We dedicate the programme to Toumani Diabate (1975- 19 July 2024) with Ali Farka Toure, Vieux Farka Toure, Boubacar Traore, Rokia Traore, Salif Keita.

Featuring Grace Bowers (!), Christone Kingfish Ingram, Albert King, Michael Kiwanuka, Hollies Smith and more!

Kayhan Kalhor from Iran with Ali Bahrami Fard, Madjid Khaladj, Toumany Diabate & Yo yo Ma Silk Road Ensamble.

Albums: I will not stand alone 2012, Voices of the shades 2011, The Sky is the same colour everywhere 2023, SIng Me Home 2016.

Homage to Jazz composer, arranger, band leader and teacher Rodger Fox 1953-2024

Live at Montreux, Rodger Fox Plays NZ and Midge Marsden and R F are back in town.

New Zealand / Aotearoa Big Band Jazz

Acoustic guitarists, maestros and virtuosos from Brasil, Yamandu Costa, Maria Haro, Carlos Chaves, Camargo Guarnieri / Yo-Yo Ma, Hamilton de Holanda and more!

Tabla player extraordinaire Zakir Hussain has been playing since the seventies with people like John McLaughlin, the group Shakty, many jazz musicians and traditional Indian musicians. Zakir will be playing in Auckland on 29 June with Kala Ramnath and Jayanthi Kumaresh.

Rock from Porto Alegre, Brasi - - in support of floods in southern Brasil. , Wander Wildner, TNT, Bide ou Blade, Ultram,en, engenheiros do Hawaii, Nei Van Soria and more

Playlist by Rafael Becerra. Kip Hanrahan's albums: «Coup de Tête» (1981), «Desire Develops an Edge» (1984), «Vertical's Currency» (1984), «Days and Nights of Blue Luck Inverted» (1988), and others. Musicians: Jack Bruce, Don Pullen, Steve Swallow, Orlando 'Puntilla' Arias, Ignacio Berroa, and many more.

MUSIC AND MUSICIANS FROM OAXACA, MEXICO. Zapotecos de Juchitan, Lila Downs, Suusana Harp, Mixes del rio Pchini, La Marimba del estado de Oaxca, Geo Meneses, Alejandra Robles, Huaves de San Mateo del Mar

Afro Jazz from East and West Africa, featuring Sean Kuti, Made Kuti, Fela Kuti, Newen Afrobeat, Janalle Monaem and more...