St Cecilia’s Big Celebration Day 2023
Don't miss this annual celebration of the eclectic music-making that goes on across Edinburgh all-year round at St Cecilia's Hall on 25th November!
About St Cecilia’s Big Celebration Day 2023
This is a showcase of community talent. You’ll get all ages and a variety of music genres. There will be everything from Big Band and brass quartets to shamanic songs and much more.
This is a FREE drop-in event.
Our current running order is as follows:
1pm - 1:30pm Little Big Horns
Little Big Horns is a saxophone quartet perhaps unusually made up of 5 members (plus guests on occasion) who bring a depth of musical talent and experience with them. Little Big Horns are based in Edinburgh and are a group who enjoy each others company and play a wide range of music. From jazz to the charts, swinging past classical and TV/film on the way, variety (and fun) are the only constants.
1:30pm - 2pm Bristo Community Concert Band
Variety is definitely the spice of life with BCCB. We hope you enjoy a range of music from film/theatre, swing and jazz to the classic concert pieces – because that’s what we love to play. BCCB is a non-auditioning band based in the heart of the city with members who bring a depth and variety of musical experience with them. We welcome anyone who is (or used to be) a woodwind, brass or percussion player. If you like what you hear, come and join us.
2pm - 2:30pm Choir led by Penny Stone
2:30pm - 3pm Accidental Joe
Accidental Joe play their own songs and tunes featuring guitar, clarinet and vocals. Their influences include folk, jazz and classical music. Their repertoire includes new songs and jazz influenced instrumental tunes.
3pm - 3:45pm Tour of museum galleries / Break
3:45 - 4:15pm Recovery Through Music
4:15 - 4:45pm Shamanic Songs by Maimouna Ly
For thousands of years, sacred sounds and songs have been used by Shamans, priests, priestesses, healers, therapists as instruments of immense power and potential, not only for healing but also for spiritual development. Join our beautiful sacred space for an inner journey with the sounds of sacred songs, ancestors' songs to deeply relax your mind, body, and spirit as the waves of instruments and voice sound frequencies cleanse, clear and harmonise your being, bringing peace and alignment with your soul. Relax to the beautiful sounds of shamanic Drum, Tibetan bowls, rain sticks, Kalimba Thumb Piano, voice channelling and many other instruments...
About Maimouna: Maimouna is a Healer from generations of Healers in her family, and a Shaman. She is also an intuitive Artist and a Writer. A woman committed to love, life, and the natural world, the same world we will leave to the next generations. She thrives on writing, singing, dancing, listening to music, and restoring her energy balance in nature in quiet and peaceful environments.
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