Cork is set to go a little bit New Orleans this weekend as the best jazz musicians from home and abroad descend for a Cork City carnival.

Shore crews probably got wetter in one afternoon than sailors did in the entire 550-mile final sprint from Lorient in France to Galway.

MUSIC NEWS: While many music fans have great memories of John Peel and the music he introduced to our ears, the late DJ’s legacy grew even stronger this week with the release of his record collection online.

MAYBE it wasn’t too surprising that it took a British pop star and an American rocker to jazz things up in Cork last night.

FIFTY thousand visitors and more than 1,000 musicians from 35 countries performing in 80 venues.

BLUR frontman Damon Albarn is set to open the world-famous Guinness Cork Jazz Festival this October.

Festival organisers have released the schedule for this weekend’s Electric Picnic festival.

The 10th annual Festival of World Cultures is taking place in Dun Laoghaire this weekend.

Eleven new acts have been added to the 2010 Electric Picnic Festival line-up, it was announced today.

THE lazy, hazy days of summer are on their way – and what better way to spend a summer’s evening than stretched out on the Co Cork coast listening to a mini funk orchestra that counts President Barack Obama, David Byrne and Q-Tip among its fans.

WITH Oxegen tickets going on sale yesterday, a look down the concert listings for the coming months shows we are set for a scorching hot summer of rock and roll.