Garleton Singers
The Garleton Singers are an amateur choir based in East Lothian. They will be performing at St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh next weekend. The choir will be performing a variety of works from Haydn’s Te Deum to Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Mozart’s C Minor Mass. Conductor Stephen Doughty will be leading the ensemble throughout their performance.
March 21-22 from 7.30pm
Tickets from £14
St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2EP (Saturday). St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington (Sunday).
The Greatest Show Choir
Ever wondered what it would be like to see shows like Glee in real life? Wonder no more and head along to see Aberdeen University’s Show Choir perform. A night full of singing and dancing, the Show Choir’s performances will vary from upbeat pop to songs from musicals and mellowed out ballads, including everything in between. You can be sure there’s something for everyone!
March 20 from 7.30pm
Tickets from £10
Aberdeen Arts Centre, 33 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AA
Spoils and Souvenirs
Who doesn’t love bringing back a souvenir from their travels? Just as we do this today, soldiers used to return home with keepsakes from their travels overseas. This exhibition from Balhousie Castle explores the stories behind some of these keepsakes. The objects on display range from embroideries to a Japanese samurai sword, exploring the reasons why Black Watch soldiers kept these items.
March 16-22
Tickets from £6.50
The Black Watch Castle and Museum, Balhousie Castle, Hay Street, Perth, PH1 5HR
Women and Girls in Science Public Lecture
Join Princeton University biologist Cassie Stoddard for an interesting lecture about women in science. Stoddart describes her groundbreaking approach to exploring the evolution of birds’ eggs, plumage, camouflage and coloration. Not only an outstanding scientist, she is also an excellent public speaker and as such she has won many prestigious awards including the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2012, the 2013 L’Oreal USA for Women in Science Fellow and a 2018 Packard Fellow. This lecture is a chance to hear about one of the many success stories of women in science.
March 16 from 1pm
Free
Byre Theatre, Abbey Street, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9LA
Edinburgh’s Festival of Ireland
Around St Patrick’s Day there’s lots of exciting events taking place in Edinburgh as part of the city’s Festival of Ireland. On Tuesday join them for two ceilidhs – the café ceilidh, featuring an afternoon of traditional songs, music, poems and stories celebrating St Patrick. The family ceilidh takes place in the evening – suitable for all the family – featuring a buffet, ceilidh dancing, fiddle music and an Irish dance display.
March 17
Tickets from £7 (for family ceilidh, the café ceilidh is free)
Storytelling Centre, 43 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR
Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh, EH3 9DJ
Hidden and Haunted
For a chilling way to explore Edinburgh after dark, go underground with the Hidden and Haunted adults-only tours. A short, sharp shock, this tour is an unsettling introduction to the capital’s unsavoury past. As you explore the underground vaults, the guide will share the true stories of sinister misdeeds and terrible consequences.
March 16-22 from 9.30-10.30pm and 10-11pm
Tickets from £14
Mercat House, 28 Blair Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1QR
Simon Brodkin
Taking a break from his Lee Nelson persona, Simon Brodkin is 100 per cent himself as he embarks on his aptly named debut stand-up tour 100 per cent Simon Brodkin. After three incredibly successful BBC series as Lee Nelson; multiple sellout tours; a sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and even various court appearances after his world famous stunts on big names such as Theresa May and Donald Trump, Brodkin brings arguably his funniest creation yet – himself.
March 20
Tickets from £20
The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, Glasgow, G3 6NG
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness’s piercing novel A Monster Calls takes the stage of the Old Vic in a new adaptation by director Sally Cookson. Upon publication, the novel became a bestseller, with children and adults alike falling in love with Ness’s dazzling insight into love, loss and healing. With various awards to its name, including an unprecedented double win of the Carnegie and Greenaway medals for outstanding children’s literature as well as a film adaptation, don’t miss out on a chance to see this hugely successful book on stage.
March 17-21 from 7.30pm
Tickets from £23.50
His Majesty’s Theatre, Rosemount Viaduct, Aberdeen, AB25 1GL
Maim
Maim means panic in Gaelic and this collaboration between Theatre Gu Leor and the band Whyte examines the nature of this feeling by exploring the crisis facing both land and language through a mixture of live music, dance, spoken word and video. The show is fully accessible to non-Gaelic speakers and features integrated BSL.
March 20 from 7.30pm
Tickets from £13.20
The Lemon Tree, 5 West North Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5AT
Blossoms
A five-piece formed in 2013, Manchester’s Blossoms offer a lighter take on psychedelia steeped in British pop songwriting. The band, discontent with being lumped in with the Manchester music scene, have invented their own sub-genre: ethereal nostalgic sonance.
March 22 from 7pm
Tickets from £29.35
O2 Academy Glasgow, 121 Eglinton Street, Glasgow, G5 9NT
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