It’s also a chance to hear up and coming jazz artists, such as the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), as the festival has an active talent development programme.
A trip to Cheltenham is a pleasure at any time of the year, but the Georgian spa town is particularly buzzing during Cheltenham Jazz Festival when 20,000 music fans descend on Montpellier Gardens over the week.
This year Gregory Porter, the festival’s Artistic Curator, will be headlining, and other acts not to miss include Dionne Warwick, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, Morcheeba, and Courtney Pine.
Headed Into Low-Cost Headwinds
Sometimes it’s Regency-style, sometimes faces obscured by a primary colour and bizarrely even animals dressed in military costumes. In much of the communal area, carpets are decorated with butterflies; sometimes there are prints and maps. A lot is going on.
Getting inspiration from other photographers through their online photography portfolios or social media posts only goes so far.
Most musical genres are represented in the programme, so whether it is blues, soul, rock, folk, or electronic music that gets you up on the dance floor, there will be plenty to keep you entertained until late at night
All rooms come with comfy Hypnos beds with luxury Egyptian cotton linen, spacious bathrooms, Nespresso coffee machines, highspeed Wi-Fi and several channels on a 40” flat-screen TV. The mini-bar comes stocked with some drinks that are included in the room rate.
The Skies Will Be Busier, The Planes Fuller
- World Nomads (for everyone below 70)
- Insure My Trip (for those over 70)
- Medjet (for additional repatriation coverage)
As we yearn to reconnect with friends, family, and the world at large, I think that what we’ve gone through has also given many of us a chance to reflect on all the things we took for granted: the outdoors, community, neighborhood restaurants, and the arts.
From flouting rules and refusing to wear a mask to hosting parties, coughing on others, and just generally being selfish, the pandemic has shown us that the world is filled with more assholes than we thought.
