Cork Jazz festival – Have a gala time!
Cork Jazz festival is one the biggest annual music festival and is one of the best three Jazz festivals in the world. This festival has attracted many of the elite over the years including Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Dave Brubeck, etc. Every year this festival is thronged with over 40,000 visitors and 1,000 renowned musicians performing in pubs, clubs and concerts around the city. It will be held from October 28- October 31, 2011.
You will enjoy the Cork Jazz festival celebration in association with Guinness with about 1,000 musicians from over 30 countries playing at over 80 venues throughout the city. Celebrities such as McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, John Mc Laughlin, Jan Garbarek, Sonny Rollins, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Zawinul, Cleo Laine, Gerry Mulligan, Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and many more have entertained the festival’s audiences over the years. This festival is marked as one of the most significant festivals on Ireland’s cultural and arts calendar and Ireland’s largest and most esteemed jazz event.
Cork Jazz festival serves as a platform to recognize emerging jazz talent from Ireland and overseas. There are numerous events taking place throughout the Cork city during the festival. So, you are certain to get and enjoy the taste of ‘all that jazz’.
Jazz it up this year by coming to Cork’s Guinness Jazz Festival! Be part of this striking four-day festival celebrating some of the universe’s very best jazz music. Featuring more than 120 acts throughout the reverberant city of Cork, this is a not-to-be-missed festival. Don’t miss it!
