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Summer begins now!
Explore the new events added to our 2024 Festival, on sale now - linkinbio to grab your tickets 🎉
#hellosummer
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The Edinburgh International Festival returns 7-29 August and goes outdoors for 2021.
Welcome back to live performance, welcome back to your Festival:
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We are thrilled to announce that world-renowned violinist, educator and arts and culture advocate, Nicola Benedetti CBE becomes the Director Designate of the Edinburgh International Festival, and will become Festival Director on 1 October 2022.
More here:
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One of the world’s greatest storytellers, telling the world’s greatest stories.
@stephenfry
gives us some insight into what to expect from Mythos: A Trilogy this August:
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The 2021 Edinburgh International Festival programme is here 🎉
Welcome back to live performance, welcome back to your Festival. Discover our artists & performances now:
Tickets on sale from 11 June & we’ll see you live, outdoors & online this August!
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The 2019 Edinburgh International Festival programme is here - join the world's greatest artists this August.
#edintfest
Explore the programme now:
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On 8 August, we celebrate what would have been the opening weekend of the 2020 festival season. A specially commissioned film featuring new work from artists across genres airs on our YouTube channel, Facebook Live and BBC Scotland at 9.30pm.
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The 2018 International Festival programme is now live! Head on over to our website to see what's in store...
#EdintFest
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Our board of trustees has asked for, and accepted the resignation of, Valery Gergiev as Honorary President of the Festival. Edinburgh is twinned with the city of Kyiv and this action is being taken in sympathy with, and support of, its citizens.
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Due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, it has become clear that it will not be possible to present a Festival in 2020. We have taken the disappointing decision to cancel the 2020 Edinburgh International Festival. Read the full statement on our website.
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Today we're delighted to share a taste of what's to come at the 2017
#EdintFest
. Discover the programme here:
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Enjoy this clip of
@maofujita_piano
playing Mozart's Fantasia in D Minor before his
@queens_hall
recital last Friday
#EdIntFest
💛
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📢 Exciting news!📢 Cellist
@ShekuKM
will be making his
#EdintFest
debut performing with
@TheCBSO
on 17 Aug. The 2016 BBC Young Musician winner's album Inspiration is topping the charts. You also might have seen him perform at the Royal Wedding. Read more:
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Thanks for watching My Light Shines On, you can explore all films from the series now:
If you're in Edinburgh, now look to the skies as some of Edinburgh's famous festival venues and settings turn their lights back on in an awe-inspiring display.
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We were delighted to welcome First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
along to
@leithacademy
, our residency school, to tour the set of Muster Station: Leith, meet the cast and crew from
@gridirontheatre
and chat to some of the students involved!
Find out more:
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The 2022 Edinburgh International Festival programme is here 🎉
We celebrate 75 years of
#EdIntFest
this August with world premieres, bold collaborations & world-class artists in Edinburgh's iconic theatres & concert halls.
Discover the programme now:
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The stages are going up, our artists are beginning to arrive and we're so excited to be bringing back live performances to Edinburgh and the world.
The 2021 Edinburgh International Festival is almost here 🎉
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Missed last night's stream of My Light Shines On or just want to relive it all over again?
Head to our YouTube to watch and explore all films from the series now ➡️
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Morning! Welcome to the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival. We can't WAIT to celebrate our 70th anniversary with you all.
#EdintFest70
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Our home The Hub has become one of the first sites to host an exhibit as part of the Scotland-wide
#BlackLivesMatter
Mural Trail led by previous
#edintfest
Programme Associate Wezi Mhura.
Head to Castlehill to see photographer Jamal Yussuff-Adelakun's contribution to the trail.
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And that's the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival come to an end. Thank you for celebrating our 70th anniversary in style!
#EdintFest
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Welcome to 2019
#edintfest
, three weeks of performances by some of the world's greatest artists, performed in Edinburgh's most striking theatres & concert halls. Enjoy the best of music, theatre & dance from across the globe against the backdrop of Scotland's historic capital.
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📢 NEWS: Sir Ian McKellen will return to the International Festival with a new solo show celebrating his 80th birthday. Read more:
#edintfest
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In 2023, Edinburgh International Festival asks: Where do we go from here?
Join us in August as Director
@NickyBenedetti
brings together the boldest individuals and collectives from the worlds of dance, music, opera and theatre.
Explore the programme now:
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👀 A first look at Enda Walsh's Medicine from
@LandmarkIreland
and
@GalwayIntArts
as the cast and creatives start rehearsals for the world premiere at
#EdIntFest
.
Who's heading to
@traversetheatre
to see it this August?
📷 Sarah Weal
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This weekend would have been the opening of Edinburgh's festival season. Explore how
#edintfest
,
@edfringe
,
@edbookfest
,
@EdArtFest
&
@EdinburghTattoo
are celebrating the festival city & watch our specially commissioned film on YouTube, Facebook &
@BBCScotland
tomorrow at 9.30pm.
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We'd like to extend a warm welcome to the Eurovision
#YoungMusicians
2018 participants, who arrived in Edinburgh yesterday and met First Minister Nicola Sturgeon today. These talented young people will compete this weekend to play in the competition finals on 23 August
#YOYP2018
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A taste of what's to come at the 2016
#EdintFest
Feat:
@Alancumming
@MeowTopia
@marinalsop
& more... ^N
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How does all all that opera, theatre, dance and music squeeze into a box like this?! 🤔 We can't wait to share the 2018
#EdintFest
programme with you this Wednesday from 6.30pm 🎉
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We're delighted to announce the appointment of Francesca Hegyi OBE as the incoming Executive Director of the International Festival.
Having previously studied and worked in Edinburgh,
@franhegyi
returns to the city to join
#EdintFest
in Feb 2019. More:
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Who's ready for an August full of creativity, power and joy in music, theatre, opera and dance? 💛 Explore the 2024 programme now
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Get to know
@matthewherbert
@ConchitaWurst
& more artists in New European Songbook concerts line-up
#Spiritof47
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Happy launch day! We can't wait to share the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival programme with you tonight from 6.30pm. Join us then!
#EdintFest
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In a year like no other, we welcomed live performance back to Edinburgh, with
#EdIntFest
shows in bespoke outdoor venues and iconic theatres across the city.
Thank you for helping us create another magical Festival. Join us again next year from 5-29 August 2022!
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The stages are set, our artists have arrived and the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival is officially here 🎉
Welcome back to live performance, welcome back to your Festival. Join us live, outdoors and online this
#EdIntFest
:
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With one last firework we bring the 2019 Edinburgh International Festival to a stunning conclusion. Here are just some of the highlights we enjoyed with our amazing artists and audiences this year. Join us next year 7-31 August 2020
#edintfest
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TONIGHT! We’re kicking things off a little early down at the
@traversetheatre
with the first preview of Enda Walsh’s new play Medicine from
@LandmarkIreland
&
@GalwayIntArts
.
Take a look at the brilliant cast outside the theatre yesterday. Best of luck!
📷 Jess Shurte
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Poetry titan
@SaulWilliams
performs their work 'A Toast To All The People' in James Court courtyard, hidden behind Edinburgh's Royal Mile as part of our A Toast to the People spoken word series.
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Happy
#LoveTheatreDay
to Edinburgh's beautiful venues
@lyceumtheatre
(pictured)
@edtheatres
@edinplayhouse
@traversetheatre
@ChurchHillThtr
@LeithTheatre
🎭 ^M
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In a year when Edinburgh’s Festival stages must remain empty for the first time in 73 years, the International Festival is building outdoor stages to bring theatricality into schools and to support pupils to play, perform and learn outdoors.
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We're just 4 weeks away from revealing our programme for 2019 so let's take a look back at the many wonderful moments from last year's
#edintfest
. What were your highlights?
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We welcomed the world and painted the town yellow. Thank you for a wonderful August.
#EdintFest
#WelcomeWorld
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"Robert Burns has always fascinated me"
From
@Alancumming
and award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett, Burn is a powerful new piece of dance theatre, premiering at the Festival this August, that takes an intimate look at the life of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns.
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Congratulations to Scottish violinist
@NickyBenedetti
who has been awarded the Queen’s Medal for Music! 🎉 ^E
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The sun's coming out at
@TynecastlePark_
ready for the
@ASInvestmentsUK
Opening Event:
@LAPhil
at Tynecastle this evening! Not long to go now ☀️
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“Tonight we salsa, we rave”
Kicking off our new digital programme, At Home in partnership with
@abrdn_plc
, watch Scottish indie rock duo
@ArabStrapBand
perform ‘The Turning of Our Bones’ from their new album As Days Get Dark at
@LeithTheatre
.
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On the closing night of Burn at
@captheatres
’ King’s Theatre, we were delighted to welcome First Minister
@NicolaSturgeon
and
@USAmbUK
for the Ambassador’s very first visit to Scotland! 🔥 🎭
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🎺We had a record breaking 362 musicians on stage at Princes St Gardens yesterday! Today our Opening Fanfare celebrations continue, with more homegrown ensembles from 2pm. At 3pm the sounds of
@GritOrchestra
will fill the Gardens!
📸 Iain Masterton
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Edinburgh's
@NeuReekie
bring us an all-star line-up that’s headed by Orange Juice frontman and songwriting royalty
@EdwynCollins
(with his band!) plus appearances from
@lokiscottishrap
,
@Toidfish
AND
@vmcnulty67
.
12 Aug at Edinburgh Park, tickets here 👉
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Seriously
#Edinburgh
, if you could keep this up for another month and a half, that'd be great ;)
#EdintFest
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Welcome All to the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival! We're so excited to share incredible theatre, dance, music and opera with you this August. Where are you coming from to join us?
#EdintFest
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My Light Shines On is an act of optimism and solidarity: a series of world-class artistic interventions celebrating a spark that still burns bright.
Explore the programme at
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Tonight
@NickyBenedetti
kicks off her Festival residency with the Benedetti Baroque Orchestra! There's even a few tickets left if you're quick:
📷
@JessShurte
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Triple congrats to
@ZinnieH
who's just received
#HeraldAngels
award for
#Oresteia
#Rhinoceros
&
#MeetMeAtDawn
at
#EdintFest
👏👏👏 ^M
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“It all starts with belief and trust. We led with this feeling in 2023, and we will deepen it in 2024.”
@NickyBenedetti
, Festival Director, Edinburgh International Festival.
In 2024, the Edinburgh International Festival will explore 'Rituals that Unite Us'.
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One week until launch! 🎉
We're releasing our 2023 programme into the world next Monday - the first under new Festival Director
@nickybenedetti
. Excited doesn't even begin to cover it!
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A peek at what's to come at
@StandardLifeplc
Opening Event
#EdinBloom
. Free from 10.30pm on 4 & 5 Aug! More info: ^N
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Audiences were completely blown away by
@scottishballet
’s Coppélia tonight and so were we 👏
Huge congratulations to
@jess_and_morgs
and the company on their first performance of this brilliant brand new production.
Catch it at
#EdIntFest
until 16 Aug.
📷 Andy Ross
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Who's excited for
@ASInvestmentsUK
Opening Event:
#FiveTelegrams
tonight? We can guarantee it's going to be spectacular. Here's a few teaser photos for you...
#EdintFest
#YOYP2018
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.
@mogwaiband
signed this beautifully monstrous poster last night at
#LightontheShore
with
@Edinburgh_Gin
Seaside. To celebrate their second concert at
@LeithTheatre
tonight as part of the International Festival, we're giving the poster away - RT to enter the draw!
#EdintFest
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The 2023 Edinburgh International Festival Opening Weekend was a celebration of community!
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📣 NEWS! 📣 Full programme of
#LightOnTheShore
with
@Edinburgh_Gin
Seaside is now live on our website! Explore the line-up of some of Scotland’s most innovative artists, curators and promoters:
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A few photos taken in the wee small hours of
#EdinBloom
. Come along and see it in person for free on 4 & 5 Aug! ^N
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But Edinburgh is a mad god's dream
Fitful and dark,
Unseizable in Leith
And wildered by the Forth
Hugh MacDiarmid
#NationalPoetryDay
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Our Festival Director,
@NickyBenedetti
, will be gracing the airwaves soon as she makes her
@BBCRadio3
presenting debut with a series exploring the origins and impact of the Edinburgh International Festival in Scotland and further afield. Read more:
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And we're off 🎉
We're back with a bang to celebrate our 75th anniversary and have spent the last week going back into our venues, setting the stage for this year's Festival.
We could not be happier to be back in full swing and welcoming the world back to Edinburgh.
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And that's a wrap! 💛
Bringing together audiences in all our favourite venues, uniting world-class performers on stage and rejoicing in the thrill of live performance, this was the International Festival at its very best.
Join us again next year from 4-27 August 2023.
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Aye, that was braw! The GRIT Orchestra performed Martyn Bennett’s ‘Bothy Culture’ tonight with so much vigour. The energy in the crowd was incredible!
#EdintFest
#LightontheShore
📷
@Ryan__Buchanan
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On 8 Aug, we mark what would have been the opening weekend of the festival with a specially commissioned film presented by
@KirstyWark
&
@sualee1
. Tune into our YouTube, Facebook &
@BBCScotland
from 9.30pm to celebrate Edinburgh's enduring festival spirit.
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Watch a little snippet of the incredible
@sigurros
last night at the International Festival. Stunning.
#EdintFest
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The lights of the
#FestivalCity
burned bright this weekend in a spectacular celebration of artists, audiences & Edinburgh’s enduring spirit. Tonight is your last chance to see our lights dance over Edinburgh’s night skies. If you can’t see them in person, enjoy the display here.
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"I will be committed to providing the deepest possible experience, through the greatest level of art, to the broadest possible audience. This is a time to be bold and creative."
@NickyBenedetti
Welcome to the next era of the International Festival.
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The Edinburgh International Festival is delighted to announce the winners of the Sir Ian McKellen Bursary, created in partnership with
@SDTNtweets
, as five bursaries are awarded to support students studying within the Performing Arts:
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It's August already! Which means it's only 3 days, repeat, THREE DAYS until
#EdintFest70
kicks off ^M
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We’re back with gigs at
@LeithTheatre
this summer, bringing an incredible line-up of electronica, rap, folk, indie, techno and so much more.
PLUS a special appearance by
@herbiehancock
at
@edinplayhouse
too. Book now:
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We are saddened by the news of the passing of Jessye Norman, one of the great sopranos who performed with us many times over the years. Here she is arriving in Edinburgh for her first International Festival performance in 1972. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
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Happy
#StAndrewsDay
from
#EdintFest
to everyone in Scotland and all Scots around the world 👋 How are you celebrating today?
#GlobalStAndrews
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Only 2 more days until
#edintfest
kicks off for 2019!
The dancers from
@scottishballet
's The Crucible are ready, are you?
📷 Ryan Buchanan
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👀 A first look at the specially constructed temporary pavilions we’ll be using across iconic city locations this August.
Designed especially for live performance, they will feature covered concert stages & socially distanced seating to create a beautiful setting for audiences.
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Happy 80th birthday to
@IanMcKellen
!
Wishing you the happiest of birthdays from all the team here at the International Festival 🎂
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Our four year Ring cycle came to an epic conclusion at
#edintfest
last night with Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Watch
@HeldenMommy
perform Brünnhilde's Immolation scene with Sir Andrew Davis and the
@RSNO
.
See the full version on our YouTube channel:
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'The
@edfilmfest
is an important cultural touchstone in our festival city, and we are pleased to be able to support its return.' –
@franhegyi
We are thrilled that
#EdFilmFest
will be returning in a special one-year iteration hosted by
#EdIntFest
with
@screenscots
! 💛
Together with
@screenscots
and
@edintfest
, we’re delighted to announce that
#edfilmfest
will be returning for its 76th edition this summer, running from 18 – 23 Aug 23, in a special one-year iteration as part of the Edinburgh International Festival.
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A taste of what's to come at the
@standardlifeplc
Opening Event
#EdinBloom
TONIGHT! A celebration of the
#FestivalCity
. Join us! ^N
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Thank you to everyone that came along tonight. We hope you enjoyed it! Full length video to follow asap!
#DeepTime
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This morning
@NickyBenedetti
with
@AAMorchestra
and
@richardegarr
kicked off the
#EdintFest
morning concerts series at
@queens_hall
. Such a wonderful way to start your day! 🎻
📷
@mihaelabodlovic
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🚨 NEW SHOW ANNOUNCED
That’s right, we’ve added a new show from
@Damonalbarn
on 24 August at 5pm as part of our line-up live at Edinburgh Park this summer. Tickets on sale now.
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The season kicks off with fiddle player
@DuncanWChisholm
(dubbed ‘the new sound of traditional Scotland’) and friends
@NapierHamish
,
@JarlathHendersn
,
@inneswatsomusic
and James MacKintosh, with music inspired by Scotland’s dramatic landscapes and weather.
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Heading to
@StandardLifeplc
Opening Event
#EdinBloom
tonight? Find out all you need to know here:
#EdintFest70
🌺 ^E
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The preview of
@MeowTopia
's Little Mermaid is about to begin! Let us know if you're joining her on her voyage tonight
#EdintFest
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Wow, what a run! Thank you to all who joined us in our digital audience for
@HanLavery
’s Lament for Sheku Bayoh and huge congratulations to the cast, creatives and production teams and our colleagues at
@NTSonline
and
@lyceumtheatre
👏
📷
@mihaelabodlovic
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Here's the initial full length video of the Standard Life Opening Event:
#DeepTime
. More to come!
#EdintFest
^N
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1 day to go!
It’s almost here! Are you ready for a Festival packed with classical and contemporary music, theatre, opera and more? The 2021 International Festival programme will be announced TOMORROW at 10am 🙌
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On this day 75 years ago, the Edinburgh International Festival was born when it was officially registered as a charity.
Since then, we have brought joy & culture to the city, following in the footsteps laid down by co-founder & first ever Artistic Director Rudolf Bing in 1947.
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Fancy going to see
@Damonalbarn
at Edinburgh Park? We’ve got three pairs of tickets to giveaway for his 5pm gig today 🎉
Head to our Instagram stories to find out how to enter , you’ve got until 2pm!
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It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of actor Ningali Lawford-Wolf, in Edinburgh. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and community.
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