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We are in the final stages of preparation for this year's Festival. Bags are being packed, charts are being studied, schedules scrutinised and some concerts are headling to sellouts. We look forward to seeing you on Friday!

Friday 15th July - Ticket Update!  Davina and The Vagabonds -SOLD OUT  Hot Antic Jazz Band (Heriot's Rugby Club only) - SOLD OUT  Tickets are now available to buy on the door from all venues. Alternatively, please click on the red circular ticket link on the artist image.

Drambuie presents Programme announced for Brass & Crimson on 20-21 July with MOBO award-winning Soweto Kinch and acclaimed singer/songwriter Laura Groves, one of the hottest musicians on the German jazz scene, Max Von Mosch and New Orleans funky feel band, Brass Gumbo. Click here for more details.

Launched today by Jonelle Caraballo, the 2106 Edinburgh Festival Carnival will feature over 700 performers from all over the world with drummers, pipers, jugglers, marching bands, dancers, costumes, circus acrobats, giant puppets, and face painters, creating one big dazzling spectacle under the castle! Visit

Our very popular student standby concessions are back for another year! Students can get tickets for selected gigs for just £5 - bargain! Just go to Ticket Offer button for the full list of eligible concerts.

The Alyn Cosker Group will open John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension concert on Saturday 16th July in the Festival Theatre. Cosker's power-quartet plays muscular, electric jazzrock with catchy melodies and unstoppable propulsion.

Their vocals are as smooth as their timeless style and these male vocalists are some of the hottest tickets at this year's Festival. From the USA to Denmark, here are five male voices not to miss at this year's Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. He’s smooth, he’s sophisticated and he’s one of the greatest jazz singers of our age, so we're over the