We welcome New Zealand chanteuse Linn Lorkin to Henderson's to perform her all-original truesical comedy.
What happens when you're a shy kiwi muso arriving in the bustling Big Apple with no money and nowhere to live ? You end up in a piano-bar. And life's just beginning...
Through swinging original songs and wryly funny stories Linn Lorkin chronicles her adventures in a bygone New York as she sleeps on sofas, searches for true love and plays her way from rusty SoHo to ritzy Park Avenue.
For full details see the festival page
The Bicycle Thieves present Xmas with the Thieves!
Edinburgh's own 7 piece musical collective The Bicycle Thieves return for an extra special xmas show.
Performing their eclectic repertoire of Italian accented favourites.
The Thieves will be joined on stage by some special guests and will be primed to bring in the festival season with their own renditions and translations of some timeless Christmas tunes.
See www.bicyclethievesjazz.co.uk for more.
Doors open 7pm and bar and snacks until 10pm for the Will Pickvance and Friends Christmas Cabaret.
Pianist and entertainer Will Pickvance will be back at Henderson's St. John's Crypt for one night only to perform a Christmas special show on 16th December.
His regular friends, violin maestro Feargus Hetherington, trumpet jazzman Chuck Dearness, gypsy double bassist Balazs Hermann, flute folk legend Tom Oakes and the unique song and dance clown, Gavin Bolus will all be there to join him.
Please e-mail info@mostentertaining.com for further details.
Free concert with donations to the charity Scottish Love in Action Edinburgh.
A raffle will be held after the concert.
This will be Edinburgh Voices debut.
The choir is open to absolutely everyone with or without experience and is a wonderful approach to helping people to develop their voice and to enjoy singing together. They need more males to join the choir though! An advanced choir will start in the New Year.
Students of Most Entertaining Tuition School will perform a diverse programme of music that they have been learning over the past few months. The concert will feature Most Entertaining's Guitar Workshop Group and some of their singers.
Donations from the concert will go to support The Edinburgh based charity, Scottish Love in Action.
Afterwards downstairs until 4.30pm to Henderson's Cafe at St John's where the raffle for the charity SLA will be drawn. All raffle ticket holders will be offered a free taster of Henderson's special mulled wine and mince pies. Bar open, and no doubt some more great music.
94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh EH2 1DR
Our senior musician Pianist Ron plays popular tunes and some surprises.
Most Entertaining; Musical Workshop Concert. First public performance for some of our guitarists tonight.
Steve Tyler plays classical and popular guitar.
Interplay - Lachlan (guitar) and guest musician play seriously good jazz.
Fraser Urquhart (piano) - a fine young talent.
Desafinado duo play wonderful Jazz and Bossa Nova.
Ged and Doug - High quality Guitar Jazz Duo.
Graham High and guest musician play great Hot Club.
Sounds of Jazz - Lachlan (guitar) and Kenny (base) - subtle & very polished.
Singer/songwriter Stewart Maclennan with guitar and some chat.
For more information on the musicians, see the music page
Come and join us for a relaxing evening of good food, entertainment and good company amongst friends.
There will be a choice of four main courses and four desserts and we will be holding a raffle on the night with some fantastic prizes.
All the food is vegetarian and vegan and the price includes tea/coffee.
Doors open at 7pm and dinner will be at 7.30pm.
Tickets are on sale now priced at £15 + 75p booking fee.
http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/dinner
Henderson's and Thistle Street Traders welcome Bethany supported by Morton Fraser.
Henderson's will be offering a 10% meal voucher (valid for three months) to all attendees. We will also be offering the chance to Win a Two Course Meal for four including a bottle of wine as part of the main raffle.
Soak up the atmosphere of one of Edinburgh's best shopping and dining streets at the "Autumn on Thistle Street" event on Tuesday 16th November in aid of Bethany Christian Trust. Morton Fraser, in support of the Bethany, their 'Charity of the Year', has arranged a special evening of late night shopping, food and discounts at venues such as Jane Davidson, Pam Jenkins, K at Kakao and Le Bon Vivant to name but a few.
The event takes place from 6.00pm onwards at Henderson's Gallery, with a suggested donation of £10. For more information and to reserve a space contact bethany@morton-fraser.com.
The festival may be over, but the fun continues - the Most Entertaining boys are back by popular demand here in Henderson's Wine Bar later this month. If you haven't encountered them before, the idea is brilliantly simple: take a group of would-be musicians, give them five weeks of workshops and then let them loose upon the public. The results are, well, most entertaining.
Incidentally, Most Entertaining also run a rolling series of weekly workshops in the centre of Edinburgh providing training in that purest of all instruments, the human voice. So if you fancy unleashing your inner Domingo, Carreras or Susan Boyle contact finlay@mostentertaining.com , phone 0131 477 7821 or visit the website www.mostentertaining.com
Following a great fun wine night in Spring, and by popular request, we are delighted to have the return of our organic wine specialist Linda Ward, UK Sales Manager of Vintage Roots, who will be leading us through a great selection of wines for the winter and Festive Season on Monday 1 November. We are delighted also to include the new 'Wild Thing' (if Linda is involved then of course it would be called that!) which helps to raise funds for the Born Free Foundation as well as put a great drink into your glass! The wines will be for sale.
Tickets priced £5 which also entitles you to a 10% discount meal voucher for any time on the 1st November. Last bookings in Bistro 8.30pm, and in Restaurant 9pm. Always good to book. Please contact Peter Henderson with any questions 07730 812 150.
Please book by email - mail@hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk or tel 0131 225 2131 or come into Henderson's Restaurant. Please make ticket payments at or to Henderson's before the night.
4 Thistle Street Lane NW - just behind Henderson's Restaurant & Arts Venue.
Exhibition - Roland Fraser, artist/furniture maker
16th - 29th October daily 11-6pm. Preview Friday 15th October 7 - 9pm
Roland constructs furniture and panels from found timber and reinterprets traditional vernacular forms, particularly the Northern Isles tradition of improvised furniture making. Roland will be present on most days and will be glad to take commissions as well as sell the exhibits. rolandfraser@talktalk.net 07876411818
The Henderson Gallery, Thistle Street Lane North West.
That's Lunch Productions in association with Henderson's of Edinburgh present 'Cutting the Cord' by Michael Shand, a comic exploration of the complexities of the relationship between Mothers and Daughters. 45 minutes duration.
After the rigours of the Leith Festy and the fringe, TLP now come to a more friendly, enjoyable and touching piece of theatre. This 45 minute play about a mother and daughter with very different views about the fathers extensive service in Afghanistan has everything all packed into such a short space of time. Laughs, cry's and raised voices. Not to be missed!
Tickets £7/£5 concession (preview £5/£3 concession). Pay on door or contact either Michael Shand on 07810396100 or Peter Henderson on 07730812150. For further details see www.thatslunchproductions.co.uk
The festival may be over, but the fun continues - the Most Entertaining boys are back by popular demand here in Henderson's Wine Bar later this month. If you haven't encountered them before, the idea is brilliantly simple: take a group of would-be musicians, give them five weeks of workshops and then let them loose upon the public. The results are, well, most entertaining.
Incidentally, Most Entertaining are about to launch a new series of workshops providing training in that purest of all instruments, the human voice. So if you fancy unleashing your inner Domingo, Carreras or Susan Boyle contact finlay@mostentertaining.com
Local author Arthur Greenan visits The Henderson Gallery to read from his second volume of reminiscences of life in East Lothian. By turns poignant, funny and profound, but never less than entertaining.
The McCarrison Society was formed in 1966 to promote the work of Sir Robert McCarrison, physician, nutritionist and pioneering advocate of organic farming. It exists to promote research into nutrition and health, free from economic and political influence. Although many of its members are themselves medical professionals, it always aims to make its talks accessible to all.
Following their most enjoyable appearance at Henderson's back in March, 'Poetrio' - poets Irene Brown ('sparkles like fizzy pop'), Anne Connolly ('surefooted grace') and Anna Dickie ('succinct and sensuous, wise and joyful') - return on Thursday 16th September.
At Henderson's Restaurant, Hanover Street, Thursday 16th September, 10.30 - 11.30am.
No ticket required.
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Two giants of the Scots and Irish folk scene, 'Boys of the Lough' founder Cathal McConnell and fiddle virtuoso Duncan Wood, in the atmospheric and historic surroundings of Henderson's at St John's.
7.30PM, £6.00
In his first ever show north of the border, John Squire's new work translates onto paper and canvas the spontaneity, depth and ambiguity of the music of Miles Davis.
Tues - Sat, 11 - 6, Free
Two giants of the Scots and Irish folk scene, 'Boys of the Lough' founder Cathal McConnell and fiddle virtuoso Duncan Wood, in the atmospheric and historic surroundings of Henderson's at St John's.
7.30PM, £6.00
In 1975 Tony Bennett and Bill Evans collaborated on an LP of sublime beauty which soon came to be recognised as a masterpiece. Award winning vocalist Jonathan Cairney and pianist Euan Stevenson explore the story behind this classic recording.
7.30PM, £6.00
From the suburbs of Napoli to the alleyways of Genoa, an evening of tarantella and pizzica, dances songs and stories, a glimpse into sounds and smells of Italy and the Mediterranean.
International 6-piece collective The Bicycle Thieves play an eclectic and lively set of jazz and world music hand picked from the musical vaults of Italy, France and beyond.
Carnivalesque cartoon cabaret, music and comedy from Will Pickvance plus some very special guests - 'like squeezing the Albert Hall into the Rose and Crown'.
£4.00 Tickets at the door. Doors open 7pm, show starts at 8pm and finishes at 10.30pm.
7PM, Free
The Darkhouse Festival operate on a strict need-to-know basis, so my lips are sealed. If I told you anything, I'd have to kill you afterwards. But, hey, it's free, so it's got to be worth a look.
For writer and journalist Roddy Martine photography has been the hobby of a lifetime; this exhibition brings together a selection of snapshots of some of the larger than life characters he has photographed down the years.
5 - 9PM, Free
Guaranteed to entertain and provoke, this will be an idiosyncratic multimedia exploration of Scotland's history, through fact, fantasy, myth and fable, from an award-winning young artist.
Full details here
Tickets available to purchase and collect at Henderson's Restaurant 94 Hanover Street between 9 and 12 or 14.30 and 21.00. They will be available at the main restaurant counter.
Telephone reservations can be made with payment to be made 7 days before the performance. 0131 225 2131
Tickets available on line from Fringe site.
Excellent news: the 'Arts of Resistance' event at The Henderson Gallery, postponed from the 27th January, will now go ahead on Wednesday 12th May at 7PM. Sandy Moffat, former Head of Painting at Glasgow School of Art, and Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University will discuss their book, published by the good people at Luath Press, in which they examine the relationship between art and dissident politics in Scottish culture.
The work grew out of a series of conversations between Moffat and Riach at the National Gallery of Scotland, conversations which were by all accounts both compelling and vastly entertaining, so we look forward to a cracking night. What's more, it'll be May, not January, so it shouldn't be quite as freezing, though you never can tell. Whatever the weather, it's a free event. Numbers however are limited, so to book your place please call 0131 225 7464 or email mail@thehendersongallery.com
The 5 piece Bicycle Thieves music collective reverse 200 million years of tectonic action to reunite three continents in an eruption of music from across the globe.
Promising the finest in eclectic Italian, Spanish and French music, a steady flow of lava-hot American standards and earth-quaking reworkings of alternative favourites, La Terra Trema...The Earth Trembles.. is a belle catastrophe not to be missed.
Dr Vinod Kumar's highly successful midweek classes in Kundalini Yoga and Pranayama, the art of correct breathing, will restart on Wednesday 28th April from 6.30 - 8.30PM in The Henderson Gallery.
Learning correct breathing the yogic way will lead to better overall health and improve many existing health problems. Chanting healing mantras in a group setting will impart a powerful healing impulse to the entire human system, body, mind and spirit. Learn to allow yourself to be inspired, relaxed and developed as a whole being, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
For further information, or to book a place on the course, please call Dr Kumar on 07868 492 645.
Learning correct breathing the yogic way will lead to better overall health and improve many existing health problems.
Chanting healing mantras in a group setting will impart a powerful healing impulse to the entire human system, body, mind and spirit.
Learn to allow yourself to be inspired, relaxed and developed as a whole being, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.
Dr Vinod Kumar, MBBS, MSc, will be running this course in The Henderson Gallery.
Participants should bring a yoga mat and water bottle and wear loose, comfortable clothing.
The entire eight week course, booked in advance, costs £96.00 per person; individual sessions, subject to availability, are £14.00 each. Please note: booking is strongly advised as places are strictly limited.
Join Roddy Martine as he delves into the colourful past of East Lothian and his own family's connection with the area in his book This Too Shall Pass - Reflections on East Lothian.
Roddy will be talking about the book on Wednesday 24th March 2010 at 7.00 p.m. in The Henderson Gallery, 4 Thistle Street Lane, Edinburgh EH2 1DA.
Born of Scottish parentage in Borneo, Roddy Martine was educated in England and Scotland. He now lives in Edinburgh and is the author of over twenty books covering subjects ranging from Scottish clan tartans and the supernatural to the history of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
Tickets are free. Please book your places on 0131 225 2131 or 0131 225 7464 or mail@thehendersongallery.com
For full details visit, http://birlinn.birlinn.co.uk/events/details/398/
P O E T R I O at Henderson's Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh.
Thursday 25th March 2010, 10.30 till 11.30am.
No ticket required. The event will be held in the lower restaurant.
Edinburgh's international 5 piece musical collective the Bicycle Thieves presents their new monthly celebration of Italian music in the magical 19th century cellar of Henderson's at St. Johns Cafe. This month's show sees talented Italian singer/guitarist Simone Caffari joining the Thieves on stage. By drawing on a catalogue of some italy's finest music including from De Andre, Capossela, Mina, and Paolo Conte as well as performing italian translations and interpretations of scottish songs and jazz standards, the night promises to drag you into a Mediterranean spring singing aloud.
Time: 7pm doors, 8pm Music.
Venue: Henderson's at St. Johns Cafe. Under St Johns Church. Corner of Lothian Rd and Princess St. Edinburgh.
Entry:£2
About the Musicians:
The Bicycle Thieves
The Bicycle Thieves music project are an Edinburgh-based international jazz collective with a line-up of talented musicians from across the globe (and Fife)
made up of Edinburgh based Italian jazz singer Elena Zini, Italian adopted New Zealand double bassist Alastair Cole, US percussionist Jamie Pitts, and Scottish musicians Murdo Turner (guitar), Gregor shanks (piano). The group was formed around the idea of creating a collective of like minded Edinburgh based musicians and through numerous collaborations have been joined on stage by a wide variety of Scottish folk and jazz musicians. Musically the group draws on a catalogue of music from the Italian, French and South American music landscape, as well as crafting their own translations of Scottish and jazz standards into Italian. Photos and audio can be seen and heard online in their website www.bicyclethievesjazz.co.uk. or the Bicycle Thieves Facebook Group.
'Jazz group the Bicycle Thieves brought with them an easygoing cool...their silky, Italian [sic] - accented 30 minute set was over all too soon'
Josie Balfour - Edinburgh Evening news 29/01/10
Simone Caffari
Talented Edinburgh based Italian acoustic guitarist and singer Simone Caffari was educated in the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio di Roma under the guidance of Giovanna Marini. Drawing on oral traditional music including some of Italy's best loved and admired musical heritage, both old and new, his performances, both solo and alongside the Thieves are sure to impress.
At St John's, the Next Jam For Your Peace event will take place on Sunday 28th February from 4-7pm, featuring Stairheid Gossip, Adam Holmes and Hannah Reid as well as a host of other musical and spoken word performances. If you too would like to take part, please contact the Peace and Justice Centre.
The Winter Festival of Literature series of talks in The Henderson Gallery organised in conjunction with Luath Press continues into the New Year.
On Wednesday 13th January Walter Stephen will be in the Gallery to discuss his book 'The Evolution of Evolution' in which he considers the often unremarked Scottish influences on Darwin and his theories.
He will be followed a week later, on Wednesday 20th January, by Emma Wood whose 'Peatbogs, Plague and Potatoes' is a fascinating and timely exploration of the ways in which the environment and how it has changed over the centuries has shaped Scotland's history.
Please note: the talk 'Arts of Resistance' by Sandy Moffat and Alan Riach on Wednesday 27th January has had to be postponed to a later date due to one of the speakers being indisposed. We will notify you of the re-arranged date as soon as we can.
All talks are free and start at 7pm.
Following on from his introductory lecture, Dr Kumar will be holding regular Pranayama classes each Thursday morning and Kundalini Yoga sessions on Thursday evenings. He will also be running a series of workshops on Healing the Stress of Daily Life; The Reservoir of Consciousness (Your Chakras, Your Health); The Art of Authentic Relationships; and on Ayurveda in Daily Living. Dr Kumar is also available for private consultations. Full details will be available on the website in the New Year.
He's back, by public demand!
Following his triumph with his mesmerising virtuoso performance in 'Breakfast with Burns' at Henderson's during the festival, Scotland's very own one-man national theatre John Cairney is to return with an absolute cracker of a Christmas show on Sunday 20th December at 7.30pm. Tickets are £12 each, and remember, this performance is for one night only, so to avoid disappointment book your tickets now, in person at Henderson's Restaurant, 94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh; by phone on 0131 225 2131; or email mail@hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk.
Why not make a night of it? The Restaurant will be open from 6.00pm serving a pre-theatre supper menu featuring many of Henderson's own festive favourites. Booking is advised.
This year, think Christmas, think Henderson's.
Those of you who attended the last Most Entertaining Workshop Concert back in October won't need too much persuading to return for more of the same; those of you who missed out will want to see what all the fuss was about. Well, the latest graduates of the Most Entertaining Academy will be displaying their talents in the Wine Bar at 7pm on December 15th. A Christmas cracker of a night out guaranteed - and it's free!
The Euan Stevenson Trio and Perrier Award winning vocalist Jonathan Cairney pay tribute to the greatest names in jazz.
'This trio emanates joy.' - BBC Radio Scotland
Tickets £5, available from Henderson's Shop, 92 Hanover Street, 0131 225 2605 (open until 19.00) or email mail@thehendersongallery.com
The performance will be in the restaurant, 94 Hanover Street. Drinks and supper will be available before the performance and drinks and snacks after 19.30. Please book here for supper as the restaurant is officially open until 17.30 on the Sunday. The Bistro is open 12.00 - 20.30.
The legendary Edinburgh supergroup, featuring Tam Dean Burn, brother Rusty (ex-Fire Engines) and Malcolm Ross (ex-Josef K, Aztec Camera, Orange Juice) make a triumphant return to St John's. Robert Burns Meets The Stooges Uptown - not to be missed.
Anthony Christy, master herbalist and tea expert from the Flower & Leith Herbal Tea Co, will be hosting a tea tasting session in Henderson's Shop this Saturday. All welcome.
Our very own Zuzana from Henderson's Shop will be giving an illustrated talk in The Henderson Gallery about her recent trip to the Ecuadorian Rainforest. Free. All welcome.
Tuesday 20th October at 7pm in Henderson's Wine Bar
Take a group of people of all ages and all musical abilities - or even none - train them up for six weeks and then get them to perform in public! Come and prepare to be amazed - and if you're interested in taking part in the future go to www.mostentertaining.com
Left to right, Stewart Hanratty, Wendy Carle Taylor, John Cairney, Alicia Devine, John Sampson
Let's be honest: new performance spaces in Edinburgh at this time of year are ten a penny. However, when the theatrical venture is backed by Henderson's, Scotland's legendary vegetarian restaurant and a capital institution for almost fifty years, and when their fringe programme is launched by none other than John Cairney, actor, writer, raconteur and the greatest Burns of his generation, returning to the country after seventeen years in New Zealand, then perhaps it is time to sit up and take notice.
For full details of the exciting programme at Hendersons, visit www.hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk/fringe2009
Watch videos from Henderson's at www.hendersonsofedinburgh.co.uk/videos.php, where you'll see clips from the Henderson's Fringe programme.
The Bum Clocks
Henderson's at St John's, the stroppy teenager of the Henderson's empire is to present a gig by Leith supergroup The Bum Clocks.
That's actor Tam Dean Burn (who has done everything from Chekhov to Berkoff, Filth to River City), brother Russell (formerly of Edinburgh's greatest ever band - sorry Rollers fans - The Fire Engines) and Malcolm Ross (ex Josef K, Orange Juice and Aztec Camera). The show will be part of their 'Tale O' Twa Dugs - Rab and Iggy' tour, promising Burns as you have never heard him before. Find out more about them here and check this website for ticket details.
The Henderson Gallery will be hosting an auction of paintings and drawings of Italy by the renowned artist and impresario Richard Demarco to help raise funds for a permanent home for the Demarco Archive, a scholarly resource of national importance. The works will be on show in the Gallery on the evening of Friday the 19th and all day on Saturday the 20th of June, with the auction - to be conducted by Richard himself - at 2.30 on Sunday the 21st.
Henderson's will be represented at the Taste of Edinburgh Festival at Inverleith Park from 29th-31st May.
stand A2 Hendersons of Edinburgh in the shopping area. Information on Henderson's services and sales of water, juices, wine and champagne by the glass and bottle.
stand 17 Henderson's Organic Bakery in The Farmers Market. A full range of our breads, oatcakes and cakes. Also water and other drinks by the glass and bottle.
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