Irish Examiner view: Missing the joy of live music

The Cork Jazz Festival was due to be held over the bank holiday weekend.

The Metropole Hotel spiritual home of the Cork Jazz Festival. File picture. 

IN his latest book, What Is Beautiful In The Sky, that most lyrical of writers Michael Harding laments the death of live music during the pandemic. 

“There was nothing really quite like the wildness of a good session.. It was soul music. And joyful. And now it’s gone.” He was recalling the wonder of traditional music played in tiny rural pubs but his words could just as easily apply to major events such as the annual Cork Jazz Festival which was due to be held over the bank holiday weekend.