Down With Jazz festival 2017

Improvised Music Company(IMC)isan Arts Council funded resource for Irish jazz musicians, and a specialist music promoter for jazz and ethnic music events in Ireland. IMC produce 4 festivals annually as well as both intimate and large scale concerts of Irish and international jazz, experimental and world music artists in Ireland.

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<H2>**ONLINE SALES FOR SUNDAY ARE NOW CLOSED**</H2>
<H2>Tickets available on the door: €17.50 for 3 shows</H2>
Stella Bass &amp; Hugh Buckley's Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald (5pm)
'The Whisltling Girl' jazz cabaret show from Honor Heffernan and Trevor Knight (6pm)
Paul Dunlea Septet (7:30pm)
 
<H3>Down With Jazz, Dublin’s annual festival of ‘filthy foreign rhythms &amp; divilish beats’ moves across the Liffey and into The Grand Social for it’s 6th edition on 10th-11th June with a shameless line-up of jazzy grooves.</H3>
Way back in 1917 the very first jazz record was laid down by a New Orleans quintet called The Original Dixieland Jass Band, not to mention the birth of the First Lady of Jazz, Ms Ella Fitzgerald that same year. Jaysus, not another bleedin’ centenary says you!
Fast forward one hundred years and there is plenty to celebrate in our diverse Irish jazz scene, with Down With Jazz bent on “reimagining mainstream jazz and bringing everyone together for a hell of a good time.” - All About Jazz
The festival takes a tongue-in-cheek look back to 1930s Ireland when jazz and ‘foreign’ music was seen by the Church as a filthy force of corruption, inciting a repressive ‘anti-jazz’ campaign to ban jazz music from the dance halls and airwaves of Ireland. Today’s Down With Jazz festival links audiences with 21st century Ireland’s vibrant and diverse music scene through the playful prism of this notorious period of our social history.
“Down With Jazz… remembering those anti-jazz nutters with some of the freshest and most innovative jazz, world and experimental acts around” - Irish Times
 
<H2>SATURDAY 10th June</H2>
7:30pm - 2:30am
Jazz Lab jam session
Ríona Sally Hartman’s FÓD
Joyous, uptempo song cycles with West African and Brazilian influences.
Gamerz with Kit Downes
Top notch jazz quartet blending tradition with an expansive modern aesthetic.
Robocobra Quartet
Mining influences from jazz, hardcore punk and contemporary classical music
Booka Brass Band
Everyone’s favourite horn wielders playing New Orleans inspired ‘urban brass’.
BigSpoon
A spoonful of Ireland's leading improvisers and electro-sonic explorers.
We Three Kings
DJ trio specialising in jazz, hip-hop, funk and South American beats.
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<H2>SUNDAY 11th June</H2>
4pm-9pm
An Nóta Gorm’s DJ Billy O hAnluin
Stella sings Ella, with Hugh Buckley
A tribute to the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald
Honor Heffernan ‘The Whistling Girl’
A dark and dirty cabaret inspired by the work of Dorothy Parker
Paul Dunlea Septet
Trombonist and composer Paul Dunlea rounds up some of Ireland’s finest improvising musicians.
 
Down With Jazz 2017 moving indoors but keeping the jazz temperatures on high at The Grand Social Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June. Weekend tickets are a steal at €25 with Daily tickets just €15.
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The Grand Social

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