Felip Carbonell: Guitar, Voice
Eddie McFarlane: Guitar
Eddie Lynch: Piano

We can’t have a festival without a contribution from our brilliant friends in Sligo Academy of Music! Martin Moser leads Sligo’s most accomplished junior jazz musicians – head for Boots or our esteemed leader, Ed Lee’s photography shop, and you’ll find them there!

Guitarist Tom Ollendorff is one of the most exciting young guitarists to emerge on the UK and international jazz scenes. Tom is known for his highly distinctive sound which blends virtuosic guitar playing with sophisticated harmonic and melodic ideas, whilst always keeping room for nuance and sensitivity.

Gareth Lockrane is the UK’s premier jazz flautist, a prolific and versatile musician who makes regular sideman appearances as well as leading his own small groups plus his acclaimed contemporary big band.

The Garavogue Sessions
Welcome to our daily 4:30 session where you can catch some of Ireland and Europe’s finest jazz musicians in an informal setting.

5pm – 7pm Hawk’s Well Theatre Lobby

Catch some spontaneous performances featuring the 150 or so summer school participants who flock to Sligo each year for the love of jazz! You’d never know who might show up to join in.

Featuring Artist in Residence Elio Villafranca, Young artist in Residence Fergus McCreadie and the entire SJP 2024 Summer School faculty in small, medium and large groups. We truly believe this will be one of the most exciting All Stars concerts in SJP’s history.

10pm Hawk’s Well Theatre Lobby

Catch some spontaneous performances featuring the 150 or so summer school participants who flock to Sligo each year for the love of jazz! You’d never know who might show up to join in.

All of our participants have been practicing and fine tuning their performances all week and now get the chance to showcase them in front of an audience. This is officially the biggest Sligo Jazz summer school ever, and its also the first SJP Big Bash ever held in the auditorium of the Hawks Well Theatre. Come and support our summer school participants, many of them performing in public for the first time, some of them seasoned performers, as they are led by our experienced international faculty.

Let's get together and play jazz standards! Get your chord changes from iRealPro, and the heads from the Real Book. All and any instruments and singers are welcome. This is an event organized by the community.

Join Stella Bass, Felim Gormley and the band for a weekly jazz session at Searsons of Baggot St, the perfect way to ease you back after the weekend.

Organ Freeman – Irish jazz organ trio

Organ Freeman specialises in the music of the bebop and hard bop idioms of the early 1950s and 60s. Playing standards by composers such as Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, and many more in the classic organ trio format.

Celebrate our amazing week which culminates in a sensational big band set by our stellar 2024 musicians and a jam session featuring tutors and participants alike.

Ruben is a jazz pianist from England. He founded his jazz group Baron Mara in 2016. He’s played at Ronnie Scott’s in London, Jamboree in Barcelona and the Cork Jazz Festival in 2017. Recently his band have enjoyed residencies at Foyles in London and Joe’s in Oxford. He has put together a band of Cork jazz all-stars for this special concert.

Gustavo Ecclesia is a singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Argentina and based in Dublin. He has an edited album of original songs and is currently finishing his second album. He is also a member of the folk duo Pucha! and the Latin American dance music group Yacaré Baby and Embassy of Cumbia. His music is based on Argentine and Latin American folk roots with jazz and urban sounds. He also participated in numerous projects and collaborations for other artists and sang with some of the most important folk artists in Argentina such as Jaime Torres, Juan Falú and Peteco Carabajal, among others.

An exciting new addition to Galway's West End nightlife! Every Sunday over the summer, join The Karl Clews Trio from 8-10pm for an evening of jazz and funk in the magical setting of Carroll's beer garden on Dominick St. And in true New York jazz session style, if you bring your horn or your axe, you're more than welcome to join us onstage to show off your chops!