From 2 to 4 April, the International Jazz Festival "Pink Panther" was held at the Bashkir Philharmonic Society. The 24th festival opened with Irina Austin's author's program's premiere and a performance by the famous trumpeter and singer Ronald Baker (France, USA).

On April 3, for the first time in the capital of Bashkortostan, one of the leading multi-instrumentalists, composers, and vocalists of Brazil, a representative of romantic Latin American jazz, Joander Santos, performed at the festival. Also, the evening program was attended by young musicians of the Seven Note Collective — laureates of the All-Russian competition of author's jazz Ever Jazz. The team from Yekaterinburg played contemporary jazz, fusion, funk, and funk-rock.

On the third day of the Pink Panther festival, a gala concert took place, at which Moscow singer and pianist Oleg Akkuratov conquered Ufa residents. The blind musician was brilliant in both academic and jazz music.

A surprise for the audience was his performance of the famous song by Rim Khasanov "Ufa Lindens" in the Bashkir language.

In 2014, Akkuratov sang at the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Sochi. In 2018, he took second place at the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition and took part in the Global Star Concert of the International Jazz Day in St. Petersburg. Since 2013, the artist has constantly been collaborating with Igor Butman. Over the past few years, Oleg has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jose Feliciano, Montserrat Caballe, Evelyn Glennie. The general public knows Oleg Akkuratov as the finalist of the Russian television music competition "The Voice-2020", where the singer took second place.

Also, the gala concert featured the artists of the previous nights. All three concerts of the festival were conducted by a Russian journalist, jazz columnist, writer, musician, publisher, editor-in-chief of the Jazz.Ru magazine, editor-in-chief of the leading Russian jazz portal Jazz.Ru Kirill Moshkov.

The Big Band of the Bashkir State Philharmonic Society, headed by People's Artist of Bashkortostan Oleg Kasimov, the festival's permanent art director, was the musical basis of the festival.