Summer that time of year when there are more music festivals than you can shake a stick at. Rock, electronic, classical, two day, three day, week long you name it there is a festival for it. Now if you like Jazz (Niiiice!), San Sebastian’s Jazzaldia is taking place from the 23rd-27th of July and features a top line-up of national and international jazz artists.

The smooth rounds of jazz are going to float on the summer breeze when the 48th edition of Jazzaldia returns to San Sebastian from the 24th to the 28th of July 2013. This year organisers have put together a world class festival, featuring some of the biggest names in jazz and pop including John Zorn, Diana Krall, Jamie Cullum and Elvis Costello.

In a few days time, San Sebastian will be spreading out the red carpet in order to welcome in the San Sebastian International Film Festival 2012. This year, this event will celebrate its 60th birthday, but it’s very far from retirement, and wants to show its youngest, most dynamic face. So now you know, from the 21st to the 29th of September, leave the popcorn at home, and prepare your best finery so you can blend in with the screen and discover the best of current cinema.

The Big Week in Donostia is part of the Spanish tradition of the fiesta mayor – a riotous, yet family-friendly once-a-year celebration of the whole town, city or village, normally held in summer. With the cultural credentials that San Sebastián maintains, this Basque city’s annual party has never failed to be anything less than an eye-opening, jaw-dropping success.

This weekend tickets for several Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts went on sale. The musicians are on their 2012 European tour and madness has broken out!

Euskal Jaiak refers to a celebration of Basque culture and traditions, normally taking place during the first week of September. In 2011, it will be held from the 1st to the 11th of September.

Not long now! It is not long now before the San Sebastian Film Festival kicks off, the biggest film contest in Spain. Combining high quality international cinema with independent films focusing particularly on Spanish and Latin-American productions, this prestigious festival becomes more popular every year.

Of the three major jazz festivals taking place this July in the Basque country, the one celebrated in San Sebastian is by the far the most famous and most prestigious in Spain. With more than 40 editions of the event now under their belt (the first edition was in 1966), the festival has always been open to all styles and trends within the genre, converting it into a reflection of the history of modern jazz. All the main jazz figures of the last decades have performed in San Sebastian.

Place, Montjuïc Luis Companys Olympic Stadium, time, 18:00, the 27th of July 2011 as the confirmed concert date….What are we talking about? Nothing more and nothing less than the Bon Jovi concert in Barcelona, that as mentioned previously will be taking place this summer in the Catalan capital.