Hogmanay first as Edinburgh fireworks set to music
Edinburgh's famous Hogmanay fireworks will be set to music for the first time this year.
Edinburgh's famous Hogmanay fireworks will be set to music for the first time this year.
The five minute display will be accompanied with songs from four of "Scotland's biggest artists", but organisers are not saying who the performers will be.
The spectacle involves thousands of fireworks set off from 45 locations spread around Edinburgh Castle and West Princes Street Gardens. More than 20 tonnes of equipment and 7.5 miles of control cables and wires is used and work to set up the display has already started.
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