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The famous ‘Weihnachtsmarkt’ (Christmas Market) in Salzburg. Photograph: Getty Images
200 years of ‘Silent Night’ in Salzburg
  • Europe
  • December 15, 2018, 06:00

“All is calm, all is bright”, as the first flakes of snow fall on Salzburg’s spires and fairy-tale rooftops. This year, heralding Advent and the lead-(...)

Festival goers at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Photograph: Guinness Cork Jazz
Wake the dead: Cork Guinness Jazz Festival kicks off

Loud enough to wake the dead – that might well be the motto for this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz Festival which kicked off Thursday night. The streets (...)

The Blind Boys of Alabama will play the 2018 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.
Cork Guinness Jazz Festival to kick off with funeral procession

Jazz aficionados heading for Leeside this year are in for a novel treat when the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival kicks off with a meeting of Halloween and(...)

Capt Dara Fitzpatrick, who died along with her crewmates Capt Mark Duffy, Ciarán Smith and Paul Ormsby while on a search and rescue mission in March. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Rest in peace ... They died in 2017
  • People
  • December 28, 2017, 06:00

JANUARY 8 – Peter Sarstedt, English singer/songwriter – Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)? – age 75 9 – TK Whitaker, economist and former public servan(...)

George Duke: ‘I’ve done jazz with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderley. It’s a goulash. It’s a gumbo.’
Respected jazz figure whose versatility made him a sought-after collaborator
  • People
  • August 10, 2013, 01:00

George Duke, who has died aged 67, began his career in the 1960s as a jazz pianist but made his name by crossing musical boundaries. The name of the i(...)