Bray Jazz Festival returns for it’s 24th year on the May Bank Holiday weekend, 2025.

NUBYA GARCIA
Friday, 2nd MAY

VIJAY IYER
Saturday, 3rd MAY

VERNARI POHJOLA QUARTET
Sunday, 4th MAY
Lineup
Four-times Billboard Magazine musician of the year Vijay Iyer, Mercury Prize nominee Nubya Garcia, and celebrated Finnish trumpeter Vernari Pohjola are the three headliners of this year’s Bray International Jazz Festival.
We’re delighted to also welcome recent MOBO Award nominee and rising jazz star Amy Gadiaga, acclaimed young Belgian trombonist Nabou Claerhout, Scottish jazz fusion experimentalists Norman Wilmore and Corrie Dick, Japanese koto player Mieko Miyazaki, and South African pianist and Blue Note recording artist Nduduzo Makhathini, amongst others.
Irish artists are also well represented – with Bray neo-soul guitarist Zaska making a welcome return to the festival, internationally renowned award-winning vocal and guitar duo Christine Tobin and Phil Robson, and locally-based Grammy Award winning pianist Francesco Turrisi amongst those featuring.
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
8pm | Nubya Garcia (UK) Also Featuring: Christine Tobin & Phil Robson Venue: Mermaid Arts Centre |
6pm | Greg Murphy Trio (USA/Ireland) Venue: Harbour Bar |
6.30pm | Mieko Miyazaki & Franck Wolf (Japan/France) Venue: Bray Town Hall |
8pm | Amy Gadiaga Quartet (France) Venue: Whale Theatre, Greystones |
8.30pm | Zoe Basha Sextet (Ireland) Venue: Harbour Bar |
10.15pm | TBC Venue: Harbour Bar |
2.30pm | Zaska (Ireland) Venue: Matinee @ Mermaid Arts Centre |
4.30pm | Carole Nelson Trio Venue: Harbour Bar |
6.30pm | Norman&Corrie (Scotland) Venue: Bray Town Hall |
6.30pm | TBC Venue: Harbour Bar |
8.00pm | Nduduzo Makhathini Trio (South Africa) Venue: Whale Theatre, Greystones |
8.00pm | Vijay Iyer (USA) Also Featuring: Ronan Guilfoyle’s Bemusement Arcade (Irl) Venue: Mermaid Arts Centre |
8.30pm | Pizza Jazz Venue: Harbour Bar |
10.15pm | TBC Venue: Harbour Bar |
2.30pm | Nabou Claerhout & Lynn Cassiers (Belgium) Venue: Mermaid Arts Centre |
TBC | Hayley Kavanagh Quartet Venue: Harbour Bar |
6.30pm | Steinar Raknes (Norway) Venue: Bray Town Hall |
TBC | Aengus Hackett Trio Venue: Harbour Bar |
8.00pm | Vernari Pohjola Quartet (Finland) Also Featuring: Francesco Turrisi Trio |
8.30pm | TBC Venue: Harbour Bar |
10.00pm | TBC Venue: Harbour Bar |
WHERE THE FESTIVAL’S HAPPENING
Bray’s Mermaid Arts Centre will once more be the festival hub for this year’s Bray Jazz Festival, presenting day-time matinees on both Saturday and Sunday, and playing host to double-bill presentations, each night.
We’re also returning to Whale Theatre in Greystones with concerts on Friday and Saturday nights, will stage early-evening small ensemble and solo expositions at Bray Town Hall, and present a lively programme of the very best of Irish jazz on The Harbour Stage at Bray’s Harbour Bar – where all shows are free to attend.
Free to attend also are our other great live offerings on the festival’s jazz trail – which will bring music to bars and other venues across the seaside town.
For booking and more information contact box office here.



“One of the very best small jazz festivals in Europe”
- All About Jazz