Edinburgh

Edinburgh is globally renowned and historically established as a cultural capital city, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists each year though a range of cultural and creative festivals and events (including the Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh International Festival, and Hogmanay celebration). In addition to being an incredibly popular tourist destination, Edinburgh has a diverse and rapidly growing population, and as Scotland’s capital it is by nature a metropolitan city.  With such diversity amongst its residents and visitors, Edinburgh’s cultural and creative scene is unique in its palette, and scale.

 

Musically there is an abundance of opportunity for musicians and an equal abundance of activity throughout the year. There are several specialist music schools, Colleges and Universities; an extensive range of non-formal and music making programmes and 365 days of music in over 30 venues, across every style, venue and audience.  Edinburgh is also host to several music festivals, including Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival, Hidden Door, Wide Days, Leith Jazz & Blues Festival, Edinburgh Psych Fest, Stag and Dagger Festival, Terminal V, Meadows Festival, and Edinburgh Tradfest.

 

Edinburgh is widely known as a festival city with several planned Music festivals each year (in addition to another to the 11 major cultural festivals). Music is happening every night in small and medium sized venues all over town, with a large number providing free music each week. Of its larger venues, Edinburgh has firm roots in classical music and is home to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The National Centre for Music and the Dunard Centre are currently in development as large-scale capital projects demonstrating the UKs continued investment in Edinburgh as a Music City. A further development on the west of the city will see a new 10,000 capacity venue created.