Edinburgh's live music venues, bars, comedy clubs, record shops, studios and festivals, plus what's on after dark across the city.
Understory has opened in vaults beneath the Rutland building, pairing the easy feel of a dive bar with nostalgic, technique-led cocktails and serving until 3am at weekends.
Leven Street cocktail bar The Blackbird has unveiled a £100,000 makeover, new cocktails and an all-day menu to coincide with the reopening of the King's Theatre across the road.
Encore Bars has opened The Lyon Public House on George Street, turning a century-old auction room into a pub with live bands, duelling pianos, an in-house bakery and a 3am pie window.
Haddington Concert Society, founded in 1986, has marked 40 years and 300 concerts with an anniversary season at St Mary's Kirk, including a specially commissioned piano work.
Edinburgh charity Love Music brings its choirs back to the Usher Hall for a final 2026 concert with Scots singer Robyn Stapleton, with free tickets for anyone who cannot afford to pay.
Award-winning Midlothian brass band St David's Brass, which raised more than £800,000 to restore Vogrie Hall in Gorebridge, is offering free Pitch Up and Play sessions for all ages.
Monkey Barrel Comedy, Scotland's top-rated comedy club, is nearing its tenth year with a Fringe line-up of Edinburgh Comedy Award names and shows (nearly) every night of the year.
Leith Theatre has been taken off the UK's Theatres at Risk Register after securing funding pledges, a 50-year lease and a design team, and it celebrated its 94th birthday with an open day.
Dunbar Music Festival, which dates back to 1988, filled the East Lothian town with almost 60 free gigs across 18 venues, from pubs and hotels to community spaces.
Thirty-one years after its first night in a Grassmarket pub basement, The Stand Comedy Club has a newly expanded board and its first joint chairs as founder Tommy Sheppard steps back.