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Edinburgh Magic returns for a seven-day run of mind-blowing illusions, storytelling, and hidden stories of the city you've never heard before.
Just 30 seats per performance in the stunning Caledonian's Versailles Suite!
From 9th May, 6pm & 8:30pm. More info: https://edinburghmagic.co.uk

The Edinburgh Minute

Edinburgh Magic at The Caledonian

The Caledonian Edinburgh, Curio Collection by Hilton, Princes St., Edinburgh EH1 2AB, UK

A magnificent, many-headed beast which has single-handedly turned the world of men's A cappella singing upside down. Exquisite tenderness, and charming stupidity to both celebrate masculinity and mock it.

DAVID Stanley HEAVENOR

The Spooky Mens Chorale

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Palmerston Pl, Edinburgh EH12 5AW, UK

Good Time Yoga presents Yoga for Runners. Come and join us for yoga and a test run round the West End - finishing up with great coffee and tasty treats with good folk. Absolute beginners absolutely welcome!

Yoga for Runners

Up and Running, 20 Queensferry St, Edinburgh EH2 4QW, UK

An interactive in-person workshop that will equip you with practical, evidence-based strategies you can use straight away to stay calm, think clearly, and respond effectively in times of challenge. In partnership with Gym On The Square.

Sophie Archibald

Brain-Based Resilience Workshop

Gym on the Square Edinburgh, 18a Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4DF, UK

Monthly Community Council meeting discussing planning, licensing, roads, the Local Place Plan and other matters important to folk in the West End of Edinburgh.

West End Community Council

Ashfield, 61 Melville St, Edinburgh EH3 7HL, UK

Free lunchtime recitals from some of the best classical musicians in the city. With different performers each day, in Edinburgh's most beautiful acoustic.

Timothy Coleman

St Mary's Cathedral: Lunchtime Recitals

Three of the UK's finest organists play recitals of popular organ music on the spectacular Father Willis organ of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. With Duncan Ferguson, Imogen Morgan and William Fox.

St Mary's Cathedral: Organ Recitals

This presentation introduces the exquisite music of the traditional arts of noh and kabuki, part of Japan's intangible cultural heritage and still regularly performed today. With the famous performer and drummer Tanaka Denjiro VII.

Introduction to Traditional Japanese Music

A live performance of theatre music from the Noh and Kabuki traditions. Led by famous drummer Tanaka Denjiro VII, the music unfolds with perfect harmony through tireless repeated practice.

The Beauty of Sound in Japanese Traditional Performing Art

Pianists from across Europe play a series of piano recitals on the Cathedral's magnificent Steinway, in one of the city's finest acoustics. Including pianists Susan Tomes playing Nocturnes, and Tom Wilkinson playing Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.

St Mary's Cathedral: Piano Afternoons

The internationally-renowned St Mary's Cathedral Choir perform a beautiful concert of Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor and Parry's famous and elegiac Songs of Farewell. Conducted by Director of Music Duncan Ferguson.

St Mary's Cathedral Choir: Songs of Farewell

Come and hear original music of all kinds, in the amazing St Mary's Cathedral. With Catherine Evison (sax + electronics), Catriona Kane (clarsach), Simon Kempston (guitar), Ivan Varchenko (piano album launch), and the November Group (string quartet).

St Mary's Cathedral: Afternoon Originals

Some of the UK's finest music students (including Royal College of Music), as well as St Mary's Music School former pupils, perform Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, famous Violin Concerto (with rising star India Reilly), and Beethoven Symphony 7.

St Mary's Cathedral: Lansdowne Orchestra

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Abbeyhill & Meadowbank

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