Sinead Dunphy

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Saxophonist Tom Caraher kicks off the Triskel Arts Centre’s new summer jazz series at lunchtime on Saturday 20th. 
Rising stars and a celebration of Sarah Vaughan: This week’s best jazz gigs
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  • July 13, 2019, 05:00

Saturday, July 13 Rodrigo Almonte Trio Arthurs, Dublin Sometime Dublin-based Peruvian guitarist Rodrigo Almonte is studying for a masters in jazz pe(...)

Jazz name: the New York pianist Fred Hersch is among the headliners at the 2019 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival
Aslan at Cork Jazz Festival? Where’s the jazz?
  • Music
  • July 5, 2019, 06:30

This week’s news of the headline acts for Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has prompted concern that the event is once more moving away from its roots just(...)

Guinness Cork Jazz Festival: the New York Brass Band in the city for the 2018 festival. Photograph: Provision
Guinness Cork Jazz Festival director has ‘contract terminated’ after a year
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  • March 8, 2019, 11:19

The future direction of Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is in doubt after the departure of its director, Sinéad Dunphy, after just a year in the role. Du(...)

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 (...)

Bram Stoker Festival: the Dublin event runs from Friday until Monday. Photograph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall
No plans for the bank holiday and Halloween? You need to read this

The final bank-holiday weekend before we give up the ghost for the year has, happily, plenty of ghostcentric events – and a whole lot more besides, ri(...)

Fusion bassist Stanley Clarke will bring his band to the banks of the lovely Lee for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, running over the October Bank Holiday weekend
The beat goes on: Guinness Cork Jazz Fest gets a reboot
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  • October 22, 2018, 05:00

In jazz’s journey towards artistic respectability in Ireland, the “good-time” image of the island’s principal jazz event hasn’t always been helpful. G(...)

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(...)

St Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork will host a newly commissioned work. Image: Google Maps
Cork choral event to honour Shakespeare and 1916

What have the Easter Rising, William Shakespeare and a group that sounds as if they should be performing in Game of Thrones all got in common? Not a l(...)