Brilliant Corners: Dublin City Jazz Orchestra

Ciaran Wilde, Mark Wilde, Derek O’Connor, Nick Roth, Brendan Doyle (saxophones), Danny Healy, Ray Martin, Mark Adams, Eamonn Nolan (trumpets), Jim Clarke, Karl Ronan, Paul Dunlea, Paul Frost (trombones) Phil Ware (piano), Hugh Buckley (guitar), Cormac O’Brien (double bass), Shane O’Sullivan (drums)

The 17 piece big band kick things off at Brilliant Corners, ensuring you go home with a spring in your step.

The Dublin City Jazz Orchstra (DCJO) is made up of some of the best musical talent in Ireland, led by the legendary Ciaran Wilde. Expect exciting tunes, humour, big noise and delicate sounds, all wrapped up in beautiful melody.

The programme for the night will include compositions by Irish jazz composers, arrangements of music from the Great American Songbook, along with Jazz Standards.

The DCJO began life in 2007, as a way of letting students at the Ballymun Wind Project in Dublin see and hear a big band in action. Since then the DCJO has gone from strength-to-strength, playing thirty-five concerts including performances at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, Cork Jazz Festival, Sligo Jazz Festival, Limerick Jazz Festival and two major concerts at the National Concert Hall.

There’s nothing quite like a big band, and there’s no big band quite like the Dublin City Jazz Orchestra! We’re delighted to be bringing this special group to Belfast for the very first time.

The Dublin City Jazz Orchestra is supported by Arts Council Ireland.