TUESDAY 17 to SATURDAY 21 AUGUST 2021 (inc)
Dateline: Monday 16 August 2021
Thanks to funding received from EventScotland, AMC is running a limited programme of ten shows from Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 August 2021. This is all a bit rushed but it's a good all-Scottish (well, very nearly) programme.
We've now got this website sorted out and everything seems to be correctly in place. Social distancing meant our usual maximum seating capacity of 80 was severely reduced of course (without EventScotland we would not be running these shows because of that). However, on August 9 the Scottish government changed all that and we now have 60 seats on sale for each of our shows.. :)
ALL AMC2021 SHOWS NOW ON SALE
Dateline: Monday 16 August 2021
For information on each show and their direct box office weblinks
go to the alphabetical show listing on the SHOW INFORMATION PAGE
HOW TO BUY TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS AT THE ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE (Venue 138)
- EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE box office or by phone (+44(0)131 226 0000).
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ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE box office
Call +44(0)7391 101276. NB: not active until 6:30pm on Tue 17 Aug 2021.
Search the box office site for keyword "AMC" and dates between 08/17/2021 to 08/21/2021.
DATE TIME SHOW (Shows in AMBER are sold out)
Tue 17 19:00 BrÒg
Tue 17 21:30 Ian Bruce: Just Like Riding A Bike
Wed 18 19:00 The Quiggs: Songs from Scotland and Beyond
Wed 18 21:30 Hannah Rarity and Innes White
Thu 19 19:00 Iona Fyfe with Michael Biggins
Thu 19 21:30 Savourna Stevenson and Steve Kettley
Fri 20 19:00 Tim Edey
Fri 20 21:30 Mairi Campbell
Sat 21 19:00 Maggie MacInnes: Songs From the Isle of Barra and Beyond
Sat 21 21:30 North Sea Gas
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UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE
The Ukrainian Community Centre (aka UCC) at 14 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh EH7 5AB is literally just around the corner from Edinburgh's biggest theatre, The Playhouse and is handy for ...
- the top of Leith Walk and London Road (many city service buses and buses serving East Lothian stop at the Leith Walk end of London Road)
- Waverley railway station at the east end of Princes Street
- St Andrew Square bus station just off the middle of York Place
- the tram's current terminus at the east end of York Place / top of Leith Walk
UCC is less than one mile (about 1.35 km) from the Fringe Office in the High Street (click here for map). There are some good restaurants and pubs nearby in Leith Walk, along with numerous local and specialist shops. [See Google maps Ukrainian Community Centre, Edinburgh]
ROYAL TERRACE
Royal Terrace (pictured left - looking west to east) runs along the north side of Calton Hill and was designed by the renowned Scottish architect, William Playfair. Playfair's plan is dated 1819. The terrace was finally completed to Playfair's design in 1860 and is the longest continuous street of Georgian town houses in Edinburgh. Royal Terrace became known as the Amber Mile or Whisky Row because of the number of whisky merchants living there who were reputed to be able to watch their wares being shipped into and abroad from the port of Leith (which must have been before the trees looking down on to London Road matured and obstructed the view!).
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WHERE WE ARE
(Click for Google Maps)
UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE
14 Royal Terrace
Edinburgh EH7 5AB
NB: On-street metered car-parking, Monday to Friday from 8:30am to 5:30pm
DISABLED ACCESS TO AMC @ UCC
UCC has a portable ramp to get wheelchairs past three steps from the pavement and into the building's ground floor. Thereafter access to the Main Room on the ground floor where the shows take place is flat. There is a disabled toilet on the ground floor towards the rear of the building. Two wheelchair spaces are available in AMC's gig-space, the Main Room.
The building does not have a lift. The basement bar is not accessible by wheelchairs neither from the street nor via the internal stairs from the ground floor.
Dateline: Sunday 22 August 2021
A NOTE ABOUT AMC2022
The Acoustic Music Centre for 2019 ended on Sunday 25 August. COVID-19 led to AMC not running in August 2020. This year, 2021, we ran a reduced AMC of only five nights / ten gigs just to keep our presence 'out there'.
We do hope to be fully operational again in 2022 from Monday 8 to Sunday 28 August (tbc) with our usual full programme of 70-80 great shows.
As of today's dateline, we may leave in place some of the out-of-date aspects
of this site to give you an idea of what usually happens at AMC. However we really do hope that come August 2022 we will not need the COVID rules page will is currently here.
We are now accepting proposals from shows which wish to book slots in 2022.
Click here to email your enquiry.
STONEYPORT ASSOCIATES, an entertainments agency based in Edinburgh, has brought together the shows which will perform at the ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE @ UCC in August during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Previously, from 2005 to 2016 (inc), the Acoustic Music Centre was at St Bride's Centre on the west side of the city centre and was the 'go to' Edinburgh Festival Fringe venue for audiences looking for good acoustic, roots, folk, Celtic music (amongst other things). Something like 70%-75% of that kind of music being presented annually on the Edinburgh Fringe happened in St Bride's. In early 2017 that had to change and AMC found a new home @ UCC.
AMC actually began in 1982 elsewhere in Edinburgh, in Chamber's Street Students Union (no longer with us - now offices!!) where it ran very successfully until 1995.