Blues, Jazz entertainment in Ireland
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Blue Note
This jazzy pub-cum-dance-bar has a great summer beer garden and usually no cover charge.
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Rotterdam
The Rotterdam is a purist’s pub, unrepentantly old-fashioned and wonderfully atmospheric, with stone floors, an open fire, low ceilings and a perfectly poured pint of Guinness. It’s famed for the quality of its live-music sessions – jazz, folk, rock or blues plays most nights, and in summer the tables, and the gigs, spill outdoors. Get here before the bulldozers do – the Rott’s long-term future is far from certain.
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Acton’s Hotel
This modern hotel is charm-challenged, but its Waterfront Bar stages terrific Sunday lunchtime jazz sessions (April to October) featuring the famous Cork City Jazz Band.
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King's Head
Mainstream, commercial superpub within a 17th-century stone house, hosting rock bands most nights and a popular jazz session on Sunday 'morning' (usually noon to 16:00).
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Yukon Bar
A good live-music venue famous for its resident fortune teller, this bar has a great atmosphere and a range of soul, blues and rock music on offer.
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John Cleere
One of Kilkenny’s finest venues for live music, this long bar has blues, jazz and rock, as well as trad music sessions.
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Bleu Note
Jazz, funk and blues bands perform here nightly; pay your €5 entry, order a Chimay and enjoy the good vibes. Nice.
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Boom Boom Room
Most people run for the hills when they hear the words ‘avant garde’ and ‘music’ in the same sentence, but we urge you to keep still, for this venue has done more to reflect the cultural diversity of the new Dublin – with its absolutely fabulous blend of folk, jazz, blues, electronica and other diverse styles – than any other. Dubliners are always bemoaning the absence of somewhere they can listen to something genuinely new and different; that just means they haven’t climbed the stairs above Patrick Conway’s to one of the coolest music venues in town.
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