Tinderbox Orchestra: Live In Libraries | Edinburgh Fringe 2025
We are so excited to announce that the Tinderbox Orchestra will be back at Edinburgh’s Central Library for two nights as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! Our shows take place on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th August at 8pm, and will feature some very exciting special guests and new collaborations!
Bringing together rappers, singers, brass, strings, woodwind and a fully amplified thundering backline, Tinderbox’s 20-piece orchestra returns to Edinburgh Central Library for their Live in Libraries album recording, featuring new compositions and a cast of multi-genre collaborators. This show is the continuation of a tour around the UK and Ireland to further the We Make Music Instrument Libraries campaign – an initiative to get musical instruments into public libraries so people can borrow them for free!
Edinburgh Fringe| August 2025
We Make Music Instrument Libraries
A national campaign to get musical instruments into public libraries, the initiative has spread to over 10 local authorities and 30 community libraries in Scotland, and it is growing! After the success of the initial ‘We Make Music’ Instrument Libraries Crowdfunding Campaign in 2022, we are now relaunching the campaign alongside a ‘Live in Libraries Tour’ with the Tinderbox Orchestra, aiming to get instruments into more public libraries across the UK and Ireland.
There will be a nationwide call-out for donations and second-hand instruments to help kickstart instrument libraries wherever the band goes. Funded by PRS Foundation’s Beyond Borders programme and Creative Scotland, Tinderbox Orchestra are bringing their five-star show and 20-piece band together with local acts to perform at libraries in Northern England and Scotland with more dates to be announced soon.
