The Tron Kirk will also transform into a new festival hub, a club that will open at 10:00 and run through to late evening - with performers from contemporary to vintage jazz.

BBC: Mud Morganfield

New festival elements this year include Cross the Tracks, a strand that throws the spotlight on contemporary, underground music influenced by jazz.

BBC: Mud Morganfield

Jazz clubs jump with everything from traditional Dixieland to more experimental contemporary music.

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Other top museums include the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, prominently featuring a Louise Bourgeois spider sculpture out front, the American Jazz Museum, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

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She's a jazz violinist with her own swing band and is known as a champion of contemporary American music.

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The project is called New Music 20x12 which covers a wide range of genres from contemporary classical, folk and opera in Scotland and Northern Ireland to bell ringing, beat boxing, jazz and brass band music in England and Wales.

BBC: Wonderbrass