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A new weekly jazz brunch event starts in East Belfast on Sunday, 18 October. The long-established SD Bell & Company owned coffee joint – located in Knock on Belfast’s Upper Newtownards Road – is the venue for a regular jazz session hosted by saxophonist Dan Forshaw. Forshaw, a player, teacher and occassional sideman, is described [...]

Dunfanaghy is a small harbour village in the Sheephaven Bay area of Co. Donegal in the northwest of Ulster. Located between the hills and the Atlantic Ocean, Dunfanaghy boasts a Blue Flag beach, the spectacular Hornhead cliffs and much more… For example, the 2009 Dunfanaghy Jazz and Blues Festival taking place from Friday-Sunday, September 11-13. [...]

The eighth City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival runs from Thursday, April 30 to Sunday, May 3. This year’s main attraction is bop-style alto sax player and Londoner Soweto Kinch who guests in a trio with Belfast jazz drummer David Lyttle the Australian Damian Evans on double bass. Other highlights include: veteran Co. [...]

The hard swinging David Lyttle Trio play the 4 Corners Music Festival on Thursday, October 9. Drummer David Lyttle studied contemporary jazz and composition at the University of Ulster and New York’s Skidmore Jazz Institute and has performed with artists Jean Touissant, Jacqui Dankworth and Soweto Kinch. His debut album “True Story” was released in [...]

With a programme top-heavy with blues and jazz, Belfast’s Big River International Blues and Jazz Festival runs August 21-25 in venues around downtown Belfast. Ulster jazz performers scheduled to perform include David Lyttle, Ken Haddock, Linley Hamilton, Julie Follis, The Metro Jazz Band, The Apex Jazz Band and The Panama Jazz Band. More: http://www.bigriverbluesandjazz.com

The 18TH HOLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL takes place the weekend of Saturday, June 7 to Sunday, June 8, 2008. Programme: http://www.holywoodjazzfestival.com/programme.html

Following a break from music and a year living in Australia, Claire Sproule is about to release her brand new album Shades Of Night, on her own independent label. Sproule’s debut album was released on Parlophone Records and sold over 10k units in Ireland. She has supported artists Dr John and Al Green at venues [...]

The 7th City of Derry Jazz and Big Band Festival welcomes back the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Irish queen of Jazz, Honor Heffernan, and a special evening hosted by BBC Radio Ulster featuring the Ulster Orchestra directed by Jazz pianist and arranger Brian Byrne. This year the festival also introduces Kyle Eastwood, Cormac Kenevey, [...]

Belfast-born Tony Kaluarachchi is a singer-songwriter and an accomplished jazz-blues guitarist who plays the music of his heroes – Hendrix and Ellington – with gusto. He’s done stints as frontman for the reformed Animals and Them and major festivals in Ireland. Tony Kal performs every Thursday
at McHughs Bar, Custom House Square, Belfast from 10pm til [...]

Ken Haddock, purveyor of fine cover versions at his long-running Sunday night “Ken Haddock’s Supper Club” at The Belfast Empire Music Hall (basement, free, from 9.30pm), has added another weekly gig to his busy schedule. Crowd-pleaser Ken now plays The Four Winds “gastro-pub” [Google map] on Friday nights between 10.30pm – 1.00am.

Belfast-based saxophonist Dan Forshaw was hailed as “one of the finest young tenor players in the north west” at the 2004 Southport International Jazz festival. A highly accomplished and versatile player, Dan does a lot of session work – and lectures in jazz and music technology. But Dan’s reputation as a player has been established [...]

The next gig for the Belfast Jazz Orchestra is Monday, Feb 4 at Belmont Social Club under new musical director Marty Wilson. Belmont Social Club (aka CIYMS) is close to Belmont Park, Campbell College, George Best Belfast City Airport and Sydenham Railway Station. (Circular Road can be approached from the Holywood Road or Belmont [...]

Are you a jazz/swing musician looking for work? Are you a band looking for work? Northern Ireland based Octave Music Solutions is recruiting new talent to keep up with market demand. Register on-line at www.octavesolutions.co.uk or call +44 (0)28 90 327 874

The year 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of the Van Morrison “all-time classic” album, Astral Weeks. This landmark recording – a mixture of jazz and soul and Celtic lyricism – includes tracks such as Cyprus Avenue, Madame George and Beside You. With this in mind, a series of Ulster music makers will play the album [...]