A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
Mediterraneo and Nothing Ever Happens Here present Carnevale 2023, a huge masquerade featuring Italian Pizzica, Brazilian Jazz and Moroccan Gnawa. A night of live music and dance to shake the winter blues away in style. We have reached 10 years of Carnevale at Summerhall, Mediterraneo’s own celebration of madness and mischief – of the world
For all the little fans of dancing and live music from around the world, it is Carnevale time! The time to wear a costume, to put on a mask and to dance, dance, dance! Come and jump, dance and warm up your Saturday afternoon in Summerhall’s Dissection room with some live pizzica tarantella and tammuriata
A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
The London Astrobeat Orchestra have ignited a movement where cult western band repertoires are blended with African influences and have made quite an impact in doing so. The band bring together the finest West African session musicians in the UK with legendary band leader and bassist Edd Bateman hosting rhythmic influences from Senegal, Guinea Conakry,
A classic roots reggae and dub meeting between two handbuilt Jamaican-style soundsystems: Mighty Oak Sound (Edinburgh) and Crucial Roots (Glasgow), where each crew go toe to toe, selection for selection all night, hosted by MC Dandelion. This is a rare chance to see two of Scotland’s finest roots reggae sound systems in action in a
A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. All ticket holders have been contacted and full refunds have been processed. If you bought tickets through SeeTickets, they will be in touch shortly to process refunds. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
On January 13th, James Yorkston, Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra will release The Great White Sea Eagle, the follow up to James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s The Wide, Wide River – a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021. The record didn’t start life as a follow up; in early 2021,
MANIPULATE is BACK with a BANG for 2023; come and celebrate with us! With exclusive pop-up performances, a cracking playlist featuring some of the greatest ever animated music videos, sneak peeks of highlights from across the festival and a visit from our commissioned giant illuminated puppets, what’s not to love?
A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
A collaboration between Summerhall, Focus Skate Shop and Skateboobs: come skate in a warm, dry gaff this winter! Entry fee will go towards the purchase of new ramps from Leith DIY, and the opening of the Dissection Room bar for spectators.
FLARE* Festival is a community focused well-being event which elevates, champions and celebrates all the unsung heroes in the small business space who are passionate about serving others, with their mission to make a contribution to YOUR well-being. With so much external noise stealing our attention and gate-crashing our focus, getting us caught in a
Celebrate the biggest night of the year at Summerhall with The Soul Foundation! After a string of sell-out Hogmanay events (and two cancelled ones!) Summerhall returns with a bang for a New Year’s Eve celebration like no other.
The ‘Transatlantic Ensemble’ return to Summerhall Edinburgh, by popular demand, for a Xmas special on Wednesday December 21st, 2022, to perform Fleetwood Mac’s iconic ‘Rumours’ album in its entirety, plus loads of other well known Fleetwood Mac treats. Experience one of the greatest albums of all time, lovingly & accurately recreated live.
249 is a ramshackle queer party for all with live music, open-mic and DJs. December’s party will be teeming with exciting, local talent, plus a surprise Xmas gameshow! DECEMBER LINE-UP: AKELA OPEN MIC HOSTED BY ALICE RABBIT CHLOE ROZE DJ FOXXY FESTIVE GAMES + OTHER DELIGHTS MANIATRIX SKILLIS And so much more… Standard Advance –
Ground-breaking, chart-topping, genre-bending, globetrotting, instantly enthralling… it’s little wonder that Talisk rank highly amongst the most in-demand folk-based groups to emerge from Scotland in the last decade and more. Mohsen Amini (BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ Musician of the Year 2018), Graeme Armstrong and Benedict Morris (BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the
The National Whisky Festival of Scotland returns with its highly anticipated winter festival in Edinburgh. Everyone is invited to sample the length and the breadth of the whisky spectrum, whilst conversing with representatives of celebrated distilleries from around the globe. As ever, The National Whisky Festival features a specially curated bill of live music from
NEHH are delighted to announce a coheadline performance of Broken Records & the Tinderbox Orchestra. Including a headline set from both artists as well as collaborative work. Tinderbox Orchestra “Bringing together rappers and singers with soaring strings, heavy brass, woodwind and thundering bass and drums, Tinderbox Orchestra combines original music and movement to transform preconceptions
A festive themed special, feat all your favourite timeless Motown and Soul classics, performed by the full 16-piece Voices of Virtue Gospel Choir, their full band, brass section, and DJ Tommy Caulker.After a sell-outs at Summerhall Fringe in 2019 & again this Summer, this authentic and powerful soul revue returns for a Xmas Special, with
Stina Marie Claire is the new solo project of singer/songwriter Stina Tweeddale aka Honeyblood. She revealed the new project in August 2021, developed with the support of her fans throughout 2020 while she was unable to tour and record with her supporting live band. A significant departure from her usual rock-pop sound, Stina Marie Claire delivers heart-wrenchingly poignant bedroom pop; returning to her DIY roots and looking inwards to present songs fuelled with vulnerable, tender lyrics which are fitting of current times.
London-based producer Ryan Lee West better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable for making synthesisers sound human and atmospheric. Over the course of a critically acclaimed fifteen-year career, Rival Consoles’ music has diversified from the challenging electronic output of his early EPs to gradually become more conceptual and metamorphic, such as Articulation (2020) which
Mediterraneo is 10 years old, and it’s time to celebrate with a huge party edition of Edinburgh’s very own world music concert series! So come join us for one wild night of live Italian Pizzica, Brazilian Forro, and Spanish Flamenco firing up Summerhall’s dissection room. Three bands and 18 musicians will take the stage, complete
Summerhall presents Culture House, an exhibition of our resident creatives. We invite you to attend the private view and exhibition launch with Cloth, Rudi Zygadlo, Will Anderson & Ainslie Henderson. Delivering angular alt-rock cut through with deep electronic grooves, Cloth are Glasgow twins Rachael and Paul Swinton. Influenced by Cocteau Twins and The XX, Cloth
