Cork Jazz Festival 2021

Who would actually want to go? I'm not ready for crowded pubs, not yet anyway.

I would love if this thread could be a positive one which provides good information about the festival and not be the same as every other online discussion about the jazz where people fall over themselves to say just how much they don't like it. Any chance?

No ones putting a gun to your head.

tis a bit slow allright.

That's why we went to events listed in the official Guinness Cork Jazz Festival programme. In 2019, we ended up in the River Lee which had several bands through the night and it was absolutely brilliant. In 2018, we ended up in the Metropole in the afternoon and it was excellent. A group of child prodigy musicians was over from New York and it was a blast.

I'm a blow in (from a great festival city - Galway) and I thoroughly enjoyed my very first jazz back in 2016 when I was here for a short period. I had zero expectations, and loved being able to go around the city and bumping into all the European big jazz bands and so on.

Spat out my cornflakes this morning reading that not only is the airport closed for the jazz festival, but they are also closing the Cork railway station for 11 days at the same time.

Genius lads.

Colour me surprised.

I highly doubt that. For starters, Dell, J&J and Amazon have more presence in Ireland outside of Cork.

See table 3.

Manufactured pharma products are the biggest value of the export for row 53. The highest value one I believe is the J&J Centocor site in Cork, the majority of the rest of that row is Pfizer (Cork), MSD (Cork), Novartis (Cork), GSK (Cork), Gilead (Cork), Lilly (Cork), Abvie (cork), the other J&j sites (little island, depuy, ,both cork, and the visioncare site in limerick). Outside Cork you've got amgen, alexion, abbott, the rest of the pharma big 50 have a sales or reg affairs office in Dublin, rather than manufacturing.

Cork also has a good chunk of the animal and dairy industry, row 0. The biggest farms in the country are in Cork, 1200 acres. https://www.farmersjournal.ie/ireland-s-largest-dairy-farm-installs-latest-dairymaster-technology-196425

Dell has an office in cherrywood in Dublin, but the high value manufacturing is done in Ovens, Cork. Apple is manufacturing is it?

They are ya.

Or, I was responding to the post I quoted. You decide which is more likely there.

Is it this new boards layout that people can't see conversations anymore, or just an epidemic of belligerence?

wow thats gonna be sh1t -theres djs in the crane what are ya supposed to do sit there tapping your foot ?

Just in before the weather turned. Town was really busy - queues to get into a lot of places (Deep South, Conway's Yard in particular) and bouncers turning away people telling them not to Q at other premises.

Some bands around the place as part of the festival - seemingly more of the variety that play pop music as a brass band. I didn't stumble across any of the bands that come in from the continent as in the past, unfortunately - always enjoyed them.

More intimate and exclusive?

Just back from town - weather was shocking altogether. We went to pigalle for food first - delicious meal and cocktails! I would most certainly recommend! Lovely staff too and great atmosphere!

Then walked down town in the driving rain and strong winds :-(, after walking around for about 15/20mins trying to find somewhere we could get in, we got a table in the Woodford, great atmosphere even though no jazz or live band but music was great anyway! Cocktails great there too! All in all an enjoyable night, and I think Cork will do well this weekend despite all the Covid stuff.

Someone on Twitter put op the poster for "Jazz me Bollix" in the Shelter on Tuckey Street. Whipping Boy, Palace Brothers, Toasted Heretic, etc. etc. It was a fantastic indie/rock weekend.

I assume you mean The Liberty Bar? (The Liberties being in Dublin)

It should be called the Cork Music Festival, was there even any jazz in Cork's biggest venue, the Opera House?

I know there was some serious jazz in The Everyman and most years there is actual jazz in The Metropole and The Opera House too but apart from a handful of venues, I agree that it has become just another generic city music festival. It's been that way for years, though. I think I realised this years ago when The Waterboys were the festival headline act!

This year, I've realised that most people seem to think that if it's played on a brass instrument - it's jazz. I reckon that the most played song over the jazz festival was "7 Nation Army". I don't think I need to ever see another brass band with a drum kit playing pop and rock songs !

While I can see the attraction to broaden the appeal of the festival - I think that they have, over the years, destroyed what was once an internationally regognised, highly regarded jazz festival (second biggest in Europe at one time). Now it's just one of hundreds music festivals across Europe.

It would be utterly ridiculous if a Country music festival had a chunk of its lineup that wasn't Country, or likewise if it were a Classical music festival... or a Rock festival etc etc

It is fashionable for the great unwashed to sh1t on jazz as they think all jazz music is like a Fast Show skit.