THE EDINBURGH International Festival (EIF) has confirmed it will begin its festival with another special opening event next year. Next year's Festival is the 70th.
Last year's festival opened with the Deep Time event, and the previous year was opened by the The Harmonium Project.
The festival has said the EIF programme will be announced on March 15 next year, with priority bookings opening the same day and tickets on public sale from March 25.
The opening event will be on August 4 and the festival will close on August 28 with annual Fireworks Concert.
eif.co.uk
LAURA Marling's new album, Semper Femina, is released March 10 2017. It was recorded in Los Angeles in late 2015, produced with US musician/producer Blake Mills, and is her sixth studio album in a little over nine years..
The singer songwriter will be touring next year in support of the album, including a date in Scotland, when she plays the O2ABC in Glasgow on March 10.
live.lauramarling.com
THE EAST Neuk Festival for 2017 is inspired by "exploration, collaboration and invention", and will run from June 28 to July 2.
The festival's 2017 Schubertiad focuses on a single decade in the composer's life from 1816-1826. The Wanderer Fantasy, Trout Quintet and song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin are among the compositions that will feature alongside other string quartets, piano sonatas and songs across five concerts.
Pianist and Schubertian Elisabeth Leonskaja, the Belcea Quartet, double bassist Alois Posch, pianist Malcolm Martineau and Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans perform.
Clarinet virtuoso Julian Bliss will have three programmes of classical (Mozart’s Quintet), contemporary (Steve Reich’s New York Counterpoint) and Latin jazz with his Septet.
The full programme, including a specially commissioned world premiere and an abundance of brass bands, will be announced February 5, 2017.
eastneukfestival.com
THE TRAVERSE Theatre Company will present a full production of Stef Smith’s Girl in the Machine in April next year. The play was originally performed as part of the Breakfast Plays series during the Edinburgh Fringe and will be directed by Orla O’Loughlin who also directed Stef Smith’s hit Swallow.
The production is part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival 2017, in partnership with Edinburgh International Science Festival and the University of Edinburgh.
The theatre's new season also features Locker Room Talk by Gary McNair, which tackles the issues raised by US president elect Donald Trump’s comments as captured on a hot mic. He made little apology for his misogyny, dismissing his comments as "locker room talk".
traverse.co.uk
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