From June 09-18 2017, leading Bach interpreters will be exploring the »A Beautiful New Song « Musik and Reformation at the Bachfest Leipzig 2017, including the Leipzig St. Thomas’s Boys Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Vox Luminis, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Dunedin Consort, Mendelssohn Kammerorchester, Vozes del Ayre, Cameron Carpenter, Rick Erickson, Eric Erickson Chamber Choir, as well a large number of excellent choirs and orchestras from Leipzig.

The Riverboat Jazz Festival offers classic jazz with a Danish twist. The oldest jazz festival in Denmark began in 1966 and takes over the streets, squares and lakes of Silkeborg, in cafés, restaurants, churches, 4 large tents and, of course, aboard riverboats. With over 40,000 visitors, 80 bands, 140 free concerts and 30 ticketed jazz cruises, this is one of the biggest jazz festivals in Scandinavia. Styles range from New Orleans and Dixieland jazz to swing, gospel, big band and jam sessions.

Approximately 25,000 people visit the event organised by Nordland Musikkfestuke (Nordland Music Festival) during the Festival's 10 days in week 32 every year. This makes our festival one of the most important vehicles of classical music in the region, and one of the country's biggest festivals. The name itself indicates that the Musikkfestuke is meant to be a celebration of music, and preferably a Music Festival for everyone. The programme mainly consists of classical music, but the festival also finds room for jazz, folk music, music theatre, dance, pop, rock and other genres.