My Favourite Things

On Friday August 1st at 8pm, Jazz at Johnstown is contributing to the return of Fleadh Cheoil ne hÉireann to Wexford with My Favourite Things, a jazz/trad concert with renowned piper Mark Redmond and the Chris Colloton Trio at the Visitors Centre on Friday evening, August 01.

 

With an upbringing in traditional music, Redmond is noted as a musician who can fuse between various genres. He performs regularly with the RTÉ Concert and National Symphony Orchestras and has performed/recorded with many including Riverdance, Celtic Woman, Christy Moore, Imelda May, Westlife and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

 

Guitarist Chris Colloton is one of the most brilliant innovators in Irish jazz: Chris’s speciality is also as an innovator and collaborator, having interpreted Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother and Radiohead’s Paranoid Android at Jazz at Johnstown.

 

John Coltrane’s version of My Favourite Things transformed a hit from a well-known musical into a hypnotic, dervish of a thing, beloved of musicians because it is accessible, innovative and gorgeous. Expect too from these great musicians a marriage of Irish trad and contemporary jazz sensibilities. Also joining Mark and Chris are Lorcan and Cillian Byrne.