Jazz festival owes one to New Orleans

GROWING up in Cork I looked forward every year to the jazz festival - the friendly hordes of music lovers coming to hear Mary Coughlan in the Festival Club or legends like Buddy Rich playing in the Opera House.

This festival would never have existed were it not for the music of New Orleans, and now that stricken city needs our help.

Surely the organisers of the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival will organise an event, possibly titled ‘Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?’ to raise funds for the people there, or an appropriate charity supporting them.

Brendan O’Connell

522 E 20th Street

New York 10009

USA