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Interesting news · Monday 3 August

An amphitheatre built from rescued pianos opened for its first Bruntsfield Fringe

Edinburgh · from pianodrome.org

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Pianodrome is a 100-seat amphitheatre built entirely from rescued pianos, instruments that were otherwise heading for landfill at around £60 a go. It started as a Fringe pop-up at the Botanics in 2018 and has since turned up in a warehouse, the Old Royal High School and an ex-Debenhams at Ocean Terminal.

Now it has a permanent home in the former St Oswald's Church on Montpelier Park in Bruntsfield, Edinburgh, and this was its first Fringe there. The programme ran 5 to 30 August, open Wednesday to Sunday: folk, jazz, comedy, life drawing, family workshops and free lunchtime concerts.

Karine Polwart and Kris Drever were both on the bill. Will Pickvance is the venue's Pianist in Resonance.

Read it at the sourcepianodrome.org

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