With the annual New Orleans Jazz Festival in full swing, Pádraig Harrington struggled to find the right key with a flat performance in the Zurich Classic.

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’.

Stevie Wonder is to take to the stage at the New Orleans Jazz And Heritage Festival for the first time in 35 years.

Bob Dylan and Blues legend Fats Domino have signed to perform at the first New Orleans Jazz Festival since Hurricane Katrina demolished the city last summer.