Soundman Fedor Umansky setting up the stage.

The audience arriving...

Time out.

Yuri Novgorodsky settling in.

Yuri and Mike Vladimirov, harmonica player with the headlining band Crossroadz, tuning up before an unrehearsed jazz set..

Just before the main event Lidia from the Curative Centre for Pedagogics played a three song jazz set accompanied, unrehearsed, by Yuri, Mike and visiting British guitarist Julian Burdock (direct from the airport).

British Ambassador Dr Laurie Bristow with the musicians and some of the children from the benefiting organisations.

Folkline - Denis Shevchenko, Mikhail Danilov and Dennis Nazarov.

Folkline, Julian and Olga Lisikova.

Electric Soul - Yuri Novgorodsky, Sveta Zhavoronkova, Vladimir Voyevoden, Evgeny Glukhov and Anton Illyin.

Photograph: Arthur Hendrick.

Photograph: Melanie Morrison.

Anastasia Kontsevaya (singer with the headliners Crossroadz), and I guesting with the Emergency Band on "Can't Find My Way Home".

Photograph: Melanie Morrison.

Photograph: Melanie Morrison.

Photograph: Melanie Morrison.

Photograph: Melanie Morrison.

Nash Tavkhelidze guesting on "Money For Nothing" with the Emergency Band.

Great Hammond organ from Nikolay Dobkin.

Nash, Yuri and Nikolay.

Sergei Voronov, Olga Lisikova and Alex Rubczynski.

Emergency Band - Yuri Novgorodsky, Vladimir Voyevodin, Olga Oleynikova, Evgeny Glukhov and Nikolay Dobkin.

Amazing classical violinist Asya Sorshneva guesting, unrehearsed, on The Who's "Behind Blue Eyes". The paintings exhibited on the left are the work of Andrei Demin, an autistic pupil at one of the homes the event is raising funds for.

Photograph: Arthur Hendrick.

Photograph: Arthur Hendrick.

The event headliners, Sergei Voronov and The Crossroadz.

Anastasia Kontsevaya, Miikhail Savkin, Sergei Voronov and Vladimir Voyevodin.

Mike Vladimirov on harmonica and Crossroadz "guest" Yuri Novgorodsky.

Introducing the after party jam 00:00-01:00 at the John Lennon-themed Imagine Cafe by discussing the charities the Residence event was raising money for. A percentage of the bar profits for that hour were donated.

Anticipation....

Mikhail Danilov, Sergei Voronov, Yuri Novgorodsky, Dima Chestnykh and Nikolay Dobkin.

Imagine Cafe photographer.