IN ITS 35 years, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has grown and broadened so far beyond its roots that it’s possible most years to preview it on two fronts: from the point of view of the jazz aficionado, and the perspective of the general music fan.

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.

GUINNESS confirmed last night they will sponsor next year’s Cork jazz festival after a bumper event over the weekend.

U2 FRONTMAN Bono was rumoured last night to be planning to join tens of thousands of music fans in Cork this weekend for the city’s jazz festival.

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Superstar Madonna could be sending her children to a prestigious £15,000-a-year boarding school, it was disclosed today.