Dennis Rollins - jazz trombonist - performance and interview

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Dennis is playing at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival 2010 with Maceo Parker - see http://www.guinnessjazzfestival.com/index.php?pageID=175&listingID=5 for more details.

PRESS RELEASE

GUINNESS & CO ANNOUNCES FULL ARTIST LINE UP AHEAD OF THE CORK JAZZ FESTIVAL

Herbie Hancock, the Brand New Heavies and Maceo Parker TO JAZZ UP CORK CITY FOR THE OCTOBER BANK HOLIDAY WEEKEND

Guinness & Co announced the full artist line up for this year's Guinness® Cork Jazz Festival which will see 1,000 musicians from 37 countries perform in over 80 venues across the city over the October Bank Holiday Weekend. Over 90% of performances will be free of entrance charges, on the Guinness Music Trail.

This year's line headed by the legendary Herbie Hancock is one of the strongest ever mounted by Guinness in the festival's 32 year history. As well as an exciting line up of Jazz musicians over the weekend including legendary Maceo Parker, The Brand New Heavies and a number of double bills in venues across the city including the Tom Rainey and Bill Carrothers trios in Triskel at The River Lee Hotel.

The famous Guinness Festival Club, popularly known as the heart of the festival, will provide jazz, funk and soul music on seven stages, day and night. The brilliant Jives Aces Band, best known as John Travolta's House Band of parties in his L.A home will kick off the weekend action at this premier venue.

The 2010 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival also sees the launch of the Cork Jazz Stages, a series of outdoor performance venues developed by Guinness in association with Cork City Council to celebrate the completion of the revamp of Cork city centre. The stages will feature bands from all over Munster as well as overseas.

There will be plenty of action on the streets over Cork over the Bank Holiday weekend with the return of the hugely successful Jazz Choir, fans can join choir sessions free of charge with South American Jazz choral master Guillermo Rozenthuler.

In addition to the ticketed venues, pubs all across the city are offering free live music with some fantastic names playing in an intimate pub setting for the Guinness Music Trail. Artists performing in the pubs include Paddy Cole and The Cork City Jazz Band, Honor Heffernan, The Swingin' Bluecats and Mitch Winehouse and Band

So whatever your taste in music there really is something for everyone with non-stop music, day and night, in over 80 clubs, pubs and hotels across the city. Tickets for all shows, including the much-in-demand Guinness Festival Club, are available online at www.corkjazzfestival.com or from the Everyman Palace Theatre box office (021) 450 1673.

Full details of the 2010 festival are available online at http://www.corkjazzfestival.com

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