David Lynch

Jazz lovers in Greece will now have their own annual music celebration. It will take place at the Petra Theater in Petroupoli on September 13, 14, and 15, hosting the Jazzét Festival – 1st Hellenic International Jazz Festival.

It has entered film folklore as one of the great missed opportunities: the doomed 1970s adaptation of "Dune" that was supposed to bring together Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger and Pink Floyd.

The project famously collapsed after four years of work by cult Franco-Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, but now his storyboards are going up for auction in Paris on Nov. 22.

Respected Greek singers Elli Paspala and Maria Farantouri will appear together on the stage of Pireos 131 for Paspala's last concert of the season dedicated to jazz music. They will present a program of popular tunes by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.

American singer, songwriter and actress - best known internationally for her work with filmmaker and composer David Lynch - Chrysta Bell be playing Athens' Gazarte venue on Saturday, November 9.

Dora Bakopoulos, the artistic director of the Aegina International Music Festival, will be inaugurating the 14th edition of the annual event on the Saronic island on August 7. For almost three weeks, classical music aficionados will be able to enjoy performances by a plethora of musicians from Greece and abroad.

The next installation of the Athens Open Air Film Festival takes place on Friday, July 5, with a screening of David Lynch's "Lost Highway," a mystery thriller that follows a protagonist sentenced to death for murder. The film, which grossed $3.7 million in North America after three weeks, attracted a cult following for its confusing yet oddly intriguing screenplay.

More than 140 films that have been screened and/or awarded at leading European film festivals such as Cannes and Berlin make up the seven-week annual Tainiorama film panorama, taking place at the Asty cinema in downtown Athens from May 16 to July 3. There will be three screenings every night - starting at 6 p.m. - with films organized according to theme.

Running through Saturday, June 9, the Greek Jazz Panorama at the Onassis Cultural Center is dedicated to the new generation, featuring ensembles whose bandleaders are aged under 30 years old.

Costas Maginas (guitar, loops, samples), David Lynch (sax, fluter, percussion) and Semeli Tagara (vocals, guitar, loop) pay tribute the late, great Leonard Cohen every Saturday and Sunday through May 6 at the Skrow Theater. Shows start at 9 p.m. and tickets cost 12 euros.

Skrow Theater, 5 Archelaou, Pangrati,
tel 210.721.5842

Chrysta Bell, the singer and actress who has lent her voice to a number of emblematic tracks in David Lynch's surreal dramas, performs at Gagarin 205 on Wednesday, April 4, starting at 9 p.m. The artist will be performing songs from her latest album, "We Dissolve," as well as from the Lynch-produced "This Train" and "Somewhere in the Nowhere," among other work.