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Down With Jazz at The Grand Social

Courtesy of Improvised Music Company | Posted on May 5, 2017

Where

The Grand Social
35 Liffey Street Lower
Dublin
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When

Sat, June 10, 2017
19:30

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Musicians

Paul Dunlea
trombone

About

DOWN WITH JAZZ
10-11th June
The Grand Social

Down With Jazz, Dublin’s annual festival of ‘filthy foreign rhythms & divilish beats’ moves across the Liffey and into The Grand Social for it’s 6th edition on 10th-11th June with a shameless line-up of jazzy grooves.

Way back in 1917 the very first shellac jazz record was cut by a New Orleans quintet called The Original Dixieland Jass Band. It also marked the birth of the undisputed First Lady of Jazz, Ms Ella Fitzgerald. Jaysus, not another bleedin’ centenary says you!

Fast forward one hundred years and there is plenty to celebrate in our diverse Irish jazz scene, with Down With Jazz bent on “reimagining mainstream jazz and bringing everyone together for a hell of a good time.” - All About Jazz...

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