Northern Streams Festival of Nordic & Scottish Music, Song & Dance in Edinburgh: 17-19 April 2026
‘…something out of the ordinary’ The Herald
Welcome! Velkommen! Tervetuloa! Heisan! Välkommen! Velkominn!
We’ve invited the following artists to this year’s festival in its 21st (+2) year:
- Cuan a Tuath: Kristina Leesik & Séamus Ó’Baoighill (Fiddle, Song & Pipes) + Chris Amer (Guitar) – Sweden/Scotland
- Christine Kammerer (Song, Story, Lyre) – Denmark
- Outi Karhu & Glasgow’n Laulu Finnish Women’s Choir (Song, Piano) – (Finland/Scotland)
- Joss Cameron & Amy Dudley (Song, Story & Piano) – Scotland
The artists all have backgrounds and repertoire from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Scotland – check out the Artists Page for more bio details and the Outline Programme below for when you can see and learn from them!
Outline Festival Programme
Information about the various parts of the programme appear in the different sections in the menu above as well as listed in outline format below.
See the outline Northern Streams 2026 programme in pdf HERE or a one page version HERE.
All events take place at The Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Royal Mile, Edinburgh EH1 1SR
Book through the links on tickets page.
The outline Festival programme is (more details through the pdf links above or the relevant pages on this website):
Friday 17 April
7.00pm Evening Concert 7.00-9.30pm
Saturday 18 April
Workshops: 10.30am-5pm
7.00-10.30pm Evening Concert & Ceilidh
Sunday 19 April
2-5pm Open Music & Song Session – FREE entry
You can view the online content in our ‘Northern Streams Kist’ project which began collecting items in 2022 and will continue to be added to!
Check out our new Sessions page for how you can enjoy Scandi music year round in Edinburgh & Glasgow!
Click here to get a sense of what happens at the Festival with our video about the Festival in 2016: Northern Streams 2016 Video – thanks for Karen White & Sandy McGhie for their work on this!
The festival is organised by the Edinburgh & Lothians Branch of the Traditional Music & Song Association of Scotland (TMSA) and acknowledges support from Tasgadh Traditional Arts Small Grants Scheme, the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in association with the City of Edinburgh Council and Covid recovery funds from the national TMSA support for local Branches.
Organised by:
The TMSA is registered as a Scottish Charity SC003819 & a Company Limited by Guarantee No: 199976. Registered office: The Signal Box, 5 Appin Lane Edinburgh EH14 1JL, Scotland
We acknowledge support from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland for this year’s festival.
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