Spring/Summer Concerts

Roo and Neil

21 March 2026

Roo Geddes (fiddle)
and Neil Sutcliffe (accordion)

Both Masters Graduates from the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow, are well known to Peebles audiences, having appeared as soloists with the Peebles Orchestra and at the Eastgate.

Roo & Neil grew up surrounded by traditional music and combine their shared experience across classical, folk and jazz to create their own distinctive sound. In addition to their original music they perform their own arrangements of Scottish traditional music and song.

“Here was music-making of the highest calibre”
Edinburgh Music Review

Tickets £10 at the door or from the Eastgate

Gina McCormack and
Marianna Abrahamyan

25 April 2026

Violin and Piano

Violinist Gina McCormack and Armenian pianist Marianna Abrahamyan perform two wonderful works by Arno Babadjanian and Edvard Baghdasaryan (to commemorate Armenian Day which falls on 24 April), alongside works by Clara Schumann and Brahms.
Peebles audiences might remember Glasgow-based Marianna performing the recently rediscovered music of Learmont Drysdale with Gina and other musicians for Music in Peebles at the Eastgate Theatre a few years ago.

Tickets £10 at the door or from the Eastgate

Howells/Reid Duo

30 May 2026

Flute and Harp

Matthew Howells graduated with a Masters Degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, having previously studied at Manchester University and Chetham’s School of Music. He has played with Scottish Opera, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. He is the founder of Sirocco Winds, heard recently at the Eastgate Theatre as part of Music in Peebles 2025-6 season. Sirocco has also played on BBC Radio 3 and at the St Magnus Festival and Cumnock Tryst.

Mary Reid, originally from Edinburgh, has had an international career as a soloist, chamber musicians and orchestral player. Highlights include performing at the BBC Proms and playing in a full Ring Cycle at both the Royal Opera House and Opera North.

Matthew and Mary formed the Howells/Reid duo in 2025.

The Duo play an hour-long programme of flute and harp music from across Europe. The journey begins with Jacques Ibert and Jean Cras, before heading back to the UK for some arrangements of well-known British folk songs, alongside Three Romances by British harpist John Marson. The programme concludes in Italy with a Sonata by Nino Rota, perhaps best known for his film scores for Romeo and Juliet and The Godfather.

Tickets £10 at the door or from the Eastgate

Tripple

20 June 2026

Singing Trio

Tripple are siblings Cit and Annie Lennox and Mum, Jill Andrews.

With their name deriving from an old Scots word meaning to tap your feet to music or the meeting of two tides, Tripple marry close harmony and percussive vocables to reimagine traditional Scottish song.

Born from a love of North-East community singing and a curiosity to explore the similarity between related voices, Tripple create emotive and dynamic arrangements of well-known songs of the land and sea with harmony that is at once powerful and intricate.

Their music has taken them to maritime festivals across Europe, including Brittany, The Netherlands, and Germany.

Tripple released their first EP, ‘First Light’, at the end of 2025.

photo credit Nicky Murray Photography

Tickets £10 at the door or from the Eastgate

Duo Marier
25 July 2026

Guitar and cello duo

Duo Marier blend their classical training, pairing these two evocative string instruments and a love for genre-crossing creativity to explore everything from classical to jazz, folk, pop and beyond.

Austin Miller guitar and Neil Sild cello are both classically trained and have played as soloists and parts of string quartets and orchestras across the UK, including with the BBC Philharmonic and Scottish Ballet.

Tickets £10 at the door or from the Eastgate

No Borders Trio

29 August 2026

String trio

A string trio committed to breaking down barriers through music and storytelling in diverse communities across Scotland.

The trio (Frances Patterson violin, Suzanne Godet viola and Joanna Stark cello) are all graduates of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In 2023 they were recipients of the Glasgow UNESCO award scheme for their work in the dementia unit of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. They were selected for the Live Music Now Scotland scheme in 2024.

More recently the Trip toured the Jura region of France, and the Seil Islands with support from the Netherton Music Scheme, and earlier this year were awarded Chamber Music Scotland Small Venues Touring Fund to tour their new Soundbath concept across rural Scotland.

Tickets £10 at the door or from the Eastgate