RSNO collaborates with award-winning Scottish folk musician Kris Drever for its first-ever Big Music Weekend Posted Fri 25 April 2025
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) launches its brand-new Big Music Weekend which takes place Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June in The Pyramid at Anderston. The RSNO’s Big Music Weekend features a host of activities for the whole family including workshops, cinema screenings and live music from the RSNO, Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra and Kris Drever, as well as delicious food from local vendors on sale throughout the weekend.
- A genre-defying weekend for the RSNO in Anderston
- The RSNO offers free and pay-what-you-feel workshops at its Big Music Weekend
- Yoyo & the Little Auk returns to the big screen
A genre-defying weekend for the RSNO in Anderston
Scottish folk musician and songwriter Kris Drever kicks off the Big Music Weekend accompanied by the RSNO for a concert that blends folk and classical, with arrangements by renowned fiddle player Chris Stout. Saturday night sees the RSNO perform Beethoven’s masterful Fifth Symphony and Mel Bonis’ brilliant hidden gem The Dream of Cleopatra under the baton of RSNO Assistant Conductor Derrick Morgan. Drawing the festivities to an appropriately triumphant close is the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra in a spectacular concert filled with invigorating Ellington classics and rarities.
The RSNO offers free and pay-what-you-feel workshops at its Big Music Weekend
Chamber groups from the RSNO provide background music for Chair Yoga (a chair-based movement class) and perform for Rebel Tango (a beginner-friendly dance session for adults). Hosted in partnership with Music Broth – a Glasgow-based musical instrument lending library – RSNO wind and brass players demonstrate their instruments and let participants have a go in a drop-in workshop, Gie Us a Toot! The RSNO’s Buggy Choir Taster Session offers new parents and carers a chance to focus on themselves and take part in group singing with their babies in tow. These workshops range in price from free to £5, with a pay-what-you-feel option at the Buggy Choir Taster Session and reduced ticket prices for members of The Pyramid at Anderston.
Yoyo & the Little Auk returns to the big screen
The RSNO’s beloved children’s animation Yoyo & the Little Auk returns to the big screen for a special showing featuring live music from Scotland’s National Orchestra. With special school-only performances in English and Gaelic and a public performance as well, the film introduces children to the wonders of classical music through an exciting adventure story. Throughout the weekend, free screenings of professionally recorded concerts play at the RSNO Concert Cinema, giving audiences the opportunity to see the Orchestra from new angles and come and go as they please.
The RSNO’s Big Music Weekend takes place in The Pyramid at Anderston on Friday 13, Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June 2025 with a variety of free, pay-what-you-feel and ticketed events. Tickets can be purchased at rsno.org.uk/big-music-weekend.