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Down with Jazz 2015 at Down With Jazz at Meeting House Square

Courtesy of Improvised Music Company | Posted on April 30, 2015

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Sat, May 30, 2015
19:00

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Down With Jazz!
7pm, Sat 30th & Sun 31st May 2015!
Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin !
www.downwithjazz.ie !
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An illicit hooley in the heart of Temple Bar, with a line-up of shameless jazzy grooves and lascivious foreign rhythms, defying the decency of our 1935 Public Dancehalls Act! !!!
Summer festival hijinks kick off with Down With Jazz festival this June Bank Holiday weekend (30/31 May) in the annual city-centre celebration of musical rebellion, with jazz, experimental and world music acts over 2 nights in Meeting House Square.
“The festival with a sense of humour” (The Irish Times) harks back to 1930s Ireland when jazz and ‘foreign’ music was seen by the Catholic Church as a filthy force of corruption, and a repressive ‘anti-jazz’ campaign pushed to ban jazz from the dance halls and airwaves of Ireland. Today’s Down With Jazz festival links audiences with 21st century Ireland’s vibrant and diverse music scene through the tongue-in-cheek prism of this notorious period of social history....

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