The Cork Guinness Jazz Festival weekend is nearly upon us and one Cork pub has gotten to the heart of the celebration in their promo video released on Wednesday.

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Whether or not you found that whoopee spot where the gin is cold and the piano hot, Cork City still had plenty to sate the musical tastes of bank holiday revellers who came in search of jazz and razzmatazz.

The threat of driving winds and torrential rain showers could have given people the blues and kept them away, but the Cork Guinness Jazz festival events were as packed as ever as revellers happily went ‘Singin’ in the Rain’.

An appeal has gone out to businesses in Cork City to “jazz up their premises” ahead of what is the biggest money-making festival in the city’s calendar.

Tens of thousands of music fans are already salivating at the prospect of the line up for the forthcoming Cork Guinness Jazz Festival, which will include top acts like English saxophone legend Courtney Pine and the show-stopping Chic.

SENSUAL, gritty, raw, real — you could literally smell the soul in Counihan’s pub where Mary Stokes, arguably Ireland’s best blues singer, took to the stage several times over the weekend in a traditional series of free gigs as part of the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival.

BEAUTIFUL young things boogie-woogied.

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