Dublin City Jazz Orchestra & Guests at Bray Jazz Festival at Mermaid Arts Centre

Dublin City Jazz Orchestra is a 17-piece band that brings together some of the capital's finest jazz players in a big band setting.

The orchestra will honour the music of the late great Kenny Wheeler in this once-off presentation, and be accompanied in the show by three great visiting guests.

DCJO will be conducted for this once off show by special guest Pete Churchill, professor of music at London’s Royal Academy of Music – and the long-time arranger and conductor of the Kenny Wheeler Big Band.

And the presentation will also be joined by jazz singer Lauren Kinsella, who has received widespread acclaim since she moved from her native Dublin to live and work in London a few years ago. ...

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Dublin City Jazz Orchestra is a 17-piece band that brings together some of the capital's finest jazz players in a big band setting.

The orchestra will honour the music of the late great Kenny Wheeler in this once-off presentation, and be accompanied in the show by three great visiting guests.

DCJO will be conducted for this once off show by special guest Pete Churchill, professor of music at London’s Royal Academy of Music – and the long-time arranger and conductor of the Kenny Wheeler Big Band.

And the presentation will also be joined by jazz singer Lauren Kinsella, who has received widespread acclaim since she moved from her native Dublin to live and work in London a few years ago.

And the performance will also featured award-winning trumpeter Laura Jurd, who was recently shortlist in the prestigious Parliamentary Jazz Awards ‘Instrumentalist of the Year’ category

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