Music within 5 miles of Aberdeen

Eagles tribute act.

Lively ceilidh with local band Clachan Yell.

Sweeping and ethereal guitar-driven indie-rock by the platinum-selling four-piece from Glasgow to promote the album Later … When The TV Turns To Static.

Three office workers get their own back on their lying bigot of a boss and conspire to take over the company, all while singing along to 18 classic Dolly Parton numbers.

The urban pop diva and TV talent show 'coach' belts out the hits on this arena tour.

Roger Dean sings classics by the Man in Black and tells the story of his life, accompanied by band The Lazy Boys.

Exciting new jazz punk combo featuring ex-members of the supreme Acoustic Ladyland.

Musical show paying tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

Fans of Robert Schumann, clear those diaries in November: Robin Ticciati and the SCO are performing all the symphonies, with a couple of bonus concertos thrown in. This concert features Schumann's No 1 and No 4 symphonies, as well as Mozart's Piano Concerto No 25 K503 with guest soloist Paul Lewis. Symphony No 4 is…

Aaron Kernis' Newly Drawn Sky is a popular work by this respected American neo-romantic, and it's paired here with Grieg's Piano Concerto featuring Lars Vogt. Finally, Shostakovich's Symphony No 1 is full of youthful high spirits. Donald Runnicles conducts.

Metalcore and grove metal, with industrial elements, from the London-based five-piece.

Oxford teen songwriter in the Ed Sheeran mould.

A free, hour-long peek backstage at the inner workings, characters, scenes and high points of The Pirates of Penzance.

Join the Kettle team on a marvellous adventure deep into the jungle to see what creatures can be found there. There's colourful energy and singalong songs to get the whole family dancing in the aisles.

Indie and alt.pop by the band with members from Cheltenham and Birmingham.

Classical and chamber music, contemporary and traditional dance, jazz and theatre is on offer from a cast of rising international and local stars, with companies travelling from the USA, Russia, Middle East, Africa and Asia to perform.

The Aberdeen Sinfonietta is one of the leading musical ensembles in the North East, giving regular concerts and also providing orchestral support to choral societies in the area.

Nottingham alt.rockers.

Sarah Chang is the featured soloist in a true American classic: Barber's Violin Concerto, which appears directly after another one, the same composer's mournful Adagio for Strings. Lastly, Copland's Symphony No 3 is conducted by David Alan Miller of the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Christmas favourites presented by Jamie MacDougall and conducted by Stephen Bell.

American cello star Alisa Weilerstein okays Elgar's Cello concerto, plus there's Berlioz's Overture: Le Corsaire and Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4. Donald Runnicles conducts.

Denis Kozhukhin (piano) is the soloist for Rachmaninov's Concerto No 2, but there's also Nielsen's Symphony No 4 and A Freak in Burbank, an orchestral piece by the acclaimed young Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer, inspired in equal parts by Haydn and Tim Burton. (Tim Burton should do a Haydn biopic.) Thomas Dausgaard…

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…