Kim Edgar: Guest Blog
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March 27, 2019
We’re big fans of singer-songwriter Kim Edgar over at Glasgow and Edinburgh music tours and to mark the launch of the new single from CARA, we’re delighted she found the time to pen a guest blog for us, over to Kim! Mòran Taing: charity single release for Cancer Research UK, available here.
Read More »Edinburgh Tradfest launches full programme for 2019
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March 15, 2019
Now in its 7th year, Tradfest, held at various locations across the city, mixes the very best in traditional music, world cinema celebrating folk culture, and storytelling. 
This year’s music programme kicks off on 26 April at the Queen’s Hall with anarchic Irish folk band Lankum…
On A Mission with Edinburgh Music Lovers
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September 28, 2018
New boutique promoter, Edinburgh Music Lovers, launches in partnership with mental health charity SAMH announcing two exclusive gigs for Edinburgh. A new boutique promoter, Edinburgh Music Lovers (EML) has launched, its mission to help make the capital a thriving music city – and to support mental health. Formed by former music journalist and marketing specialist…
Read More »Happy Birthday and Farewell, Song, By Toad
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September 25, 2018
Here at Edinburgh Music Tours, we like to big up the city’s grassroots music movers and shakers and one of the scene’s most passionate advocates is Matthew Young of Song, By Toad Records. This small but mighty independent label has charted and championed some of the best sounds to emerge from Edinburgh and beyond over…
Read More »Justin Currie on Del Amitri’s return to Edinburgh Castle
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June 18, 2018
Del Amitri are back in action next month with three Scottish gigs. They play Edinburgh Castle on the 21st of July and then two nights at the Barrowlands in Glasgow on the 28th and 29th of July. In this interview, Justin Currie explains what they have been up to. Del Amitri went on hiatus for thirteen…
Read More »The Bevvy Sisters: This Moment album launch & concert
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June 14, 2018
Ahead of the launch party and concert for their new album This Moment, we’re delighted to welcome our favourites, The Bevvy Sisters..over to you, Sisters… 
We’re more than excited to announce our BIG news: our third album, This Moment, will be released on Thursday 28th June and…
Musical Tribalism – A Moral Lesson: Guest blog by Stuart Cosgrove
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June 11, 2018
One of the great strengths and nagging weaknesses of my life as a music writer has been a rigid tribalism. When I first fell in love with soul music as a teenager in Perth, it was the beginning of a lifetime love-affair that has never waned. Soul music is my abiding passion and the sound…
Read More »The night Green Day played the Wee Red Bar
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June 5, 2018
Green Day’s poster for their Wee Red Bar gig.
The Stranglers gig that got punk ‘banned’ from Glasgow
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May 24, 2018
Stage invasion at Stranglers gig in Glasgow City Halls, June 1977.
