Session dates for 2026

We meet one Sat­ur­day each month to learn songs of free­dom and strug­gle from around the world. All are wel­come. No need to read music, no singing expe­ri­ence nec­es­sary – just come along with your enthu­si­asm and your voice! No book­ing is required – just turn up on the day – and bring your friends!

Our month­ly song work­shops are usu­al­ly (but not always) on the sec­ond Sat­ur­day of each month, except for a sum­mer break, from 10am to 1pm.

For 2026 the dates are:

  • Feb­ru­ary 14
  • March 14 (replaced by singing at Faslane demo — see below)
  • April 11
  • May 9
  • June 6

The venue is Broughton St. Mary’s Church, 12 Belle­vue Cres­cent, Edin­burgh EH3 6NE. It’s on the num­ber 8 and 9 bus routes, or a few min­utes walk from the 36, 23 or 27 routes. Bikes can be chained up in front of the build­ing. The venue is acces­si­ble, though the entrance is a dif­fer­ent to the main one most of us use — so do let us know if you need stair-free access and we’ll make sure some­one is ready to meet you and show you the way!

Choir leader Pen­ny Stone con­tin­ues to release song videos on her YouTube chan­nel Pen­ny Sings

Upcoming events

Sat March 14th — Stop The Nuclear Nightmare 
SCND National Demonstration, North Gate, Faslane

Organ­ised by Scot­tish CND, a coali­tion of anti-nuclear organ­i­sa­tions will be demon­strat­ing at the Faslane Naval Base on Sat­ur­day 14th March 2026, to raise the salience of the nuclear threat to Scot­land. We will be singing to help make a strong state­ment against nuclear weapons ahead of the Scot­tish Par­lia­ment elec­tion in May. Every­one welcome.

Start­ing at the main North Gate with speech­es from 13.00–14.00, fol­lowed by a trip up to the Glen Fru­in View­point which over­looks the base, from 14.00–15.00.

You’ll need to bring your own food and drinks for the day.

Please print a copy of the song­sheet and maybe a few extra to hand out!:
Faslane songs 2026

Get­ting there

Come by car or coach — or there are trains and bus­es to Helens­burgh; then a local bus to the North Gate (316 or 316A every half hour, from oppo­site the train sta­tion — takes 20 min) — though no pub­lic trans­port to Glen Fru­in which is a fair trek uphill on nar­row wind­ing roads. You could hold the space at the gate dur­ing that time instead.

Coach­es are run­ning from Edin­burgh, Glas­gow and Aberdeen (pick­ing up at Dundee, Perth and Stirling).

Glas­gow coach: Leaves from North Hanover Street, near Cos­ta Cafe, at 11.00. Please arrive at least 15 min­utes before departure.

Edin­burgh coach: Leaves from Char­lotte Square, city cen­tre, at 10.00. Please arrive at least 15 min­utes before departure.

Click the link below to book Glas­gow or Edinburgh:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/stop-the-nuclear…

Aberdeen coach: Leaves at 07.50 on Skene Street behind His Majesty’s The­atre. Please arrive at least 15 min­utes before departure.

  • Dundee pick­up: between 09.35 and 09.40 at the Kingsway Retail Park Bus Stop DD3 8RX
  • Perth pick­up: between 10.16 and 10.21 from Perth Brox­den Park and Ride PH2 0PX
  • Stir­ling pick­up: between 11.03 and 11.08 from Stir­ling Castle­view Park and Ride FK9 4TW

To book the Aberdeen coach con­tact CND North-East Scot­land at cndabdn@gmail.com

Peo­ple are invit­ed to make a non-oblig­a­tory dona­tion, if they can, to help cov­er coach costs. Con­tact scnd@banthebomb.org with any queries.

Weekly vigil

Since Octo­ber 2023, mem­bers of Protest in Har­mo­ny have held a week­ly vig­il to grieve, to sing togeth­er and to keep call­ing for a cease­fire in Gaza and for an end to the 75-year-long occu­pa­tion of Pales­tine. We sing for peace and safe­ty for every­one. Every­one. We meet every Fri­day from 12 noon to 1pm out­side St Giles’ Cathe­dral. All are wel­come to join us.
Our songs are easy to pick up, but we do have a song­sheet you can bring along if you wish.