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Shy Mascot

Shy Mascot combines funk, jazz, and hip-hop styles to create a uniquely provocative sound. Formed by vocalist Fiadh Rua Gregg, keyboard player Eanna Ryder, bassist Keith Tobin, drummer Andy O’Farrell, and Dublin-based South Floridian rapper Jamel; this quintet weaves between melodious, ethereal spaces and deep, filthy grooves.

Daniel Soro

Born: May 3, 1983

Jennifer McMahon

Born: November 28, 1986

Jennifer’s munificent charm and honesty is all too clear in her music which aims to embrace it’s listeners in musical refuge and individual uplift, with rounded-out low tones, smooth jazz-sensibilities and tender lyrics, from the heart to the heart.” Straddling the boarders of jazz, soul and folk, Jennifer McMahon is a singer, songwriter and producer from Dublin. Inspired lyrically by life experiences, compositionally by exploration and jazz- inspired harmonies aswell as more conceptual ideas; Jennifer’s music has become a cross over of genres bringing drama through jazz, improvisation through soundscapes with a touch of soul for good measure, all the while retaining the storytelling importance of folk music. At the heart of Jennifer’s music is the human experience; living it, witnessing it and sharing it: the light in the dark, the beauty in sadness, the turbulence in stillness

Paul G. Smyth

Born: June 11, 1976

For the last 20 years, pianist Paul G. Smyth has been carving a unique furrow in Ireland’s cultural landscape. Parallel to his past involvement with The Jimmy Cake (described by the Irish Times as “the most powerful musical force in Ireland”), Smyth has also set himself apart as a singular voice in Europe’s vigorous improvised music scene.

Since touring with Charles Gayle in 1999, he has worked with such luminaries as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann, Keiji Haino, Barry Guy, Wadada Leo Smith, John Russell, Chris Corsano, Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, John Butcher, John Edwards, Alan Wilkinson, Mark Sanders and Damo Suzuki, among many others, been a member of synth trio Boys Of Summer (“the sound of John Carpenter being buried alive” - Le Cool Magazine), a featured composer in the National Concert Hall, written music for theatre, and performed in 18 countries.

Smyth has released critically acclaimed duo albums with Evan Parker, Chris Corsano and John Russell on his label Weekertoft, which he co-founded with Russell in 2016.

Jaby Sanchez

Born: July 25, 1988

Born in Madrid in 1988, Jaby Sanchez is a soulful guitarist, singer and composer. His personal way of understanding music and the passion he implies to his interpretation makes his work a unique listening experience. With a strong blues base and guitarists such as Steve Ray Vaughan, Grant Green or Robben Ford in mind, Jaby leads several blues-fusion projects since 2008 on, which helps him to become a well-known face in Madrid's blues scene. By then, he also starts digging deeper into jazz studying in Escuela de Música Creativa, where he would get the Fundación Música Creativa Scholarship for two years, while studying a Music Education Degree in Universidad Complutense of Madrid

Mathias Baumann

Born: December 20, 1978

‘Music is the language that everybody understands. Music can express and evoke feelings that nobody has words for.’ Dublin based guitarist Mathias Baumann is originally from Nassau, Germany and moved to Ireland in 2005. With many years of recording and touring experience in different countries, he has been working as a session guitarist, composer and guitar teacher since 1998. Mathias studied Jazz at Blackrock’s Newpark Music Centre and finished the four- year degree course in May 2013 with an honours degree in ‘Bachelor Of Arts in Jazz Performance’. He has performed and recorded with many artists from different genre, as well as his own groups Mathias Baumann Quartet and Mathias Baumann Group

Michael Buckley

Regarded as the most important and influential musician on the Irish jazz scene, saxophonist / flautist and composer Michael Buckley has been playing professionally since the age of six when critics hailed him as a child prodigy. Born in Dublin city in 1971 Michael first came to prominence on an International level when, aged 10, he played flute with the legendary saxophonist George Coleman in the National Concert Hall. Though largely self-taught, his obvious talent has beendeveloped by his father Dick Buckley, and such legends as Milt Hinton. Buckley has found his ownunique voice playing both on saxophone and flute.

CEO Experiment

CEO Experiment is one of a kind Piano Trio which combines delicate atmospherics and highly creative improvisations, oscillating between almost every genre in Jazz. Elements of Post-bop and Contemporary Jazz are channeled through original compositions, serving as a vehicle for high energy inter playing. The music is thoughtful and inventive but also full of character, reflecting the different background and imagination of the players. “Pianist Leopoldo Osio, electric bassist Peter Erdei and drummer Cote Calmet, who make up CEO Experiment, are three of the most outstanding exponents of their respective instruments in a city whose burgeoning jazz/improvised music scene punches well above its weight. Acclaimed saxophonist Michael Buckley has recently joined forces with the trio to create a very unique and explosive sound

Sue Rynhart

Vocalist and composer Sue Rynhart BA (Mus) MA Mus (Hist) ARIAM. Sue's debut album 'Crossings' (Songs for Voice & Double Bass) with Dan Bodwell was nominated 'Best Jazz Album' in the Irish Times Ticket Awards 2014. and her new album 'Signals' is receiving International critical acclaim from publications and radio including; The Irish Times, American website 'All About Jazz', Folk Radio UK,  Scandinavian Jazz Review 'Salt Peanuts', RTÉ and BBC. In performing with Dylan Rynhart's Fuzzy Logic Ensemble, she has sung with international Jazz artists, Rick Peckham, Tom Arthurs and Florian Ross. She has premiered works by many of the Composers from the Irish Composers Collective & the Contemporary Music Centre and and has performed on BBC Radio with the Choir of Christchurch Cathedral Dublin. She has been featured extensively on Róisín Ingle's Irish Times podcast 'Róisín meets', The Blue of the Night RTÉ Lyric fm and on Bernard Clarke's award winning radio programme 'Nova' on RTÉ Lyric fm. Sue has performed her music at many festivals such as the Manchester Jazz Festival, Electric Picnic, Guinness Cork Jazz Festival, Drogheda Arts Festival, Bray Jazz Festival, Waterford New Music Week, Liverpool Irish Festival at the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room, Liverpool Three Festival Tall Ships Regatta, Jazzy Colors Festival Paris and in the Main auditorium in the National Concert Hall Dublin for the Perspectives Jazz festival as a support act for the late ECM Trumpeter Tomasz Stanko.

Leopoldo Osio

Born: January 27, 1985

Jazz Pianist Leopoldo Osio was born in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela. He started playing piano at a very early age, inspired by Venezuelan Traditional Music. He credits George Shearing as being the first musician that got him hooked on jazz when he was 14 years old. Around this time, Leo began studying with jazz musician and promoter Ivo Farfan, who introduced him to jazz trumpet player Julio Mendoza who was to become his principal mentor and develop his interest in bebop. Leo immersed himself in the music of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilliespie, Chucho Valdes and Paquito de Rivera. At the age of 16, he was invited to perform in the Festival de Jazz en el Orinoco with important Venezuelan musicians like Ivo Farfan, Victor Cuica, Roberto Giron, and later the same year The Jazz Festival El Hatillo with Julio Mendoza Quartet. His interest in music led him to study at several universities in 3 countries to improve his knowledge in different areas of the music, including Jazz and Latin Music at IUDEM-Venezuela, Brazilian Music at Conservatory Souza Lima-Brazil and Newpark Music Centre where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Jazz Performance (Hons) in 2010