AMC2023 will run from
MONDAY 7 to SUNDAY 27 AUGUST 2023.
HOW TO BUY TICKETS FOR ALL SHOWS AT THE ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE (Venue 138)
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ACOUSTIC MUSIC CENTRE box office :: Call +44(0)7501 273 256.
CLOSED UNTIL MONDAY 7 AUGUST 2023.
NB: AMC's box office opens one hour before the first show daily. - EDINBURGH FESTIVAL FRINGE box office or by phone (+44(0)131 226 0000)
AMC2023 SHOW CALENDAR
Shows in RED are sold out (80 seats).
Shows in BROWN have sold over 60 (over 75%).
Shows in VIOLET have sold over 40 (over 50%).
Shows in AMBER have sold over 20 (over 25%).
DATE TIME SHOW ... WEEK 1 (SHOW INFORMATION)
Mon 7 7:00pm BrÒg
Tue 8 7:00pm BrÒg
Wed 9 5:30pm Emotion Farming: How To Farm Humans
Thu 10 5:30pm Jennifer Wrigley & Laurence Wilson
7:00pm Emotion Farming: How To Farm Humans
8:30pm Jennifer Wrigley & Laurence Wilson
Fri 11 4:00pm Paul Brown Sings Andy Williams
5:30pm Emotion Farming: How To Farm Humans
7:00pm Kenny Young and the Eggplants
8:30pm Celticana: Steve Crawford and Spider MacKenzie
Sat 12 2:30pm Riddell Fiddles On Tour
4:00pm Paul Brown Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein
5:30pm Kenny Young and the Eggplants
7:00pm Hoolet
8:30pm North Sea Gas
Sun 13 4:00pm Maya's Radio Orchestra
5:30pm Kenny Young and the Eggplants
7:00pm Emotion Farming: How To Farm Humans
8:30pm Maggie Holland
DATE TIME SHOW ... WEEK 2 (SHOW INFORMATION)
Shows in RED are sold out (80 seats).
Shows in BROWN have sold over 60 (over 75%).
Shows in VIOLET have sold over 40 (over 50%).
Shows in AMBER have sold over 20 (over 25%).
Mon 14 5:30pm A Certain Edge
7:00pm Dougie Mackenzie and Brian Miller
8:30pm Tom Clelland and Wendy Weatherby
Tue 15 5:30pm A Certain Edge
7:00pm Six String Stories
8:30pm Dustbowl Blues With A Glasgow Kick
Wed 16 2:30pm The Willow Trio
5:30pm A Certain Edge
7:00pm Six String Stories
8:30pm Clive Gregson
Thu 17 2:30pm Sanctuary
4:00pm A Certain Edge
NB 5:15pm-6:15pm America the Epic - The Hot Jazz and Blues Roots That Changed the World
7:00pm The Quiggs
8:30pm North Sea Gas
10:00pm Maggie Holland
Fri 18 4:00pm Sanctuary
5:30pm A Certain Edge
7:00pm Chloe Matharu
8:30pm Allan Taylor (hurry - may sell-out!!)
Sat 19 1:00pm Sanctuary
2:30pm Riddell Fiddles On Tour
4:00pm A Certain Edge
5:30pm Paper Sparrows
7:00pm Chloe Matharu
8:30pm North Sea Gas
Sun 20 2:30pm Arthur and The Scattered Notes
4:00pm Kirsty McColl: My Tribute
NB 5:15pm-6:15pm Bessie Smith and the Blues Queens - 1913-1933
7:00pm Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal
8:30pm A Certain Edge
DATE TIME SHOW ... WEEK 3 (SHOW INFORMATION)
Shows in RED are sold out (80 seats).
Shows in BROWN have sold over 60 (over 75%).
Shows in VIOLET have sold over 40 (over 50%).
Shows in AMBER have sold over 20 (over 25%).
Mon 21 2:30pm Kirsty McColl: My Tribute
4:00pm A Certain Edge
5:30pm Grimes, Krieger and Hughes
7:00pm BrÒg
8:30pm Maggie Holland
Tue 22 4:00pm Kirsty McColl: My Tribute
5:30pm Steve Tilston
7:00pm Claude Bourbon: Progressive Blues
8:30pm Dustbowl Blues With A Glasgow Kick
Wed 23 4:00pm A Certain Edge
5:30pm Curmudgeon (SOLD OUT)
7:00pm Jez Lowe and Andy May - Songs, Strings and Small-pipes
8:30pm BrÒg
Thu 24 4:00pm Kirsty McColl: My Tribute
5:30pm Sako Wana - Ko Koura - CANCELLED
7:00pm Archie Fisher (hurry - good chance it will sell out - ONLY 10 TICKETS LEFT NOW!)
8:30pm BrÒg (LAST SHOW IN THE RUN - selling well)
Fri 25 1:00pm LS2 F'n Good Music
4:00pm A Certain Edge
5:30pm Romy Wymer
7:00pm Archie Fisher (hurry - heading for a sell-out - ONLY 7 TICKETS LEFT NOW)
8:30pm Gardyloo! (George Machray)
Sat 26 1:00pm LS2 F'n Good Music
4:00pm Kirsty McColl: My Tribute
5:30pm-6:20pm Acoustic Sting
7:00pm-7:45pm Acoustic McCartney
8:30pm LS2 F'n Good Music
Sun 27 1:00pm LS2 F'n Good Music
4:00pm Sako Wana - Ko Koura - CANCELLED
NB 5:15pm-6:15pm Ali Affleck Celebrates the Queens of Swing - Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington and Anita O'Day
7:00pm 3300 Miles: New Jersey to Edinburgh - A Transatlantic Songwriters' Circle
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SHOW INFORMATION WEEK 1, WEEK 2, WEEK 3
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
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 above - 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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DISABLED ACCESS TO 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.
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.