Arthur's Jam session is strictly jazz, but all musicians and listeners are welcome 

Doors at 8 / Jam starts at 8:30

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Jazz jam session every Monday, hosted by Paul Dunlea. This is the original Jazz Improv in the city and features as part of the  Cork jazz festival every Oct. All players welcome.

Each month, Improvised Music Company hosts Cooler Clinic CPD events. These sessions offer artists practical insight and honest conversations about sustaining creative careers.

For March, we’re joined by Mark Reid, founder of the Belfast-based record label Touch Sensitive Records and head of Middle Aisle, the artist development and booking agency arm of Moving On Music.

Get ready to groove and jam at the Newpark Academy of Music Jazz Jam, where jazz music lovers come together and share the stage, taking place on Wednesday 25th of March at 7pm.

Grab a pizza and a pint and enjoy some live jazz provided by some of Dublin's finest musicians. Expect tunes by the likes of Herbie Hancock, Weather Report and Sun Ra.

Swing into action this Wednesday night at Killester Donnycarney Football Club, with a powerhouse performance by The Essential Big Band—Dublin’s longest-running big band! From 9:30PM to 11:30PM, enjoy the bold brass, smooth sax, and timeless swing of a full 17-piece ensemble as they bring the music of Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, and more to life. It’s a feel-good night of classic big band favourites in a lively, welcoming atmosphere. Bring your friends and soak up the great vibes—live big band music has never sounded so good!

Linda Kenny
Damian Smith
Evelyn Grant narrator
Mark O’Shaughnessy, actor
Alan Carney MD
and the Singalong Songbook band

Following sell-out performances in theatres across Ireland, We’ll Meet Again: the Story of Vera Lynn makes its long-awaited appearance on to the main stage of the National Concert Hall for one night only.

Just like Django Reinhardt’s quintessential gypsy jazz band of the 1930’s, the ‘Quintette du Hot Club de France’, the Tenters are a 5-piece jazz band following in the footsteps of the greats with their lineup of viola, bass and 3 guitars.

Live Jazz Jam Session in the heart of Cork City every Thursday from 9pm. Hosted by a house band of some of Cork’s finest jazzers & humans. All are welcome to participate for a tune or two. If that’s not your bag then simply take in the atmosphere with some food & refreshments served until late.

“Her sound is big and warm; her language firmly rooted in the swinging hard-bop
and post-bop traditions of Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson.”  (All About Jazz)

Hayley Kavanagh is an Irish saxophonist, flautist and composer who has made a name for herself on the Dublin scene in recent years both as an active band leader, as well as an in-demand collaborator and sideman. Her music is punchy, bluesy and angular with “pithy hooks over catchy basslines” (Journal of Music). Deeply rooted in tradition, but with a distinct personality, it has “an uncanny quality of sounding both familiar and new at the same time” (Journal of Music).

With three album releases, two national tours, and two awards from Help Musicians, Aspyrian are fast gaining a reputation as one of the most ambitious new acts on the UK jazz scene.

TC.KYLIE is a contemporary jazz artist blending modern jazz, gaming-inspired soundtracks and influences from Hong Kong, Japan and the UK
TC KYLIE's keyboard and synth keytar performances draw on Robert Glasper, Shaun Martin and Japan’s acid-jazz pioneers Fox Capture Plan and jizue, with Sega- and Nintendo-inspired textures and the cinematic palette of Studio Ghibli and Joe Hisaishi.

Michael Buckley and his band are leading players in the current generation of Irish musicians.

They are well schooled with strong local and international experience and have moved beyond the environment they first developed in. They have formed their own sound and sensibility, composing, and performing at a new level.

Paul Dunlea & Scott Flanigan: two of Ireland’s leading improvising musicians combine for a concert featuring contemporary arrangements of timeless jazz standards as well as original compositions by Paul Dunlea.

Blooming Rooms is a new collaborative project shaped by the idea, echoed recently by Marina Abramović, that artists can shift collective energy through intentional creation. Instead of flowers as objects, this trio cultivates sonic blooms.