A CELEBRATION OF LUVE, HOPE & KINDNESS JANUARY 2025

Burns&Beyond celebrates the life and legacy of Robert Burns, and this year we are highlighting the very best free and ticketed events taking place in Edinburgh for Burns Night 2025.

You can enjoy a feast of Burns Night fun across the city, including Museum Lates: Big Burns Ceilidh at the National Museum of Scotland, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Ceilidh Events, delicious Burns Supper events and more…

You can also find incredible archive content of live performances from Burns&Beyond, along with a handy guide to hold your own Burns Night celebrations.

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Featured Event

Museum Late: Big Burns Ceilidh

Enjoy a night like no other in the beautiful setting of the National Museum of Scotland at night.
Fri, 24 Jan 2025

Back by popular demand, our sellout event returns for 2025. Grab your pals for a night of reels and revelry!

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The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant: Burns Night Supper & Ceilidh

The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant annual sell-out Burns Supper & Ceilidh returns for 2025!
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 – Sat, 25 Jan 2025

The Scottish Cafe & Restaurant annual sell-out Burns Supper is back for 2025!

Enjoy a traditional evening of Scottish food, music and dancing.

Welcomed by our in-house piper you will start the evening with a live performance and address to the haggis. Enjoy a three-course seasonal Scottish supper and dram of whisky before taking in the live music and ceilidh dancing.

 

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Burns Family Ceilidh

Little ones will be birlin’ for Burns with stories, music and traditional ceilidh dancing for all the family.
Sun, 26 Jan 2025
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Mairi Campbell: Auld Lang Syne

Blending storytelling, animation and movement with new music composed with David Gray and Mairi Campbell this five-star show brings Scotland's most famous song
Sat, 25 Jan 2025

Blending storytelling, animation and movement with music composed by David Gray and Mairi Campbell.

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LUCKY MIDDLEMASS’S TAVERN

Featuring online performances from Aidan O’Rourke, Ricky Ross, Rachel Sermanni, Allan Macdonald, Aidan Moffat and Kathleen Jamie.

Burns&Beyond celebrates The Bard with an online recreation of Lucky Middlemass’s Tavern.  Filmed on location in The Caves, Edinburgh, the site of the famed 18th century tavern, where the ale and claret flowed along with progressive discussion and music, and where literary greats and Enlightenment figures including Robert Burns, David Hume, Adam Smith, Deacon Brodie, James Watt and Benjamin Franklin were just some of the regulars, an uproarious and thought-provoking assembly of song and poetry has been curated by Lau’s Aidan O’Rourke.

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Featured Event

NEU! REEKIE! presents… BURNS ON FIRE!

with special guests
Featuring

NOVA (featuring special guest Empress)
Siobhan Wilson
Nadine Aisha Jassat

Plus

Michael Pedersen & Kevin Williamson

With over a decade of unfurling alternative Burns Nights under their belts, Neu! Reeke! are perhaps the best placed cabal in Scotland to conjure an atypical Burns Night that’ll ruffle feathers and arouse the senses.

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Rachel Sermanni – A Red, Red Rose – Burns&Beyond Archive

One of the most famous love songs written by Robert Burns, ‘A Red, Red Rose’. Part of the song’s appeal is its use of powerful, natural imagery to convey a love that is ever-lasting and capable of surviving both distance and time.

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2022 Gallery & Videos

With live performances from Aidan O’Rourke, Brìghde Chaimbeul, The Choir of St. Giles’ Cathedral and more, plus the beautiful installation 'Les Colombes (The Doves)' by artist Michael Pendry, 2022 saw the return of in-person events alongside exclusive recordings from special guests.

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About Rabbie

Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759 in the village of Alloway, near Ayr. His father William Burnes, was a gardener turned tenant farmer from the north-east of Scotland, and his mother was Agnes Brown, an Ayrshire woman of farming stock.

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