Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2019
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About this event
The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival is Ireland's biggest jazz event that attracts hundreds of musicians and thousands of music fans to the city each year.
This October sees jazz giants Kurt Elling, Fred Hersch and Spyro Gyra play alongside the incredible Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Mica Paris, Linley Hamilton and the Big Brass Band Explosion and many other across Cork’s venues.
Fringe, ECM and The Music Trail events around the city will also see Cork come to life over the October bank holiday weekend, making it one to remember.
Around 40,000 music fans from around the world are expected in Cork for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival that feature some of the biggest names in Jazz. Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Cleo Laine and Chick Corea have headlined the Cork Jazz Festival in the past. This year it's the turn of more amazing jazz musicians to thrill the Cork audiences.
Location
Cork
