Music

R&B, pop and soul from the Trinidad-born singer best known for the hits When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going and Love Really Hurts Without You.

Lady banjo players extraordinaire tour their bluegrass ballads.

• Written by: E. Grieg

The orchestra performs Vivaldi's Concerto For Violin No 4 In A Minor, Ponchielli's Concerto In F For Trumpet, Bach's Double Concerto For Two Violins In D Minor, Corelli's Concerto Grosso In D, Faure's Pavane and Grieg's Holberg-Suite.

The veteran, chart-topping singer and actor, born Harry Webb, known for the hits Living Doll, Summer Holiday, Devil Woman and The Young Ones, performs rock'n'roll, pop and gospel.

A host of local and international blues artists play, and watching is completely free of charge.

A co-headlining tour from the American band best known for the hit Don't Stop Believin' and David Coverdale's veteran Middlesbrough-formed hard rockers.

Glamorous Amorous! The Lady Boys of Bangkok are back with a fabulous new show for 2013! Dripping with diamante and sizzling on stage with new songs and side splitting comedy. From J-Lo to Whitney, the stars and chart-topping hits just keep on coming. Party like there’s no tomorrow with The Lady Boys of Bangkok: Europe's…

A mix of original, former and new members of 60s group The Manfreds perform a selection of their hits along with R&B faves from their best-known albums.

Folk and blues from the singer-songwriter and guitarist.

• Written by: Brahms

The clarinettist and pianist perform Weber's Grand Duo Concertante, Brahms's Clarinet Sonata No 1 In F Minor, Milhaud's Scaramouche, Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata, Gershwin's Three Preludes and Milton's Carmen Fantasy.

Powerful rhythms and theatrical choreography from the energetic drumming group.

Collaboration between Toronto neighbours Norman Blake of Teenage Fanclub and Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers playing new material and songs from their back catalogues.

• Written by: Maurice Ravel

The group performs Bartok's Sonata For Two Pianos And Percussion, Ravel's Bolero and Matthew Hindson's Pulse Magnet.

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…

A three day festival which captures the varied music traditions of the north of Scotland, so there's everything from bothy ballads to Burns as well as Celtic, folk, Americana and Irish influenced music. There is also a range of sessions, workshops and storytelling from local performers and musicians.

Indie rock line-up.

Gilbert and Sullivan's evergreen satirical opera about the love between a lowly sailor and a captain's daughter.

Antonin Dvořák's Cello Concerto is one of the great concertos, odd since its composer claimed not to like the cello as a concerto instrument and always swore he'd never write one (and when he did, he promised the solo part to his cellist friend Hanus Wihan but then gave it to somebody else). Here, the soloist is Norwegian…

The singer and guitarist blends urban folk and Middle Eastern blues.

The Searchers have survived multiple line-up changes as well as a schism of People's Front of Judea-style bitterness, the echoes of which twang across the internet to this day. Longest-lasting original member John McNally leads the band that gave us 'Needles and Pins' and 'Sweets for my Sweet'.