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Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers Society - A society for people who like playing or listening to Shetland folk music. Providing history and meeting information, visitors, music and noticeboard details.
Selville Music Centre - Features music groups based in Edinburgh. Philomusica of Edinburgh (mainly baroque}, Edinburgh Light Orchestra, Edinburgh Palm Court Orchestra, Edinburgh Barock and Edinburgh Galante (period instruments), Quernstane (Scottish), Capriccio (background music).
Renegade Communications - Listings and information on techno label T and B Vinyl and its sub-label Pi Recordings, and the clubs Disco Inferno, Pure and Vegas.
Redeye Studio Records - Recording studio and record label. Download completed project and listen to recordings.
Wheeltapper Promotions - Promoters of punk, hardcore, metal, and alternative gigs in and around Scotland. Provides information on concert promotion events and features on each band.
Stoneyport Agency - Representing Scots and Irish folk music and some blues.
Edinburgh Young Musicians - Saturday music school for children. Details about the classes and prices.
DJ Craig Wilson - Abacus sound and light discotheque. Music, demos, profile, interactivity and contact details.
Scottish Sinfonia - Performs several classical orchestral concerts each year in Greyfriars Kirk. Includes schedule, concert diary, recordings, sponsor acknowledgments, ticket information, and contacts.
Casper Mobile Disco - Mobile discotheques with sound and lighting services for all private and corporate functions.
Grant O'Brien Early Keyboard Instruments - University of Edinburgh Curator/Director of the Russell Collection and as lecturer in the Faculty of Music carries out free-lance restorations and consultations.
New Edinburgh Orchestra - An amateur orchestra of around 50 players conducted by Tim Paxton. Concert dates and rehearsal information.
Edinburgh Shops of Music - A phototour around the city's music-selling shops, including user reviews.
Turquoise Egg Management - Managers of progressive house labels Zazoo, Immersed Vinyl, Grooves and Ronster, producers including Kings of Spin, and several DJs. Streaming audio. [requires Flash]
Rehearsal Orchestra - Founded, as the Edinburgh Rehearsal Orchestra, at the Edinburgh Festival in 1957. Now a developmental ensemble working in London and Edinburgh. Includes recent news, organization details, reviews, application form, with details of courses, instructors and patrons.
Smycms - Amateur musical society with an annual show at the Church Hill Theatre since 1963. Contains news, photos from past performances and a history.
Offbeat Productions - Producers, studio, record label and CD manufacture. Details services provided, has release details and sound clips.
Stockbridge and New Town Community Orchestra - Amateur musicians meeting weekly at St Bernard's Church to play for fun, who also perform several concerts a year. Details of forthcoming events.
Baby Tiger Promotions - Promoters of unsigned and upcoming acts. Fanzine section features gig and record reviews and interviews.
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(Bill Mahe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Music Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer I shall return. -- General Douglas MacArthur Music Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Music The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Music Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Marriage is a rest period between romances. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Music Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Music "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Music "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails? -- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Music I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Music When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Music "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Music Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. -- Voltaire Music Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. 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