Angelo Flow & friends are part of LatinoLife In The Park

WHEN money is tight, there are still plenty of cultural experiences out there across the capital that cost nothing or very little – and these often involve some incredible music performances. LatinoLife In The Park, a free two-day festival, brings a packed Latin line-up to Finsbury Park (Aug 20-21). Make the most of the heatwave at the UK’s largest Latin festival, with some big band salsa, tropical and Brazilian beats on La Clave Stage or head over to the Candela stage for some urban Latin music. Focusing on authenticity, the festival aims to showcase Latin culture with high quality acts, respecting the many diverse genres and individual cultures the festival encompasses. The line-up includes Venezuelan-born Reggaeton artist Angelo Flow & friends with guests Lisa Mercedez and UK hip-hop musician J Spades; Cuban funk from Alvarez Funk; Tottenham-raised Ecuadorian rapper Guala; Dominican singer José Solano aka TATTO RD; British Colombian singer and guitarist Lisey Tigra; Venezuelan-born rapper Fluffy Original, known for his opera-trained voice and many, many others. For info visit www.latinolifeinthepark.com/home

• King’s Cross Summer Sounds, which began on August 10, is a free 12-day music festival with a programme of classical music, jazz, opera, street arts, dance and more at Coal Drops Yard. Performances take place every evening between 6.30pm-8.30pm and from 1pm-6pm on family Sundays and the line-up includes Zola Courtney (Aug 12); An Evening of Songs from the Shows (Aug 13); Iyad Sughayer and JHAM! (Aug 14) and plenty more. More info from www.kingscross.co.uk

• One more very special free show comes from jazz/soul/reggae musician YolanDa Brown at Hawley Wharf on Aug 20 – a chance to see the double Mobo award-winning musician, who has toured with The Temptations and is currently composing music for Sesame Street, perform on the Wharf’s canal-side stage on Saturday afternoon (2.30pm-3.15pm).

• All Points East is nearly here and it has an incredible line-up. Running from Aug 19-28 in Victoria Park, the roster includes the likes of Gorillaz, Idles, Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Tame Impala, The National, Disclosure, Nick Cave, Michael Kiwanuka and many more. In between gigs, the site is open to the community for In The Neighbourhood, a four-day programme of free performances and activities including outdoor cinema, live music, sports and wellbeing activities children’s activities, arts and crafts, hip hop bingo, activities from the V&A, a kids’ play zone a deaf rave and much more.

• JME’s Grime MC FM show is not to be missed – in the past he has been known to be joined by the likes of Skepta, D Double E, P Money and more. Who knows what will unfold at his next Koko Electronic show on Aug 12.

• It looks like RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch has become a new folk hero – and an unwitting lyricist. His responses to questions from the media form the chorus of Hertfordshire band The Hanging Bandits’ new song The Trials of Mick Lynch.

• Get ready for some serious skanking at The Dublin Castle’s Ska Punk Party #3 on Aug 13. The HotKnives + Jack The Lad play live with DJ sets from We Got Killers, Supersonic Si and Tony Bugbear.

• See acclaimed US r ‘n b singer H.E.R. in the intimate surrounds of Lafayette on Aug 15.

• Grammy-winning funk and soul producer-musician Dexter Wansel plays two shows at Jazz Café on Aug 12-13. Having hardly toured in the last 20 years, this is a rare opportunity to catch one of the authors of Philly Soul who has worked with the likes of The O’Jays, Lou Rawls and my personal favourite Teddy Pendergrass. Other notable Jazz Café shows include: King Yellowman & the Sagittarius Band (Aug 16); Movimientos: Grupo Lokito & Juanita Euka (Aug 19) and Jungle Brothers (Aug 25-26).

• Four Tet heads to Finsbury Park for his All Dayer on Aug 13. Playing his only extended festival set of the summer, he will play a five-hour set and will be joined by an eclectic list of artists including Hagop Tchaparian, Josey Rebelle, Two Shell and Anish Kumar playing across two stages.

• Kristin Hersh, probably best known as frontwoman of 80s / 90s rock band Throwing Muses, plays The Lexington on Aug 21.

• Arab Strap continue celebrations of 30 Years of The Garage: at the venue on Aug 22.

• Barbican’s Outdoor Cinema continues on Aug 23 with a screening of Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii the iconic 1972 concert film, showing the band playing to no audience at the Roman amphitheatre.

• More upcoming gigs:
Minerva + Tadini + Zak Layden And The Thieves + Hello Amnesia, Camden Club (Aug 13);
Hempress Sativa, Jazz Café (Aug 14);
Fiddlehead + Militarie Gun + High Vis, The Underworld (Aug 15);
Zack Fox, Scala (Aug 16);
Jaubi, Union Chapel; October and The Eyes, The Lexington (Aug 18);
Crawdaddy! With guest DJ Valentina Savio, The Fiddler’s Elbow (Aug 19);
Surprise Chef, Jazz Café; Spoegwolf, Electric Ballroom; An evening with Formz, Camden Assembly (Aug 20);
Roy Ayers – Ubiquity, Jazz Café (Aug 21-22);
Geo Jordan, Roundhouse (Aug 22);
Apollo Brown + friends, Jazz Café; Toby Sebastian, The Social (Aug 23);
Morgan Heritage, Jazz Café; Zach Person, The Black Heart; Priscilla Block, The Lexington; Gretchen Peters, Kings Place (Aug 24);
Hate Moss, The Fiddlers Elbow; Mulatu Astake, Koko; Fleet Foxes, Islington Assembly Hall (Aug 25).