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Cork Jazz Festival Special: Friday Line-up

Friday listings for Cork Jazz Festival 2013…

Although technically day two, it’s the first day of the jazz for most as Efterklang, Therapy?, Bugge Wesseltoft and Courtney Pine shimmy down south for a weekend of smiles, laughs, music and jazz hands.

Cork Jazz Festival (24th-28th October)

*Please make sure to check times/prices etc. prior to the event

Friday, 25th October


10.30am
Woodwind Special: Better Performance The Berklee Way with Matt Marvuglio in Stack Theatre, Cork School of Music – FREE

11am
Record & CD Fair in Unitarian Church (until 6pm)

12pm
Great Jazz Piano: In The Pocket with Frank Martin in Stack Theatre, Cork School of Music – FREE

1.10pm
– Pod Fusion in UCC’s Aula Maxima – FREE

3pm
Jazz at the Movies: From Montreux in Camden Palace – FREE (until 6pm)
Jazz Arranging: The Inside Track with David O’Rourke in Doolan Room, Cork School of Music – FREE
The Sax Summit: Secrets of the Jazz Masters with Perico Sambeat in Stack Theatre, Cork School of Music – FREE

3.30pm
– The Busquitos in Clarion Hotel – FREE

4pm
– Big Band Open Rehearsal in Curtis Auditorium, Cork School of Music – FREE

4.30pm
Jazz Piano Voicings: with Fintan O’Neill in Stack Theatre, Cork School of Music – FREE

5pm
– Thomas McCarthy in Bru Bar – FREE
– Three’s Company in Electric – FREE
Festival Club (Bar): Sean De Burca Band in Metropole – FREE
– UV5 in The Old Oak – FREE
– Laoise O’Hanlon in The Oliver Plunkett (Downstairs) – FREE
– New York Brass Band in River Lee Hotel – FREE
– Blue Note Jazz in The Roundy – FREE
– Buck Taylor in The Woodford – FREE

5.30pm
– Bad Boy Blues in The Sextant – FREE
– Pa Fitz does Blues in SOHO – FREE


6pm
– Ronnie Costley in The Boardwalk – FREE
– Des Hopkins’ Dixieland Spectacular in Clarion Hotel – FREE
– The Jazz Festival Choir in Everyman Palace Theatre – FREE
– Chester City Orchestra in Imperial Hotel (South’s) – FREE
– Clodagh Kearney in The Oliver Plunkett (Upstairs) – FREE
– Old Fish in The Oval – FREE
– Sweet As in The Parnell – FREE
– Alchemy in The Raven – FREE
Collision Music Installation: live performance in Thompson’s Arcade – FREE
– The Roaring Forties in Barry’s (Douglas) – FREE
– Collage in East Village (Douglas) – FREE

6.30pm
– Harry and Friends in The Shelbourne – FREE

7pm
– Tommy Sax & The Saxons in Electric – FREE
– Karen Underwood in Gallagher’s – FREE
– Skazz in Imperial Hotel – FREE
– Lyda in Sin É – FREE
– George Brown Trio in Sober Lane – FREE

7.30pm
– Therapy? in Cyprus Avenue – €25
Festival Club (Bar): The Busquitos in Metropole – FREE
– The Big Band in The Oliver Plunkett (Downstairs) – FREE
– Jazz Freaks in River Lee Hotel – FREE
– The Magnetics in SOHO – FREE
– Donna Dunne in The Woodford – FREE

8pm
Efterklang and West Cork Ukulele Orchestra in Cork Opera House – €30
Double bill: Bugge Wesseltoft/Berklee Global Jazz Institute Ensemble in Triskel Christchurch – €21
Cork Jazz Ball Camden Palace – €10
– East Coast Jazz Band in The Boardwalk – FREE
– Dave Murphy Trio in Clarion Hotel – FREE
– Conor O’Shea in Hayfield Manor – FREE
– Ghost Town Jenny & Conor Walsh in Mother Jones Flea Market – FREE
– Clodagh Kearney Piano & Blues in SOHO – FREE


8.30pm
Double bill: Courtney Pine/Rene Marie in Everyman Palace Theatre – €30

9pm
– Zhora, No Man’s Land and Snowblind in Bradley’s of Barrack Street
Elastic Sleep in An Bróg – FREE
Devon Sproule & Mike O’Neill in The Crane Lane Theatre – FREE
– Late Ray’s House Party in Electric – FREE
– John Connolly Band in Imperial Hotel (South’s) – FREE
– Cookie & The Vaudeville in The Oliver Plunkett (Upstairs) – FREE
– Harry J in The Sextant – FREE
– Horace & Friends in An Spailpín Fánach – FREE
– Mick Flannery (solo) in De Barra’s (Clonakilty) – €22.50
– Paddy Cole & The Cork City Jazz Band in The Briar Rose (Douglas) – FREE

9.30pm
Festival Club (Bar): Idol Bones in Metropole – FREE
The Hot 8 Brass Band in The Bodega – FREE
– Molly Maguires in The Flying Enterprise – FREE
– Spacecake in The Gateway – FREE
– The Clubmen in The Montenotte Hotel – FREE
– Cat Scratch Fever in The Shelbourne – FREE
– The Dixie Ticklers in The Woodford – FREE


10pm
– Fish Go Deep (DJs) in The Pavilion – €10
– Pete Fagan & The Troubadours in The Bailey – FREE
– Fight Like Apes in An Bróg – FREE
– I-Fink in Canty’s – FREE
– The Busquitos in Clancy’s – FREE
– The Modern Heirs in Costigan’s – FREE
– Mary Stokes Band in Counihan’s – FREE
Daria and Hope Is Noise in Fred Zeppelin’s – FREE
– Skazz in The Grafton – FREE
– Sean de Burca Band in The Idle Hour – FREE
– Lee Hedley Blues Band in Long Valley – FREE
Festival Club (Ballroom): Son Yambu in Metropole – FREE
– The Rivets in The Ovens Bar – FREE
– Blue Moose in Reardens – FREE
– Early House in River Lee Hotel – FREE
– Don Baker in The Rob Roy – FREE
– Waking Up Sunday in Sin É – FREE
– Buck Taylor in The Thomond – FREE
– Ricky Lynch & The Lynch Mob in O’Driscoll’s (Douglas) – FREE
– Pat Elgart Dixieland Band in Silver Springs Moran Hotel (Tivoli) – FREE


10.30pm
– The Roaring Forties in The Boardwalk – FREE
– Mr. Sidebeat in Bru Bar – FREE
– Crow Black Chicken in Charlie’s – FREE
– Des Hopkins’ Dixieland Spectacular in Clarion Hotel – FREE
– Booka Brass Band in Gallagher’s – FREE
– Emil Nerstrand/Neil O’Loghlen/Dan Walsh in Gulpd Café – FREE
– The Cujo Family in The Oliver Plunkett (Downstairs) – FREE
– The Roaring Forties in Barry’s (Douglas) – FREE

11pm
Kormac (AV show) in Cyprus Avenue – €10
– Papa Zitas in The Old Oak – FREE
– Big Band Special in SOHO – FREE
– Jabronis in East Village (Douglas) – FREE

11.55pm
Saxy Lady Boys in The Oliver Plunkett (Upstairs) – FREE

12am
– Stone Fox in Imperial Hotel (South’s) – FREE
Festival Club (Ballroom): Beat ‘n’ Blow in Metropole – FREE
Festival Club (Bar): Bad Girls Groove in Metropole – FREE


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Cork Jazz Festival 2013 takes place in various venues from 24th-28th October

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