Upcoming Jazz & Blues Gigs

The Jazz Globetrotters.
The Leeson Lounge, Dublin
Every Tuesday, 8.30pm
Drawing inspiration from classic jazz of the 1950s they play a set of jazz standards, Latin and Be-Bop. Featuring Brian Wynne - saxophone, Tom Harte - Guitar, Paid McConolog - Bass, Tom Dunne - Drums
Free Entry
Tel; 01-660 3816

TUESDAYS 9.00pm The Leeson Lounge
Drawing inspiration from classic jazz of the 1950s they play a set of jazz standards, Latin and Be-Bop. Featuring Brian Wynne - saxaphone, Tom Harte - Guitar, Paid McConolog - Bass, Tom Dunne – Drums. & GUESTS.
Free Entry

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The Lounge Quartet
The Leeson Lounge, Dublin
Every Tuesday, 8.30pm


Drawing inspiration from classic jazz of the 1950s they play a set of jazz standards, Latin and Be-Bop. Featuring Brian Wynne - saxophone, Tom Harte - Guitar, Paid McConolog - Bass, Tom Dunne - Drums
With guest vocalists
Free Entry
Tel; 01-660 3816

Louth Contemporary Music Society in association with Drogheda Arts Festival
presents Arabian Waltz
with Rabih Abou Khalil , the EQ Ensemble and Elisaveta Blumina
in St.Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda
4 May 2012 at 8pm.


The shrewd, witty and inventive Abou Khalil - a world musician years before the phrase became a label -makes the hot, staccato Middle Eastern flavour and the seamless grooves of jazz mingle as if they were always meant to. John Fordham The Guardian

For nearly a quarter century, Lebanese-born oud master and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil has defied all of the artificial boundaries to create a musical world entirely his own. With his first Irish commission for Louth Contemporary Music Society, Rabih once again proves to be a truly visionary artist.

The concert will feature a magical programme of music ranging from Elisaveta Blumina performing piano works by Fazil Say and Alan Hovhaness to The EQ Ensemble performing John Surman’s Mimosa and Leylek Geldi for string quartet and bass. Rabih will perform solo on the oud and then will be joined by the EQ Ensemble for the world premiere of a new commission for string quartet, bass and oud. The new commission, funded by the Arts Council, will receive its world premiere on 4 May 2012 as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.

Born and raised in the cosmopolitan climate of Beirut in the sixties and seventies, Rabih Abou-Khalil leaned to play the oud at the age of four. In the Arab world, this instrument is as popular as the guitar or the piano in the West and is the composer's instrument par excellence. An oud is a form of lute or mandolin played principally in Arab countries. The Lebanese civil war forced him to leave his country in 1978 to study classical flute in the German city of Munich, where he was tutored at the Munich Academy of Music by Walther Theurer.

Tickets for the concert cost €10 and are available from www.ctb.ie ( 0818 205 205)or the festival box office 353 (0)41 983 3946 or at www.droghedaartsfestival.ie.
LCMS will hold a wine reception at the interval for all ticket holders.

Rabih Abou Khalil’s first Irish commission was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
The Arabian Waltz concert is funded by Create Louth and the Arts Council. Louth Contemporary Music Society is supported by the Arts Council.

The Drogheda Arts Festival, the first festival of the summer, will run from 3rd – 7th May with new theatre, music, family events, visual arts and lots more.

Further Information & listings see below or log onto: www.louthcms.org or
www.droghedaartsfestival.ie

godfrey wrote: »

Update:
April 26th sees the first of our Supper Club nights at Flanagans, Killaloe, featuring the sublime Honor Heffernan and a full (well fed!) band.

As the booker for these events, I aim to keep music integrity and quality at the forefront and I hope our guests enjoy the fruits of this policy.

I would be delighted to hear suggestions for future gigs also.
We will be bringing Nigel Mooney & band in May, and Mary Coughlan & band in June.

It's the last Thursday of each month, 3-course dinner starts at 7:30, music begins at 8:30.

Tickets are €39.50 for Dinner and show or €20 for show only and will be available to buy at Flanagan's.


For information or reservations contact:
Tel: 00 353 (0) 61 622790
https://www.facebook.com/events/415322438479716/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000897834350
http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant_Review-g212519-d1554189-Reviews-Flanagan_s_on_the_Lake-Killaloe_County_Clare.html

E: flanagansonthelake@gmail.com

I would highly recommend any of these acts for future bookings:

Pat Farrell and Band (The Business)
Susan Tomelty & Band
The Bree Harris Band
Mary Stokes Band
Left, Right & Centre

I have contact info for most of the above if you need it.

cheers

Next up we have Mary Coughlan - June 28th - that's next Thursday.

Same format, this time it's part of the Brian Boru Festival.

Bring a friend

It's the last Thursday of each month, 3-course dinner starts at 7:30, music begins at 8:30.

Tickets are €39.50 for 3-course Dinner and show, or €20 for show only and will be available to buy at Flanagan's.


For information or reservations contact:
Tel: 00 353 (0) 61 622790
https://www.facebook.com/events/415322438479716/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000897834350
http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant...nty_Clare.html

E: flanagansonthelake@gmail.com

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I am not really sure I should post this here but...

We bought a pair of tickets for both Roy Hargrove and Miles Smiles at Everyman Palace but we cannot attend this year's Cork Jazz Festival. :mad: If anyone is interested in purchasing them, PM me.

Jamie Evans Trio will return to the Promenade Cafe on Saturday, 17 November, playing In A Sentimental Mood by Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Charlie Parker, the music of Miles Davis including standards from his seminal 1959 album “Kind of Blue”. Also Stan Getz and Charlie Parker favourites.

7.00pm Supper followed by Performance.

Starter, Main Course and Ticket for only €35.00!!

BOOKINGS ONLY €10.00 per person. Deposit required

Introducing "Joker Malea".....
This is the name of the Jazz Quintet led by 21 year old Swiss-born Michael Gilsenan. They are due to arrive in Ireland on Sunday 27th January and will play the first of their Irish Jazz gigs in Trim Castle Hotel probably between 5 and 7pm on that day. It is not planned to have either an admission or a cover charge, so if Jazz happens to "crank your gears" don't waste this good opportunity to indulge your passion.
Michael (grandson) and his friends are all students of the Swiss Jazz School, so they are all serious musicians, and all intend to carve out a career in music. They are coming to Ireland only because of the "Trim connection", so I hereby stake my claim to getting "The Gathering" off the ground in Trim...!!:)

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JJ Smyth's
Nov 27th 2014
8.30pm
€10

‘TheGINAJazz’:
Gina Pukaite LT/IE (vocal/lyrics)
Gediminas Karkauskas LT/IE (piano)
Cormac O'Brien IE (double bass)
Stephen Davis UK (drums)

Press review:
...'Dynamic drum pulsation, soft and transparent piano solos. And of course vocalist Gina (Grazina Pukaite)
....she was not dominating…In other words, she is the jewel of the trio, that is rarely found.

Connections with classical music and spoken word in a “Street View catcher” captured the attention and reminded
me of the Gil Scott Heron tune ’The revolution will not be televised’. It’s really rare when acoustic subtle performances get
rapturous applause. The Gina Jazz trio achieved it and completely captured everyone’s attention.

At the Final composition ‘II Easy’ ....Gediminas Karkauskas piano passages made me to look at my colleague nearby
questioning-is this the new
Esbjorn Svensson? Others had the same thoughts about similarity with the famous Swedish pianist.
But this cannot be considered copying. It is born of a shared level of performance that is electric, a performance
that is at one with its audience The Gina Jazz trio found a way not only to Broma Jazz listener’s ears, but hearts too.

...they have left stage after loud and sustained applause. Vocalist Gina promised to come they would be back
next year'-by J.Gricevicius "Jazz Jungtys" organiser, Broma Jazz'14 Festival critic (LT)


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Gina Pukaite (vocal/lyrics)
Gina Pukaite is a singer and lyricist based in Dublin, Ireland. She is regarded as one of the most gifted young artists to emerge in recent years. Gina has been disarming audience in Ireland, London and Lithuania. As well as possessing a wonderfully 'colorful' & rich voice, she is renowned for her captivating stage presence and talents.


Gediminas Karkauskas (piano)
One of the finest piano players & exceptional composer with years of performing, recording experience in Ireland and Internationally.
He holds Masters in Jazz Performance. Inspired by legendary figures such as Barry Harris ,John Taylor, Kenny Warner.Gediminas is active in both fields of classical and jazz music and worked with some of the leading Irish and International musicians like Louise Stewart, Richie Buckley, Dave Fleming, Linley Hamilton, Stephen Davis, Hugh Buckley

‘I had the pleasure of meeting and working with Gediminas in Sligo in 2012. He is a very talented pianist and an inventive improviser with a great deal of potential. He's full of interesting musical ideas and spontaneity and I look forward to hearing more of his imaginative music making in the future’-John Taylor

Cormac O’Brien (double bass)
Cormac O’Brien is one of Dublin’s most prominent double bass players and he has performed and recorded with many of Ireland’s finest musicians, such as Louis Stewart, Tommy Halferty, Michael Buckley, Hugh Buckley, The Kai Big Band, The Zoid Ensemble, Lunfardia, Yurodny, Jack L and Mary Coughlan. He has also played with a range of international artists such as Bobby Watson, Jamie Baum, Dave Allen, Ryan Quigley, Bjorn Vidar Solli, and Bruce Adams. He has held the bass chair in the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra since its inception and is a member of the Hibernia Orchestra. Cormac also co-founded the group Rhythm Method, for whom he also composes and is a member of Phisqa. In 2012 Cormac set up the Jazz Central, a short live but successful jazz venue, and has been involved with other collectives such as Rutland place and Donkey Jaw Productions.

Stephen Davis (drums)
In 2003 he toured with the European Jazz Orchestra, playing 25 dates throughout all the member states; Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and so on. Living in
London for the last 3 years he has been playing drums with the cream of London’s jazz community, players such as Evan Parker, Django Bates, Julian Seigal,
Dylan Bates, Annie Whitehead etc. Also performed with many European and American musicians, Dick Oats, Curtis Fuller, Alan Vache, Brunno Tommasso, Brian Irvine etc

'A VERY EMPATHETIC PERFORMER WITH A STRONG PERCUSSIVE VOICE.' Jazzwise Magazine.

must say i took in a concert in limerick last month DAVID SANBOURNE, and JOEY DE FRANCESCO it was excellent here is a clip of francesco. hammond organ , he's brilliant "sorry it won't let me post the link , I'm a new user" need 25 or more posts ,



its on you tube joey de francesco "never can say goodbye" i post it when I'm allowed

Hey Great blues gig in Patriots Inn this Friday. The Hard Core Blues with Richie Buckley, Ed Deane, Noel Bridgeman and John Quearney. Great to see them together.

Something different for Christmas this year - A Soulful Christmas with Karen Underwood (Cork's resident queen of soul) 9th December 8pm in the Everyman, check their website for more details! Tickets onsale online now