Bed and Breakfast Edinburgh

 

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2009/2010

 

Tuesday 29 December 2009–Saturday 2 January 2010

Tickets for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay 2009/10; the greatest celebration of New Year in the world, went on sale from 9am, Saturday 10 October. This year’s programme presents five days of festival fun, entertainment and events in Scotland's capital city, with a plethora of events from ceilidh to dance, street theatre to live music, clubs to carnivals, fireworks to church services.

 

 

The iconic Torchlight Procession opens the festival creating a dramatic ‘river of fire’ through the city, from the Royal Mile to Calton Hill with as many as 25,000 people taking part.

 

Times: 29 December 2009 - 6:00pm

Venue: St. Giles Cathedral

Grab a torchlight and your blonde wig, and join a bunch of noisy, hairy Vikings and Scotsmen as they drag a Viking warship up Edinburgh's Calton Hill. A 15,000 strong crowd is expected to wend its way from the Edinburgh Old Town down to Princes Street, to Waterloo Place and up to the ancient Edinburgh meeting ground, Calton hill.

On arriving at the hill firework displays and the blazing flames from the ship will light up the night sky when the ship itself is put to the torch.

Stalwarts of the display are historical fight display team The Clann who will lead hundreds of torch carriers. They will be accompanied by the pipes and drums of both traditional and contemporary outfits.

In the past, the pipes and drums component has included the Dhol Drummers, the Erskine, Stewart's Melville and Coalburn Pipe Bands, the Sativa Drummers, She-Boom, the Coalburn Silver Band, the Impact Drumming Group, the Gutty Slippers and Commotion.

How to get your torches

Torch vouchers cost £5 in advance or £6 on the night and are available from the Hogmanay Box Office and other Hogmanay ticket outlets. On the day you exchange vouchers for the torches from 4.30pm in Parliament Square by St Giles Cathedral.

Money raised by the sale of torches to all those taking part in the procession will go to Edinburgh's One City Trust and Radio Forth's Help a Child Appeal.

The torchlight procession starts at Parliament Square by St Giles Cathedral, 6.30pm

 

 

Off Kilter

Tuesday 29 December 2009 – Saturday 2 January 2010

Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 13/29 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
Tickets: £14.50 - £25.00 (+ booking fee)

Scottish culture gets a make-over this Edinburgh’s Hogmanay as Off Kilter explodes onto the stage. Combining traditional Highland, ballet, hip-hop, Indian classical and contemporary dance, this feisty new production is a spectacular showcase of styles that are alive and kicking in Scotland today.

With an exhilarating soundtrack of Scottish music from Martyn Bennett to Calvin Harris, high profile choreographers including Mark Morris and Ashley Page, and leading Scottish dancers performing a programme of specially commissioned works – this will be a wonderful celebration of our nation’s rich culture.

 

 

Keilidh in the Gardens East Princes Street Gardens

Thursday 31 December

Stages live 9pm – 1am
Mound Precinct, Edinburgh city Centre
Tickets: £30.00 (+ booking fee)

Birl through the bells and enjoy a traditional Scottish Hogmanay experience at The Keilidh.
Dance the night away on the outdoor Ceilidh dance-floor with the spectacular backdrop of
the Edinburgh old town, with performances from the very best in traditional Scottish music.
After all that dancing take a break at the private event bars, enjoy some delicious local food and an incredible view of the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Midnight Fireworks.

Useful information –

The Keilidh ticket will also allow entry to the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party
No entry after 11pm, so please come early!
This is an all standing outdoor event, so please dress for the weather
There will be paying bars and food outlets within the event arena

 

 

Concert in the Garden West Princes Street Gardens 31 December

Thursday 31 December

Stages live 9pm – 1am
West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh City Centre
Tickets: Enclosure £42.50 (+ booking fee) Gardens £37.50(+ booking fee)

Plus very special guests to be announced

To round off one of the best years of their 30 year anniversary as pop kings of the United Kingdom, Edinburgh’s Hogmanay are pleased to announce Madness as headliner at the Concert in the Gardens, their first Edinburgh show for over 15 years. This music and fireworks spectacular promises to be the gig of the year for BOTH 2009 and 2010.
 

Useful information –

A Concert in the Gardens ticket will also allow entry to the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party
No entry after 11pm, so please come early!
This is an all standing, outdoor event, so please dress for the weather
There will be paying bars and food outlets within the event arena

 

 

Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party

Thursday 31 December

Stages live 9pm – 1am
Princes Street, Edinburgh City Centre
Tickets: £10 admin fee

The world famous Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Street Party promises to bring you into the second decade in style. Say goodbye to 2009 and hello 2010 with a programme packed full of music, dance, light and the iconic Midnight Fireworks, one of the largest New Year displays in the world.
featuring

• The Waverley Stage
• The Mound Party Stage
• The West End DJ Stage
• Giant Screens
• Spectacular Midnight Fireworks
• 2010 Light & Laser Show

 

 

 

The iconic Midnight Fireworks

The Loony Dook

 

Times: 1 January 2010 - 12:00pm

Venue: Moorings Pub

 

On the first day of every year a brave few hundred people throw themselves into the freezing cold water of the Firth of Forth at South Queensferry, just a few miles out of the Scottish capital. Some claim that the shock to the system of the so-called Loony Dook is the perfect hangover cure after the excesses of the huge Hogmanay street party in Edinburgh of the night before. With the skirl of bagpipes urging them on, the crowd of humanity makes a mad dash into the watter and (most of them) quickly retreat back to the bar. Some stay in much longer - up to half an hour.

 

Dook Time and the Tide

 

The Dook takes place at the Boathouse Steps in South Queensferry on 1st January 2009 usually at noon, although times may be different this year if tide conditions are unfavourable. Last year the Dook took place at 1.30pm.

 

Participants meet in the morning at the The Moorings Pub from  10am  for registration prior to joining a piped parade through Queensferry for the dook.

 

2010 is the 24th Dook in succession.