John Lyon – conductor
Alison Major – leader

Elizabeth Hardman - soprano

Beth Moxon – mezzo soprano

Johann Strauss II - Overture: Die Fledermaus

Puccini – La bohème: Mi chiamano Mimì

Puccini – Madama Butterfly: Tutti i fiori (Flower Duet)

Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin: Polonaise

Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier: Wie du warst

Weber – Der Freischütz: Und ob die Wolke

Bizet - Carmen: Suite No 1

Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Prelude

Saint-Saëns – Samson et Dalila: Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix

For his second Leeds Jazz Festival 2025 show, Leeds world music/global beats boss promoter Lubi Jovanovic is bringing the mambo and salsa fire to Belgrave Music Hall on Friday 23rd May. Live on stage, top 12 piece mambo/Afro-Cuban jazz/salsa ensemble Orchestra Mambo International. If you love the music of Latin legends Tito Puente, Ray Barretto and Eddie Palmieri, you will love this band.

Jazzleeds are pleased to welcome to Leeds Jazz Festival trumpeter Jay Phelps who has curated an exceptional show which will bring together the best of Miles Davis from 1958 and 1959. Canadian born Phelps has had a career spanning radio presenting for Jazz FM and Worldwide FM, as well as creating the Youtube documentary series Ear to the Ground. Jay has performed with some of the world’s top artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Shabaka Hutchings, Amy Winehouse and Wizkid.

Blur the Lines featuring Jamettone will be an innovative showcase of improvised live music and inspiring performances from Leeds based poets, rappers, singers and musicians.

It’s been quite the journey so far for Lence and Blur the Lines with sold out shows at Leeds Playhouse, an historic event at Leeds Library and multiple appearances at Leeds Literature Festival. This time they are joined by Jamettone, a collective of exceptional musicians who will be creating improvised instrumentals to accompany the artists on stage.

Longtime Leeds jazz/world music promoter Lubi Jovanovic (DJ Lubi), kicks off his 2025 Leeds Jazz Festival program at The Attic (Sheaf Street) on Thursday 22nd May.

Come celebrate from 6pm the 80th Anniversary of the Legend Bob Marley at the historical city of Leeds who in the 1970s came to Leeds Polytechnic (Leeds University) to a sell out crowd.

Years on the city still celebrates the blessings from concerts in 2024 Legend Tour @02 Academy Leeds, sell out at Leeds Grand Theatre and LCC Millennium Square summer series.

From the creators of Lioness, The Amy Winehouse Experience provide an authentic tribute to the precocious talent featuring Caroline Lowe as Amy Winehouse plus a full backing band to recreate the authentic sound of this heady mix of jazz, soul and pop. With a full stage show showcasing the talent of this songstress will take you on a journey through the emotional roller coaster of her song writing, guaranteed to have you singing and dancing along throughout the performance.

"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" (****) - Rolling Stone

“Jeffrey Lewis is an amazing musician, and if you don’t know his songs you probably have a hole in your heart that can only be filled by his words… I did!” – Regina Spektor

“Jeffrey is the best pure songwriter I know of... 'Sad Screaming Old Man’… is one of my favorite songs ever written” - David Berman (Silver Jews)

On October 18th, 2024, the acclaimed blues singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jerron Paxton will release his next album, Things Done Changed on Smithsonian Folkways. Once described as "virtually the only music-maker of his generation—playing guitar, banjo, piano, and violin, among other implements—to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and '30s” by the Wall Street Journal, the thirty-five-year-old’s latest collection is his first of all original songs.

Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let’s Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their most sophisticated effort to date.