Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

The Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's is a mere five minutes walk along Dalry Road from Haymarket rail station/road junction. The venue contains two performance spaces, The Big Room and The Back Room.

• China Colourful

  6:00pm – 7:15pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Spectacularly varied programme of finest traditional Chinese dance and music with diverse international styles from Beijing's passionate, exuberant, rising young talents. Inspirational, rejuvenating performances encompassing modern and time-honoured Chine

• Fèis Rois and Friends

  8:00pm – 10:30pm, £15.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Currently on their annual Ceilidh Trail tour of Scotland, this exceptional group of traditional musicians will have you tapping your toes and dancing in the aisles. This is Scottish traditional...

• Mulk, Taylor & Leigh, Genesee

  8:00pm – 10:45pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Experience some of the brightest, rising talents in Scottish music. All are winners of the sought-after Danny Award handed out annually at Celtic Connections, named for Danny Kyle who worked...

• Billy Jones: Roots 66

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Edinburgh-born songwriter's eighth Fringe show. New songs from Whitegates CD, plus old favourites from many a lost highway. With ace Swedish musicians Jonas Liljeström (fiddle) and Simon Ericson (banjo). Inimitable....

• On a Roll ... Again

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Back at AMC with a new show jam-packed with Americana, blues, country and western swing. 'Vocalists had warm characters ... excellent harmonies ... harmonica and guitar solos punctuated the set...

• Red Shoes and Blues

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  An evocation of early American rural roots, guitar ragtime, blues and hillbilly country. Big Bill Broonzy, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie McTell and Jimmie Rodgers all feature in this musical entertainment....

• Jack Chown

  5:30pm – 6:30pm, £7.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Solo Fringe debut, Jack Chown blends heartfelt folk with carefree pop to create some memorable tunes. With his debut LP Time being released during the Fringe, this up-and-coming act, with...

• Scott's Songs

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Songs from Evenin's Fa' with Sangsters, Amy Geddes, Sarah McFadyen. 'It's a thing of great beauty.' (Karine Polwart). 'It is folk music at its best.' (Roy Bailey). 'Great songs. Great...

• Rosie Nimmo

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  '...like it a lot. Great voice' (Ian Rankin). ' ...delicious collection of songs' (Fatea). '...blue velvet of her voice...' (Sunday Herald). ' ...exquisite disc' (NetRhythms.co.uk). 'Deeply moving' (Piers Ford). 'Hugely...

• John James and Eddie Walker

  9:45pm – 11:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  One night only! Award-winning songwriter and blues picker Eddie Walker together with legendary acoustic guitarist John James present a grand reunion concert in one of the most exciting double bills...

• David Heavenor

  10:00pm – 11:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter showcasing new songs and old favourites: ‘Jenny and the Cold Caller ... one of the best songs ever written...' (Ricky Ross). 'I'm Watching Rosanna ... just love this...

• Absolutely Legless

  times vary, £10.00 – £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A high energy show of Irish music, song and dance. With fiddles, flutes and feet our fantastic dancers and live band promise to deliver an exhilarating dance and music experience....

• I Left My Hat in Tighnabruaich

  5:30pm – 6:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  ‘Scotland's bluegrass songwriter’ (Stewart Fenwick, Celtic Music Radio) ...maybe, but the songs of award-winning songwriter Ian Mairs range further than bluegrass or country music. ‘...these are gleaming, little gold nuggets’...

• The Deep Red Sky - Live (Acoustic)

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Returning to the Fringe after their sell-out 2012 show to play an acoustic set (one night only!) in what will be a must-see performance! 'Rich atmospheric sounds with an air...

• Robert Louis Stevenson - Songs and Music

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Sold out Fringe 2012! This lovely show returns with the critically acclaimed From a Garden of Songs, RLS's own songs, poems from a Child's Garden of Verses and a performance...

• The Songs of Nathan Priestley

  10:00pm – 11:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A rare chance to hear original songs and instrumentals written over 40 plus years, including some never played in public before. Andrew will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Stephen Roberts.

• Dream China

  1:30pm – 3:30pm, free
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A stunning showcase! Orchestra, Peking Opera, folk choir, national dancing, presented by one of China's top young performing groups. A traditional yet innovative show, evoking an authentic image of China....

• Steve Rutherford and Mark Barnett

  5:30pm – 6:30pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Innovative fusion of guitar, cittern and mandolin with passionate, thoughtful, soul-searching lyrics overlying strong musical chemistry. Performances always varied in mood, ranging from driving grooves to soulful reflection, and upbeat...

• Songs of the Scots

  6:00pm – 7:15pm, £9.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Linten Adie is an Edinburgh-based community singing group. Mostly we are older in years, but not spirit, and sing traditional, contemporary songs of Scotland - songs of love, work, war...

• Café del Mundo

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £5.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Edinburgh singer/songwriter Fiona J Thom is influenced by the songwriting traditions of the American Songbook, 60s psychedelia, Richard Thompson and rock’n’roll. The band is eclectic and fun. www.reverbnation.com/fionajthom

• Rab Noakes

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  '...one of Scotland's great songsmiths' (Herald). 'His set was a roots festival in itself. With 40+ years in the business ... a Noakes show is a decidedly non-fusty lesson in...

• Zor

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Traditional, contemporary music celebrating the ever-narrowing divide between East and West. Zor are gypsy fiddle virtuoso Jani Lang (Fianna), genre defying flautist Tom Oakes (Ross Couper and Tom Oakes) and...

• The Boy and the Bunnet

  2:30pm – 3:20pm, £9.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  'Scotland's Peter and the Wolf' (Sunday Herald). Part of the Made in Scotland 2013 programme. Musical adventure performed by seven of Scotland's finest traditional musicians. Narrator: Gerda Stevenson. Story: James...

• Galloway to Gàidhealtachd

  5:30pm – 6:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Settle in for a cosy night of Scottish traditional music! Stepdance rhythms weave amongst driving tunes from fiddle and pipes. Enjoy a unique musical journey through centuries of our culture...

• Band On the Run

  times vary, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Wild man of the accordion, Sandy Brechin, plays fast and funky sets from his albums Out of His Box and Out of His Tree, accompanied by bass, guitar and percussion....

• Low-Kirkpatrick, Elliott Morris, Gria

  8:00pm – 10:45pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Experience some of the brightest, rising talents in Scottish music. All are winners of the sought-after Danny Award handed out annually at Celtic Connections, named for Danny Kyle who worked...

• The 27 Club

  6:00pm – 7:15pm, £13.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  ***** (Scotsman). ***** (Guardian). ***** (Telegraph). Winner: Edinburgh Spotlight Best Music Award. Joplin, Doors, Stones, Winehouse, Hendrix, Nirvana re-interpreted by Irish multiplatinum-selling vocalist Jack Lukeman. Jack's legendary band’s audio/visu

• Tunes from the Back Room

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Come on in! Share in a musical feast of Scots tunes, old and new, from local band Shindiggery. Vibrant sounds from our rich mix of instruments - and songs, too....

• John Renbourn

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £15.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Founder member of the influential folk/jazz fusion band Pentangle. This legendary fingerstyle guitarist plays material from his extensive, highly original repertoire, spanning celtic classics, through to jazz/blues and early music...

• Mike Whellans

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  AMC sell-out 2011! Scotland's one-man rhythm’n’blues band. Crisp, fast, accurate flat-picking on acoustic and electric guitars, fabulously wild mouth-harp underpinned with drum kit and Mike's own highly idiosyncratic speciality -...

• The Adventures of John Paul Jones

  times vary, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Written by celebrated folk musician Alan Reid, storytelling and songs relate the tale of this controversial and extraordinary 18th-century Scots mariner. Murder, battles, love and scandal abound in this radio...

• Anne Renshaw Sings!

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  After her 2012 sell-out show Anne returns to sing a selection of her own and other folk songs in her lovely, clear voice, joined by Muckle Flugga whose jaunty tunes...

• Amy Duncan: Cycles of Life

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Edinburgh-based singer/songwriter Amy Duncan performs songs from her new Linn Records release, Cycles of Life. www.amyduncan.co.uk / www.madeinscotlandshowcase.com

• Dustbowl Blues with a Glasgow Kick

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A soul-grasping musical road trip from this Glasgow roots and bluesman. Tales of lonesome desert highways to the Mississippi Delta, calling in at Glasgow shipyards and Scottish hills along the...

• Stringjammer, Oddest of Odysseys

  10:00pm – 11:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Winsome, clever stuff - you won't resist the urge to smile. Stringjammer's innovative blend of traditional melodies, contemporary songs matches off-beat ideas with themes taking in life, love, death, trains,...

• Leo Condie Sings Brel and Brecht

  times vary, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Illusionist star and Low Miffs frontman wrings visceral melodrama from Jacques Brel and Weimar-era ballads of revelry and debauchery. 'Leo Condie's croons soar like the ghost of Billy Mackenzie' **...

• Alex Yellowlees Hot Club Jazz Quartet

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  This modern day Grappelli on violin with virtuoso guitarists Ged Brockie and Mike Nisbet and double bassist Kenny Ellis, perform intoxicating hot club jazz laced with Latin rhythms and Celtic...

• Distant Shore

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Down Under trio from Canberra bring their celebrated repertoire of original folk, country, jazz and blues-influenced music to the Fringe for the first time. www.cubbyhousestudio.com.au.

• Blueflint

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Supporting The Proclaimers (2012), Blueflint's formidable live shows have gained them a strong reputation and following through the UK. Sublime harmonies interweave in beautifully crafted songs swooping from folk's dark...

• Playing Politics

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.50
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Wicked topical musical comedy from Scotland's political parody specialists. 'Peerless lampooners ... like HIGNFY set to music' **** (FringeReview.co.uk). 'Politically astute and ruthlessly funny' **** (ThreeWeeks). ‘Five-star show all round’...

• Nuala Kennedy Band with A. J. Roach

  9:45pm – 11:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  'Stunning Irish/Scottish traditional music with a twist' **** (Maverick). 'Nuala Kennedy and her dynamic band with acclaimed Appalachian poet-troubadour A J Roach. Unmissable' **** (Irish Times). **** (Songlines). **** (Scotland...

• The Songs and Poems of Sydney Carter

  4:00pm – 5:00pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Sydney Carter's finest songs from The Crow on the Cradle to The Lord of the Dance performed by singers aged between eight and eighty interlaced with poetry read by Scottish...

• Ragged Glory

  5:30pm – 6:30pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Charlie, George, Jim, May - strong songs, great harmonies, fine voices, good craic! After hearing us at a gig in Linlithgow, Ian Walker, well-known Scottish singer/songwriter wrote, ‘Ragged Glory was...

• North Sea Gas: In Concert

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £13.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  The best of Scotland! Invariably sold out, one of Scotland's most popular folk bands returns to the Fringe. New show, new album, new and popular songs. ‘No airs and graces...

• John Carnie and Spider Mackenzie Still Have the Blues

  10:00pm – 11:00pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A driving mix of celtic, jazz, folk and blues. ‘...exposition of fleet-fingered guitar flatpicking ... swings like a cat' (Scotsman). 'Sensitive harmonica virtuosity and imagination' (Sunday Times). www.johncarnie.com; www.spidermackenzie.com

• Travels With My Clarsach

  2:30pm – 3:30pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Beware this instrument! It can take you from the top of an ancient castle to the depths of a disused swimming pool. Come and find out more. 'She delighted her...

• Stories My Killer Told Me

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A heartbreaking meeting in a forest, Dylan meets Dylan, a slaughter in Portobello, and various wayward romantic fictions. Story songs, catchy and wry! ‘Accomplished mood-setter and lyricist’ (Skinny). www.normanlamont.com...

• Rant

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Four of Scotland's finest fiddlers: Jenna Reid, Bethany Reid, Sarah-Jane Summer and Lauren MacColl. Tonight they celebrate the launch of their debut album, a tapestry of sounds from their native...

• The Kirsty Law Band

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Accompanied by Rona Wilkie (fiddle), Marit Fält (Låtmandola), Kirsty brings Scots traditional material to life and performs her own thought-provoking songs. 'Beautiful and feisty ... a young musician doing things...

• K-Sori Akdong

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, free
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A show made by a group of young musical prodigies, Akdong, from Korea. They have created experimental performance and crossover music with traditional instruments and Korean opera, Pansori. Experience the...

• Sandy Brechin and Ewan Wilkinson

  times vary, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Reflective songs, driving tune sets and caustic wit. Accordionist Sandy and singer/guitarist Ewan return to the Acoustic Music Centre to play tracks from their much anticipated new album Hard Times...

• The Spooky Man in History

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £14.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Big, bold, bible-black, bilious ... the Spooky Men's Chorale returns to hammer hapless audiences with their now famous blend of drop-deadpan stupidity, cavernous man chords and hairy, gilt-edged beauty ......

• Of Dice and Men: UK Premiere

  times vary, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  '...blisteringly funny and deeply affecting play' (SmashWords.com) about a group of thirty-something US Dungeons & Dragons players, and what happens when one enlists for Iraq. Performed outside the USA for...

• Diablito Tango

  times vary, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  An enchanting voice, fiery bandoneón and a virtuosic double bass transport you to the heart of Buenos Aires. The musical sensation taking Spain by storm makes its first appearance at...

• Moishe's Bagel

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £14.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Genre-defying original acoustic music from one of Scotland's most admired bands. A cutting edge, triple distilled brew of eastern European dance music, middle eastern rhythms, virtuoso performances. 'Exhilarating ... breath-takingly...

• Kenny Young and the Eggplants

  times vary, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Herald Angel award winners! Brooklyn's oddball indie folk-and-rollers ‘mix brainy, funny lyrics with a fine sense of what makes pop music wonderful' (Dr Demento). 'Gentle insanity with irresistible tunes' ****...

• Dick Gaughan

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £14.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  The only performer to hold the honours of a Lifetime Achievement award by BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and induction into the Scots Traditional Music Hall of Fame. Gaughan returns...

• Medieval and Spanish Blues: Guitar and Songs

  8:30pm – 9:30pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A musical journey from haunting Spanish moods, ethereal eastern influences and strains of western folk. ‘Never heard anyone get that much beautiful sound out of a J-45’ (Bob, Tucson, AZ)....

• Jonathan Wood - With and Without His Friends

  5:30pm – 6:30pm, £8.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  After a 2/3rd sell-out at the Fringe last year, Jonathan and friends return to put their slant on original songs that speak about our psychological, political and emotional lives from...

• Another Night in With The Silver Darlings

  7:00pm – 8:00pm, £10.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  'Spine tingling, carefully crafted arrangements, intriguing harmonies, voices that breathe together' (Scott Murray). Last year's sell-out show is back. Good songs and craic from a cappella Scottish folk trio, The...

• Gill Reid and Tom Reynolds

  4:00pm – 5:00pm, £7.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  A shared love of songs, some original, some unaccompanied - sung with broad smiles and borrowed bravery, bringing acoustic music with heart and soul to the AMC stage. 'Great singer,...

• Archie Fisher

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  'One of Britain's finest song interpreters' (Sing Out). '...seems like Archie invented Scottish folk' (Boston Globe). A soft, mellifluous voice, carefully constructed and executed guitar accompaniments, Archie has long been...

• Ross Couper and Tom Oakes

  9:45pm – 11:00pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  ***** (ThreeWeeks). Shetland fiddler Ross and Devonian guitarist Tom return! With 2013’s Celtic Connections sell-out and performances worldwide, expect rocket powered yet heartbreaking music. Enough humour and energy to have...

• An Evening with Preston Reed

  6:00pm – 7:15pm, £15.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  Rule-breaker. Trailblazer. Visionary. Phenomenon. And yet, even the breathless plaudits of the world press don't quite do him justice. When Preston Reed picks up an acoustic guitar, words will fail...

• The Outside Track

  8:00pm – 9:15pm, £12.00
  Acoustic Music Centre @ St Bride's

  'Group of the Year. The Outside Track are amongst the top groups in the world. Traditional, creative, brilliant!' (LiveIreland.com). Boundless drive, joie de vivre combine in a marriage of thrilling...

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