Afternoon events, Music

A three-day rock and pop event featuring on Friday Calvin Harris, Chase And Status, Dizzee Rascal, Rudimental, Pete Tong and pothers. Saturday's performers include Biffy Clyro, The Vaccines, Two Door Cinema Club, Labrinth and Foals and Sunday finishes with Bruno Mars, Paramore, Thirty Seconds To Mars, The Script and Haim…

The seven-piece outfit plays lively Celtic folk.

The veteran group led by singing duo Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin, performs its pop and dance hits including Robert De Niro's Waiting…, Love In The First Degree and Venus.

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.

One of the region's best traditional bands, Hexham Brass, plays outside the front of Belsay Hall. An ideal way to enjoy some superb music. Please feel free to bring your own deck chairs or rugs.

• Directed by: Paul Hilliam (cond)
• Written by: Beethoven

Paul Hilliam conducts Butterworth's The Banks Of Green Willow, Mozart's Violin Concerto, Vaughan Williams's Fantasia On Greensleeves and Beethoven's Symphony No 7.

The pianist performs a selection of classical works.

Rock and pop covers performed by the trio.

A performance by student musicians.

The London-based four-piece plays soulful rhythm'n'blues.

Contemporary folk-rock songs by the band based in Wiltshire.

Blues session.

• Directed by: Nicholas Kok (cond)
• Written by: Sir Harrison

Nicholas Kok conducts Gustav Holst's Choral Hymns from The Rig Veda, Imogen Holst's Hallo, My Fancy, Whither Wilt Thou Go? and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Moth Requiem.

Musical classics from the big screen, conducted by Matt Dunkley and presented by Jamie MacDougall.

Towards the end of the Cold War, the late Lewis Thomas wrote that listening to Mahler's Symphony No 9 made him think about 'death everywhere, the dying of everything, the end of humanity'. There's no doubt that Mahler had something similar in mind, even if he did his best to complete a tenth symphony before bacterial…

Donald Runnicles conducts a completion by the great Robert Levin of Mozart's unfinished masterpiece, also featuring the National Youth Choir of Scotland and guest soloists Miah Persson (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor) and Neal Davies (bass). But first, young American virtuoso Alisa Weilerstein is…

• Directed by: Marc Minkowski (cond)
• Written by: Roussell

Marc Minkowski conducts Poulenc's Figure Humaine and Concerto For Two Pianos And Orchestra In D Minor, Roussell's Symphony No 3 and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite. With pianist Guillaume Vincent and David Kaddouch.

• Directed by: Francois-Xavier Roth (cond)
• Written by: Berlioz

Francois-Xavier Roth conducts Berlioz's L'enfance Du Christ.

A musical learning-based event for young people with special learning needs.

Three-day rock, indie and pop event featuring Django Django, Local Natives, Solange, John Talabot, Savages, Fucked Up, Dutch Uncles, Theo Parrish, Moon Duo, Lunar C, Gabriel Bruce, Paradise, East India Youth, and many more.

Contemporary folk by the Essex-born singer-songwriter.