Events: Arizona - Phoenix - Scottsdale

The Arizona Musicfest Winter Festival’s 26th season includes 18 concerts featuring Grammy Award winners Chris Botti, Manhattan Transfer and Patti Austin and Kennedy Center Honoree Mavis Staples on a schedule showcasing classical, jazz, bluegrass, Broadway, pop, folk and rock-and-roll tribute-band concerts.

Performances begin on Jan. 27 with Botti’s uniquely expressive sound and soaring musical imagination at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church, 9050 E. Pinnacle Peak Road.  Tickets are $34 to $82.

The schedule through March 10 includes:

• Young Musicians Winter Concert, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m. at Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd., Phoenix. Tickets: $20.

• Mirage: Visions of Fleetwood Mac, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $67.

• Nicole Pesce (Arizona Spotlight Artist), Feb. 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Fairway House at Grayhawk, 8620 E. Thompson Peak Parkway, Scottsdale. Tickets: $52.

• The Manhattan Transfer, Feb. 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $34-$76.

• Cantus, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Musical Instrument Museum.  Tickets: $49 and $59.

 • A Band Called Honalee: The ‘60s of Peter, Paul and Mary, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24-$67.

• Kruger Brothers bluegrass trio & Kontras Quartet classical string ensemble, Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church. Tickets: $24-$67.

• A Broadway Romance, Feb. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $67.

• Bob Moody & Friends with Broadway’s Telly Leung, Feb. 16 at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. at Fairway House at Grayhawk.  Tickets: $59.

• Festival Orchestra Chamber Players: Bach, Mozart & Stravinsky, Feb. 19 at 3 p.m. at Pinnacle Presbyterian Church.  Tickets: $47 and $67.

• Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto and Saint Saens’ “Organ” Symphony, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church, 6300 E. Bell Road.  Tickets: $24-$76.

• Midori (Featured Artist) with The Festival Orchestra, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church.  Tickets: $45 to $100.

• Ella at 100 featuring Patti Austin with The Festival Orchestra, Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $76.

• “Italian” Symphony & Opera: Pagliacci in Concert Featuring Stars of the Metropolitan Opera, Feb. 26 at 3 p.m. at La Casa de Cristo Church.  Tickets: $24 to $76.

• We’ve Only Just Begun: The Carpenters Remembered, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $24 to $67.

• Mavis Staples (Musicfest Legend), March 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets: $34 to $76.

• Decades of Divas: From Billie and Aretha to Celine and Barbra, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at Highlands Church.  Tickets $24 to $67.

For more information, visit www.azmusicfest.org or call (480) 840-0457.