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An eclectic mix of music at this year’s Guinness Jazz Festival is drawing in the crowds and making the festival a hit with fans of all genres of music.

City officials are under fire after Jack Lynch tunnel repairs caused traffic chaos in Cork over the bank holiday weekend.

30,000 people are expected to visit Cork this weekend for the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

He’s been nicknamed the flying piano man.

One of Ireland’s greatest blues guitarists was remembered in Cork last night as the Guinness Jazz Festival also kicked off.

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More than 1,000 musicians from 22 countries will descend on Cork for the annual Guinness Jazz Festival, delivering 400 performances at 50 venues over the October Bank Holiday weekend.

Cork Opera House has launched its autumn and winter season, an eclectic mix of musical and theatrical events as the theatre seeks to make good on the success of its summer musical, The Sound of Music.

The 34th Cork Guinness festival has expanded from its core musical base, says Kieran Bohane

THE only answer to the recessionary blues is some rhythm and blues, with a bit of jazz thrown in for good measure.

PARKING any talk of belt-tightening, the city down south showed it had the nous to knock the best out of straitened circumstances in a three-day extravaganza of jazz and drink.

THE recession blues were banished in Cork at the weekend, when over 50,000 revellers attended the Guinness Jazz Festival, worth in the region of €6 million to the city.

ROARING ticket sales, record visitor numbers and a bigger-than-ever programme of events have conspired to make this year’s Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork the biggest in its 30-year-history.

THE build-up to Cork’s 30th jazz festival began yesterday with the first of a series of free public concerts designed to broaden its appeal.

The is no political will within the Government to tackle alcoholism, a Fianna Fáil backbencher claimed tonight.

VIBRATING as naturally as the column of air in a saxophone, the audience in the ballroom at the epicentre of the Guinness Jazz Festival celebrated the sounds of a band named after a dildo.

JAZZ reigns in Cork this bank holiday weekend with a powerful blast coming last night from the organisers, who are promising the city’s best-ever Guinness international festival.

MORE than 1,000 musicians helped drive the blues away as a rain-drenched Cork had another bumper weekend of jazz and razzmatazz.

Iarnród Éireann has warned customers three of its services from Dublin to Cork this afternoon have sold out.

THE Eurochild project will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2005 when thousands of children flock from all over Europe to the celebrations in Nantes.

Cork's Guinness Jazz Festival is expected to pump over €20m into the Cork economy over the four days of the October bank holiday weekend (Oct 24- 27).

Over 40,000 jazz enthusiasts are expected to flock to Cork this bank holiday weekend for the Guinness Jazz Festival.

This weekend's Guinness Jazz Festival in Cork is set to provide a major boost for Irish tourism.

Guinness is set to deliver the biggest ever jazz event in Ireland this October Bank Holiday Weekend (Oct 25 - 28), with a stunning music line-up, specially programmed to celebrate Cork’s 25th year of the festival.

CORK’s emporia of swig and swing are about to go into warp speed as the Guinness Jazz Festival prepares to celebrate its 25th birthday by boldly going where it has gone before The event, running on October 25-28, has been hailed as the biggest jazz party in the world, with thousands descending on the southern city every year.