Home About Us Programme Artists Locations Festival Archive Useful Links News Contact Us Planning underway for 11th year        Bray Jazz Festival returns for its 11th year on the upcoming May Bank Holiday weekend. Starting on Friday, April 30th, the festival will stage concerts, recitals and pub trail gigs at hotels, bars, theatres and other recital spaces in the town over the three days of the bank holiday weekend. Programming for the festival is currently underway, and we expect to be back to you with a full line up of acts in the weeks to come. Check back soon for further details - and thanks for your interest.                 Basque guitarist Sylvain Luc pictured at Bray Jazz Festival.                   Watch Mathias Eick perform, and pick up the top prize at the by:Larm Music Festival in Norway, last month. This year's by:Larm event featured more than 500 shows. Ringing endorsement Bray Jazz Festival received a ringing endorsement from the world's largest and most influential jazz web-site, in an extensive review of its 10th anniversary event. The US based 'All About Jazz' site carried a comprehensive review of this year's Bray Festival, describing it as 'one of the very best small jazz festivals in Europe'. Read the full text of the review by following the link below:          Link to article Jazz stars Established and emerging stars of international jazz featured, and a number of acclaimed award winners were amongst the performers at this year's Bray Jazz Festival. Three times Grammy Award nominated vibraphonist Stefon Harris and Blackout played Mermaid Arts Centre, while the venue also hosted young Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick, fresh from his remarkable top prize win at this year's prestigious By:Larm Festival in Scandanavia. Elsewhere there were concerts by the great American guitarist Rez Abbasi, by acclaimed British alto-saxophonist Soweto Kinch, and by BBC World Music Award winners Juldeh Camara and Justin Adams. Thanks ! Bray Jazz would like to express a sincere word of gratitude to all those who made our 10th anniversary programme possible. To all of the musicians, to our generous sponsors, to the concert going public, and to a great deal of other people who gave their energy, their expertise, their time and their talent to make this year's event a reality we say a sincere and heartfelt 'thanks'.        Download a PDF version of this year's Bray Jazz Festival programme here        Programming for our 2010 festival is currently underway. In the meantime take a look at the listings below and see some of the shows that we hosted in Bray in 2009.          Friday May 1st 2009 Boi Akih (Indonesia/Holland) Town Hall, 6.30pm Mathias Eick Quartet (Norway) Mermaid Arts Centre 8.00pm opening: Morla (Irl) Orquestra do Fuba (Brazil) World Stage, 10.00pm ›› view full list of artists on Friday          Saturday, 2nd May The Hot Club of Dublin Royal Hotel, 2.30pm Paolo Angeli (Sardinia) Town Hall, 6.30pm Stefon Harris & Blackout (USA) Mermaid Arts Centre, 8.00pm & Sardjoe Buckley Guilfoyle (Irl/Holland) Rez Abassi Quartet (USA) Royal Hotel, 9pm Yurodny (Ireland) World Stage, 10.00pm Sketches of Now (Irl) After Hours Jazz, 12pm ›› view full list of artists on Saturday          Sunday, 3rd May The Carmel McCreagh Band Royal Hotel, 2.30pm Tarab (Italy/Irl) Town Hall, 6.30pm Trio Sud (France) Mermaid Arts Centre, 8.00pm Halferty Zenino Foucher (Irl/Fr) Eri Yamamoto Trio (Japan/US) Royal Hotel, 9pm Justin Adams & Juldeh Camara (UK/Gambia) World Stage, 10.00pm David Lyttle & Soweto Kinch (N.Irl/UK) After Hours Club,12pm ›› view full list of artists on Sunday        Powered by: go2web