Made in Scotland
The Made in Scotland Showcase is Back for 2022 Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a Bumper Edition of Shows Live Across Scotland’s Capital this August.
The Made in Scotland Showcase at the 75th anniversary edition of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see a feast of Scottish work presented to audiences from around the world and showcasing the tantalising wave of Scottish creative talent. The work, in a broad range of forms, engages with topics old and new as the world bounces back to its feet after the forward roll of the last two years.
The work from artists all over Scotland will take place across the capital in much-loved venues, exciting new spaces and online.
The Made in Scotland showcase features a kaleidoscope of shows across dance, theatre, music and multimedia interwoven with a myriad of themes, compelling storytelling and exceptional performance throughout. It will see eight world premieres in a programme showcasing the quality and profiling some of the best work coming from Scotland today.
The 27 artists, companies and ensembles who will present their work this year make up the largest ever Made in Scotland Showcase since its inception in 2009. This year’s extended showcase celebrates the breadth of work from across Scotland at the 75th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The Made in Scotland showcase is made possible through funding from the Scottish Government’s Expo Fund and is a partnership between the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, Creative Scotland, Federation of Scottish Theatre and the Scottish Music Centre.
“We’re delighted to support this year’s Made in Scotland programme at the Edinburgh Fringe with £550,000 through our Festivals Expo Fund. As the biggest arts marketplace in the world and one of our greatest cultural exports, the Fringe is a wonderful showcase for the wealth of artistic talent we have in Scotland. After the difficulties of the last few years, it’s great to see such an exciting line-up of performances many of which will have the chance to tour to a wider audience at home and abroad. I would encourage people to support our home grown creative talent by going to see these world-class shows.”
— NEIL GRAY, CULTURE MINISTER
“In a long awaited and welcome return to live performance, Made in Scotland presents a series of shows highlighting the quality and diversity of Scotland’s composers, songwriters, musicians and artists.
This year’s world class music programme showcases new Scottish music from across all genres, from electro-acoustic multi-artist collaborations to solo instrumentalists, jazz fusion with Celtic/Indo influences to new traditional works inspired by Norse folk lore, via soundscapes reflecting urgent global themes.”
— GILL MAXWELL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, SCOTTISH MUSIC CENTRE
Music shows
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BLACK GLASS IN PIECES - Michael Begg and the Black Glass Ensemble
Recommended age guideline: 6+
Venue: Queen’s Hall
Dates: Aug 16 - 17
Award-winning experimental composer Michael Begg’s groundbreaking Black Glass Ensemble reveals new music from the borderlands of classical and experimental music. Combining the cream of Scotland’s classical players with longstanding pioneers of the UK’s experimental underground, Black Glass present work – on and off the stage – that challenges the senses, confounds expectations and breaks open new sonic ground. Alongside dreamy strings and soulful brass expect earthquakes, polar ice melting and the lonely call of earth-monitoring satellites.
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D Ý R A - SHHE
Recommended age guideline: 12+
Venue: Summerhall
Dates: Aug 03 & 5 – 7 & 09 – 14 & 16 – 21 & 23 - 28
How can we collectively manifest an experience of a landscape? A landscape that you can reach out and touch, feel remotely throughsound and light, as if in semi-sleep?
Inspired by Dýrafjörður in the Westfjords of Iceland, SHHE presents D Ý R A; a sonic journey evoking landscapes and liminal states.
Combining ambisonic and hydrophone recordings and presented in surround sound, D Ý R A is an intimate reimagining of the meditative Dýrafjörður landscape.
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SOUND EFFECTS - Esther Swift
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned by Celtic Connections New Voices.
Recommended age guideline: 8+
Dates: Aug 10 & 17 & 23
Likened to Kate Bush, Anna Meredith and Bjork, Esther combines her love of folk, jazz, classical and all things in between in this brand new commission from Celtic Connections. Masterful instrumentalists Emma Lloyd (viola, violin), Patrick Kenny (trombone andalphorn), Esther Swift (harp and voice) and Owen Williams (multiple percussion and drums) share the stage with electronic musician Matthew Collings to explore intimate and epic soundscapes through rich harmonies, flowering textures, improvisations and pre-sampled soundscapes. Featuring settings of poems by Rachel McCrum, William Butler Yeats and Glasgow’s own Edwin Morgan.
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INTERCONTINENTAL - Brian Molley Quartet with special guest Krishna Kishor
WORLD PREMIERE
Recommended age guideline: 16+
Venue: The Jazz Bar
Dates: Aug 19 & 20
Glasgow’s Brian Molley Quartet collaborate with world-renowned Indian percussionist Krishna Kishor in a highly original, innovative and exhilarating musical fusion. Performing a thrilling, genre-bending mix of jazz and world music which blends influences from Scottish and Indian folk traditions, expect everything from uptempo straight-ahead jazz to spiritual ragas, from energetic world-music beats to soulful ballads. A unique and groundbreaking collaboration, delivered with Celtic-Indo flair by a long-standing, multi-award winning, internationally acclaimed group and a world-class, guest percussionist.
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LOST AND FOUND: A CELLIST'S JOURNEY - Justyna Jablonska
WORLD PREMIERE
Recommended age guideline: Open to all ages
Venue: theSpace@Niddry St
Dates: Aug 22 - 27
In her most intimate work, cellist Justyna Jablonska explores how identities are made, unmade and remade in music.
Audiences accompany her on a personal and musical journey from Poland to Scotland. Evoking the physical space of a train station’s “lost and found”, she blends the raw melancholy of Roma and Jewish folk with electronica and the otherworldly tonal textures of the Communist-era’s “Warsaw Autumn”. This compelling new show combines virtuoso work on the cello with video and spoken word to create ethereal soundscapes where composed and improvised unite.
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SAGAS AND SEASCAPES - Nordic Viola
Commissioned for Orkney International Science Festival 2021.
Supported by Creative Scotland, PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music and by The Ambache Charitable Trust - raising the profile of music by women.
Recommended age guideline: 14+
Venue: Scottish Storytelling Centre
Dates: Aug 15 - 18
Norse stories form the inspiration for this performance by Nordic Viola. Award-winning Irish composer Linda Buckley’s Aud draws on the Icelandic Sagas. Lillie Harris’ Elsewhen seeks to capture the strangeness, wonder, and melancholy of Orkney’s ancient sites, whilst in Carry His Relics, Orkney composer Gemma McGregor describes a journey along the St Magnus Way. Faroese composer Eli Tausen á Lava draws on legends of the Selkies common across the North. The music is accompanied on screen by stunning video curated by Craig Sinclair and abstract art in response to the music by Orla Stevens.
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THE RELENTLESS APPROACH OF BETTER TIMES - Emma Smith
Recommended age guideline: 18+
Venue: Zoo Southside
Dates: Aug 14 - 20
Relentless Approach of Better Times is Emma Smith’s testimony to the importance of galvanised positive action in response to forced mass migration, climate change, and political corruption. An urgent and compelling solo double bass performance with electronics, it features film and recordings from Smith’s work for Musicians Without Borders in Palestine and El Salvador. Emma gives space to reflect on the effects of trauma and invites you to experience how music is fundamental to our survival.
