3rd Galway Jazz Festival to break new ground

The Third Annual Galway Jazz Festival breaks new ground on several fronts when it takes place from September 14-16. Feature artists include the Benny Lackner Trio (USA), Roberto Magris (Italy), the first ladies of Irish jazz — Honor Heffernan and Aoife Doyle. They are joined by Linley Hamilton, Mark McKnight, Dyland Rynhart and Cortisol.The Galway Jazz Festival has found a new home in the new-look Hotel Meyrick, which will host the feature concerts, while the Festival Club is in Tosh. Other venues include Nimmo’s, the Town Hall Studio, The Galway Arts Centre Nun’s Island Studio and St Nicholas’s Church.This is a festival of many 'firsts’ — for the very first time the organisers have introduced the concept of an Artist-In- Residence and the first to hold that post will be Richie Buckley, one of Ireland’s most talented and famed musicians.In another first they…..