An emotional and hard rocking journey into the hearts and souls that exist on the outer limits of creativity and building regulations, The Castle Builder tells the true story of an inmate in a Norwegian psychiatric institute who over 5 years built a castle on a remote headland.

A homecoming in viola, voice, movement, animation and storytelling, Pulse is the story of Mairi Campbell's quest to heal cultural wounds.

A rousing call to arms, led by guerrilla-folk party-punks Lemon Bucket Orkestra. Based on the creators' first hand experiences during the 2014 Kiev uprising, Counting Sheep invites you to lose yourself in the events that changed the course of Ukraine's history forever.

With live accompaniment from Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association, FK Alexander sings along to the recording of the last time Judy Garland ever sang Over The Rainbow, four months before her death.

Part recital, part metamorphosis, this is the new solo performance by renowned Fringe virtuoso and wit Will Pickvance (Anatomy of the Piano, Alchemy of the Piano).

A riotous new musical comedy epic about friendship, inequality and betrayal.

Ghost Quartet is a haunted song cycle about love, death, and whisky.

Step into an interstellar kosmische zone the likes the Capital has never seen to launch Summerhall’s amazing musical programme this August.

Why do we stop playing? What might make us start again? All those guitars propped up in bedrooms. Voices only heard in the shower. Drum kits taking too much space in garages. It’s time to blow off the dust.

The haunting and utterly compelling Scottish Album of the Year ‘bones you have thrown me and blood I’ve spilled’ comes to Summerhall’s Dissection Room. Regarded as one of Scotland’s best-kept secrets; Kathryn Joseph’s voice possesses the other-worldly quality of Joanna Newsom and Björk.

Men have all the power. John and John keep hearing people say that men have all the power, but it doesn’t feel like that to them.

Est. 2010, Soulsville is Edinburgh's home of deep funk, latin rhythms and rugged blues, a one-stop-shop for those who have an ear for a groove and a desire to dance into the wee hours

Edinburgh’s finest purveyors of weirdo cabaret and decadent performance take up a Tuesday night festival residency.

Stripped down and acoustic, the better to hear the richness and maturity of her voice, her live show has been honed by hundreds of nights onstage.

As evidenced by last year’s most recent album ‘Nocturnes’, his rich, open-hearted blues and soul is sometimes born of hard times, but never less than unfailingly honest.

Orkestra del Sol, a joyous reinvention of global brassy street music, has left a trail of pummeled dance floors across continents - including India, Australia, China and a host of European countries.

Scottish virtuoso guitarist and composer Simon Thacker returns to create a new Romani musical journey in this dazzling world première featuring reimagined Gypsy songs and original works inspired by Indian, Balkan and Spanish traditions.

BRENT ARNOLD is a founding member of Ghost Quartet. In his solo show takes the cello into new realms, incorporating electronics and virtuosic instrumental technique to create vivid sonic worlds.

Back, Back, BACK and bouncier than ever, the exclusive vinyl club night for the more fully-fledged music fan returns for a one-off, late night festival special.

WHITE are a hurtling juggernaut of synth stabs, razor-sharp guitars and even sharper attire.

Offsite and outdoor performance installation inspired by Victorian spirit photography and belief in the afterlife. Set in a unique location in the Scottish Borders, Dudendance’s new production is a ghostlike vision with white dressed figures emerging through the landscape around Haining House and grounds.

Presented by Nothing Ever Happens Here in association with our friends from the Bongo Club’s night Soulsville, Rhythm Machine is a regular favourite here throughout the year.

In March 2016 Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles-bound train at Chicago’s Union Station looking to reconnect with the culture of railroad travel and the music it inspired.

To mark sound artist and producer Mark Fell's exhibition in Summerhall's Machine Shop, Fell curates an evening of sound and music performance – dense, austere and laconic – perfectly suited to the ambience of the Dissection Room.

Richard Dawson brings his wonderfully shambling exterior, tales of pineapples and underpants, ghosts of family members and cats to Summerhall’s Dissection Room.

Award-winning Scottish composer Graeme Stephen presents the world première of his score for the 1927 silent film Metropolis.

One of post-dubstep’s bright lights, Mount Kimbie come to Summerhall’s Dissection Room for a genre-evading late-night DJ set, drawing from a thick soup of influences that leaves them standing out as something genuinely special.

The Soul Foundation crew return to the Dissection Room with an explosive live set of Motown classics along with new renditions of Northern Soul dance floor escapisms.

Broken Records bring their expansive, soaring mix of elation and melancholy to Summerhall’s Dissection Room, with the raw energy of Springsteen and the drama of Arcade Fire.

Montreal-based Sunns have just released Hold Still, their third studio album. It’s an eerily beautiful, meticulously played suite of music that embraces opposites, with songs which are simultaneously psychedelic, but austere; sensual, but cold; organic, but electronic; tense sometimes to the brink of mania, but always retaining perfect control.

The UK’s sharpest poets, storytellers, rappers and comedians perform with jaw-dropping improvised soundtracks from the Tongue Fu Band (Nostalgia 77, Jamie Cullum, Beardyman).

Grandaddy formed in Modesto, CA in 1992, and consisted of Jason Lytle, Aaron Burtch, Tim Dryden, Jim Fairchild and Kevin Garcia.

Putting that group on hiatus to concentrate on their solo careers, this year has seen Morby release ‘Singing Saw’, his third album of thoughtful and delicately anthemic indie-rock introspections.

Since 2006, Brian Shimkovitz’s Awesome Tapes From Africa blog has been shedding light on obscure and wonderful sounds from across the continent.

ESKA’s own and unique sound has arisen and taken flight with her highly anticipated solo self-titled debut, nominated for the 2015 Mercury Prize.

Mediterraneo, along with the good people at Nothing Ever Happens Here, are bringing Africa, Cuba and Southern Italy crashing into Summerhall for a huge festival edition of their world music concert series.

Withered Hand is the musical output of Edinburgh based Dan Willson, a feature of the city's DIY music scene for many years.

Not jazz, not a trio and not entirely Scottish, The National Jazz Trio of Scotland are Bill Wells (piano laptop), Aby Vulliamy (vocals, viola), Kate Sugden (vocals, marimba), and Gerard Black (vocals).

One-off night curated by Firecracker Recordings, the Edinburgh label with international reach and acclaim, specialising in oddball house, techno and electronics.