Listings: July

Just A Minute/One Show Gyles won multiple five stars for his last Edinburgh sell-out. Now the award-winning raconteur and ex MP explores the secrets of How to Be Happy. 'Incredibly funny, wildly indiscreet' (Daily Mail).

Songs, sketches, falsetto and violence, laced with a sci-fi theme from the ever popular Sock Puppets.

Winnie McGoogan from Mrs Brown's Boys. Eilish O'Carroll tells her own life story with unflinching honesty and humour in this award-winning play. ‘Heart-warming, funny and thought-provoking … a tour de force.’ (Cork Echo). Book early!

After a triumphant Radio 2 series, the New Age guru, psychic and medium returns; passing on messages, making predictions and telling fortunes. 'Fantastically original and funny enough to kill you from asphyxiation' (Magic Circle Magazine).

A consummate jazz singer swing, charm, crystal clear diction and effervescent good humour.

Sue McKenzie has been around the jazz and contemporary music scene in Scotland for some time, but never as a band leader until now. She’s the lady with the gloriously pure, rich saxophone sound – in Salsa Celtica and the Scottish Saxophone Quartet. Now she’s put together a band with a very special sound of its own…

Tron Kirk, 10.30-4pm, £10 (or individually priced slots); 10.30-11.30am Sandy Tweeddale solo Top blues guitarist/vocalist (£2); noon-1pm Sue McHugh & Campbell Normand Sultry vocal jazz (£4); 1.30-2.30pm SZK Sizhukong Beautiful fusion of jazz, with Chinese instruments; 3-4pm The California Honeydrops Infectious…

An exhibition tracing the imagined history of a teak bed found in a Singapore junk shop back to the tree from which it was made, incorporating photographs, prints, collages and an award-winning short film.

Muddy Waters’ eldest son has got a new band together and taken the blues world by storm. Amazingly, he sounds just like his father, and the band play his classic hits: “Hoochie Coochie Man”, “I’m Ready”, “Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son”… This is the classic Chicago electric blues that Muddy is generally held to have…

Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, He made his name with expressionistic, free jazz in John Coltrane's late ensembles of the mid-'60s, and then on a series of modal/free classic albums under his own name, he’s gone on to embrace…

Festival debut for super-charged American saxophone star with her big swinging, bop–based, all female band. A young lion on the New York jazz scene, a long time member of Beyoncé’s band, and now musical director with Esperanza Spalding. Fuller’s band play some of the most exciting music on the current US scene, packed…

Tron Kirk, 10.30-4pm, £10 (or individually priced slots); 10.30-11.30am Al Hughes solo Gritty Delta blues and eerily atmospheric acoustic slide guitar (£2); noon-1pm SZK Sizhukong Beautiful fusion of jazz and Chinese music (£4); 1.30-2.30pm Paolo Alderighi solo Ebullient swinging stride piano from Italian maestro (£4)…

All female young Australian quintet play straight ahead swinging modern jazz.

Continuing the carnival atmosphere – the twelve Italian brass, reeds and drums play party music from wild Balkan dances to traditional Mediterranean marches and Latino jazz. Uplifting.

From the boom of the 50’s and 60s to today, the undisputed kings of traditional jazz in Britain have been Ball, Barber and Bilk - the "Three Bs". Kenny Ball passed away earlier this year, but his son has stepped in to lead the band, and enabled us to present the classic three band concert one more time. Each band plays…

Trombonist and singer, Dave Batchelor, runs one of the most entertaining traditional jazz bands in Scotland. Classic dixieland jazz played with real verve and rhythmic punch by some of Scotland's finest jazz musicians: Colin Steele (trumpet), Hamish McGregor (saxes/clarinet). Fraser Spiers (harmonica), Alastair MacDonald…

Step back to the early 1920s, to the birth place of jazz: to the music of the bars and dance halls of New Orleans: Louis, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver. Swinging sounds delivered with real conviction, spirit and passion from this hugely popular Edinburgh group, led by banjoist, Bill Salmond, and tonight in an all star…

Rare Edinburgh show by the great jazz drummer and his classic swinging trio.

The top Scottish blues band are back in the Spiegel Tent for a hard driving, good time blues and boogie night. Over the years, they have played alongside Robert Cray, Pinetop Perkins, Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, and famously with Maggie Bell last year, but its their own Chicago blues inspired sound…

The piano maestro has been back and forth to Copenhagen regularly in recent years, building a reputation for himself in one of Europe’s great jazz cities. Now he’s formed a band which features two great local residents – Daniel Franck (bass) and Niclas Camapgnol (drums). New musicians, but they play the powerful, swinging…

CD launch by charismatic singer with firepower quartet - Graeme Stephen (g), Paul Harrison (keys), Mario Caribe (b) and Stu Ritchie (d).