Dunbar’s Close Gardens – Edinburgh © Rhiannon Connelly 2009
Although, obviously not if you all go at once !
Edinburgh seemed to get busy and buzzy even earlier this year, with the Homecoming events at the end of July. And apparently even the Fringe is kicking off earlier this year. Lovely as it is, sometimes you just [...]
Posts Tagged ‘festival’
Five on a Friday – Places to escape the crowds during the Edinburgh Festival.
Posted in Etsy, Five on a Friday, Travel, tagged art, cities, edinburgh, Etsy, Europe, festival, fringe, Photography, scotland, starrybluesky, sx70, Travel on August 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I could have danced all night…..
Posted in Live, tagged balkan, cimbalom, concerts, dance, edinburgh, festival, fiddle, gypsy, hungary, music, romania, serbia, slovenia, spiegeltent on September 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Something of a musical interlude for me, this last week. The last gasp of the festival was followed by the Gypsy Arts Festival which made use of the Spiegelgarden before it gets dismantled and shipped off to sunny Australia. I am tempted to dust down my CV and see if I can follow them there…..both [...]
Orkestra Del Sol go to the Seaside….
Posted in Live, tagged edinburgh, festival, fringe, happy, music, northberwick, OrkestraDelSol, spiegelgarden, spiegeltent on August 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
As I mentioned in a previous post ( Mysterious Rehersal Room Music) , Orkestra Del Sol were supposed to be performing on the train from Edinburgh to North Berwick to kick off the “Fringe by the Sea”. They didn’t play too much on the train ( not at all where I was sitting anyway) but made [...]
Robert Burns and other Matters…..
Posted in Inspire, tagged Burns, canongate, edinburgh, festival, fringe, play, playwright, poet, RobertBurns, scotland on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Went to the opening night of Loving Burns yesterday. A beautifully lyrical play written, directed and performed by Alicia Devine, a friend of a friend. About Robert Burns ( Scottish poet, 18th C) but from the point of view of the women in his life. A real achievement to pull this all together single-handedly ( with [...]
Mysterious Rehersal Room Music
Posted in Inspire, Live, tagged balkan, dance, easterneurope, edinburgh, festival, folk, happy, music, rock, world on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
http://www.orkestradelsol.co.uk
I used to hear music coming out of rehersal rooms near my home and wonder who they were. Sadly the rooms have been torn down in the march of “progress” – but the music has surfaced !
You can hear them play during the Edinburgh Festival at the Spiegel Tent – or you can hear them perform [...]
