The Edinburgh Quartet presents a new lunchtime series, exploring the complete Beethoven op. 18 cycle along with other wonderful classical and contemporary music. Since their founding in 1960, 'Scotland's string quartet' has brought world-class classical music to every corner of Scotland and beyond. The quartet is thrilled to be collaborating with St. Cecilia's Hall, Scotland's oldest concert hall (1763), and looks forward to welcoming you to this special lunchtime series.

Edinburgh Renaissance Band Edinburgh Renaissance Band’s ever-popular Viol Rackett Show presents a varied selection of instrumental and vocal music from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The award-winning troupe of eleven musicians show off a large range of period instruments, including shawms, cornetti, sackbuts, nakers, viols, fiddles, crumhorns, gemshorns, bells, bagpipes, racketts and a serpent. This delightful show, fronted by musical director Murray Campbell, is suitable for all ages, and members of the audience are invited to take a closer look at the instruments at the end of the concert. Children free, but ticketed. None

Attila the Stockbroker and Calum Baird / PBH Free Fringe As a self-taught early music punk, Attila is honoured to have been invited back to the beautiful surroundings of St Cecilia's Hall for the fifth consecutive year to perform his Early Music Show with accompanist, brilliant Scottish singer/songwriter Calum Baird, on guitar. Attila plays crumhorn, rauschpfeife, cornamuse, five different recorders, violin and mandola. They'll be performing Attila's songs from his 2018 album Restoration Tragedy about the tumultuous events in England after the execution of Charles I in 1649. Tales of Levellers, Diggers and Ranters and Cromwell's destruction of their dreams for a better world. None Age category: 14+

The Piobaireachd Society In this concert you will hear a variety of piobaireachd, the classical music of the great Highland bagpipe, Scotland’s national instrument. The musicians, Sean McKeown, Kyle Cameron and Callum Wynd are all leading exponents of this wonderful music. The tunes will be played in continuous fashion, giving a unique musical experience. Most piobaireachd are composed using pentatonic scales or variations thereof, so although the pipe has a limited number of notes, a wide variety of tonal mood is possible, as you will hear at this concert. None Age category: 12+