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.

Upcom­ing month­ly song work­shop dates for 2025 are:

• Novem­ber 7th–9th (res­i­den­tial weekend),
• Decem­ber 13th.

And for 2026 the dates are:

• Jan­u­ary 17 
• Feb­ru­ary 14
• March 14
• 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

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.

Stop Rosebank!

We will be singing out­side Queen Eliz­a­beth House at 11.30 on Fri­day 31st Octo­ber to give a clear mes­sage to the UK Gov­ern­ment that they should not grant Equinor a licence to cre­ate the huge new Rose­bank oil­field. We will sing Leave the Oil in the Ground and the cli­mate ver­sion of Bel­la Ciao, both of which are on the cli­mate song­sheet. We will take a video of our­selves singing which will be sent out on social media through the cli­mate choirs net­work. Please bring Stop Rose­bank placards/banners so we con­vey a clear visu­al message.

A Better Way is Possible
Scotland’s Climate March, Sat 15th November, Glasgow

We will be singing on Scot­land’s Cli­mate March in Glas­gow on Sat 15th Novem­ber. The march is timed to coin­cide with the dates of COP30 which is tak­ing place in Brazil.

We will raise our voic­es in song in sol­i­dar­i­ty with com­mu­ni­ties around the world who have been the most affect­ed by cli­mate change, but who have done the least to cause the cri­sis. We join oth­ers in call­ing for an end to fos­sil fuels, a just tran­si­tion, a fair sys­tem of cli­mate finance, an end to defor­esta­tion and to keep alive our col­lec­tive hope and action for a sus­tain­able future for all. All are wel­come to join us! We will post more details about trav­el arrange­ments and meet­ing points here as they emerge.

Here is the song­sheet we will be using — you will find most of the songs on the website.

Falkirk For All

We plan to go and sing some songs of wel­come for asy­lum seek­ers and refugees in Falkirk on 1st and 29th Novem­ber (both dates to be con­firmed). We will be singing at demos organ­ised by Falkirk for All, a com­mu­ni­ty-led group work­ing to make pos­i­tive change and to cre­ate a Falkirk that’s tru­ly for every­one, in response to demon­stra­tions orgnaised by anti-migrant pro­test­ers. All welcome.

Here is our song­sheet.