HARROGATE International Festival's 50th anniversary celebrations will continue with the return of its "most flamboyant event" next month.

Last in Harrogate for a week-long festival in late-May and June 2014, the Spiegeltent, the exotic cabaret venue with a bar, will be resurrected in Crescent Gardens from September 10 to 17.

Originally built in Belgium during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as travelling tents for European entertainers, only a handful of Spiegeltents are still in use today, with two of them forming the White Rose Rotunda and The Turn Pot at York's Great Yorkshire Fringe in Parliament Street last month.

In Harrogate, the bohemian mirrored walls, wooden floors, stained glass, red velvet booths and lamped lighting will play host to live music, burlesque and the Silent Disco, as they did in the spa town previously for The Gypsy Queens, Kitten And The Hip, Eliza Carthy, the House of Burlesque, Django a la Creole, Gabby Young & Other Animals, Silent Disco and literary talks.

Kicking off the Spiegeltent programme on September 10 will be the Parisian vintage dance ensemble Benoit Viellefon and His Orchestra, whose international musicians are reminiscent of Duke Ellington's band.

Guest curator Jay Phelps, the Canadian trumpeter and Ronnie Scott’s regular, will lead his fiery swinging jazz quartet on September 12. New Phelps compositions from his upcoming album will be aired for the first time in Harrogate, most notably his festival commission, Amphitrite’s Bounty.

Named after the goddess of the sea and fused with Harrogate's spa water history, this piece is "dedicated to our plentiful and ever-expansive oceans, without which there would be no life".

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Spiegeltent curator and trumpter Jay Phelps

The following night, Phelps and American tenor saxophonist Brandon Allen will return, teaming up with a British rhythm section of pianist Rick Simpson, bassist Mark Lewandowski and drummer Shane Forbes for Projection Of Miles, a celebration of Miles Davis’s life and work.

Phelps has booked joyful London folk singer Eska for September 14. Championed by Jamie Cullum and Laura Mvula, nominated for the Mercury Prize in 2015 for her self-titled debut album, she has collaborated with Grace Jones, Zero 7 and Bobby McFerrin and drawn comparisons with Joni Mitchell.

BBC Radio 6Music soul presenter, DJ, poet and Coronation Street actor Craig Charles will be on the decks for his Funk'n'Soul Show on September 15. House Of Burlesque, sell-out stars of the 2014 Spiegeltent, will follow up their West End residency and sixth season at London Wonderground with a Harrogate return on September 16, led by showgirl superstar Miss Tempest Rose. Expect "fan-dancing divas, tantalising tassel-twirlers, cabaret and circus glitterati and everything in between in a gin-soaked fabulous live show".

That night will end with the chance to "grab your headphones and experience a feast of musical choices by choosing your own spinning tunes via the medium of silent disco".

My Darling Clementine's Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish will pay homage to classic country duets in the festival finale on September 17.

In addition to these 7.30pm shows, free lunchtime sessions at 12.30pm will feature the acoustic Sandrani Duo on September 15, world music from Manjula on September 16, and 19 year-old saxophonist, pianist and composer Alexander Bone, winner of the 2014 BBC Young Musician of the Year Jazz Award, on September 17.

For tickets and listings, visit harrogateinternationalfestivals.com or phone 01423 562303.