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Edinburgh’s live music activists 🎶 Since 2013. Join us for Soundhouse Winter Festival, or see what concert's coming up next: soundhouse.org.uk
Sunday reading! 📰 Thanks A Youngish Perspective - Dara Dubh ahead of her #SoundhouseWinterFestival gig: 'Audiences can look forward to a dynamic mix of music with a little something for everyone.'

Read: ayoungishperspective.co.uk/2025/11/16/i...
Tickets: www.soundhousewinterfest.com/programme-1/...
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Dara Dubh
We sat down for a quick chat with Dara Dubh, who will be performing a set of brand new music from her forthcoming album, plus a few favourites from her popular back catalogue, at Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
ayoungishperspective.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Constant Follower 🎶 With gentle melodies, layered guitars and haunting vocal harmonies, Constant Follower creates immersive, slow-building songs marked by spacious arrangements and fragile intensity.

Special guest: Pippa Blundell

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📆 Mon 1 Dec, 8:15PM
Constant Follower + Pippa Blundell — The Soundhouse Winter Festival
Gentle melodies, layered guitars and haunting vocal harmonies. With special guest: Pippa Blundell
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November 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Chris Amer Sextet 🎶✨ This live show at #SoundhouseWinterFest will feature music from 'Making Peace With What Is' (more info below) in a live ensemble ft. long-standing collaborators and friends: Matt Carmichael , Fergus McCreadie - Pianist , Gus Stirrat Music , Stephen Henderson and Mhairi Marwick.
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Malcolm MacFarlane has long demonstrated a passion for intricate, multi-layered guitar-based compositions. now, using state of the art digital technology, he replicates (and expands on) this very fruitful musical territory in an intimate solo setting.

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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Rachel Duns Quintet 💥Playing in Edinburgh to chase away the chill! With her roots in jazz, Duns’ influences range from blues and soul to the psychedelic sounds of the 1960s. Expect powerful tenor sax sound and dreamy vocals.

📆 Sun 30 Nov, 6:30PM
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Rachel Duns Quintet — The Soundhouse Winter Festival
Powerful sax-led jazz from dazzling performer
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November 21, 2025 at 10:05 AM
SWF Spotlight returns! 🌟Our Spotlight concert is always a highlight, showcasing the very best up and coming musicians in Scotland. Featuring:

Timmy Allan
Ewan Johnston Trio
Milele Collective

It’s sure to be an inspiring afternoon of jazz, don’t miss it: www.soundhousewinterfest.com/programme-1/...
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Niki King - Time & Malcolm MacFarlane 📆 Sat 29 Nov, @traversetheatre.bsky.social. We invite you to a jazz-infused journey with 2024’s Scottish Jazz Vocalist of the Year. "A voice that makes grown men weep and poets reach for their pens..." – EdFestMag

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November 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is not a drill - it's your very last chance to join us as the concert is TONIGHT! 🎶 For the first and last time, Dominic Waxing Lyrical present their highly acclaimed new album Diminuet and greatest hits performed with Mr McFall’s Chamber.

🎟️ Tickets: www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/domin...
Dominic Waxing Lyrical x Mr McFall's Chamber String Quartet — Soundhouse
Together again for one night only
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November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
“The music is soaked in reflective sadness to reveal the alienation of a solitary wanderer... Rock Pool has a discussion with nature backed by hoary acoustics and more sleeted violin work..." - Gareth Thomson

🎟️ Tickets: www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/domin...
▶️ Video: youtu.be/N3_5EgXxnTw
Rock Pool by Dominic Waxing Lyrical
Rock Pool by Dominic Waxing Lyrical taken from the album Diminuet words and music by Dominic Harris video filmed and edited by George McFall https://open.spotify.com/album/56owsmVI36x9NanbwltH1f?si=7K9REcXtSKeuTIgKq-C_Fw
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November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Fab interview with Bee Asha ahead of her #SoundhouseWinterFest concert, thanks A Youngish Perspective ❄️ 'My goal is always for everyone in the room to feel connected, not just to me but to each other.'

📰 ayoungishperspective.co.uk/2025/11/08/i...
🎟️ www.soundhousewinterfest.com/programme-1/...
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Bee Asha
We sat down for a quick chat with the rapper and singer Bee Asha, who was shortlisted for BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year.
ayoungishperspective.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
For the first and last time, Dominic Waxing Lyrical present their highly acclaimed new album Diminuet - released on Innes Orr Records in 2024, but as yet unperformed - plus greatest hits performed with Mr McFall’s Chamber.

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch
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Rock Pool by Dominic Waxing Lyrical
Rock Pool by Dominic Waxing Lyrical taken from the album Diminuet words and music by Dominic Harris video filmed and edited by George McFall https://open.spotify.com/album/56owsmVI36x9NanbwltH1f?si=7K9REcXtSKeuTIgKq-C_Fw
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November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Winter Festival WORKSHOPS 🎓 Join us as at the @traversetheatre.bsky.social to learn a new skill:

Sat 29 November 🎼 Graeme Stephen masterclass on composition, improvisation & practice
Sun 30 November 🎶 Improvisation for beginners with Simone Seales

Tickets: www.soundhousewinterfest.com/programme-1
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
'Part chamber recital, the key element is Dominic Harris’s forceful, half-sung voice, like a meeting of David Gedge and Joseph Porter. Lyrical sparks fly and Harris searches for light amid desolation, perhaps to quell his own raging storms.'

Book your tickets: www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/domin...
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Jemima Thewes will join Dominic Waxing Lyrical x Mr McFall's Chamber String Quartet next week:

'Jemima has such a beautiful voice, with a great, original style. Her combination of darkness and irony, melancholy and delight is fantastic.' - Rosanne Cash

🎟️ www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/domin...
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
ONLY 1 WEEK TO GO 🔥 Dominic Waxing Lyrical x Mr McFall's Chamber String Quartet at Queen's Hall - a very special night indeed and a rare chance to see both bands playing together live. “Calming, intimate, never too bleak or cloying..."

🎟️ Info and tickets: www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/domin...
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Ayoub Sisters rose to stardom after their debut album premiered at #1 in the Official Classical Charts. "The word ‘incredible’ is overused but good grief...look out for them!" – Classic FM

📆 3PM Saturday 29 November, @traversetheatre.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Tonight! 🎷🌟 The Scandinavian jazz scene is incredibly strong at the moment. If you have yet to sample these beautiful sounds, why not come along to the @traversetheatre.bsky.social tonight for Erik Palmberg Quartet and find out what you have been missing?

Book: www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/erik-...
Erik Palmberg Quartet — Soundhouse
Refined, melodic and deeply emotive jazz from Sweden
www.soundhouse.org.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Who's excited for November? 🤩 Coming up:

🟣 Tuesday 4 November - Erik Palmberg Quartet
🟣 Monday 17 November - Dominic Waxing Lyrical x Mr McFall's Chamber String Quartet
🟣 Starting Thursday 27 November and running until Monday 1 December - Soundhouse Winter Festival

More info: www.soundhouse.org.uk
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November 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
With the harp as her trusted companion, Dara Dubh pulls influences from the variety of styles that have surrounded her musical journey 🎼 Ft. Tony McVey (drums), Eve Simpson (keys/vocals), and Brad Phillips (double bass).

Friday 28 November at 6:30PM: www.soundhousewinterfest.com/programme-1/...
Dara Dubh — The Soundhouse Winter Festival
Traditional harp as you’ve never heard it before.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Jazzers, looking for plans on Tuesday 4 November? Why not spend the night with us and the Erik Palmberg Quartet? ✨ Featuring:

🎺 Erik Palmberg (trumpet, flugelhorn)
🎹 Anton Dromberg (piano)
🎻 Niklas Wennström (double bass)
🥁 Sebastian Voegler (drums)

Tickets: www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/erik-...
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
✨ "There is an infectious generosity between the musicians" - Lira Musikmagasin
✨ "With authority and an independent musical identity. Jazz of the highest class" - Opulens

Book tickets for their concert at @traversetheatre.bsky.social (Tues 4 Nov): www.soundhouse.org.uk/events/erik-...

Erik Palmberg Quartet — Soundhouse
Refined, melodic and deeply emotive jazz from Sweden
www.soundhouse.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
EXTRA SEATS ADDED! 🥳 Due to demand we have added extra seating at @traversetheatre.bsky.social on Monday 27 October to make more space for all you lovely people to enjoy Kathryn Tickell & the Darkening.

Extra tickets available now! 🎟️ Snap them up here: www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/eve... #LiveMusic
Soundhouse: Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening
Scotland's new writing theatre, the Traverse champions creative talent by placing powerful and contemporary theatre at the heart of cultural life.
www.traverse.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM