Harbour Bar
Friday, 2nd May. Time 10pm

Irish drummer Kevin Brady has recorded and performed live with the great American pianist Bill Carrothers for close to 20 years.

Together with bassist Dave Redmond they have recorded a series of albums, the latest – Plan B in 2021 that also featured American saxophonist Seamus Blake.

Bill Carrothers has played with the likes of Gary Peacock, Billy Higgins, Dave Douglas and Curtis Fuller, and enjoyed a long and successful residency at New York’s best known jazz haunt, The Village Vanguard.

Brady, Carrothers & Redmond have toured regularly and consolidated their worldwide reputation as a compelling live act. The trio have travelled widely and won the appreciation of discerning jazz audiences as far afield as the USA, Europe, UK and China.

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Pizza Jazz are a new four-piece comprising some of Dublin’s leading jazz players.

Expect the music of Sun-Ra, Charlie Mingus, Hermeto Pascoal and Ornette Coleman alongside traditional and modern standards from the quartet, who cut their teeth playing a lively residency at ‘Luckie’s on Meath Street in the city.

Fresh from releasing their debut album, ‘Home Delivery’ last September, the band pay their first visit to this year’s Bray Jazz Festival.

The band are led by bassist Sean Maynard Smith, and include Brendan Doherty (drums), Darragh O’Kelly (keyboards) and US-born but Irish based saxophonist, the prolific Steve Welsh.

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Zoé Basha is a musician, composer and carpenter, of French and American origins.

Based between Ireland and the traveling life for over a decade, Zoé blends traditional singing with jazz and blues. Her original pieces and traditional songs explore the crossover between the sway of Appalachian mountain songs, the fervour and solemn ornamentation of Irish traditional songs, and the pulse of American ragtime through playful, syncopated guitar and a booming voice reminiscent of some old jazz record you can’t quite put your finger on.

After growing up between the U.S. and France, traveling by thumb, freight trains, and taking the scenic route with rust-bucket vans, she played music in the streets for years.​

In a milieu blending feminism, radical politics, queer theory and traditional music, she made her home in Dublin.

In 2023, she was a featured singer at Féile Róise Rua, and a Music Network RESONATE Residency recipient.

She plays Bray Jazz Festival as part of a short tour, supporting the release of a new album.

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