Events - February 17-19 will be a busy weekend with over 130 events spread across the city. We are opening an unrepeatable, long-awaited year, the one in which
EIF is back! There are gigs from Arab Strap, Princess Nokia, Kae Tempest and Squarepusher; Alan Cumming is Robert Burns in Burn; there's intriguing site-specific theatre.
While anyone who attended last year’s socially-distanced semi-al fresco series of contemporary music concerts would have been grateful for the Edinburgh International Festival’s (EIF) ingenuity and resources in creating a bespoke tented pavilion in Edinburgh Park, there was no doubt it produced an out-on-a-limb, halfway house gig experience.