Derry Jazz Festival
The best of the festival live from the quay.
Derry Jazz Festival - here comes the sun!
Dean McLaughlin joined visitors and locals for the Sunday of the Derry Jazz Festival.
Jazz - the week that was
As Derry Jazz Festival comes to a close, we relive our favourite moments.
Learning to jive in time for jazz
Seamus Melaugh has been teaching local people to jive ahead of the Derry Jazz Festival.
David Lyttle, a cassette and a drum kit—Electric Mainline, Electric Mainline at the Jazz Festival
Jazz virtuoso David Lyttle premieres an out of this world track on cassette and drums.
Elvis is in the building!—Elvis, Jazz and Blues
Elvis impersonator Stan 'Pres'-Lee gives his rendition of 'The Wonder of You'
Showbands of the North West
Long before the Jazz Festival came to Derry, the north west was swinging with showbands.
Bairie and 'Mr Green'—Electric Mainline, Electric Mainline at the Jazz Festival
Emily McCormick known under the moniker Bairie sings 'Mr Green' at Derry Jazz Festival.
All that jazz at St Anne's Primary School
Our reporter Grainne Morrison went along to a jazz workshop with the Jive Aces.
Heavy Beat Brass take on 'Teenage Dirtbag'—Elvis, Jazz and Blues
The Wheatus classic gets the brass band treatment for Derry Jazz Festival.
'Wildly wailing to music...'
Wordsmith Frank Rafferty debuts his new jazz poem in celebration of Derry Jazz Festival.
'My father died when I was ten, so he never saw me as a musician'
Dizzy Gillespie's father would've been happy that one of his children became a musician.
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'When his heart beat the first beat, mine beat the second beat...'
Dizzy Gillespie talks about his close relationship he had with Charlie Parker.
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'I became that Dizzy trumpet player from down south...'
Dizzy Gillespie bought his first horn in 1935 and he carried it around in a brown bag.
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Jive Aces - Mack the Knife
Live in the Arts Show Studio ahead of the city of Derry Jazz Festival
John and Fiona Trotter at Derry Jazz Festival—02/05/2018
The father and daughter duo launch our jazz coverage in style.
Anne Tracey with John Trotter and George Hasson—02/05/2018
Anne Tracey treats us to a performance accompanied by Derry Jazz Festival legends.
Derry Jazz Festival: What's on
Mark previews some of the highlights of the Derry Jazz Festival programme for 2018.
'Chezzie's Chance' at Derry Jazz Festival
Dave Duggan debuts his new jazz play about an aspiring singer and his worried mother.

















