Roamer head for Headford

ALL THAT JAZZ Irish collaboration Roamer

ROAMER, an exciting new project that brings together four of Ireland’s most internationally active improvising musicians, will play Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, Headford, at 8.30pm this Friday, April 28.
Roamer includes vocalist Lauren Kinsella, who was the 2016 Jazz FM UK Vocalist of the Year; saxophonist Matthew Halpin, the first Irish musician to receive a presidential scholarship to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music; Simon Jermyn, one of the most in-demand creative music bassists in New York; and drummer Matthew Jacobson, who tours Ireland and Europe frequently with many leading improvising musicians and ensembles.
The group has been winning rave reviews, with Cormac Larkin writing in The Irish Times: “If you were to pick a group that represent the best of the current generation, these four would almost certainly feature.”
Roamer will be supported by the Headford Youth Jazz Ensemble (HYJE), a group of teenagers from the Headford area who rehearse weekly under the guidance of Matthew and Mairéad Berrill as part of the ‘Headford Music Works’ music school.
Focusing on ensemble playing and improvisation, the ten-piece group, which includes strings, wind and brass, a rhythm section and vocalists, works jazz standards and numbers from the Great American Songbook. HYJE have performed at many events in Galway county and city, including the 2016 Galway Jazz Festival, the ILAS centre at NUIG and Campbell’s.
 
Admission €10.