The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has now announced details of this year’s fringe festival, and there’s a big range of highly varied events in this strand of the programming, including a music and printworks installation, street entertainment, a jazz ball, swing dancing classes, jazz in a local wildlife park, a movies strand, food fair, gospel service, photo exhibitions and much more. The main concerts of the festival, which runs in Cork city from 25-28 October, include Nile Rodgers and Chic, the Mingus Big Band, Billy Cobham’s Spectrum 40, Portico Quartet, Snarky Puppy, Courtney Pine in a double bill with singer René Marie, Bugge Wesseltoft, Perico Sambeat, and Dino Saluzzi.
More at www.guinnessjazzfestival.com 

CIT Cork School of Music left which is hosting concerts as part of the Cork jazz festival fringe on 26 October