| Venue: Mermaid Arts Centre |
| Date & Hour: Sunday 3rd May, 8pm |
| Line Up: Opening for Trio Sud (France) |
| Line Up: Tommy Halferty (guitar), Michel Zenino (double bass) and Stephane Foucher (drums) |
Tommy Halferty (guitar) has travelled the world and played with many of the greatest jazz performers.
The Derry born player has lectured at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Conservatoire in Paris, and is currently a teacher of jazz performance at the Newpark Music Centre in Dublin. He has travelled the world and played with Lee Konitz, Benny Golson, Ronnie Cuber, George Mraz, Dave Liebman and Martial Solal, and at home has collaborated with all of the major voices in contemporary Irish jazz - Louis Stewart, Mike Nielsen and Ronan Guilfoyle and Michael Buckley amongst them.
Halferty has long had a deep love of French jazz, and here he teams up with two of the best - Michel Zenino (double-bass) and Stephane Zenino(drums) for a compelling project that includes jazz interpretations of both Irish traditional songs, the work of American singer songwriter James Taylor, jazz standards, and French chansons.
The trio are scheduled to consign this latest venture to CD when they travel to France to record the fruits of this fine new collaboration during the Summer months.
The Derry born guitarist is a regular visitor to Bray Jazz Festival - and provided one of the event's stand out moments last year, when he teamed up for the first time in a decade with the great English jazz singer Norma Winstone, for a show at Bray Town Hall.
Halferty is considered one of the first Irish jazz musician to export a distinctly indigenous style to a more worldwide setting.
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