The Queen`s Hall Festival 2009 Brochure

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Opera in three acts by George Gershwin, Dubose and Dorothy Heyward & Ira Gershwin
A rare chance to see George Gershwin’s universally loved “people’s
opera”, Porgy & Bess, which has emerged as one of the great icons
of American music theatre of the last century.
Join the inhabitants of the depression-ravaged Catfish Row for a
poignant tale of love and deprivation in America’s Deep South.
The search for a little happiness in the midst of poverty and hardship
is depicted through unforgettable and uplifting songs including
“Summertime”, “I got plenty of nuttin’” and “It ain’t necessarily so”.
The Festival Theatre is delighted to host the worldclass
Cape Town Opera for their Scottish premiere of this fully-staged
production. Striking a profound chord, the lyrics are sung straight
from the heart by a black South African cast.
Fri 30 & Sat 31 October 7.30pm / Sat 2.00pm
Box Office 0131 529 6000*
www.festivaltheatre.org.uk*
Groups (8+) 0131 529 6005
Festival Theatre 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9FT
The Festival and King’s Theatres are run by Festival City Theatres Trust. Registered Charity SC018605.
*Booking fee applies
Listen Up!
Welcome to the 2009 Festival at The
Queen’s Hall. In these tumultuous times,
it is no small victory that we are hosting
58 performances by some of the world's
finest performers. Edinburgh is still a
magnet to the highest quality artists
and audiences who are keen to hear
their work.
We are particularly proud of our new
partnership with the Acoustic Music
Centre who have in recent years
developed into the Festival's leading
folk, roots and traditional music
venue at the Edinburgh Festivals. This
is enabling us to present acclaimed
artists this Festival like Capercaillie,
Eric Bogle, Salsa Celtica and Peatbog
Faeries who have a real relationship with
The Queen's Hall's year-round music
programming.
None of this programme would have
been possible without the combined
talents of Edinburgh Jazz and Blues
Festival, Edinburgh International
Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edge
Festival, Regular Music, Serious and
Gilded Balloon. It is their strength that
gives us our breadth.
(Photos: Douglas Robertson)
Enjoy your Festival
Adrian Harris
Chief Executive, The Queen's Hall
Roy Hargrove Quintet
Brian Kellock Trio
Eric Burdon &
The Animals
Fri 31 July, 8.30pm
Sat 1 August, 8.30pm
The trumpeter with the golden sound is not
yet 40, but seems to have been around for a
lifetime. His mercurial playing has graced the
bands of the greats like Sonny Rollins and
Herbie Hancock, but it's his own hip, sharp
and sophisticated Quintet that have forged
his reputation as the flame-holder of the
great jazz trumpet tradition of Miles Davis,
Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan. He swings
and grooves and plays the most beautiful
trumpet you can hear in jazz today. “Fiery
urgency and restless charm” (The Guardian).
Eric Burdon’s searingly powerful bluesrock voice was the hallmark of Sixties beat
group The Animals. Best known for their
gritty, bluesy sound and string of hits like
House of the Rising Sun, Don’t Let Me Be
Misunderstood and We’ve Gotta Get Out of
this Place, it was Burdon’s brooding intensity
that burned the indelible mark.
After a solo career that’s moved from
psychedelia to down-home blues, the singer
is back touring with his band, The Animals,
singing old and new tunes with the same
power and impact.
Expect torrential, exciting piano from the
Brian Kellock Trio who jam-pack every
tune with inspiration and humour. Kellock’s
extended improvising and splicing sit
alongside astonishing delicacy and a
sonority of touch.
Plus special guests (to be confirmed).
Tickets £26.50, £22.50, £21.50
Website www.ericburdon.ning.com
Tickets £19.50, £16, £15
Websites www.royhargrove.com
www.briankellock.com
Courtney Pine –
Tradition In Transition
Jacques Loussier
Trio
Sun 2 August, 8pm
Mon 3 August, 8pm
The master saxophonist and torch-holder for
jazz in Britain brings his latest project to the
Festival.
The master French jazz pianist has
electrified audiences for 50 years with his
unique and inspired reinvention of the works
of JS Bach.
A creole gumbo of Caribbean, Latin and
African flavours, Tradition In Transition is
Pine’s personal homage to the New Orleans
clarinet/soprano sax maestro, Sidney Bechet.
Courtney's exceptional band includes Cuban
jazz violinist Omar Puente and the brilliant
salsa/latin pianist Alex Wilson.
In an increasingly rare UK appearance, the
Jacques Loussier Trio return to The Queen's
Hall with Benoit Dunoyer De Segonzac (bass)
and Andre Arpino (drums). They will make
Bach - and Vivaldi and Ravel - swing!
Tickets £27.50, £22.50, £21.50
Website www.loussier.com
“Laden with memorable melodies, this is his
best album since his 1986 debut”
(The Observer)
“Pine is superb” (The Guardian)
Tickets £19.50, £16, £15
Website www.courtneypine.co.uk
Edinburgh Jazz
Festival Orchestra
Plays Duke Ellington
Moishe’s Bagel
Wed 5 August, 8pm
Thu 6 August, 8pm
Director: Joe Temperley
A band of Scotland’s finest musicians
conjure up an intoxicating, life-affirming mix
of Eastern European dance music, Middle
Eastern rhythms and jazz-inflected Klezmer.
The inaugural concert for the Edinburgh
Jazz Festival Orchestra and a homecoming
for Joe Temperley, one of Scotland’s most
celebrated jazz musicians. In his 80th year,
the saxophonist is busier than ever both a
member of New York’s Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra and as a small group soloist and
leader. He left Lochgelly to go via Humphrey
Lyttelton’s Band to New York where he
replaced the renowned Harry Carney in
Duke Ellington’s Orchestra. When Wynton
Marsalis formed the band widely regarded
as the best in the world, he was the only one
non-American in it. Tonight, he’s back with
a handpicked programme of Duke Ellington
favourites and a specially assembled Big
Band that will be packed with star soloists.
“Exhilarating, full-flavoured stuff, often
breath-takingly intricate but played
with jubilation... the Bagel acquires the
momentum of an express train.”
(The Herald)
Tickets £15, £12.50, £11.50
Website www.moishesbagel.co.uk
Tickets £19.50, £16, £15
Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.co.uk
Jack Bruce,
Robin Trower &
Gary Husband
Edinburgh Jazz
Festival Orchestra
Fri 7 August, 8.30pm
Sat 8 August, 8.30pm
The songwriter and voice of Cream, the
iconic 60s blues-rock power trio, is back
with the same format and two colleagues
who know this style inside out. Robin Trower
was the guitarist in the classic Procul Harum
Band of the late 60s and left to set up a
Hendrix inspired Guitar-Bass-Drums Trio,
which brought him massive success on both
sides of the Atlantic. Gary Husband, is one
of the most in-demand drummers on today’s
scene and is a member of Level 42, John
McLaughlin and Gary Moore Bands.
Director: Dave Milligan
Sylvander & Clarinda: A Song Cycle for
Scots Song & Jazz Orchestra
The world premiere of a new work by Dave
Milligan for an all-star jazz orchestra and
featuring three of Scotland’s greatest
exponents of the songs of Robert Burns:
Annie Grace, Corrina Hewat and Karine
Polwart.
The music is inspired by the private letters
that document the illicit love affair between
'Sylvander' and 'Clarinda', the pseudonyms
Robert Burns and Agnes McLehose used
for each other throughout their romantic
correspondence. Incorporating some of
Burns’ own songs and poems, Milligan draws
on the letters explosive passion and intimacy
that has intrigued and beguiled people for
over 200 years.
Plus special guests (to be confirmed).
Tickets £30, £25, £24
Websites www.jackbruce.com
www.trowerpower.com
www.garyhusband.com
Tickets £19.50, £16, £15
Website www.edinburghjazzfestival.co.uk
AMC
Music from the
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Wed 12, 10pm & Thu 27 August, 7pm
Thu 13 - Sat 15 August, 10pm
Groundbreaking Scottish mavericks
Shooglenifty continue to push the word
‘traditional’ to its limits with their unique
blend of dance vibes and roots music.
Genuinely genre-defying, they have been
described as everything from ‘acid croft’ to
‘hypnofolkadelia’. Journalists may compete
for words to describe them, but all agree
they are virtually impossible not to dance to
and one of the best live bands of any genre
around.
Arthur Jeffes has brought together Music
From The Penguin Cafe, playing the music
of his father Simon Jeffes and the Penguin
Cafe, and combining it with their own new
music.
(Photo: Emile Holbe)
Shooglenifty
The Penguin Cafe Orchestra, founded by the
late, great Simon Jeffes, is acclaimed for its
experimental classical music infused with
exuberant folk. Signed to Brian Eno’s record
label Obscure, the group enjoyed a cult
status and to this day, their compositions
are used in various film soundtracks and
advertising campaigns. This performance
will feature an array of exciting new
compositions along with beloved tunes from
the Penguin Cafe Orchestra repertoire such
as Telephone and Rubber Band and Music
For A Found Harmonium.
Shooglenifty’s line up features Angus Grant
(fiddle), Luke Plumb (mandolin & banjo),
Garry Finlayson (banjax), Malcolm Crosbie
(guitar), Quee MacArthur (bass) and James
Mackintosh (drums & percussion).
Tickets £15, £13
Website www.shoogle.com
Tickets £15, £13
Website www.penguincafe.com
AMC
Fri 14 & Sat 15 August, 7pm
Sat 15 August, 11am
Tell It Like It Is
Guns, Doves and Bloody Roads
The Haydn Songbook
(Photo: Michael Garnier)
Barb Jungr
Collegium Vocale Gent,
Kristian Bezuidenhout Piano
A concert of rarely performed part and
solo songs by Haydn performed by the
exquisite voices of Collegium Vocale Gent
accompanied by rising young star Kristian
Bezuidenhout. These songs are among
Haydn’s most tender and harmonious works.
A massive hit in New York where she was
voted Top Cabaret Show 2008, Barb Jungr
returns to the Edinburgh Festival with a
new show, Tell It Like It Is, her personal
voyage into a fast changing and troubled
world. Along the way she draws inspiration
from the music of the best contemporary
songwriters of the last 50 years including
Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, John Lennon,
Cat Stevens, Billy Bragg, Dory Previn, Bruce
Springsteen, Jacques Brel and others.
"The singing of the Collegium Vocale Gent is
clean, beautifully blended and rich."
(Sunday Times)
Kristian Bezuidenhout: "A vigorously
intelligent musician, well equipped with the
technique to back up some extraordinary
new ideas about old music." (Boston Globe)
"Classy" (The Independent)
"Sensational" (New York Times)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/collegium
Tickets £15, £13
Website www.barbjungr.co.uk
AMC
AMC
Peatbog Faeries
Sun 16 August, 7pm
Sun 16 August, 10pm
26 albums, countless television series, world
tours in every direction. They’ve headed the
bill at London’s Albert Hall and the smallest
of folk clubs, sung in deserts, jungles,
arctic wastes and remote islands. Scottish
contemporary/traditional but always
different.
The Peatbog Faeries have an inventive and
unique approach to traditional Scottish
music presenting an adventurous melting
pot incorporating traditional jigs and reels
through jazz, hip hop, reggae and more.
(Photo: Douglas Robertson)
The McCalmans
"Powerful melodies are dextrously pumped
out with a smart degree of techno attitude,
while cross-rhythms ricochet over a heavy
bass that hits you forcefully like a massive
heart beat. Nothing in the recognisable front
line of bagpipes, fiddles, synthesiser, bass
and rhythm guitar, with a straight drumkit at
the back, prepares you for the high octane
music of the Peatbog Faeries."
(The Scotsman)
"These guys are entertainers, mixing the
serious, sentimental and scatological with
wit and dry humour. You can hear from
the laughter and cheers why they are
dubbed the Masters of the Good Night Out"
(Scotland on Sunday)
Voted as Best Live Act Traditional Music
Awards, this is The McCalmans second last
Edinburgh Fringe concert ever.
Be prepared to dance!
Tickets £12, £10
Website www.mccalmans.com
Tickets £16, £14
Website www.peatbogfaeries.com
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Broken Records
Mon 17 August, 11am
Mon 17 August, doors open 7pm
In this recital Scotland’s own internationally
acclaimed soprano Lisa Milne, with
renowned accompanist Malcolm Martineau,
sings of subjects as diverse as love, Mary
Queen of Scots and monkeys. These are
songs inspired by Scotland with Schubert,
Schumann, Mendelssohn and Francis George
Scott setting texts by famous literary figures
Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns among
others.
(Photo: Ryan Dunn)
(Photo: Phiz Photography)
Lisa Milne - Soprano,
Malcolm Martineau Piano
Hotly-tipped Scottish seven-piece Broken
Records formed in Edinburgh at the end of
2006. They have already been tipped for
greatness by publications as diverse as
NME, Q, The Word, The Sun and Drowned in
Sound for their debut album Until The Earth
Begins To Part and their ecstatic live shows.
"the Edinburgh outfit sound like autodidacts
who started life on a rich diet of Scottish
folk music, then schooled themselves in
French art-house film soundtracks before
adventuring around Europe and picking up
Now That’s What I Call… Hungarian Wedding
Floorfillers From The 1930s on the way."
(NME)
"Ms. Milne’s line is faultless, pure in sound
and beautifully phrased" (New York Times)
"vocally beautiful and technically staggering"
(The Guardian)
Tickets £11.50
Website www.brokenrecordsband.com
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/milne
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Frightened
Rabbit
Tue 18 August, 11am
Tue 18 August, doors open 7pm
Britten Phantasy Quartet
Mozart Duo No 2 in B Flat for violin and viola
K424
Haydn Quartet in B Flat Hob II B:4
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Mozart Oboe Quartet
Selkirk's finest play their biggest Edinburgh
show to date as the tidal wave of
anticipation surrounding the band is about
to break.
(Photo: Christopher Heaney)
Alexei Ogrintchouk,
Boris Brovtsyn, Maxim Rysanov,
Boris Andrianov
Their two albums - Sing The Greys and
The Midnight Organ Fight - have both met
critical and audience acclaim, as did last
year's tour with Death Cab For Cutie. They
are currently working on their third studio
album and will be previewing some of their
new material at this show.
An elegant programme featuring works for
oboe alongside duos for strings by Ravel
and Mozart. Alexei Ogrintchouk, a young
oboist blazing a trail around the world with
performances that have people reaching
for superlatives, makes his Festival debut.
He plays regularly with this group of string
soloists who set time aside from their
individual careers to enjoy playing together.
"effortlessly combine celebratory sonics and
miserablist lyrics into something singular"
(Pitchfork)
"tons of spiky energy, proper tunes and a
real lyrical bite" (Q)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/ogrintchouk
Tickets £12.50
Website www.frightenedrabbit.com
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AMC
Capercaillie
Wed 19 August, 11am
Wed 19 & Thu 20 August, 7pm
(Photo: Dario Acosta)
Bejun Mehta - Countertenor,
Julius Drake - Piano
Sensational countertenor Bejun Mehta
returns to the Edinburgh International
Festival with long term collaborator Julius
Drake for this concert of works by Purcell,
Haydn, Beethoven’s only song cycle An
die ferne Geliebte and a host of romantic
English songs by Vaughan Williams, Berkeley,
Warlock, Howells and Gurney.
Capercaillie have been credited with being
the major force in bringing traditional Celtic
music to the world stage and inspiring the
great resurgence so evident today.
"Their seductively contemporary sound
and production, their mastery of traditional
instruments (along with a willingness to
look beyond them) and the voice of Karen
Matheson have helped Capercaillie re-model
the Celtic landscape... nobody does it better"
(Q Magazine)
"A ballsy, risk-taking singer, he flings
coloratura about like weaponry and pushes
himself to his limits in his quest for musical
and dramatic expression. You are conscious
of being in the presence of greatness."
(The Guardian)
Tickets £18, £14
Website www.capercaillie.co.uk
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/mehta
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AMC
Wed 19 August, 10pm
Thu 20 August, 11am
Who would have thought that what began
as a project for the Highland Festival, just
over 10 years ago, would continue as one
of Scotland’s top traditional bands? From
remote village halls to the BBC Proms at
the Royal Albert Hall, Blazin’ Fiddles has
delighted audiences with their highlands and
islands fiddle tunes and tales. In the past
decade no other band has quite captured
the excitement, passion and the sensitivity
of Scottish music.
Debussy Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune
Berg Adagio from the Chamber Concerto
Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No1
Johann Strauss II Rosen aus dem Süden
(Photo: Levon Biss)
Blazin’ Fiddles
Hebrides Ensemble,
Christopher Maltman
- Baritone
For his song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer,
said to have been inspired by the end of
an unhappy love affair, Mahler was both
composer and poet. Lyrical and beautiful
with moments of intense light and shade,
these gems are among the most inspiring of
the vocal repertoire.
Blazin’ Fiddles are Allan Henderson (fiddle),
Iain Macfarlane (fiddle), Catriona Macdonald
(fiddle), Bruce MacGregor (fiddle), Anna
Massie (guitar & fiddle) and Andy Thorburn
(piano).
This concert brings together arrangements
by Schoenberg himself and by his students
including Berg’s arrangement of his own
Chamber Concerto which is dedicated to his
teacher and mentor.
Tickets £15, £13
Website www.blazin-fiddles.co.uk
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/hebrides
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AMC
Hespèrion XXI,
Jordi Savall - Viola da
Gamba and Director
Women in Harmony:
Annie Grace, Corrina Hewat
& Karine Polwart
Fri 21 August, 11am
Fri 21 August, 7pm
Taking the soulful aires and elegant dances
of Dowland and Gibbons as a starting point,
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI take their
audience on a fascinating journey across
Europe from Venice to England and Spain
in an exploration of the glories of a Golden
Age of music written for consort of viols.
Works by Brade, del Milà, Cabezon, Guerrero
and Samuel Scheidt contribute to a rich and
varied programme of early chamber music.
This unique vocal combination has sold out
every gig they’ve ever done! The distinctive
voices of multiple BBC Folk Award winning
songwriter and guitarist Karine Polwart,
Unusual Suspects co-director & harper
Corrina Hewat and piper/whistler Annie
Grace perform vibrant and innovative
harmony arrangements of Scots dance
songs, lullabies, laments and striking original
compositions.
Lilting and lovely sometimes; bolshy
and bawdy at others; and both dark and
discordant, hopeful & happy!
"an enchanting evening of passionate and
lucid musical time travel"
(Los Angeles Times)
Tickets £13.50, £10
Website www.myspace.com/girlytrio
"high-gloss precision and ultramodern
clarity... ravishing" (New York Magazine)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/savall
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Puppetry of the
Penis
Fri 21, 10pm; Sat 22 & Sun 23 August, 7.30pm
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The nimble-handed and flexible duo have
now been stretching, tweaking and twisting
their own unique form of genital origami for
12 years.
Eye-watering - in every sense - this is your
chance to see a genuine Fringe comedy
phenomena. Please note, this show contains
full frontal male nudity. Lots of it.
"I didn’t know mens genitals could be so
thrilling without a vat of wine and disco
lighting." (Graham Norton)
"Because they can, I suppose."
(New York Times)
Tickets £15, £14
Website www.puppetryofthepenis.com
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AMC
Salsa Celtica
Sat 22 August, 11am
Sat 22 August, 10pm
Chopin Two Nocturnes Op 55
Sonata No 2
Ballades Nos 2 and 3
Two Nocturnes Op 48
Polonaise-Fantasie
Started in Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1995
Salsa Celtica invented a genre by mixing
some of Scotland’s and Ireland’s most
exciting traditional musicians with a stellar
group of world, jazz, and salsa musicians
from the UK, Latin America and New York.
(Photo: Oskar Hallgrimsson)
Elisabeth Leonskaja
- Piano
Chopin played one of his last ever concerts
in a house on Queen Street in Edinburgh
in 1848. Here virtuoso pianist Elisabeth
Leonskaja recreates that special occasion,
performing music from Chopin’s Edinburgh
programme.
Together, they create a stunning
combination of virtuosity and energy making
them one of today’s most exciting world
music groups.
"A stunning marriage of musical styles"
(The Scotsman)
"Scene stealers" (The Observer)
"Not your average salseros, not to be
missed" (LA Times)
"Never a dull moment. If the word mercurial
did not exist, it would have to be invented
for this remarkable musician." (The Herald)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/leonskaja
Tickets £18, £14
Website www.salsaceltica.com
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AMC
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
(Photo: ?)
Sun 23 - Thu 27 August, 10pm; Fri 28 August 7pm & 10pm; Sun 30 August, 7pm
With the charming, coiffured crooner
Mikelangelo at their helm, the Black
Sea Gentlemen plunge headlong into a
netherworld of intrigue and imagination.
“Expect danger, treachery and piratical
adventures on the high seas, a bloody
Western showdown in the Croatian
Alps, male grooming and deportment
demonstrations, questionable Eastern
European accents, sodomy and tea drinking
and a collection of the most entertaining
and enchanting songs and musicians you
are ever likely to witness.” (The Scotsman)
Swoon to the tune of Rufino the Catalan
Casanova, thrill to the tale of The Great
Muldavio, delight in Little Ivan the song and
dance man and be chilled by Guido Libido,
legend of Balkan Western cinema.
“Exuberant, faintly disturbing and extremely
funny.” (The Independent)
This is a deliciously macabre ‘Kabaret Noir’
with breathtakingly beautiful theatrical
vision, a fantastical world populated with
a cast of gargoyles and demons, angels
and crows, doomed sailors and spectral
gunfighters, whistling soldiers and dancing
skeletons.
“Riotous fun and frankly unforgettable this is
a twisted cabaret of dark delights. The Black
Sea Gentlemen, a troupe of lost souls drawn
together by the indomitably depraved and
unquestionably magnetic Mikelangelo, weave
a seductive spell around the audience,
inviting them to explore the shadowy
recesses of the soul.” (The List)
Tickets £14, £12
Website www.oninvisiblewings.com
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AMC
Quatuor
Mosaïques
Eric Bogle &
John Munro
Mon 24 August, 11am
Mon 24 August, 7pm
Haydn String Quartet Op 33 No 6 in D, The
Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the
Cross
Eric Bogle left Scotland for Australia in 1969.
In 1980, deciding to dedicate his life to
austerity, obscurity and poverty, he became
a professional musician. As such, he has
survived, occasionally prospering, which
in the music business might be rated as
'success'.
Haydn is often credited with inventing
the string quartet. His works in this form
demonstrate an extraordinary technical and
emotional range as well as great humour
and wit. Originally written for orchestra, his
Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the
Cross for string quartet is an empassioned,
poignant contrast to the usual verve and
energy of his string quartets.
Eric has toured regularly in the US, Canada
and UK/Europe and recorded almost 20
CDs. His most recognisable and popular
song The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, has
been recorded by over 100 international
artists, while The Green Fields of France,
(aka No Man’s Land), spent 26 weeks in
the Irish charts (10 at No 1). Eric will be
accompanied, as ever, by fellow 'ex-pat'
Scot, John Munro. This gig will be his last
ever appearance in Edinburgh.
Performing on period instruments, Quatuor
Mosaïques are respected throughout the
world for their thoughtful and authentic
interpretations of Haydn’s chamber music.
Tickets £16, £13
Website www.www.ericbogle.net
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/quatuor
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Scottish Ensemble /
Tenebrae
Tue 25 August, 11am
Wed 26 August, 11am
Among the world’s foremost lyric tenors,
Christoph Prégardien joins fortepianist
Andreas Staier to perform a concert of
songs by Chopin, Schubert, Schumann and
a selection of rarely performed gems by
Norbert Burgmüller.
(Photo: Joanne Green)
(Photo: Marco Borggreve)
Christoph Prégardien - Tenor,
Andreas Staier - Fortepiano
Ravel Petite Symphonie à Cordes (from
Quartet in F arr Barshai)
James MacMillan Seven Last Words from the
Cross
The Scottish Ensemble performs two
acclaimed works written specially for the
group. James MacMillan’s cantata for
choir and strings has become one of the
composer’s most loved works, for which
the Ensemble is joined by chamber choir
Tenebrae. The Petite Symphonie à Cordes is
a realisation for string ensemble of Ravel’s
popular and colourful quartet re-worked by
master-orchestrator Rudolf Barshai.
"stops you in your tracks right away, and
won’t let you get back to your life until well
after silence returns... captures every nuance
both in text and music." (Toronto Star)
"extraordinarily flawless singing... such a
complete experience that the temptation
was to take away and treasure, untainted, its
spellbinding effect." (The Scotsman)
"probably MacMillan’s masterpiece...
astounding... an inexorable sense of the
drama" (The Guardian)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/pregardien
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/scottishensemble
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AMC
Andreas Staier Sarah Jane Morris
Fortepiano
Thu 27 August, 11am
Diva Sarah Jane Morris is accompanied by
Sting’s guitar maestro Dominic Miller as she
bares her soul with this brand new collection
of haunting and original songs.
Exceptional fortepianist Andreas Staier
performs a selection of pieces by
Clementi, Schubert, Schumann and the
Irish composer and pianist John Field
including his arrangement of Twas Within a
Mile o’ Edinburgh Town and a selection of
Nocturnes, a form which Field is credited
with inventing.
(Photo: Alvaro Yanez)
Wed 26 August, 7pm
The former Communards co-lead singer
(Don’t Leave Me This Way), takes on the
big social and political issues in her life in
this highly autobiographical show which
she describes as 'about many things, from
marriage to religion to love to fear.’
"relish the beautiful sound of the fortepiano
he uses, his exquisite phrasing and nifty
finger work and overall sensitivity to the
works. These are outstanding performances."
(BBC Radio 3)
"Her singer-songwriter talents frequently
find her compared with Janis Joplin, Nina
Simone or Tom Waits... a mesmeric live
performance.” (The Guardian)
Tickets £15, £13.50
Website www.sarahjanemorris.com
"one of the most important pianists of our
times... with an agility and wit that make
hearing him a constant delight."
(The Independent)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/staier
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Michael Volle - Baritone,
Franz Hawlata - Bass,
Helmut Deutsch - Piano
Fri 28 August, 11am
Sat 29 August, 11am
This concert features extrovert and poetic
music from contrasting musical climates:
the clearly structured lyricism and virtuosity
of the high baroque in Central Europe, the
improvisatory flair of French lute music, and
the evocative tunes and driving rhythms of
17th century Spain.
(Photo: Farbe)
(Photo: Naoya Ikegami)
Hopkinson Smith Lute and Baroque Guitar
A great opportunity to experience two
wonderful singers performing songs
separately and together, with renowned
pianist Helmut Deutsch.
Features songs by Schumann, Loewe, Wolf
and duets based on texts of Walter de la
Mare by Benjamin Britten alongside songs
from Mendelssohn’s opus 63.
"without doubt the finest lute player in the
world today" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"The appearance of Michael Volle and Franz
Hawlata with their accompanist Helmut
Deutsh was fascinating... it seemed the
applause would never end."
(Stuttgarter Nachrichten)
"the supreme ‘poet’ of the lute."
(Gramophone)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/smith
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/volle
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AMC
AMC
Tam White & the
Sermon Orchestra
Andy Hamilton’s
Hat of Doom
Sat 29 August, 7pm
Sat 29 August, 10pm
A special night with Scotland's blues legend
as he'll be singing with special guest Niki
King - winner of the Perrier Jazz Vocalist
Award 2001 - and backed up by the grooving
Sermon Organ Trio, led by rising piano/
organ star, Paul Harrison.
One of Britain’s best-loved comedy
performers and writers serves up a show
brimming with jokes, stories, gossip and
cash prizes. This multi-award winner is a
frequent guest on BBC TV’s Have I Got News
For You and QI and his latest co-creation
Outnumbered is a Bafta-nominated hit
sit-com.
There'll be some heavy kicking horns too,
bringing alive music from Ray Charles, John
Lee Hooker and some Dexter’s classics.
All will be served up by one of the most
experienced and respected performers
around.
Andy co-created and co-wrote the classic
Drop The Dead Donkey for Channel 4. He
is also the writer and devilish star of BBC
Radio 4’s Old Harry’s Game and a regular
panellist on The News Quiz and I’m Sorry I
Haven’t A Clue.
Tickets £15, £12
Website www.tamwhite.co.uk
Tickets £15, £13
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AMC
Regular Music
Eddi Reader
Sat 29 August, Midnight
Sun 30 August, 10pm
(Photo: Ania Urban)
Loveboat Big Band
Midnight Special
Set sail on the musical cruise of a lifetime,
with the ultimate dream-team ship’s band.
Featuring hot, hot horns from Orkestra del
Sol, sumptuous strings from Mr McFall’s
Chamber and voluptuous vocals from The
Bevvy Sisters - "harmonies as lethal as the
free cocktails they serve" (The Scotsman)
- this 17 piece spectacular presents a
connoisseur’s choice of classic swing
and vintage rarities for your dancefloor
delectation.
From her breakthrough with Fairground
Attraction to the groundbreaking Songs
of Robert Burns project, Eddi Reader has
helped to define the landscape in which folk
artists and singer songwriters navigate.
2009 saw her release her ninth album Love
is the Way. Originally planned as extra tracks
for a Best Of compilation, the songs quickly
grew into a full bodied album.
Please note that doors open 9.30pm, there
is no support act and Eddi Reader will be on
stage at 10pm.
Step aboard for a night of first-class
glamour and sophistication matched with an
unstoppable relish to party.
"Reader is in swooningly romantic mood and
singing better than ever" (Q)
"what a cherishable presence she continues
to be" (The Times)
"Simply brilliant! You MUST see them."
(Forth FM).
Tickets £14, £12
Website www.myspace.com/theloveboatbigband
Tickets £26.50
Website www.eddireader.co.uk
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Mon 31 August, 11am
Tue 1 September, 11am
(Photo: Philippe Gontier)
(Photo: Marco Borggeve)
Arditti Quartet
Arditti Quartet,
Barbara Hannigan Soprano
Beethoven String Quartet Op 95 in F minor
Berg String Quartet Op 3
Nigel Osborne Tiree (World premiere EIF
commission)
Ligeti String Quartet No 2
Beethoven String Quartet Op 133 in B Flat
‘Grosse Fuge’
Dutilleux String Quartet ‘Ainsi la nuit’
Webern Six Bagatelles for String Quartet Op 9
Schoenberg String Quartet No 2
The Arditti Quartet has been at the forefront
of the development of string quartets in
contemporary music for over thirty years.
In two programmes the Quartet embarks on
a musical journey from Beethoven through
seminal works by Webern and Schoenberg
to contemporary masterpieces by Ligeti and
Dutilleux.
Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge is one of the
towering achievements of European
culture. The concert also includes
Webern’s delightful Bagatelles opus 9 and
Schoenberg’s expressionistic String Quartet
No 2 for which they are joined by soprano
Barbara Hannigan.
"Irvine Arditti, a god in contemporary
virtuoso performance." (The Herald)
Inspired by the Ringing Stone of Tiree, a
new work from Scottish-based composer
Nigel Osborne has been commissioned for
the Quartet by the Edinburgh International
Festival.
"The world’s pre-eminent contemporary
music quartet." (The Guardian)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/arditti2
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/arditti1
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Christian Zacharias Piano
Wed 2 September, 11am
Thu 3 September, 11am
(Photo: Marco Borggreve)
(Photo: Marc Vanappelghem)
Bernarda Fink Mezzo soprano,
Anthony Spiri - Piano
Mezzo soprano Bernarda Fink and pianist
Anthony Spiri perform Dvorák’s Biblical
Songs and Gypsy Songs alongside a
selection of songs by Schubert.
Haydn Piano Sonata in D Hob XVI/24, Piano
Sonata in F Hob XVI/29, Piano Sonata in B
minor Hob XVI/32
Brahms Four Ballades Op 10
Scarlatti Eight Sonatas
"Sometimes it takes a great performer to
make you hear music you thought you knew
with fresh ears... selection of Schubert songs
included some of his greatest hits, but she
revealed anew the richness of his settings"
(The Guardian)
Perennial Festival favourite Christian
Zacharias is completely at home showing the
full range of his virtuosity and expressivity in
this programme. The rarely played Brahms
opus 10 Ballades are some of his most
lyrical piano works.
"Fink’s tender tone and perfect diction
reflect every nuance of emotion"
(The Independent)
The spine-tingling first is famously inspired
by the Scottish ballad Edward, a gruesome
tale of patricide.
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/fink
"His intellect and musicianship shone
through" (The Guardian)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/zacharias
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Alexis Kossenko,
John Holloway,
Jaap ter Linden,
Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Sat 5 September, 11am
Emerson
String Quartet
(Photo: Mitch Jenkins)
Fri 4 September, 11am
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op 12 in E flat
Beethoven String Quartet Op 74 in E flat
‘The Harp’
Mendelssohn String Quartet Op 80 in F
minor
JS Bach Trio for Flute, Violin, and Continuo
in G BWV 1038
CPE Bach Trio Sonata in C H573
JS Bach The Musical Offering
Four great musicians come together to
bring Festival audiences music by Johann
Sebastian Bach and his son Carl Philipp
Emanuel.
The multi-Grammy award-winning Emerson
Quartet is particularly acclaimed for
interpretations of Mendelssohn’s string
quartets. This concert features the
transparent beauty of Beethoven’s Harp
quartet with Mendelssohn’s earliest and last
works in this genre.
Bach’s Musical Offering was the result of
a challenge to improvise on a chromatic
melody conceived by Frederick II of Prussia
an Enlightenment monarch, his son’s
employer.
"superb ensemble: technically resourceful,
musically insightful, cohesive, full of
character and always interesting."
(New York Times)
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/kossenko
Tickets £26.50, £24, £19.50, £16, £10, £7
Website www.eif.co.uk/emerson
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Doors Open Day
Fri 11 September, 8.30pm
Sat 26 September, 10am - 3pm
The Music of Wayne Shorter
featuring Gary Burton
For the first time, The Queen's Hall is
participating in Doors Open Day, the annual
celebration of Edinburgh's architecture and
heritage.
(Photo: Alastair Wight)
Scottish National
Jazz Orchestra
Vibes master Gary Burton occupies a unique
place in jazz as a pioneering instrumentalist
and accompanist to Stan Getz and George
Shearing.
This is your chance to explore all areas of
The Queen's Hall - inside, outside, onstage,
backstage!
Now Burton joins the Scottish National Jazz
Orchestra to pay tribute to another of jazz’s
true greats, saxophonist and composer
Wayne Shorter, a creative force with Art
Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, crucial member
of Miles Davis’ quintet, co-leader of fusion
masters Weather Report, and enduring
inspiration to a world-wide audience.
Our staff will be leading free, informal guided
tours through all areas of The Queen's Hall
from 10am. Places on the tours are limited and
will be allocated on a first-come, first-served
basis from our Box Office.
Tickets free
Websites www.thequeenshall.org
www.cockburnassociation.org
Tickets £18/£16
Website www.snjo.co.uk
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Coming up at The Queen’s Hall
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring Gary Burton
Fri 11 September, 8:30pm
Lung Ha's Theatre Company Dangerously, Yours...
Wed 23 September, 7.30pm & Thu 24 September, 1.30pm
Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham
Fri 25 September, 8pm
Doors Open Day
Sat 26 September, 10am - 3pm
Scottish Chamber Orchestra: James MacMillan’s Tryst
Mon 28 September, 7:30pm
The Searchers
Sun 18 October, 8pm
Scottish Ensemble: Side by Side
Fri 23 October, 7:45pm
Wishbone Ash
Sat 24 October, doors open 7pm
Jason Manford
Tue 3 November, 8pm
Jimmy Webb & The Webb Brothers
Fri 6 November, doors open 7pm
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Wed 2 December, doors open 7pm
Scottish Ensemble: Winter Light
Fri 11 December, 7:45pm
New Town: The Heath Quartet
Mon 14 December, 7.45pm
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The Queen’s Hall : At A Glance
Fri 31 July, 8.30pm
Roy Hargrove Quintet/Brian Kellock Trio
Sat 1 August, 8.30pm
Eric Burdon & The Animals
Sun 2 August, 8pm
Courtney Pine Tradition in Transition
Mon 3 August, 8pm
Jacques Loussier Trio
Wed 5 August, 8pm
Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra Plays Duke Ellington
Thu 6 August, 8pm
Moishe’s Bagel
Fri 7 August, 8.30pm
Jack Bruce, Robin Trower & Gary Husband
Sat 8 August, 8.30pm
Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra Sylvander & Clarinda
Wed 12 August, 10pm
Shooglenifty
Thu 13 August, 10pm
Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Fri 14 August, 7pm
Barb Jungr
Fri 14 August, 10pm
Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Sat 15 August, 11am
Collegium Vocale Gent, Kristian Bezuidenhout - Piano
Sat 15 August, 7pm
Barb Jungr
Sat 15 August, 10pm
Music from the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Sun 16 August, 7pm
The McCalmans
Sun 16 August, 10pm
Peatbog Faeries
Mon 17 August, 11am
Lisa Milne - Soprano, Malcolm Martineau - Piano
Mon 17 August, 7pm
Broken Records (doors open 7pm)
Tue 18 August, 11am
Alexei Ogrintchouk, Boris Brovtsyn, Maxim Rysanov, Boris Andrianov
Tue 18 August, 7pm
Frightened Rabbit (doors open 7pm)
Wed 19 August, 11am
Bejun Mehta - Countertenor, Julius Drake - Piano
Wed 19 August, 7pm
Capercaillie
Wed 19 August, 10pm
Blazin’ Fiddles
Thu 20 August, 11am
Hebrides Ensemble, Christopher Maltman - Baritone
Thu 20 August, 7pm
Capercaillie
Fri 21 August, 11am
Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall - Viola da Gamba & Director
Fri 21 August, 7pm
Women in Harmony: Annie Grace, Corrina Hewat & Karine Polwart
Fri 21 August, 10pm
Puppetry of the Penis
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Sat 22 August, 11am
Elisabeth Leonskaja - Piano
Sat 22 August, 7pm
Puppetry of the Penis
Sat 22 August, 10pm
Salsa Celtica
Sun 23 August, 10pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Sun 23 August, 7pm
Puppetry of the Penis
Mon 24 August, 11am
Quatuor Mosaïques
Mon 24 August, 7pm
Eric Bogle & John Munro
Mon 24 August, 10pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Tue 25 August, 11am
Christoph Prégardien - Tenor, Andreas Staier - Fortepiano
Tue 25 August, 10pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Wed 26 August, 11am
Scottish Ensemble/Tenebrae
Wed 26 August, 7pm
Sarah Jane Morris
Wed 26 August, 10pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Thu 27 August, 11am
Andreas Staier - Fortepiano
Thu 27 August, 7pm
Shooglenifty
Thu 27 August, 10pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Fri 28 August, 11am
Hopkinson Smith - Lute and Baroque Guitar
Fri 28 August, 7pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Fri 28 August, 10pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Sat 29 August, 11am
Michael Volle - Baritone, Franz Hawlata - Bass, Helmut Deutsch - Piano
Sat 29 August, 7pm
Tam White & the Sermon Orchestra
Sat 29 August, 10pm
Andy Hamilton’s Hat of Doom
Sat 29 August, 12 midnight
Loveboat Big Band Midnight Special
Sun 30 August, 7pm
Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen
Sun 30 August, 10pm
Eddi Reader (doors open 9.30pm/onstage 10pm)
Mon 31 August, 11am
Arditti Quartet
Tue 1 September, 11am
Arditti Quartet, Barbara Hannigan - Soprano
Wed 2 September, 11am
Bernarda Fink - Mezzo soprano, Anthony Spiri - Piano
Thu 3 September, 11am
Christian Zacharias - Piano
Fri 4 September, 11am
Emerson String Quartet
Sat 5 September, 11am
Alexis Kossenko, John Holloway, Jaap ter Linden, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
Tickets & Information www.thequeenshall.net / 0131 668 2019
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Acoustic Music Centre - At A Glance
This year, The Queen’s Hall is collaborating with the Acoustic Music Centre, the Festival’s
leading folk, roots and traditional music venue. You can now buy tickets for all these shows
from The Queen’s Hall Box Office on 0131 668 2019/www.thequeenshall.net.
Mon 10 August
Acoustic Music Centre: Big Room
Acoustic Music Centre: Back Room
Old Blind Dogs (9pm)
Alison Hetzl Considering... (6.30pm)
John Alexander Dustbowl Blues... (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Tue 11 August
EYG, Feis Ros & Friends (7.15pm)
Alison Hetzl Considering... (6.30pm)
Doghouse Roses Something Old... (8pm)
Simon Kempston (9.30pm)
Wed 12 August
Emily Smith (7.15pm)
Adam Bulley & Malcolm MacFarlane (6.30pm)
Nick Harper (9pm)
Darren Dutson-Bromley (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Thu 13 August
Michael Marra (7.15pm)
Adam Bulley & Malcolm MacFarlane (6.30pm)
Nick Harper (9pm)
Sophie Bancroft (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Wesley Bradd (11pm)
Fri 14 August
Absolutely Legless (7.15pm)
Wrong Notes (5pm)
Alex Yellowlees (9pm)
Adriana (6.30pm)
Sophie Bancroft (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Vic Rodrick & Annie Gunner Logan (11pm)
Sat 15 August
Absolutely Legless (3.45pm & 7.15pm)
Wrong Notes (5pm)
MacGregor, Brechin, O’Headra (9pm)
Adriana (6.30pm)
Colin Clyne (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Vic Rodrick & Annie Gunner Logan (11pm)
Sun 16 August
India Alba (7.15pm)
Two-Five-One (6.30pm)
Ross Ainslie & Jariath Henderson (9pm)
Ken Hastings (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Mon 17 August
Jeana Leslie & Siobhan Miller (7.15pm)
Dean Owens (6.30pm)
Dick Gaughan (9pm)
Along the Miners’ Rows (8pm)
Two-Five-One (9.30pm)
Tue 18 August
The Poozies (7.15pm)
Two-Five-One (9.30pm)
Seaside Skiffle Group (9pm)
Dean Owens (6.30pm)
Along the Miners’ Rows (8pm)
Wingin’ It (9.30pm)
Wed 19 August
Rachel Dawick (7.15pm)
Tony Cox (4.30pm)
Kris Drever (9pm)
Wingin’ It (6.30pm)
Shepheard, Spiers & Watson (8pm)
Shepheard, Spiers & Watson (9.30pm)
Thu 20 August
Caroline Gilmour (7.15pm)
Adele-Marina Wilding (5pm)
Martyn Joseph (9pm)
Wingin’ It (6.30pm)
Adele-Marina Wilding (8pm)
Shepheard, Spiers & Watson (9.30pm)
Shepheard, Spiers & Watson (11pm)
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Fri 21 August
Acoustic Music Centre: Big Room
Acoustic Music Centre: Back Room
Liz Dicks Bessie Smith & the Blues (7.15pm)
Whiskey Hill Ramblers (5pm)
North Sea Gas (9pm)
Mike Vass (6.30pm)
Silvern (8pm)
Austen George (9.30pm)
The Bevvy Sisters (11pm)
Sat 22 August
Tam White Flying Solo Again! (7.15pm)
Mike Vass (6.30pm)
North Sea Gas (9pm)
Silvern (8pm)
Austen George (9.30pm)
Jake Cogan (11pm)
Sun 23 August
The Hot Seats (7.15pm)
Ken Campbell’s Ideal Band (6.30pm)
Spooky Men’s Chorale (9pm)
Ken Hastings (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Mon 24 August
Paul McKenna Band (7.15pm)
Tony Cox (4.30pm)
The Hot Seats (9pm)
Rupert Wates (6.30pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
Simon Kempston (9.30pm)
Tue 25 August
Sambor Dudzinski Time(less) Machine (5.45pm) Rupert Wates (6.30pm)
The Hot Seats (7.15pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
Maira Campbell (9pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Gleusta (11pm)
Wed 26 August
Thu 27 August
Sambor Dudzinski Time(less) Machine (5.45pm) Martha Scanlan (5pm)
Breabach (7.15pm)
Rupert Wates (6.30pm)
Brechin, Martin & Wilkinson (9pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
The Hot Seats (10.45pm)
Claude Bourbon (9.30pm)
Sambor Dudzinski Time(less) Machine (5.45pm) Rupert Wates (6.30pm)
The Hot Seats (7.15pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
Malinky (9pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Stairheid Gossip (11pm)
Fri 28 August
Sambor Dudzinski Time(less) Machine (5.45pm) Pokey LaFarge (5pm)
The Hot Seats (7.15pm)
Tattie Jam (6.30pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
The Bevvy Sisters (11pm)
Sat 29 August
Sambor Dudzinski Time(less) Machine (5.45pm) Pokey LaFarge (5pm)
Filska (7.15pm)
Cheyenne Brown & Seylan Baxter (6.30pm)
Preston Reed (9pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
The Hot Seats (10.45pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
Electric Avenue Band (11pm)
Sun 30 August
Sambor Dudzinski Time(less) Machine (5.45pm) Stairheid Gossip (5pm)
Celter Schmelter (6.30pm)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants (8pm)
Tony Cox (9.30pm)
All these performances take place at the Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's (Venue 123),
10 Orwell Terrace, Edinburgh, EH11 2DY (www.acousticmusiccentre.co.uk/0131 346 1405 for
information only; book tickets via www.thequeenshall.net)..
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Keep it Live!
"There are very few halls where one feels truly inspired and
moved just being in the space. The Queen’s Hall is definitely
worth every investment for the future of culture in Edinburgh
and Scotland and for persevering and securing the future of a
national treasure."
(Ilan Volkov, Chief Conductor, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra)
Make a gift today and support the future
of The Queen's Hall. Get closer to the
music by supporting our development
plans:
• Help us raise funds each year to
support our own programme of concerts
• Join us in our regular programme of
Hospitality Nights. Donors have recently
enjoyed private receptions at concerts
featuring the Scottish Ensemble,
Hebrides Ensemble, Lyle Lovett, Scottish
National Jazz Orchestra, Solas and Phil
Cunningham.
• Help support our running costs. We
need to raise at least £100,000 each
year from private sources.
• Help preserve a Heritage Asset for the
City. As a fine Georgian building, The
Queen’s Hall needs looking after!
Donate online at www.charitychoice.
co.uk, pick up a pack in the Hall or
contact David Heavenor, Development
Manager to discuss ways you can
contribute to the success of the
Hall or 0131 622 7389/davidh@
queenshalledinburgh.org.
• Once you have provided for friends
and family consider leaving The Queen's
Hall a legacy
• Support our Campaign Plan to
transform the Front and Back of House
facilities
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The Queen’s Hall - Tickets & Information
The Queen’s Hall
85 - 89 Clerk Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9JG
Booking Tickets
0131 668 2019
Box Office Standard Opening Times
10am - 5.30 pm, Monday - Saturday.
On concert nights we close 15 minutes
after showtime. Phone lines close at 5pm,
except on concert evenings when they
are open until one hour before the show.
Ticket prices listed in this brochure include
booking fees; additional fees are charged for
credit/debit card transactions. Performance
start/onstage times are used except unless
otherwise stated (eg doors open time)
Book Online
www.thequeenshall.net
Access information
The Queen’s Hall is accessible to wheelchair
users via the entrance next to the box office,
or to the rear of the building. We also have
a wheelchair accessible toilet. Please advise
our box office when purchasing your ticket if
you need a wheelchair space.
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Guide Dogs
Please advise our box office when
purchasing your ticket if you are bringing a
guide dog. We will try to seat you in an area
that is comfortable for both you and your
dog.
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please call 0131 668 3456.
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Assisted Listening
There is an induction loop in the main
auditorium to assist patrons who have
hearing difficulties. By turning the hearing
aid to the T position, sound will be picked up
directly from the stage.