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. 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. 

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The quirkiest music festival in Central Asia brings together electronic music fans and environmentalists in Muynaq, a town which was once on the shore of the Aral Sea, in Karakalpakstan. Since the 1960s, the sea has shrunk, creating the world’s newest desert and a dystopian backdrop for multiple stages and dance crowd which party hard.

Verona’s Roman amphitheatre has been hosting live spectacles for the best part of 2,000 years, and as the building is in a good state of repair, the Veronese see no reason to stop. There are concerts here throughout the year, but the highlight is the summer opera festival, which has itself run for more than a century. 

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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.