Keswick Jazz Festival is the UK’s largest and most popular celebration of traditional, New Orleans, swing and mainstream jazz.
Fabulous international guests and top UK talent in this large and warm-hearted gathering of people who all love to listen and dance to the great music that the Keswick Jazz Festival is renowned for.
KESWICK JAZZ FESTIVAL
This four day festival brings together many of the world’s best exponents of mainstream and traditional jazz.
American and European stars will rub shoulders with a glittering array of Britain’s top jazz musicians.
The programme will see over 100 jazz events hosted by a dozen different venues, all covered by the festival’s pass.
Music from days of jazz when it began - Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and from the glory days of traditional jazz in the UK, to the fat and hip-swinging music of the New Olreans brass bands and Cajun style bands, also the jumping sounds of the jive bands, intimate gipsy jazz, powerful and inspiring vocalists, hot pianists, cool saxophones, trumpets, trombones, banjos, clarinets. The list goes on.
A dance floor will be laid in at least one venue where the bands will play for dancing, and dance tutors will run classes in the morning for beginners and intermediates.
in and around the town
There will also be interesting jazz talks, jam sessions, guest sessions, a parade though the town, jazz services, music in local pubs and cafes as well as concerts in large and small venues in and around the town.
All set in the beautiful surroundings of Keswick, in the heart of the Lake District.
Tickets for the 2016 festival will go on sale in November 2015. Pre-festival concerts can be booked already by calling Theatre By The Lake box office on 017687 74411.
There will also be a number of free jazz events in Keswick.
Keswick is well catered for accommodation for visitors. Dozens of bed and breakfasts, several hotels, caravan parks and campsites, a youth hostel, and self catering apartments and houses.
Information about all these can be found on the Keswick Tourist Board’s website.
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