Cork Jazz Fest review: Cymande get into their groove at Opera House
Cymande on stage at Cork Opera House on Friday during the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. Picture: Darragh Kane
It’s a measure of the pulling power of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival that a band like Cymande can pack out the 1,000-capacity Opera House. Any other time of year and the recently-reformed British-Caribbean funksters would likely be playing a Leeside venue half that size.
That’s no disrespect to a group who broke through in 1972 with classic single And who enjoyed a later revival thanks to widely-used samples by the likes of De La Soul and The Fugees. But Cymande were a group your cool DJ mate might have been into, rather than your Top 40-loving uncle.
