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Tim Kliphuis - Tribute to Stephane Grappelli Palazzo Spiegelent 6.30-8pm Price - £12.50 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) The Dutch violinist is one of Europe’s foremost gypsy swing jazz fiddlers, and here he is, with his classic Trio – Nigel Clark/guitar, Roy Percy/bass – turning the spotlight on the man who brought the charm and wizardry to the Parisian Hot Club jazz scene, and went on to delight audiences all over the world. Grappelli’s seemingly carefree style and bountiful technique changed the way people thought about jazz violin and Kliphuis is brilliant at recreating the wonderful sound and easygoing fun that the maestro brought to jazz.  

Tia Fuller The Queen's Hall 8.30pm Price - £20/£15 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)    Festival debut for super-charged American saxophone star with her big swinging, bop–based, all female band. A young turk on the New York jazz scene, a long time member of Beyoncé’s band, and now musical director with Esperanza Spalding. Fuller’s band play some of the most exciting music on the current U.S. scene, packed with grooves and dazzling solos.

The Reverend Peyton's Big ***** Band
Palazzo Spiegeltent 9.15pm
Price - £15 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
Right out of rural Indiana comes The Reverend Peyton's Big ***** Band. This fingerpickin', scrubboard scratchin', drum-bucket country blues trio conjure up such greats as Son House and Charley Patton. They apply great musicianship to direct and powerful blues with great songwriting, and a killer live show. They’ve had three top ten Billboard blues records, and toured 20+ countries, but are still rooted in the
Southern Indiana hills. The Big ***** Band features the vocals and guitar of "Reverend" Josh Peyton, his wife Breezy Peyton on washboard/vocals and Aaron Persinger on drums.

Inspirational gospel music, blended with R&B, blues, funk and soul from one of the hippest acts in Nashville. Ann, Deborah, Regina and Alfreda have been steeped in blues and gospel music their whole lives as daughters of the Rev. Sam McCrary, founding member of legendary gospel quartet The Fairfield Four. The sisters are the go to gospel band of the moment and have worked alongside Dr John, Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder.

The California Honeydrops
Palazzo Spiegeltent 9.30pm
Price - £12 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
Turn up at a good time New Orleans funky joint, a crossroad country blues place, an old style woodshed honky tonk anywhere across the States and you won’t find a band that gets an audience going more than the San Francisco Bay Area’s Honeydrops. Soul, blues, gospel, New Orleans jazz and early r’n’b – they don’t see the difference – all that matters is the feel-good time everyone’s having. Soulful vocals, blues-drenched sax, bright trumpet, in the pocket rhythm groove, this is hip swinging, finger-snapping party music for packing dancefloors.

Sunday Blues AfternoonJohn Bruce Band plays the Allman BrothersTerry Harmonica Blues and Jo Harman
Palazzo Spiegeltent 1pm - 4pm
Price - £12.50 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
Terry Bean is the real Delta blues deal. From Mississippi, he picked cotton when he was young, and learned the blues from his father; he plays guitar and foreceful harmonica and sings with a powerful and plaintively soulful tone. Introducing Jo Harman’s evocative and compelling voice from slow burning ballads to growling rockers – a star in the making.

Sue MacKenzie Dark Grooves and Brian Kellock Copenhagen Trio
Eastgate Theatre, Peebles 7.30pm
Price - £12 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
A fantastic double bill. Atmosphere and groove from saxophonist, Sue MacKenzie and swinging modern jazz from dazzling pianist Brian Kellock and his Danish Trio.

Submotion Orchestra Liquid Rooms 7.00-10.00pm Price - £13 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee) Ages 18+ The Submotion Orchestra whip up a heady brew of soul, jazz and electronica into their instrumental treatment of dubstep. They can produce absolutely hypnotising sets where rolling bass-lines combine with layers of rhythm and somehow leave room for improvisational horn lines and gorgeous, soaring vocals (from the sensational Ruby Wood). Hauntingly textured melodies - ‘It blew me away…Somewhere between Cinematic Orchestra and dubstep – just right!’ – Gilles Peterson

Stone IslandsEnzo Favata, Dave Milligan, Colin Steele The Queen's Hall 8.00pm Price - £16/£12.50 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)  One of the big hits of last year's Festival was the collaboration between Sardinian saxophonist, Enzo Favata, and Scottish musicians, Colin Steele and Dave Milligan. They're back, and with a really special 12 piece group, consisting of six Scottish and six Italian musicians, all leading players. Their music is rooted just as much in European folk musics - from the Mediterranean islands to the North Atlantic islands - as it is in jazz, and their spirited playing finds constant connections between Italian and Scottish traditions, as well as inspiring beautiful melodies and some astonishingly moving music. An Edinburgh Jazz Festival/ Musica Sulle Bocche co-production  

Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
Palazzo Spiegeltent - 8.30pm
Price - £15 (plus 50p per ticket booking fee)
The band that sets the standard for modern, bluesy Cajun music. From the bayous of South Louisiana, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, enjoy the revelry of a hot two-step, then turn on a dime and deliver an a cappella ballad, then play something that sounds like Howlin’ Wolf fell in lust with a Creole girl. This is the most Cajun music you can find in any one spot. Fiddle and accordion, infectious grooves and a foot-stomping five-piece band. This is the real thing!