Upbeat opening to Cork jazz weekend

TENS OF thousands of jazz fans blew into Cork city yesterday as the 31st Guinness Jazz Festival roared into action.

With roads into the city bumper to bumper and public transport packed to capacity, any suggestion that the economic slowdown would sound a bum note were well and truly dispelled.

Rory Sheridan, Guinness Jazz manager, said ticket sales had gone “very well” and there were only limited numbers left for the big gigs.