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Photo: John Scofield

CELEBRATING
20 years
On May 2nd, 2000, the first note was played in the very first Bray International Jazz
Festival on one of the main sound stages at Ardmore Film Studios.

It’s hard to believe that 20 years have passed. In the intervening years, we have staged
more than 750 gigs and concerts, have provided a platform for nearly 3,000 musicians,
and have presented music – in theatres, churches, hotels, heritage spaces and bars – to
more than 100,000 people.

The encouragement, support and generosity of people too numerous to mention is

what has brought us to this year’s landmark.

Bray Jazz Festival is grateful to everyone who has played a part: our loyal sponsors,
led by The Arts Council of Ireland (full listing of 2019 sponsors on page 24), our
production teams and equipment suppliers, the crew members who have been with us
through the years, and the taxi drivers, hotels and hospitality suppliers that have helped
keep the show on the road.

Gratitude is due also to the great venues that have hosted Bray Jazz Festival through
the years. We are indebted to Mermaid Arts Centre for not alone providing a fantastic
centrepiece venue since it opened 17 years ago, but also for providing ticketing and box
office support essential to the smooth and successful running of Bray Jazz, each year.

We’ll be in 19 different venues in 2019, including four that are part of our anniversary
‘On the Road’ celebration across County Wicklow.

We hope you’ll enjoy the show!

Friday, May 3rd
6:30pm Town Hall: Solo & Indré (Senegal/Lithuania) €12
8:00pm Mermaid: Fred Hersch (USA) €26
8:00pm Calary Church, Roundwood (On the Road): Dowry (Denmark/Irl) €15
8:15pm Harbour Stage: ReDiviDeR (Irl) Free
9:30pm The Well: Fire! (Sweden) €16
10:30pm Harbour Stage: Conor Guilfoyle Octet Free

Saturday, May 4th
3:30pm Harbour Stage: Greg Felton Trio Free
5:00pm Harbour Stage: Paj Free
6:30pm Town Hall: No Tongues (France) €12
8:00pm Harbour Stage: The Soro Quartet Free
8:00pm Mermaid: John Scofield Combo 66 (USA) €32
8:00pm Russborough House, Blessington (On the Road): Solo & Indré €15/12
9:30pm The Well: Lucia Cadotsch Speak Low (Switzerland/Sweden) €16
10:30pm Harbour Stage: Yankari Free
11:00pm Late Lounge @ The Martello: Kenosha Kid (USA/Irl)* €10

Sunday, May 5th
3:30pm Harbour Stage: Aleka Potinga Quartet Free
4:00pm The Well: Jazz Workshop with Tin Men & The Telephone (NL) Free
5:45pm Harbour Stage: Maya Goldblum/Queen Bonobo Free
6:30pm Town Hall: Norma Winstone & Tommy Halferty (UK/Irl) €12
8:00pm Mermaid: Anja Lechner & Francois Couturier (France/Germany) €26
8:00pm Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre (On the Road): No Tongues (France) €15/12
8:00pm Harbour Stage: Shy Mascot Free
9:30pm The Well: Tin Men & The Telephone (Holland) €16
10:30pm Harbour Stage: Cooks But We’re Chefs Free
11:00pm Late Lounge @ The Martello: Scott Flanigan Quartet feat. Meilana Gillard* €10

Monday, May 6th
7:30pm Harbour Stage: Atsch Free
8:00pm Arklow Methodist Church: George Colligan Trio (USA/Irl) €15/12
8:00pm Harbour Stage: Dick Valentine Free

Various venues - Wicklow Wolf Jazz Trail May 3rd - 5th, see P.17 for details
*Attendees who present tickets to earlier concerts at Bray Jazz will receive a 50% discount at the door.
Fred
Hersch
USA

Mermaid Arts Centre

Friday, May 3rd
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets: €26

Fred Hersch is a brilliant solo artist, a player who

takes his listeners into an enchanting world of teeming “…transported to a quiet
melodies, rich colours and criss-crossing stories. place where prayers are
murmured and memories
Understated, cliché-free, the Ohio born pianist is a buried”
deep and thoughtful composer and performer who – The New York Times
strikes that elusive balance between soul and skill every
time he touches the keyboard.

Revered by an impressive alumni of former students

who include Brad Mehldau and The Bad Plus’s Ethan
Iverson, Hersch’s concerts can be revelatory experiences.
 John
sCofield
Combo 66
USA

Mermaid Arts Centre

Saturday, May 4th
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets: €32

John Scofield’s is one of those timeless jazz greats, a “The music is comfortable
unique guitarist, composer, band leader, and a true like your oldest, happiest
heavyweight. pair of khaki pants, but
it’s also hip, like those
He has influenced the genre since the early 1970s, and khakis Miles Davis wore
is a multi-Grammy Award winner, receiving an album when he was recording in
of the year prize in 2016, and collecting two awards the late 1950s” –
from the Grammy judges just a year later. Financial Times Review

Scofield’s output spans bebop, jazz fusion, funk, blues,

soul and rock, and has seen him play with a dizzying
array of jazz luminaries, Gerry Mulligan, Miles Davis,
Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny to name just a few.

Combo 66 sees Scofield in the company of his longtime

drummer Bill Stewart, and two new collaborators,
pianist/organist Gerald Clayton and bassist Vicente
Archer.
Mermaid Arts Centre
Sunday, May 6th Anja Lechner
Time: 8:00pm & Francois
Tickets: €26
Couturier
GERMANY/FRANCE

Celebrated German cellist Anja Lechner and French

pianist François Couturier traverse a wide musical arc
with a chemistry that most duos can only aspire to.

Virtuoso players who approached music from

different vantage points: Lechner, is the classical
soloist with an uncommon interest in improvisation,
while Couturier, is a jazz musician prepared to travel
far beyond the genre.

Together they bring out the warmth, sincerity, and

Presented in partnership with the vibrant colors across an expansive repertoire that hints
French Embassy in Ireland at folk, spiritual and eastern music, as well as jazz.
FIRE!
SWEDEN

The Well, Main St

Friday, May 3rd
Time: 9:30pm
Tickets: €16

The fearsome heavyweight baritone sax playing of Mats

Gustafsson had earned the Swede a legion of devoted
followers.

Here he is joined by fellow countrymen Johan

Berthling (bass) and Andreas Werliin (drums) as Fire!, a
trio formed in 2009 that burns up tradition and draws
its ideas and influences from industrial music, garage
punk and psychedelic rock as much as it does from jazz.

Gustafsson’s playing has a visceral rhythmic physicality,

and his deployment of electronic circuit breakers and
Presented with support from
pedals brings a unique ferocity to the music. The Swedish Embassy in Ireland.
 The Well, Main St SPEAK
Saturday, May 4th
Time: 9:30pm
Tickets: €16
LOW
Switzerland/Sweden

“Remember the name Lucia Cadotsch – you’re going

to be hearing a lot of it” is how the veteran British jazz “…she paints new pictures
critic introduced his five-star review of Speak Low’s of old songs, from jazz
debut album. standards like Moon River
to gloomy Gloomy Sunday.
The Guardian writer and BBC jazz radio presenter She celebrates the art of
enthused about the Zurich-born singer’s classical the simple ; So deeply
clarity, folk singer’s simplicity, and the ‘eerily beautiful’ touching.”
performance that Cadotsch produced in the company – Mittelbayerische
of two edgy Swedish jazz instrumentalists, saxophonist Zeitung
Otis Sandsjo and bass player Petter Eldh.

Fordham isn’t the only jazz watcher to have been

wowed by Cadotsch either, as the Swiss singer has
been picking up praise and awards everywhere she
goes, including the ‘Best Vocal’ award at the Echo Jazz
Awards, last year.

Presented with support from

The Embassy of Switzerland and
Embassy of Sweden in Ireland
Tin Men &
The Telephone
Holland

The Well, Main St

Sunday, May 5th
Time: 9:30pm
Tickets: €16

Dutch trio ‘Tin Men and the Telephone’ are an

Amsterdam based band who have made a name for “The performance was so
themselves for their innovative approach to engaging engaging and so funny that
audiences during their improvised live shows. it was easy to forget that
this was also music of some
Through the use of their cutting-edge technology, a depth, with twists and
specially-devised ‘Tinmendo’ mobile phone app, they turns, tough to unravel
invite their audiences to become a part of their multi- knots and rhythmic stops
faceted, hugely engaging, enormously fun interactive and starts.”
shows, with remarkable results. – USA Jazz Review

Internet provided for this show by Wi-Fiber, Supported by Holland’s

Wicklow’s leading provider of high speed ‘going Dutch’ jazz promotion
broadband. programme.
SOLO & Indré
senegal/lIThuania

The universality of music, across cultures and Town Hall

continents, was put under the microscope when two Friday, May 3rd
of the leading players of the traditional strings of West Time: 6:30pm
Africa and the Baltics first recorded together, in 2015. Tickets: €12

That collaboration, between Senegalese kora master,

Solo Cissokho, and Lithuanian kanklės player, Indrė
Jurgelevičiūtė, met with universal acclaim, and earned “The mix of Baltic and
the duo a top prize from World Music Network, the West African folk styles is
following year. an unlikely one, but the
sound it creates is relaxing,
Since then, Solo & Indré have been much in demand. thoughtful and oddly
The interlinking patterns of the West African kora and saddening, in the most
the medieval kanklés (a Baltic box zither) provide a beautiful way.”
platform for the pair to sing and perform beautiful and – Songlines
touching folk melodies from their homelands.
Town Hall
Saturday, May 4th NO Tongues
Time: 6:30pm France
Tickets: €12
‘No Tongues’ is a captivating musical exploration that
finds its inspirations in the many and varied vocal
“phenomenal virtuosity” traditions across the globe.
– Jazz Magazine
Whether it is Northern European songs about
Presented in partnership with the ploughing, remote tribal Indian burial hymns, Inuit
French Embassy in Ireland wedding songs or Siberian psalmodies, ‘No Tongues’
celebrate these and other song cultures within the
context of jazz improvisation.

In concert, the result is a stylistic diversity in music that

And supported by Jazz Migration,
Jazz Promotion Bureau and the
can be atmospheric, trance-like and oddly shamanic.
Jazz Export Bureau (as part of La
Visite part Deux) No Tongues perform with two double basses, trumpet,
saxophone and other objects. Their shows, sometimes
performed in mask, are captivating, both musical and
visually.
ALBUM
LAUNCH
EVENT

Town Hall
Sunday, May 5th
Time: 6:30pm
Tickets: €12

Norma Winstone &

Tommy Halferty
UK/IRELAND
Norma Winstone is widely regarded as one of Britain’s
greatest jazz singers; Tommy Halferty one of Ireland’s
most acclaimed and admired guitarists.

Norma and Tommy have collaborated at various

internals in their long and stellar careers thanks to
a long-standing friendship. Their show in Bray will
celebrate the launch of the duo’s first ever shared
recording – on Dublin jazz promoter Allen Smith’s
‘Terrace Jazz’ label.

A recording artist on the prestigious European ECM

“There is no jazz singer in label since the early 1970s, Norma Winstone was
the country to touch her.” awarded an MBE for her contribution to music a
– The Times, London decade ago, while as recently as 2015 she was named
the jazz vocalist of the year at the UK’s ‘Parliamentary
Jazz Awards.’
 Kenosha Kid
USA/IRELAND/Germany

Late Lounge @ Georgia guitarist and bandleader Dan Nettles ‘Kenosha

The Martello Kid’ are purveyors of a groovy blend of modern jazz
Saturday, May 4th meets classic US college radio.
Time: 11:00pm
Tickets: €10 The band enjoy a loyal following in their hometown of
(Bearers of tickets to earlier Athens, GA and across the south-eastern states of the
shows will receive a 50% US.
discount at the door).

Nettles reignites ‘Kenosha Kid Europe’ at this year’s

Bray Jazz, teaming up again with Berlin bassist Roland
“The harmonic richness Fidezius and Dubliners Shane Latimer (guitar) and
and rhythmic involvement Sean Carpio (drums), who have been friends since
come from jazz, but the meeting at Canada’s Banff Centre for the Arts over a
sonic particulars can come decade ago.
from Black Sabbath,
Johnny Cash, Sonny The melodies are haunting, grooves devastating, and
Sharrock or Elvin Jones,” the band continues toexpertly serve jazz purists, indie-
– Flagpole Magazine rock hipsters, and funk loving jam fans alike.
Scott Flanigan Quartet
featuring Meilana Gillard
IRELAND/USA
Emerging Belfast pianist Scott Flanigan made a name for
himself as a side-man for demanding taskmasters including
Van Morrison, before stepping out of the shadows with his
own hard-hitting piano trio a number of years ago.

Late Lounge @ Now with a new project and new music, Flanigan has
The Martello found his foil in a quartet setting alongside hugely talented
Sunday, May 5th saxophonist Meilana Gillard.
Time: 11:00pm
Tickets: €10 The Ohio-raised tenor saxophonist first emerged in the
(Bearers of tickets to earlier early 2000s as a rising star of the New York scene. She was a
shows will receive a 50% member of the all-female big band Diva, and worked with a
discount at the door). host of heavyweights including Christian McBride and Greg
Osby, who released her debut album Day One on his Inner
Circle Music label in back in 2009.

A thoughtful pianist and arranger who acknowledges the

influence of the great Brad Mehldau in his approach,
Flanigan’s is establishing himself as one of the bright new
jazz pianists on this island.
Finding
Inspiration,
Finding Music?
For Dutch jazz trio ‘Tin Men & The Telephone’, music
can be found anywhere and everywhere. It can be
found in speech patterns, in bird song or traffic noise.
It can be found in the everyday tech tool that we all
carry with us, all of the time – our phones!

In this student focussed workshop ‘Tin Men & The

Telephone’ will demonstrate the different methods and
technologies that they use to create the music that is
the basis for their acclaimed concert performances.

Workshop participants will be encouraged to be active The Well, Main St

participants – directing, performing and triggering the Saturday May 5th
shape and make-up of the session. Time: 4:00pm
Tickets: FREE
Tin Men will show you ways that music can be created, Reserve your tickets by contacting
in a way you haven’t experienced before – music that is box office on 01-2724030 or
e-mail: [email protected]
improvised on the spot, and that both draws from and
incorporates the everyday.

The group will also talk about the ideas and the
inspirations that attracted them, as jazz musicians,
to these technologies, and to the development of the
remarkable Tinmenndo App, which brings the audience
right to the heart of their every show.

If you’re interested in technology, how music can

be created, where inspirations can be found – this Supported by Music Generation
workshop is worth checking out! Wicklow
 Friday, May 3rd, 10:30pm
Harbour Conor Guilfoyle
Stage Octet
Ireland’s foremost drummers handpicks
some of the finest young musicians on
the scene today.
Thursday, May 2nd, 9:00pm
Saturday, May 4th, 3:30pm
Audible Chocolate
Greg Felton Trio
Felton is a fearless improviser whose
Thursday, May 2nd, 10:00pm distinctive compositions draw on
everything from jazz and folk to South
Shookrah Indian classical music.
Shookrah are a 6-piece outfit from
Cork, serving fresh helpings of synth-
grooves, interruptive hooks and dysto- Saturday, May 4th, 5:00pm
pian romance-themed songs.
Paj
Soul boi Paddy Groenland is no stranger
Friday, May 3rd, 8:15pm: to global sounds and new ways of using
them. His five-piece has influences in
ReDiviDeR African, jazz, blues and folk.
Drummer Matthew Jacobson’s two-
horns-no-chords quartet are a hard
hitting combo who serve up downtown Saturday, May 4th, 8:00pm
grooves with catchy riffs.
The Soro Quartet
The quartet sets about blending modern
and traditional jazz in arrangements of
standards and original material.

Presented by The Harbour Bar, in partnership

with Wicklow Wolf Brewing Co and
Powerscourt Distillery
Saturday, May 5th, 10:30pm Sunday, May 5th, 8:00pm

Yankari Shy Mascot

Yankari create the groovy and energetic Shy Mascot combines funk, jazz, and
sound that is reminiscence of the hip-hop styles to create a uniquely
Afrobeat greats of the 60’s and 70’s, but provocative sound.
with a modern twist.

Sunday, May 5th, 10:00pm

Sunday, May 5th, 3:30pm
Cooks But we’re
Chefs
Cooks but We’re Chefs are a seven-piece
Dublin band whose music is a fusion of
genres ranging from hip-hop to house
bop.

Monday, May 6th, 7:30pm

Aleka Potinga ÄTSCH

Quartet Dublin based quartet formed by
Aleka is a Romanian vocalist, cellist, guitarist Matthias Winkler, ÄTSCH is
composer whose music uses folk melo- an active part of Dublin´s instrumental
dies interspersed with jazz harmony and jazz scene.
eastern rhythms.

Monday, May 6th, 9:30pm

Sunday, May 5th, 5:45pm
Dick Valentine
Maya Goldblum/ Dick Valentine of hit-machine Electric
Queen Bonobo Six rides into town on a Satanic horse to
Maya Goldblum, a young singer break it down for you.
songwriter from Sandpoint Idaho who
has been living and playing music in
Derry for the past two years.
Bray Jazz Festival
FRINGE
Presented by Wicklow Wolf Brewing Co in
association with Powerscourt Distillery.

The Hibernia The Royal Hotel

Friday, May 3rd Saturday, May 4th

Ain’t Misbehavin’ 9:30pm Jacuzzi Grooves 9:00pm
Saturday, May 4th Sunday, May 5th
Hugh Buckley Duo 9:30pm Ain’t Misbehavin’ 3:00pm
Sunday, May 5th
Danny Tobin Blues 9:30pm
Butler & Barry

The Martello Sunday, May 5th

Osio & Kuncic Duo 6:00pm
Friday, May 3rd
Alan Kavanagh Duo 9:00pm
Saturday, May 4th THE strand Hotel
The Address 9:00pm
Sunday, May 5th Saturday, May 4th
SANTA Terexa J – O 2:00pm Orlando Molina Two 9:30pm
Sunday, May 5th
Santa Texera J-0 9:00pm
Wicklow Wolf Ocean Bar & Grill
Brewing Co
Saturday, May 4th
Sunday, May 65h Miguel & Orlando Duo 7:30pm
John Moriarty Trio Sunday, May 5th
featuring Richie Buckley 4:00pm Leopoldo Osio Duo 8:00pm
For information about this brewery
visit contact: [email protected]
(reservations required) O’Sullivans Bar
www.facebook.com/ Friday, May 3rd
wicklowwolfbrewing Miguel Siso Duo 8:00pm
Sunday, May 5th
Julien & John 8:00pm
Whelehans Wines
Loughlinstown
The Old Anchor
Saturday, May 4th
Derek Whyte/ Saturday, May 4th
Hugh Buckley Duo 8:00pm The Latin Jazz Ensemble 10:00pm

The Loft at The Coach inn

Whelehan’s Wines
Saturday, May 4th
Sunday, May 5th Southern Xpress 9:30pm
John Moriarty Quartet 8:00pm
 A part of Bray Jazz Festival’s 20th
Dowry anniversary On the Road series.
Denmark/IRELAND
Dowry is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger
and songwriter whose music combines elements of
experimental folk, ambient instrumental, contemporary
classical, Irish traditional and country music to name
a few.
Calary Church,
Roundwood The stage name of Éna Brennan, born in Brussels,
Friday, May 3rd Belgium, to parents who are Danish and Irish, Dowry,
Time: 8:00pm in her own words is “my solo project with violin,
Tickets: €15/12 guitar, vocals, and manipulating them all with a load of
pedals.”

One of the most talked about acts in the Irish live scene
and one of Hot Press magazine’s hot tips for 2019, and
State magazine’s faces to watch this year, Dowry has
been slowly percolating and garnering devotees, and has
“Éna Brennan created one been involved in a host of different projects and groups
of the most arresting songs ranging from Bell X1 and Lisa Hannigan to the Téada
of 2018 in ‘In É’. And she’s Orchestra and New Dublin Voices.
only getting started.”
– Hot Press Presented in association with Music at Calary Church
SOLO & Indré Russborough House,
senegal/lIThuania Blessington
Saturday, May 4th
A part of Bray Jazz Festival’s 20th Time: 8:00pm
anniversary On the Road series. Tickets: €15/12

The universality of music, across cultures and “The mix of Baltic and
continents, was put under the microscope when two West African folk styles is
of the leading players of the traditional strings of West an unlikely one, but the
Africa and the Baltics first recorded together, in 2015. sound it creates is relaxing,
thoughtful and oddly
That collaboration, between Senegalese kora master, saddening, in the most
Solo Cissokho, and Lithuanian kanklės player, Indrė beautiful way.”
Jurgelevičiūtė, met with universal acclaim, and earned – Songlines
the duo winning a top prize from World Music
Network, the following year.

Presented in association with

Russborough House
 Tinahely Courthouse
Sunday, May 5th
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets: €15/12

No Tongues
FRANCE
Presented in partnership with the
French Embassy in Ireland

A part of Bray Jazz Festival’s 20th

‘No Tongues’ is a captivating musical exploration that

finds its inspirations in the many and varied vocal And supported by Jazz Migration,
Jazz Promotion Bureau and the
traditions across the globe. Jazz Export Bureau (as part of La
Visite part Deux)
Whether it is Northern European songs about
ploughing, remote tribal Indian burial hymns, Inuit
wedding songs or Siberian psalmodies, ‘No Tongues’
celebrate these and other song cultures within the
context of jazz improvisation.

In concert, the result is a stylistic diversity in music that Presented in association with
Tinahely Courthouse Arts Centre
can be atmospheric, trance-like and oddly shamanic.
Arklow Methodist
Monday, May 6th
Time: 8:00pm
Tickets: €15/12

George Colligan Trio

USA/IRELAND

A part of Bray Jazz Festival’s 20th

anniversary On the Road series. “American pianist George
Colligan has spent
George Colligan is a New York based pianist and more than two decades
bandleader, who is one of the most original and enhancing the work of
compelling jazz artists of his generation. famous leaders, but as well
as appearing on more than
He has released more than 24 of his own albums, has 100 albums, he makes
recorded on over 100 albums, and has performance impressive ones of his
with jazz stars including Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron own.”
and Buster Williams amongst others. – The Guardian

The winner of the 2015 DownBeat Magazine Critics

Poll for keyboard, Colligan has had a long association
as a member of the legendary Jack DeJohnette’s
ensemble. He previously played Bray Jazz Festival
back in 2002, and appears at this year’s festival in the
company of two of Ireland’s leading side-men, bassist
Dave Redmond and drummer Darren Beckett.
our SPonsors
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 THE Venues

1 Mermaid Arts Centre 2 The Well 3 Town Hall

Main St, Bray Church Terrace Main St, Bray
Co. Wicklow Main St, Ravenswell Co. Wicklow
Bray, Co. Wicklow

4 Late Lounge @ 5 The Harbour Bar

The Martello 1 Strand Rd,
47 Strand Rd, Bray, Ravenswell, Bray,
Co. Wicklow Co. Wicklow
 THE Venues
On the ROAD

1 Russborough House 2 Calary Church 3 Arklow Methodist

Russborough Calary Upper Church
Blessington Kilmacanoge Ferrybank
Co. Wicklow Co. Wicklow Arklow, Co. Wicklow
W91 W284 A98 H766 Y14 VK65

4 Tinahely Courthouse
Arts Centre
Dwyer Square
Ballinacor, Tinahely
Co. Wicklow
Y14 X099
 Tickets can be purchased through the website at:
www.brayjazz.com or by contacting Box Office at
Mermaid Arts Centre on (01) 2724030.

Get in contact with box office and learn more about

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