About this Event
Join us to celebrate International Jazz Day 2024 and the return of our LIVE podcast series at a
brand new location: The Cellar at The Workman's Club!We kick off the evening with a live
podcast featuring headline Yuzuha O'Halloran, hosted by IWIJ founder Jennifer McMahon. We
open the music portion of the night with a solo performance by special guest Jenna Harris,
warming the crown up before Yuzuha and her Trio take to the Cellar stage, featuring Eoin
O'Halloran on bass and Hugh Denman on drums.
Yuzuha O'Halloran
Following her graduation from Newpark Music Centre with a BA in Jazz peformance, Yuzuha
has become an active part of the Irish Jazz and Contemporary Music scene and has
performed in venues and festivals all over the country with many of Ireland’s top musicians
and groups. These inculde Conor Guilfoyle, Max Zaska, Denise Chaila, Inni-K, Izumi Kimura,
Tommy Halferty, Glasshouse Ensemble and more.
Since 2020 she has performed with The Conor Guilfoyle Octet as part of an Arts Council
funded tour of Ireland playing the original arrangements of Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool,
the first of it's kind in Ireland. She has also recently toured internationally, with notable
performances in well-known venues including London’s Vortex Jazz Club, The Barbican as
part of London Jazz Festival and Reduta Jazz Club in Prague as well as being part of the first
Irish act to peform in Avignon Jazz Festival.
Jenna Harris
Jenna Harris is a vocalist, composer, and lecturer from Dublin who
specialises in jazz and improvised music. Jenna performs regularly as a
solo artist and with her band Berri. While she improvises with her voice and
improvises with the effects she uses to process her voice, a style of
improvisation has developed that intrinsically links the two, both feeding
back and forth from each other. Her solo performances often incorporate
reactive visuals that she builds as a platform to exhibit the voice as the instrument it is.
Jenna is the founding member of her band Berri, a three piece with leading
creative musicians Matthew Jacobson and Derek Whyte where Jenna
frequently loops and processes her voice, “a group that makes clear the
difference between a jazz singer and a singer of jazz songs" (The Irish Times).
Jenna regularly collaborates with guitarist and electronic musician Daniel
Jacobson (Zoid) and is a member of guitarist Tommy Halferty's quartet Voices.
She is the founding member of vocal group Claritas.
Jenna is a lecturer on the BA in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance at
Dublin City University where she lectures in Voice, Instrumental Skills & Labs,
Ensemble Repertoire & Performance.
Solo
Jenna Harris – Commissioned Voice Generated Audio Visual piece here
Jenna Harris - Live video at the Project Arts Centre here
Jenna Harris - SoundCloud here
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Workmans Cellar, 8 Essex Street East, Dublin 8, Ireland
EUR 15.00
