Introducing Ambleside Days: a celebration of world class contemporary music.

Featuring some of the worlds most outstanding players coming together for this unique festival in The English Lake District.

‘Ambleside Days’ was a special commission by Zefferellis in collaboration with Northern Arts featuring the late, great John Taylor, one of the worlds most gifted jazz pianists.

This 4 day festival will feature Dave Holland, Norma Winstone, Tim Garland, James Maddran and Asaf Sirkus, John Halliwell, Gwilym Simcock, Iain Dixon, Mike Walker, Nikki Iles, Mark Lockheart, Steve Watts, James Maddren and Joe Locke.

All the above musicians have been inspired by John Taylor over the years.

What makes this festival unique will be the collaborative interaction between these world class performers. There will be fluid movement of the musicians into different and exciting new groupings: duo’s, trios, septets etc.

Each evening there will two major performances in the auditorium and also in the Jazz Bar.

£25 per evening in the auditorium, to include both performances.