive gathering of live music from Pictish Trail’s Lost Map label, with very special guests, spread across a whole day. The line-up is a closely guarded secret for the time being… but expect an assortment of the country’s best singer-songwriters, break-neck indie rock, mind-warping psychedelia and explorations in electronica.
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.
Fancy a Hogmanay that’s a little bit different? come along to Summerhall for our ‘Off the Street’ Hogmanay party! We invite you for a night to remember with the legendary Soul Foundation.
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.
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
Are you over 50 and do you have a story to tell? Tricky Hat is welcoming people aged 50+ to join their performance company The Flames, to create a show that challenges pre-conceived ideas of how older people think and what they aspire to. No experience is necessary, there is no acting, and you do not need to memorise a script. You just need to be yourself, interact with everyone involved and be up for a possibility!
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
Aberdeen is a magical realist biography of Kurt Cobain, told in rhyming couplets. Multi Award-winning Cassie Workman time travels through nineties Washington, to unravel life, death, and rock and roll, in this heartbreaking homage to an icon.
This one-of-its-kind event is your permission slip outta your day-to-day, and into a realm of wellness wonder where we champion the unsung heroes in the wellness business space. These passionate individuals are on a mission to serve, contribute, and make a positive impact on your well-being.
Edinburgh’s community radio station EHFM are teaming up with Mare Music for an Independent Venue Week special in Summerhall’s Old Lab. The show is a celebration of both local talent and our wonderful local music scene, featuring two of Scotland’s finest new acts, Nikhita and Azamiah. Nikhita is an artist based in Edinburgh. Using music
Manipulate’s animated shorts programme celebrates extraordinary animation from around the globe, showcasing a dizzying range of styles, techniques, genres and ideas. The programme is co-curated with guest creatives, each looking at animation from different social and artistic perspectives. Shorts 1 is co-curated with Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival in Glasgow and offers a unique collection
Part of Manipulate Festival 2024, their animated shorts programme celebrates extraordinary animation from around the globe showcasing a dizzying range of styles, techniques, genres and ideas. The programme is co-curated with guest creatives, each looking at animation from different social and artistic perspectives. Manipulate’s second shorts programme is curated by Manipulate Arts Associate Programmer Natasha
Screening as part of Manipulate Festival 2024. A small village looted in darkness, a family forced to flee. The two oldest children, Kyona and Adriel are quickly separated from their parents facing the road of exile alone. They embark on a heroic journey which takes them from childhood to adolescence in search of shelter, peace
Billy Woods is a rapper who defies easy categorisation; he claims Washington D.C. as his hometown but has spent much of his life in New York City. He was born in the U.S. but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies, the second child of a Jamaican intellectual and a would-be Marxist revolutionary.
Welcome to MICROSTERIA x PHLOX! Where the micro-made-massive meets a hybrid format of sensory clubbing. For the fifth instalment of Microsteria at the Summerhall Dissection Room, we are collaborating with PHLOX femme and non-binary Glasgow-based collective to combine electronic music with visual art, costume and performances. A unique club-equinox one-off as a dual powerhouse. Under
Manipulate’s animated shorts programme celebrates extraordinary animation from around the globe, showcasing a dizzying range of styles, techniques, genres and ideas. The programme is co-curated with guest creatives, each looking at animation from different social and artistic perspectives. Manipulate’s third shorts programme is curated by Manipulate Arts Associate Programmer Holly Summerson, a Scotland-based animator, illustrator
Junk Head is an expansive stop-motion sci-fi action thriller, meticulously styled and set in a dark and perilous universe that harbours surprises around every corner. In the distant future, mankind has lost its ability to procreate, a human-created species has revolted and developed a separate society underground. When a virus wreaks havoc on the surface,
