Music Festival
Extraordinary music in extraordinary spaces.
Since 1945, Cheltenham Music Festival has been a home for extraordinary music. Its 80th year in 2025 was a landmark season of celebration, and in 2026 the Festival looks ahead – championing world-class performers and bold new voices in Cheltenham’s most beautiful spaces.
Save the date
- Festival dates: 3 – 11 July 2026
Tickets Now On Sale
Follow us on social media or sign up to our newsletter to be the first for music news...
Image gallery
What's On
FREE - Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 July
Fancy some Mozart with your mocha, cocktails with your crotchets or a beer with a side of Beethoven?
Inside the Cyber Hack Epidemic
Bankrupting businesses, stalling governments and stealing sensitive data; cybercrime is now a multibillion-pound global industry. Illicit trade expert Anja Shortland, cyber threat intelligence specialist Sophia McCall and investigative…
Portals to a New Reality
For over a hundred years, physics has been guided by two powerful but conflicting theories: quantum mechanics and general relativity. Instead of confronting their clash, much of modern physics has focused on small details, leaving the…
Are Our Homes Making Us Sicker?
Are modern homes harming us?We have lost the good ventilation habits we built during the Covid-19 pandemic and with our hyper-well-insulated homes, indoor air pollution poses a very real threat.Make your home healthier with our expert…
Planting for Pollinators Workshop
Plant your own window box or pot and welcome pollinators into your outside space with gardener and writer of Dopamine Gardening, Amy Chapman. Get your hands dirty and garden for joy and wellbeing, as well as for the benefits of bees,…
Is It Going to Rain?
How do meteorologists predict storms? Has weather ever started a war? Can we change the weather? Explore the fascinating world of weather and weather forecasting, revealing the science behind the thing we most love to talk about. Simon…
Image gallery
Stay in tune - Follow us at @cheltfestivals
Music For Schools
We welcome hundreds of children from schools across Gloucestershire to enriching and joyful live music events at Cheltenham Music Festival each year - see what we got up to in 2024
Latest Festivals News
Stars of Classical Music, Theatre, Jazz, World and Folk Visit Cheltenham for 2026 Music Festival
Friday 6 March 2026Cheltenham Music Festival will deliver a bold and diverse programme of world-class music-makers this July, bringing bona fide stars and the latest new voices to burgeoning audiences hungry for inspiring live experiences. Performers will…
Pick Up Your 2026 Festival Brochures
Tuesday 10 February 2026Looking for a brochure? Pick one up at any of the following locations from Tuesday 10 February.Explore the Festival line-ups here.Please note: brochures for Members, Patrons and pre-orders have been posted to your address.
Cheltenham Festivals Reaches Record-Breaking Number of Children in 80th Year
Friday 12 December 2025Cheltenham Festivals has today announced that it has reached a record-breaking number of children during its landmark 80th anniversary year, marking a major milestone in the charity’s mission to create meaningful and lasting change through…