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Sligo Jazz Project launches its 20th Birthday festival programme on June 12 with a very special night of music. First, join us for refreshments at 7pm in Lillies Cocktail Bar (admission Free) when we officially launch the 20th Birthday festival programme, with music provided by Young Irish Jazz Musician 2024 Rory Conneally. Then move upstairs as an optional extra - for just a tenner admission - when you can witness critically acclaimed UK Guitarist Ant Law with Milan-born Turkish singer Brigitte Beraha starting a short Irish duo tour. Both these amazing musicians are also on our 2025 summer school faculty in July and performing at our festival too.
Ant Law and Brigitte Beraha
British guitarist Ant Law lives in London and is “a game changer” and “an innovator” according to The Guardian. He has worked with other notables Cory Henry, Thomas Gould and is featured in “Total Guitar", “Guitar Techniques" & “Guitarist” magazines. In the latter he was included in a list of “10 Astounding Virtuosos”, and the May 2021 issue of Guitar Techniques features a 2-page spread on Ant, and a 9/10 review of The Sleeper Wakes. Trio HLK’s ‘Anthropometricks’ was also awarded a 9/10 review in the May 2024 issue.
Born in Milan to a Turkish father and Turkish-British mother, Brigitte Beraha grew up on the Côte d’Azur in France where her first music memories are of sitting and listening to her dad play
piano and sing. This musical, multinational and multilingual upbringing combined to inspire and mould one of the most creative vocalists and composers on the UK scene.
Embracing a wide variety of music influences and genres, from jazz and latin to classical and, more recently, electronic, Beraha’s sound is free and fluid with an emphasis on exploration and expression. Fearlessly testing the limits of the voice as instrument, her sound is distinguished by the unexpected, with free improvisation and evocative wordless singing at its core.
This agility, adventurous spirit and limitless imagination all mark her out as a truly exciting and versatile artist with a huge range of experience and creative scope. She has worked with a wide range of musicians and recorded a number of critically acclaimed albums.