Listings: Evening events

Jazzy, rootsy blues singer from lazy and mellow to infectious rock and boogie.

Classic swinging arrangements, and loads of hot jazz from an all-star international band featuring Evan Christopher (clarinet), Enrico Tommaso (trumpet) and Paolo Alderighi (piano) and led by bass maestro.

Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is one of the world’s truly great ensembles, famed for the nobility and sophistication of its orchestral sound, its velvety strings, golden brass and gleaming woodwind. The orchestra performs one of the greatest symphonic achievements in the repertoire. Gustav Mahler never lived…

Best known from David Lean’s 1945 film Brief Encounter, Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto is one of the most beloved works in the orchestral repertoire, a masterpiece of poignant nostalgia and glittering bravura, brimming over with unforgettable melodies. It launches the Russian National Orchestra’s two concerts…

Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky, widely acclaimed for his performances of Rachmaninov’s piano music, brings the passionate, fiery Third Concerto to the Russian National Orchestra’s second Festival concert. It is considered one of the most technically challenging concertos in the repertoire, combining astonishing…

Music for saxophone quartet including works by Jonathan Dove, Diana Salazar, Michael Torke, Joe Cutler, Barbara Thompson and György Ligeti performed by Karen Dufour, Michelle Melvin, Gillian Skingley and Lynsey Payne.

A half gleeful, half disturbing wander around the insides of Seymour's warped mind.

Young London-based playing older styles of jazz, The Shirt Tail Stompers have quickly made a name for themselves all over Europe with their heady brew of music for listening and dancing by Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Wingy Manone and many others, with even references to the 30s British swing scene of Nat Gonella.

Hamburg’s best hot jazz and swing quartet play 1920s, 30s and 40s classics.

Musical comedy and consistent laughs from Silky's second solo show.

Quick-witted and cynical, Evans is, in his latest show, Leashed (as opposed, we imagine, to 'unleashed').

Growing up can make you a little crazy! Just ask Laurel, a woman facing for the first time the world of dating, love, life and independence…which would be so much easier if she wasn’t still married! www.tastymonsterproductions.com.

The Sixteen is one of Britain’s most accomplished choral groups. This wide-ranging concert contrasts the glories of English and Scottish vocal music old and new, from the Renaissance splendour of Thomas Tallis to the powerful contemporary sounds of James MacMillan. Tallis’s grand Spem in alium, which gives the concert its…

Riotous comedy cabaret troupe. Astonishing physical skills and orchestrated mayhem. Tiger taming, bullet catching, knife throwing, motorbike madness. Part Monty Python, part Cirque du Soleil. 'Comedy magic' (Independent). 'Laugh out loud entertainment' (Evening Standard). ‘Pure showmen’ (Stage).

Music for your brain and body. Brooklyn's Snarky Puppy bring their dazzling, genre-bending, jazz/funk/dance fused sounds to the Festival. Not many bands can combine raw funk with sensitive dynamics, relentless groove and lyrical melodicism, lush harmony and soulful simplicity, and most importantly, composition and…

Stan Tracey is an outstanding figure in the jazz world. His distinguished career has spanned six decades of flourishing creativity. His capricious piano playing combines the percussive melody of Thelonious Monk with the robust lyricism of Ellington in a highly idiosyncratic style. A master of harmony, he possesses a…

Alternative hip hop from Scotland.

Grossman studied fingerstyle blues with the originals – Rev Gary Davis, Mississipi Fred McDowell and Son House, and in the 60s he brought his guitar to Britain influencing and playing with a range of musicians from Bert Jansch and John Renbourn to Eric Clapton. He’s a master of a range of styles - ragtime guitar, country…

Ragtime aficionado and virtuosic piano playing.

Amazingly, Harlem stride, ragtime and boogie-woogie piano is back in fashion. Why? Because two thrilling young pianists, who make their Festival debuts this year, have arrived from St Louis and Milan, both playing as though James P Johnson, Fats Waller and Willie the Lion Smith were out there challenging them to cutting…

Taiwanese band Sizhukong blend jazz idioms with traditional Taiwanese/Chinese folk music into an exotic mix of striking melodies and shifting tempos. Beautiful and beguiling Scottish folk music taken into the future with guitarist, Graeme Stephen, and piper, whistle player and saxophonist Fraser Fifield.

The band that sets the standard for modern, bluesy Cajun music. From the bayous of South Louisiana, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, enjoy the revelry of a hot two-step, then turn on a dime and deliver an a cappella ballad, then play something that sounds like Howlin’ Wolf fell in lust with a Creole girl. This is the…

One of the big hits of last year's Festival was the collaboration between Sardinian saxophonist, Enzo Favata, and Scottish musicians, Colin Steele and Dave Milligan. They're back, and with a really special 12 piece group, consisting of six Scottish and six Italian musicians, all leading players. Their music is rooted just…