Jazz at Johnstown

DUE TO PHENOMENAL DEMAND WE HAVE ADDED A LIMITED NUMBER OF TICKETS! One of the best saxophonists in the world is coming to Johnstown. Grammy Award-winner Jean Toussaint is Wexford-bound in September for a special Jazz at Johnstown concert. Since he left Art Blakey’s famous Jazz Messengers in the mid-eighties, Jean Toussaint hasn’t looked back....

Due to demand, brilliant Dublin vocalist Cormac Kenevey and his trio are returning to Jazz at Johnstown for an evening of sultry cool autumnal jazz on October 20. One of Ireland’s top jazz vocalists, Cormac’s first album This Is Living was quickly picked up and released by Alan Bates at the CANDID record label in London...

On Saturday, February 17th 8pm, Valentine’s Jazz returns to Johnstown Castle. Jazz as Johnstown invites you to share ‘a whole lotta love’ at its annual Valentine’s Concert on the evening of Saturday, February 17th in the company of singer Sharon Clancy and her trio of Killian Browne (piano), Dave Fleming (double bass) and Conor Murray...

Friday June 28th at 7.30pm, with doors opening at 7.00pm. The Johnny Taylor Trio, named after one of the finest jazz pianists on the Irish music scene. The trio is one of the most sought after by jazz venues and festivals at home and abroad. No strangers to Jazz at Johnstown audiences, Johnny, Barry Donohoe...

Tall and tan and young and lovely The girl from Ipanema goes walking and When she passes, I smile but she doesn't see.’ Year after year, the Jazz at Johnstown Valentine’s concert sells out, and there is one reason why: love is in the air. Celebrating Valentine’s Day which falls on Friday, February 14, Jazz...

Internationally acclaimed and Grammy-nominated guitarist and composer Jay Azzolina makes his Irish debut at the Jazz at Johnstown Festival on Saturday, June 21st at 8 p.m. Jay has been part of the New York Jazz scene for the past three decades. After leaving the Berklee College of Music, where he studied with Pat Metheny, Mick...

On Friday August 1st, Jazz at Johnstown is contributing to the return of Fleadh Cheoil ne hÉireann to Wexford with My Favourite Things. A jazz/trad concert with renowned piper Mark Redmond and the Chris Colloton Trio at the Visitors Centre on Friday evening, August 01. With an upbringing in traditional music, Redmond is noted as...

Imelda Kehoe is known for her distinctive voice, story-telling and blend of jazz and soul and has been described as 'one of the finest Irish contemporary  songwriters to emerge in recent years'.  And because Imelda treats a song as an emotional whole and can capture the joyful essence of what it feels like to love and...

From Ronnie Scott’s to Jazz at Johnstown Leo Richardson, a regular at London’s iconic Ronnie Scott’s Club, is one of the UK’s leading jazz tenor saxophonists, known for his honest, straight ahead, contemporary hard bop style. His debut album, The Chase (2017), was named one of The Times’ Top 10 Jazz Albums of the year...

Coltrane at Jazz at Johnstown. John Coltrane’s tone on the tenor sax was huge and dark, with clear definition and full body, even in the highest and lowest registers. On the best-selling jazz album of all time, A Kind of Blue, he is the standout performer. He famously said: “I start in the middle of...

Relive the immortal sounds of the Summer of Love with this jazz inspired extravaganza of song and music as part of the annual Jazz at Johnstown Festival. The summer of 1967 has assumed a legendary status in music. The times really were a-changin. But it was a time of hope sound-tracked by arguably some of...