BRAY JAZZ FESTIVAL
FRIDAY 28 April − MONDAY 1 May 2017 www.brayjazz.com Bray Jazz Festival returns for its 18th year on the May Bank Holiday weekend. Firmly established as a major contemporary music weekend on the Irish calendar, Bray Jazz Festival will once more present some of the leading names in international jazz, in 2017. For more information visit www.brayjazz.com.
Lionel Loueke Trio FRIDAY 28 April | 8pm €25
(Benin/USA)
Lionel Loueke is a major guitar talent whose band fuse traditional West African music with modern jazz harmonies and power-trio rock to create a sound that is all their own. Loueke’s selection to the all-star band to celebrate Blue Note’s 75th anniversary is testimony to the talent, as is his long-standing presence in the band of the legendary Herbie Hancock, who has described him simply as “a musical painter.”
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