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Exclusive video preview: Festival Directors’ Picks

2 months ago

The year’s only just begun, but we’re already excited about what promises to be one of the best years of Cheltenham Festivals yet.

For the first time this year, we’ve persuaded our Festival Directors to take some time out of their busy schedules to reveal their pick of the year’s events.

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Jazz Directors’ Picks

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Music Directors’ Picks

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Jamie Cullum Interview

3 months
3 weeks ago

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“I’m a big fan of this festival…I think it’s one of the most interesting and forward-thinking jazz festivals in this country”

Jamie Cullum

The 2010 Cheltenham Jazz Festival programme is shaping up nicely — but one of the most exciting things about next year is that for the first time the festival will welcome Jamie Cullum as Guest Director.

BBC Radio Gloucestershire caught up with him during the Literature Festival — listen here to what he’s looking forward to about Cheltenham Jazz 2010:

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from BBC Radio Gloucestershire

We’ve tagged this post with , , , , on Tuesday 24 November 2009.

Tony Dudley Evans, Jamie Cullum and Jazz 2010

5 months
1 week ago

Jamie Cullum

Following the announcement of Jamie Cullum as Guest Director, Artistic Director Tony Dudley-Evans took some time to share his thoughts on the opportunity to work with Jamie this year…

‘I am delighted to be working with Jamie Cullum as our Guest Director for the 2010 Jazz Festival. Jamie has had a long relationship with the festival appearing first in 2003 at the Daffodil just as his career was lifting off and then returning to do an amazing concert in the Town Hall in 2004. But he has been a regular attender at the festival right from the beginning and I well remember him asking me not to book him for 2005 as he didn’t want to miss out of any of the gigs. Then indeed in 2007 he came as guest of the festival just to hang out and catch the gigs.’

‘The Cheltenham team will be working with Jamie to programme a number of events and of course Jamie will be appearing with his own band. We share very similar tastes and already Jamie has come up with some great ideas.’

Tony Dudley-Evans
Artistic Director.

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Jamie Cullum announced as Guest Director for 2010 Cheltenham Jazz Festival

5 months
1 week ago

For the first time the Cheltenham Jazz Festival will welcome a Guest Director, and we’re delighted that for 2010 this will be Jamie Cullum.

Jamie Cullum

Jamie will be working with the Jazz Festival team to create some truly special one off events — including international collaborations, club nights, showcasing the next big thing and of course playing a headline set himself.

Our full jazz programme and how to purchase tickets will be released in early 2010. Watch this space for more announcements and register for our eNews to keep bang up-to-date.

Cheltenham Jazz Festival 28 April–3 May 2010

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Find out why Cheltenham Jazz Festival is Jamie Cullum’s favourite

11 months
1 week ago

Cotwsold Life and Jamie Cullum

“The unique thing about Cheltenham is the way it brings in this whole kind of ‘club jazz’ atmosphere. Not stuffy sit-down-and-clap quietly jazz, but have-a-good-time jazz. Jazz you can dance to; jazz you can expand your mind to; jazz you can party to. It proves that jazz isn’t just for scratching your beard to, and Cheltenham epitomizes that.”

Read the whole article in this month’s Cotswold Life

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Win a Yamaha keyboard signed by Jamie Cullum

1 year ago

Jamie Cullum and Yamaha keyboard

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  • 88-note graded hammer standard keyboard with 503 voices and 160 styles
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  • Acoustic, super-expressive Live!, Cool! and Sweet! voices and DSP included
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