Cork, Mullingar and all that Jazz
End of Part One…. ....well, not quite but it’s very close now to the end of the first semester. We’ve been spoiled rotten with songwriters visiting and talking of their writing and performing journeys and listening to ours. We are blessed to have Carl Corcoran as our course director and, as well as his vast knowledge of so much music in a multitude of genres, and the contacts he has from ten years presenting ‘Blue of the Night’ on Lyric FM, he’s also a really supportive and encouraging presence. As our weather dis-improved, my workload has also increased and over the next couple of weeks, I can’t imagine I’ll be out busking much. With this in mind, I did have a couple of weekends away and had some fun busking along the way. Whitepoint and Swans Every year Cork fills up with Jazz for the last weekend in October and, while a lot of the visitors wouldn’t actually be Jazz fans, the atmosphere alone is enough to fill the city with revelers. It’s becoming a person