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Three days of live jazz At Johnstown Castle
The biggest outdoor jazz festival in the South East will take place at Johnstown Castle across three days, from July 15 to 17, 2022.
Over 16 bands and 30 musicians from throughout the country are participating in this extraordinary jazz event on the grounds of the beautiful Johnstown Castle estate.
Promoted by Jazz at Johnstown, some of the biggest names in Irish jazz will bring star-studded bands to the Wexford venue.
A series of outdoor stages – the Castle Stage, the Sunken Garden, the Visitors Centre, the Courtyard – will host two full days of jazz on Saturday and Sunday. Admission to the festival is free for members and just E9 a day for non-members or E24 per day for a family of two adults and two children.
A separate admission charge will be in place for the evening headline acts at the Visitors Centre on Friday night (Sharon Clancy and the Chris Colloton Trio) and Saturday (the Nigel Mooney Trio). Contact Johnstown Castle at 053-9184671.
Outdoor jazz and Johnstown Castle estate is a marriage made in heaven: copious parking, walks of approximately four kilometres in length, stunning natural vistas, very accessible to Wexford town, a castle which is a gem of Gothic Revival architecture and a €7.5 million Visitors Centre with a 160 seat café.
Among the bands appearing at Jazz at Johnstown are the Carole Nelson Trio, the Boss Nova Trio, ATSCH, the Cormac Kenevey Trio, the Mel O’Reilly Quartet, the Kevin Lawlor Quartet, the Adrian Jackson Trio, the Vicky Clancy Trio, the Ivy Sisters, the Chris Colloton Trio, David Mulhall, the Killian Browne Trio, Jazz Alley, the Nigel Mooney Trio and the Sharon Clancy and Chris Colloton Trio.