Playing traditional rock and blues hits, plus a sprinkling of modern dance tunes

Dubai’s most reliable regular arty event

This time the concert promoter Vitali Mihailiuc is bringing an accordionist-virtuoso Eugeniu Negruta, who will be performing with the L&V piano duo the passionate and dramatic tango music by Astor Piazzolla, Richard Galliano and Carlos Gardel

French DJ and producer Alexkid guests at this top alternative electronic night, plus resident Shadi Megallaa

Expect to hear a programme including Dvorák, Mozart and more from this internationally renowned Viennese string quartet. Presented by the Dubai Concert Committee, free tickets are available to non-members who register on the night

One third of India’s ‘first reggae soundsystem’, Reggae Rajahs, MoCity is credited with helping bringing a taste of Jamaica to the subcontinent, while the group host their own Dubstation festival

A local showcase with Costas Papa and Nasrawi spinning at this emerging underground night, hosted in a gritty basement venue

After taking some time out, bassheads’ haven AudiOasis launches in a new home and with their first international guest

If your tots love a good story, book them into one of the free Sunday storytelling sessions at the Old Library at Ductac

Detriot’s Delano Smith guests at this emerging underground night, hosted in a gritty underground basement

Plastician was one of the originators of dubstep, a Tempa artist who hung with Benga, Skream and co at Croydon’s Big Apple Records where the genre is widely considered to have been born

Dubai’s most reliable regular arty event serves up old-school hip-hop, funk, Afrobeat, world grooves and more

This new weekly house night, hosted in the alternative Barsha club, is picking up quite a buzz with some decent international guests

Deeply Routed Music founder DJ Deep guests for this underground electronic night, plus sets from residents Siamak Amidi and Mehdi

Long-standing Dubai DJ and producer Wriggly Scott (aka DJ Solo) left Dubai last year – but he must have missed the sun because now he’s back as a very special international guest to headline the fantastically fuzzy, bassy, boogie night he founded

A trio of underground Dubai DJs launch their own psytrance label with sets from Psycoustix, Trailoka and Fraktal Sequence, plus some swirling visual action

Award-winning DJ, producer, radio presenter, and all-round dubstep don N-Type guests for the Something Big team, who move to a new home at the more intimate Catwalk

This respected nine-piece American vocal ensemble perform for the Dubai Concert Committee

Karaoke nights with DJ Chris

The Bassworx team launch their brand of drum‘n’bass, dubstep, electro and more at a new home

The Dubai community will hear a fascinating violin and piano duet presented by the pianist Vitali Mihailiuc in the concert Sounds of Strings

Andy Smith is best known for supplying beats and glitches to Portishead’s seminal Dummy and Portishead albums

Indian musical concert by Ustad Rashid Khan and Hariharan

Persian-Hungarian quartet Golestan perform works drawn from their fourth album, Baroonday