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The halls are alive!
After having to cancel last year due to the pandemic, Cheltenham Music Festival is back and celebrating with 10 days of performances this July including several aimed at families and schools. As well as performances by famous names such as Martyn Brabbins and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Dame Sarah Connolly and Imogen Cooper there’s a digital concert for schools (pictured) at 9.30am on Friday 9 July presented by Yolanda Brown, with the Gloucestershire Youth Chamber Orchestra. Forty-one schools have already signed up to this.
Also popular with families is the Music Weekend Free Stage in Imperial Gardens, from Friday 9 July to Sunday 11 July, in which the Music festival teams up with Cheltenham Jazz Festival, staged largely online earlier this year, to present three days of classical, jazz, indie, folk and Americana. Highlights include eight-piece pop-funk band LATIMO (9 July), Elles Bailey (10 July) and The ShowHawk Duo (11 July).
Appearing on the Free Stage in real life after their digital Jazz Festival appearance in July are the all-female ensemble Birmingham Town Hall and Symphony Hall’s Rise Up, and 21st century crooner Quiet Man. Local talent includes Cheltenham-based rising stars Yeti’s Breakfast, Maisie Gaffney and Russ Poole, and bringing the Festival atmosphere to the streets of Cheltenham, Unswung Heroes, 3D Brass and Year of the Dog will perform roaming sets courtesy of Cheltenham BID.
There’s plenty for families to enjoy including Lilliput concerts for pre-schoolers, a percussion workshop from GMizz, face painting and circus skills.
Ffi: www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/music
