– Jazzy Performance –
Surprise! Damian took the stage at Cheltenham Jazz Festival on Friday, May 2, 2025, performing with an orchestra that gave audience goers an intimate, collaborative musical experience. Fan and audience member John Podmore shared on X: “The utterly sensational Damian Lewis.”
Damian shared the stage with lead singer of BBC Strictly Tommy Blaize and world-renowned jazz vocalist Curtis Stigers, which Blaize coined the trio as “the new rat pack.”
The Cheltenham Jazz Festival runs from April 30 – May 5 2025 with a line-up including Roger Daltrey, Lulu, Tom Walker, Macy Gray, Nubya Garcia and more. For more details and ticket information, visit their website.
Cheltenham Jazz Festival’s mission is changing lives through culture; a collaboration to create experiences which bring joy, spark curiosity, connect communities and inspire change.
#CheltJazzFest is one of the UK’s leading jazz festivals and is part of their annual festival season, which also includes the Science, Music and Literature Festivals in Cheltenham.
The events of Cheltenham Jazz Festival mainly take place in a tented village in Montpellier Gardens, including a Big Top, the Jazz Arena and a Free Stage surrounded by food traders, secret gardens and festival bars. Dinner concerts and intimate performances are also played in other venues around town, such as the Playhouse Theatre, the Daffodil Restaurant, the Parabola Arts Centre of Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Cheltenham Town Hall.