“My voice is my passport” she now says. And what a voice; Warm, sweet, round, pure, pitch perfect, yet understated. Her first album ‘Song’, included material which embraced everything from jazz, the torch song, a Joni Mitchell cover (A Case Of You), and traditional South African music.

At heart it’s a classic rags to riches story which plays fast and loose with historical fact (there’s no evidence that Eva ever met Che Guevara) but what the heck, it’s a musical not a history lesson

With a new second album, ‘Loyalty to Loyalty’, in the shops now, and receiving very good reviews not only online but in the mainstream print media, coupled with a bourgeoning reputation as a riveting live act, now might be the time to sneak a peek at a band which seems to be pushing all the right buttons.

If all that wasn’t enough, we are promised five marching bands parading around the streets to keep us company as we shuffle from gig to gig.

It is considered his ‘masterpiece’, his most sensuous and scandalous work as a choreographer (Aguilar, who was also a ballet dancer, died in 1995), mixing the original Bizet score with sections of raucous flamenco dance

At the time, classical record labels were expressing much interest in the young prodigy and Kennedy was told that playing jazz in such a high profile way with Grapelli, would most likely put an end to his prospects of establishing a classical career. Characteristically, Kennedy said ‘sod it’ and went out and did the show anyway.

Two theatrical productions which, in their own way, are well worth seeing. We’ve already covered ‘Bug’ in the Theatre Nationale, but you might also want to check out ‘La Mégère apprivoisée’ (The Taming of the Shrew), outdoors at the Abbaye de Neumünster. The publicity seems to suggest it will be quite a spectacular production.

They are also Italian. And so one starting point of our production is to stay with Shakespeare’s torrid Latin setting. We choose to locate the production in Baroque Italy - the world of Casanova, Don Juan, Vivaldi and Bernini Italy, where clan violence, dignity, aristocracy, Catholicism, arranged marriages and chaste love are all imaginable. A world where the symbolic becomes real is a myriad statues and paintings that flit between love and death - Eros and Thanatos - the tension at the heart of this bloody romance.

Tracy Letts’ play ‘BUG’ premiered in London almost 13 years ago, from where it went on to have a successful run off Broadway in New York, garnering much critical praise and not a few awards in the process.

Having said that, we’ll begin our recommendations for this weekend with what’s said to be a pretty shocking, but very funny play, currently running at the National Theatre. ‘Bug’ is the work of American playwright Tracy Letts, who in 2008 also brought us the Tony and Pulitzer prize winning ‘August: Osage County’.