The Cork accent and The Stargazers are back with a new album

The musicality of the Cork accent has a captivating charm which is to the advantage of harmonising swing trio The Stargazers, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

FROM Jamie Dornan reading lines of Fifty Shades of Grey in it to Tommy Tiernan envisaging the national embarrassment should Ireland ever have a president with it, Cork’s distinctive lilting accent has been the butt of plenty of jokes.

But its innate musicality has a captivating charm all its own, and it pairs well with compositions that may seem, culturally speaking, a million miles away from the rebel county. Harmonising swing trio The Stargazers have been performing jazz numbers from songwriters like Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin with a decidedly Corkonian folksy twist since the mid-1980.