Orchestra's bold as brass

A YOUTH orchestra plans to surprise Sunday shoppers with a flash mob orchestral procession through St James Shopping Centre.

Tinderbox Orchestra says several musicians will start the performance, making their way through St James Mall and picking up extra musicians as they go, who will emerge from shops, cafes, benches, and down escalators, culminating with the 20-piece orchestra busking in the shopping mall.

Leading the orchestra at 11.30am is Haftor Medboe, jazz musician in residence and lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, and Peter Nelson, composer and professor of music and technology at Edinburgh University.