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DoomCannon is a London-based composer, producer & multi-instrumentalist spearheading a plethora of forward-thinking, improvised Jazz-inspired outfits such as TriForce & Project Karnak; now set to present his debut solo project in 2022. DoomCannon dabbled in flute and percussion from the age of eleven and classically trained in piano as a teenager where he joined the prestigious Kinetika Bloco youth performance group and training programme, a rite of passage for many of the catalysts of the British Jazz explosion such as brothers Theon & Nathaniel Cross, Mark Kavuma, Sheila Maurice Grey to name a few. Under the watchful eye of musical mentors Matt Fox (Kinetika Bloco) and Gary Crosby (Tomorrow's Warriors), DoomCannon mastered his craft and endeavoured on the Kinetika Bloco Leadership Programme becoming a teacher himself. Attending a fateful Jazz Re:freshed weekly session at MauMau bar, DoomCannon encountered saxophonist Ahnansé, they started playing together soon afterwards. DoomCannon garnered the attention of award-winning vocalist, Celeste, where he was invited to become Musical Director performing live at the Brit Awards and Later with Jools Holland. DoomCannon has been a band leader in projects like TriForce (alongside Mansur Brown) and Project Karnack, and has a reputation as a heavyweight player within the scene.

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DoomCannon (Stripped back W/ Friends) + Album Listening Party + DJs

DoomCannon

Gigs

London

The Jazz Social Pop-Up

Tune-Yards, the music project of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, is known for its vibrant fusion of indie pop, Afrobeat and experimental loops.

Emerging with the 2009 album BiRd-BrAiNs, recorded on a handheld recorder, Tune-Yards gained widespread acclaim with w h o k i l l (2011), which featured the breakout hit "Bizness" and won the Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll.

Garbus’ music is characterized by layered vocals, polyrhythmic beats, and socially conscious lyrics, tackling themes of race, privilege, and politics. Albums like Nikki Nack (2014) and I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life (2018) further solidified her reputation for pushing sonic and lyrical boundaries. The 2021 album sketchy. marked a return to raw, energetic songwriting.

Distraction, depression, and heartbreak reign supreme in 2025. “Making art in this day and age for me is a battle for focus; we’re in an age of interruption,” says Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards on sixth album Better Dreaming. Proudly waving an anti-fascist, liberation, freak flag, Better Dreaming contains some of Tune-Yards smoothest, funkiest, and most direct pop music to date, and yes, you can dance to it. Recorded as a duo, all but one of these songs are built around Merrill’s drum looping and rhythm building, as they were on some of their early albums like Bird-Brains and W H O K I L L.

Expect an evening of high-energy live performance and innovative production from Tune-Yards.

Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.

Tune-Yards

Powa

LuxJury

Royal Festival Hall - Southbank Centre

Adekunle Gold is a Nigerian born and bred singer-songwriter based between Lagos, Nigeria, and the US. He gained recognition from his very first release, "Sade" a love song which sampled instrumentals from One Direction's "Story of My Life" which led to him signing a recording contract just two weeks after its release.

Since then, Adekunle has released 4 albums: Gold (debuting at #7 on the Billboard World Albums Chart), About 30 (shortlisted for the GRAMMY® Best World Album), Afro Pop Vol 1 — which has amassed a staggering 680 million plus streams and spawned the global hit records "Okay" and "Something Different" — and Catch Me If You Can.

Released earlier this year, Adekunle Gold's fourth studio album Catch Me If You Can, has garnered almost 300 million streams and features collaborations with an array of top-tier talent including Ty Dolla $ign, Stefflon Don, Fatoumata Diawara and Fousheé and the hit singles "It Is What It Is," "Sinner" ft Lucky Daye, "High" ft Davido and "Mercy."

He has amassed 8.8M followers on Instagram, 3M followers on Twitter, and 662K followers on Youtube.  
  
For this one-off appearance, Adekunle Gold will be joined by the Guildhall Session Orchestra.

7+ (Under 12s must be accompanied by an adult)

Adekunle Gold + Guildhall Session Orchestra

Antidote (feat. Adekunle Gold)

Adekunle Gold

Award-winning Liverpool based ‘Neo-jazz star, Ni Maxine’ (NME) is one to watch. Her music moves between past and future, blending conscious lyricism, rich storytelling, and an unshakable sense of self. Themes of home, identity, self-worth, and belonging weave through her work, creating something that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant.

Winner of 'Breakthrough Act of The Year' at The Jazz FM awards 2025 and hailed by Black Ballad as 'a Black woman at the forefront of the UK scene,' Ni Maxine's songs carry the weight of lived experience and collective memory and create space for people to feel.

We Out Here, Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul, EFG London Jazz Festival, Africa Oyé, Brick Lane Jazz Festival, the Global Soul Showcase at the Jazz Cafe - wherever she plays, she pulls people in. A string of sold-out shows in 2024 has only added to the momentum, each one a reminder of her presence on stage. Opening for Corinne Bailey Rae on the Plum Red Lipstick tour was no exception.

The industry has been paying attention. Ni Maxine took home Best Original Track at the Youth Music Awards, locked in radio play from BBC Radio 1’s Victoria Jane Future Soul, Jamz Supernova on BBC Radio 6 Music, and Selector Radio, and delivered an iconic Soho Radio session. The tastemakers are talking. They know what’s coming.

Ni Maxine

One of the most influential and productive musicians of present-day Turkish music, singer-songwriter and producer Mabel Matiz returns to the London for his first Royal Festival Hall show.

Described by his fans as a modern-day Ashik, Mabel Matiz offers an impressive blended sound of maqam music, Anatolian folk melodies with synth, and urban pop. His innovative sound, poetic lyrics, and commitment to social justice have earned him a loyal fan base both in Turkey and abroad. He continues to be a leading figure in the Turkish music scene, and his music is sure to inspire and captivate audiences for years to come.

Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult 18+

Mabel Matiz

Aynur is one of the most prominent Kurdish singers of our times. Her impressive voice and extraordinary musical narration represent the Kurdish music heritage of her cultural roots as a global genre. Her unique voice infuses traditional Kurdish folk music with the contemporary sensibility of Western music. Over the past 25 years, she has created a timeless musical language, combining the treasures of Kurdish traditions with modern arrangements that connect generations and cultures.

Aynur is set for her first UK tour in Spring 2026, where she and her gifted ensemble shall revisit The Barbican, and also cities outside of London for the first time. Since her last performance at the London Jazz Festival in 2023, Aynur released her acclaimed album Rabe (meaning ‘stand-up’ or ‘rise-up’ in Kurdish), which secured the number one position on the Transglobal World Music Chart last year, and is described by Songlines Magazine as “one of her strongest albums”. Don’t miss your chance to see this multi award winning cultural icon in the UK in 2026.

5+ (Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult)

Aynur

Barbican Hall

Tony Ann is a Canadian pianist and composer blending classical precision with modern emotion.

With over 1 billion views, 300 million streams, and more than 6 million followers, he’s become a leading voice in contemporary piano music. His sold-out world tour has included iconic venues like the Olympia in Paris and London’s Barbican, and he is a 2025 JUNO Awards nominee. On October 17, 2025, Tony appears as the sole feature on global superstar Lang Lang’s new album “Piano Book 2,” performing a four-hands version of his diamond-certified single “ICARUS.”

In 2026 he returns to Europe’s most beautiful stages with the violin-cello duo ARKAI, with whom he has created orchestral versions of his signature pieces.

https://www.tonyann.com/

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Over 8's only. Under 16's must be accompanied by an adult 18+

Piano Pop Starring Tony Ann

Tony Ann

Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Bill Frisell’s trio featuring bassist Thomas Morgan and Rudy Royston on drums is musically nimble enough to go anywhere with Frisell in the most spontaneous manner. They have a command of the sizable ouevre of Frisell compositions, as well as the popular, folk and standard songs that Bill enjoys interpreting on an ongoing basis. The trio’s method is interactive, conversational and ready to groove at any moment, yielding fresh and surprising performances at every stop along the way.

Line Up

Bill Frisell, electric guitar

Thomas Morgan, acoustic bass

Rudy Royston , drums

“Guitar great Bill Frisell explores the creative freedom of the trio format on his new album, Valentine, alongside his longtime trio compadres bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston... this trio performs a wide-ranging program of Frisell compositions old and new as well as classics and standards, showcasing the profound musical relationship they have formed in their years of touring together.”

— JAZZIZ

“With Valentine, Frisell, Royston and Morgan revel in the tight but loose interplay that is a hallmark of the best groups, plying a course as deeply lyrical as it is adventurous. Feels like the beginning of a great adventure.”

— AllAboutJazz

Bill Frisell Trio

Re: Stacks - Radio Edit

Cadogan Hall

Julian Lage is a world-class guitar virtuoso and composer, hailed as one of his generation's greatest talents by critics and colleagues alike. Born in California and currently based in New York City, Lage began his musical career at a very young age, and has charted a colorful, ever changing, and ever innovative path since, one that has, so far, earned him five GRAMMY nominations, one Independent Music Award and countless invitations to collaborate with the best and brightest working in music today.

Lage's most recent studio release is 2024's critically acclaimed Speak to Me (Blue Note Records), which was nominated for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album at the 67th annual GRAMMY Awards. Over the course of his multi-decade career, Lage has collaborated with fellow musical heavyweights including Gary Burton, Yoko Ono, Jim Hall, John Zorn and more.

7+. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult. 

Julian Lage feat Medeski, Roeder and Wollesen

Nocturne

John Medeski

Jorge Roeder

Kenny Wollesen

Julian Lage

Jean-Philippe Rio-Py, known to the world as RIOPY, is a pianist and multi-instrumentalist composer with over a billion streams, sold-out concerts across continents, collaborations with the likes of Lana Del Rey, and a catalogue of albums that have topped the classical charts.

But beneath the numbers lies something far more human: a story of resilience, survival, and a man who has discovered sound as a vessel for healing. 2026 marks the release of RIOPY’s fifth album Be Love - an appeal born out of the artist’s awe-inspiring journey of rediscovery and defiance, and a refusal to let fear or illness silence him.

“It’s called Be Love because that’s the only thing that matters. Be love. And if we all love, then everything is fine,” he says simply.

Be Love will see RIOPY sing for the very first time on a release. The composer-instrumentalist has utilised numerous ways to produce sound, just never his own voice. “I had this compulsion, this need to use my voice, because I think it’s one of the biggest fears I’ve had through my life. But it’s something I really enjoy doing.” He shares, “I started just whispering… it’s not a new me, it’s just an expansion of what I do. It felt right, because I needed to do this.”

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