DRUMMING UP FESTIVAL FUN

Celebrating 75 years of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, with the Edinburgh Festival season in full swing, proficient drummers from the Tattoo Pipes and Drums and Switzerland’s Top Secret Drum Corps teamed up with award-winning, high-energy household spectacular The Box Show to carry a vibrant mashup of drumming to Assembly George Square Gardens.

Attracting world audiences with their rousing performances on Edinburgh Castle Esplanade, and dramatic entrances throughout Edinburgh Castle’s historic drawbridge, the Tattoo Pipes and Drums have been an integral a part of the Tattoo because it first launched in 1950. 
 
Turning strange junk into extraordinary funk, Australian manufacturing The Box Show completed a significant tour in China earlier than bringing its all-ages sensation to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, delighting audiences with a efficiency that guarantees to be fast-paced, humorous and stuffed with surprises.  
 
This thrilling Scotland-Australia crossover isn’t just for immediately, as in February 2026, the Tattoo shall be happening beneath and touring the present throughout Australia and New Zealand.  
 
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo takes place on the Edinburgh Castle Esplanade every night time all through this 12 months’s seventy fifth anniversary present, which runs till 23 August. Tickets could be bought at edintattoo.co.uk/tickets or name 0131 225 1188. 
 
The Box Show shall be carried out on the Gordon Aikman Theatre at Assembly George Square, Tuesday – Sunday till 24 August. Tickets could be bought at edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/the-box-show or name 0131 226 0026.