Counting down to our 13th year
| Happy to report that Bray Jazz Festival will return for its 13th instalment on the upcoming May Bank Holiday weekend.
This year's event will take place on the weekend of 4th-6th May, and a programme is currently being compiled and will be announced shortly.
We're delighted to be returning, and are grateful to our sponsors, and to you - our audience, for your continuing backing and support for Bray Jazz.
In the meantime, check out the site and see what we did in 2011, and in the archive section you'ill be able to see the people we've been lucky to present down through the years. | | | | | | | HAMILTON DE HOLANDA & ANDRE MEHMARI | | Brazilian Mandolin virtuoso Hamilton De Holanda is one of the hottest tickets in contemporary jazz from Latin America - and he didn't disappoint when playing a headline show with pianist Andre Mehmari at Bray Jazz Festival in 2011. Multiple Grammy Award nominee De Holanda is one the greatest virtuoso mandolinists; with Mehmari they presented 'Gismontipascoal', their tribute to Brazilian music giants Hermeto Pascoal and Egberto Gismonti (Check it out). |
| | | | | KURT ROSENWINKEL | Acclaimed American jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel brought his band- featuring pianist Aaron Parks, Justin Faulkner (drums) and Eric Revis (bass) to last years festival..
The Berlin based player appeared as part of a double bill headliner at Mermaid Arts Centre on Saturday, 30th April. (We didn't get footage, but here's the group in Stockholm a week earlier). |
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| | | | | Travel Advisory | Those travelling by public transport to this year's Jazz Festival are asked to note that last DART services to Dublin leave Bray Station at 11.20pm on Saturday. Services on Friday and Sunday finish at 11.30pm.
A special nightlink bus service is also available to return festival goers to Dublin City Centre following late night concerts. These buses are run by Finnegan's Coaches and leave from Bray Main Street (opposite Royal Hotel) for O'Connell St, Dublin, at 12.15am, and at 2.15am each night. Tickets are priced €5. |
| | | | | | | Festival offers | Bray Jazz Festival has a number of discount packages on offer again this year.
We have a "Two for €40" package which will you the chance of buying tickets for any two of our double-bill headline shows at Mermaid Arts Centre. Or you might want to consider the "Two for €30" deal, giving you tickets to both our double-bill at Mermaid Arts Centre and any of our late night shows on Bray Seafront. (Both packages are limited edition, and on a first-come, first-served basis). Check with the box office on 01-2724030 for further details.
We are also happy to be able to offer our two programmed matinees (on Saturday and Sunday) as free to the public shows, and will present more than 20 other hotel and pub gigs on the festival jazz trail, sponsored this year by Greenstar, and also available free of charge over the May Bank Holiday weekend. | | | | Click onto the artist pages and follow the links to book online for this year's shows. Check with the Mermaid Box Office (01-2724030) for our "2 for €40" and "2 for €30" deals. | | |  |
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