Watch: Cork Jazz ‘truly a festival for everyone’

Youngsters from the Cork Music Generation joining the New York Brass Band to play Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ on the open-air stage in Emmet Place encapsulated an unofficial theme for this year’s Guinness Cork Jazz festival: The international musical connections the festival has built up over its 40-year history.

Bands from every corner of the world seemed to converge on Cork. A packed programme in the bars and venues citywide, as well as on the street corners, cemented the festival’s growing reputation for having moved beyond jazz to provide a feast for lovers of all genres of music.

From Japanese psychedelic rock to Jamaican jazz piano to Dutch brass bands, the city was swarming with musicians of every nationality, many repeat visitors but many newcomers too.