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Cork Jazz 2015: Friday running order

Friday listings for Cork Jazz Festival 2015…

With all of the festivals taking place down south in the past couple of months the line-up for this year’s Jazz has nearly been lost in the ether. But not quite. The below listing will be updated regularly throughout the week as the smaller venues reveal further details. For Saturday and Sunday click here and here.

Cork Jazz Festival (23rd-26th October)

Please check venue sites for official details as all times and dates are subject to change and I wouldn’t want to steer you wrong!

Friday, 23rd October

1am
– Guilty Judges in The Oliver Plunkett – FREE

12.30am
– Hot 3 Jazz Trio in Barbarossa – FREE

12am
– Metropole Club: Bad Girls Groove in Metropole Ballroom – FREE
– Blu Tack & The Greenhorns in The Oliver Plunkett Upstairs – FREE
– DJ Gary Baus (12.15am) in The River Lee Hotel – FREE

11.30pm
– Kormac in Cyprus Avenue – €12.50
– Pontius Pilate & The Naildrivers in An Bróg – FREE
– Metropole Club: Collage Groove Band (11.45pm) in Metropole Met Bar – FREE
– Roscoe & Coltrane in The Poor Relation – FREE
– Andy Dunne Band in The Rob Roy – FREE

11pm
– Inga Copeland with STRANGER DJs in Triskel Christchurch – €18
– Ben Reel in Imperial Hotel Seventy Six on the Mall – FREE
– Bogus Brothers in Old Oak – FREE
– Stomptown Brass Band in The Oliver Plunkett – FREE
– UV5 in Soho – FREE
– Boss Hogg in Vicarstown – FREE

10.30pm
– Des Hopkins Dixieland Jazz Spectacular in Clarion Hotel – FREE

10pm
– Djevara & Clearfell in Fred Zeppelin’s – €5
– Horace & Friends in An Spailpin Fanach – FREE
– Dark Town Strutters in Barbarossa – FREE
– The Light Runners in Brú – FREE
– Blue Steel in Canty’s – FREE
– Liv Monaghan in Clancy’s – FREE
– Mary Stokes Band in Counihan’s – FREE
– Sean & Eileen Healy in El Fenix – FREE
– Jimmy Moore in The Flying Enterprise – FREE
– Skazz in The Grafton – FREE
– Buck Taylor in The Idle Hour – FREE
– Lee Hedley Blues Band in The Long Valley – FREE
Metropole Club: Cookie & The Vaudevilles in Metropole Ballroom – FREE
– Contraband in The Pav – FREE
– Blue Moose in Reardens – FREE
– Art Crimes Band in The River Lee Hotel – FREE

9.30pm
– Crazy Chester in Coughlan’s – FREE
– Metropole Club: Belleville Hot Club in Metropole Met Bar – FREE
– Roaring Forties in The Poor Relation – FREE
– Joey Shields & The Wheels in The Shelbourne – FREE
– Guilty Judges in The Woodford – FREE

9pm
– Jerry Fish Electric Sideshow in Cork Opera House – €20
– The Service in An Bróg – FREE
– The Hot 8 Brass Band in The Bodega – FREE
– Martin Pleass Band in Costigan’s – FREE
– John Connolly Band in Imperial Hotel Seventy Six on the Mall – FREE
– Blues Brothers Banned in Old Oak – FREE
– Stonefox in The Oliver Plunkett Upstairs – FREE
– Perfidio in Sin É – FREE

8.30pm
– Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. in Crane Lane Theatre – FREE

8pm
– Grace Kelly/New Irish Jazz Orchestra in Everyman Theatre – €35
– Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld Duo with Seán Mac Erlaine in Triskel Christchurch – €23
– Fight Like Apes in Cyprus Avenue – €10
– The Clubmen in Clarion Hotel – FREE
– Mr. Fork & Dr. Quigley in The Sextant – FREE

7.30pm
– Karen Underwood in Barbarossa – FREE
– Metropole Club: Idol Bones in Metropole Met Bar – FREE
– Brother Sledge in The Oliver Plunkett – FREE

7pm
– Aslan in The Savoy – €23
– Skazz in Imperial Hotel Seventy Six on the Mall – FREE
– Shaken Edge in Old Oak – FREE
– Lamarotte Jazz Band in The River Lee Hotel – FREE
– Pat Fitz in Soho – FREE

6.30pm
Blue Note Jazz in The Roundy – FREE
– Harry Connolly Allstars in The Shelbourne – FREE

6pm
Jazz Session in Canty’s – FREE
– Des Hopkins Dixieland Jazz Spectacular in Clarion Hotel – FREE
– B Major in Electric – FREE
– Chester City Orchestra in Imperial Hotel Seventy Six on the Mall – FREE
– Strange Attractor in The Oliver Plunkett Upstairs – FREE
– Darktown Strutters in The Woodford – FREE

5.30pm
– Rob Strong in Deep South – FREE

5pm
– Belleville Hot Club in Brú – FREE
– Metropole Club: Karen Underwood in Metropole Met Bar – FREE
– Lyda in Old Oak – FREE
– New York Jazz Band in The River Lee Hotel – FREE

4pm
– Briony in The Oliver Plunkett – FREE
– Tuxedo Junction in The Pav – FREE

1pm
– Melanie O’Reilly & Simon Rowe (1.10pm) in Glucksman Gallery UCC – FREE
– Clare Sands Quintet in The Oliver Plunkett – FREE

11am
Record & CD Fair (until 6pm) in Unitarian Church – FREE (or depends on you!)

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Cork Jazz Festival 2015 takes place in various venues from 23rd-26th October

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