Instrument: Band

David T Little’s Black Lodge, with a libretto by legendary poet Anne Waldman, receives its world premiere at the Philadelphia Film Center.

Gimmicks galore in this genre-hopping spectacle from the BBC Singers and world music fusion band Kabantu.

A feast of imagination and excellent performance. This modern Irish take on the classic ballet is funny, profound and moving.

Georgian ethno-jazz band Egari lifts the roof in Latvia in a highly original genre of traditional music played in contemporary style.

Brass bands and balletic phrases formed part of Rambert's new mixed bill at Sadler's Wells, which also including the world premiere of Mark Baldwin's big and bold celebration of Welsh mining tradition.

Hyde Park's Last Night of the Proms is a marathon specatcle, with highlights from Earth Wind and Fire, Rufus Wainwright and land lubbing ensemble The Fisherman's Friends.

This Late Night Prom put together a Battle of the Bands between two groups of musicains to represent the bands of Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Basie's and Ellington's bands never in fact battled it out in real life, so this showcased what might have been.