Music Encounters returns this summer

Saturday 2 August 2025 at Victoria Park, EH6 4NG

People sitting on the grass at a music festival in a park

1pm - Pippa Kinneen

Pippa writes raw, melodic and intimate songs, one being described as "strangely hypnotic" by Frank Hennessy on Celtic Heartbeat BBC Radio Wales. This performance would suit the atmospheres of both sessions with themes of nature, mental health and human connections.

Visit Pippa Kinneen's Spotify.

1.45pm - Craig Lithgow

Craig Lithgow is an Edinburgh-based performer, who makes new alternative folk songs and finds and revives old ones. His performances are interspersed with poetic interludes and look to find a link between past and present Scottish musical landscapes.

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2.15 pm - Heidi Talbot

I would perform a Scots Trad Music Awards 2023 Composer of the Year Heidi Talbot is an Irish singer/songwriter living in Edinburgh. She performs concerts with vocals and guitar of traditional and original folk music based around Celtic goddess’s and inspirational women.

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3pm - Pedro Ferreira              

Pedro Ferreira is a Brazilian musician and composer who came to Edinburgh to study. Early in the year he made lasting connections by playing with other Brazilian musicians. From these jams has emerged a bossa nova project, which Ferreira leads by singing and playing the guitar and percussion.

Visit Pedro Ferreira's Instagram.

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