Cork Jazz Festival 2021

Great news, Jazz festival us going ahead.

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is to return this year taking place over the bank holiday weekend from 22-25 October! Cancelled last year, it returns this year and Guinness say it will be the first major festival in Ireland since the pandemic to take place. Full details will be released over the coming weeks on www.guinnessjazzfestival.com.

Many, many people I am sure!

Mrs Pen Rua & I recently welcomed our first child so won't be going out like we did in the past for the Jazz Festival, but I'm hoping they will announce (day time) out door events we can head to. The parade for the last two years it was on was quite good (2018 far superior to the 2019 effort from what I recall).

Any idea when line up will be announced?

Guinness Scam Festival more like. I feel sorry for toursits who come here especially for it.

Every pub advertising the jazz outside their door, but all they have inside is some local chancer bands playing "come on eileen" then shouting at the crowd "is everybody enjoying jazz fest woohoo! Here's our next song: I wouldn't walk 500 miles"

There's the odd busker who plays the sax or something but that's about it.

You're not forced to sit and listen to a band you don't like. There are others.

People whinge when it's all jazz and people whinge when there's things that aren't jazz.

Spat out my cornflakes this morning reading that not only is the airport closed for the jazz festival, but they are also closing the Cork railway station for 11 days at the same time.

Genius lads.

Colour me surprised.

I highly doubt that. For starters, Dell, J&J and Amazon have more presence in Ireland outside of Cork.

See table 3.

Manufactured pharma products are the biggest value of the export for row 53. The highest value one I believe is the J&J Centocor site in Cork, the majority of the rest of that row is Pfizer (Cork), MSD (Cork), Novartis (Cork), GSK (Cork), Gilead (Cork), Lilly (Cork), Abvie (cork), the other J&j sites (little island, depuy, ,both cork, and the visioncare site in limerick). Outside Cork you've got amgen, alexion, abbott, the rest of the pharma big 50 have a sales or reg affairs office in Dublin, rather than manufacturing.

Cork also has a good chunk of the animal and dairy industry, row 0. The biggest farms in the country are in Cork, 1200 acres. https://www.farmersjournal.ie/ireland-s-largest-dairy-farm-installs-latest-dairymaster-technology-196425

Dell has an office in cherrywood in Dublin, but the high value manufacturing is done in Ovens, Cork. Apple is manufacturing is it?

They are ya.

Or, I was responding to the post I quoted. You decide which is more likely there.

Is it this new boards layout that people can't see conversations anymore, or just an epidemic of belligerence?

table service/bookings still here for jazz it seems. disaster for those involved.

I see a 90s disco event going ahead elsewhere, but fully seated.

Couldn't make it up.

Just in before the weather turned. Town was really busy - queues to get into a lot of places (Deep South, Conway's Yard in particular) and bouncers turning away people telling them not to Q at other premises.

Some bands around the place as part of the festival - seemingly more of the variety that play pop music as a brass band. I didn't stumble across any of the bands that come in from the continent as in the past, unfortunately - always enjoyed them.