Guinness Cork Jazz Festival review: Macy Gray rolls out the hits on opening night 

The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival officially kicked off on Thursday night at a sold-out Cork Opera House 

Macy Gray performing at Cork Opera House for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.  Picture: Darragh Kane

The 45th Guinness Cork Jazz Festival kicked off last night with a joyous atmosphere at Macy Gray’s sell-out show at Cork Opera House on Thursday.

Following a deftly mixed hip hop and R‘n’B set by Cork DJ Jus Me, whoops and cheers greeted Gray’s eventual arrival onstage. The gig was publicised as her Guinness Cork Jazz debut, but this of course turned out not to be the case, as she played a secret warm-up gig in the intimate confines of Coughlan’s of Douglas Street the night before, to a thrilled audience.