This year classic jazz singer Edel Meade, a regular in Irish jazz clubs such as Berts in Belfast, is in the Dublin Down with Jazz line-up, just announced, performing her Billie Holiday tribute.

Appearing too are Matt Jacobsen’s prog jazz pacesetters ReDiviDer, while the gorgeous sounds of Snowpoet, where literary influences, electronica, and cutting edge vocal improvisational styles collide in a uniquely sensitive way, and the great Irish saxophonist Richie Buckley – who the Sunday Independent described succinctly enough as a musician whose playing “manages to be simultaneously passionate and gentle, romantic and elegiac” – appears with his quintet.

Hitting Meeting House Square in early-June over the Irish spring bank holiday days of 4-5 June the organisers at IMC tie in centenary rising celebrations a little ingeniously with the birth of jazz itself, scrolling forward historically to embrace the festival’s name that mocks the bleak god-fearing 1930s in Ireland when jazz was repressed from pulpit to pew. SG 

Snowpoet, above. Full line-up and tickets