Skazz - Authentic from ireland

SKAZZ AUTHENTIC SKA FROM IRELAND

Skazz play the original ska from the 60’s, with skanking brass and tight rhythms, solid beats and delicious vocal harmonies, riffs and licks.

Formed in 2007, after making the crossover from a swing jazz outfit, Skazz embraced the music of the early Ska & Rocksteady greats, such as the Skatalites, Roy Ellis, Toots & the Maytals and have delighted audiences all over Ireland and Europe with their enthusiastic and happy music.

Regulars at Cork Jazz, Dublin Ska Festival, Booleigh Ska Festival, Cork Ska & Reggae Festival and Ska Rox, Skazz are delighted to be playing at the new Boss Reggae Train Festival this July.

Skazz are also in great demand for weddings, parties, corporate events, bar-b-ques and gigs and will guarantee to get the crowd up and dancing to the beat.

Cork City Paper

! SKAZZ: This five piece are the embodiment of the Ska movement starting out as a swing and jazz outfit and converting in early 2007 to pure Ska vibes. In keeping with their jazz roots, Skazz have chosen the original Jamaican scene Ska of the 1960’s - when Caribbean mento and calypso first met American jazz and rhythm and blues. Having already shared stages with the likes of The Skatalites, Prince Buster, The Pioneers, Syramip, and performing regularly at the Cork Jazz Festival since 2009, Ted Fest, & the Electric Picnic, they have also played countless gigs and events all over Ireland and Europe this year looks like a promising year for Skazz.

It’s THE SKAZZ - absolutely brilliant JAMAICAN SKA, REGGAE AND LATIN MUSIC, this band are the top banana for dancing and shaking your thang! A fantastic brass section leads the way with tenor sax and trumpet ably backed by a tight rhythm section and skanking guitar riffs that will have to jiving away as though you were on the beach in trenchtown.

Mark

Great time, great people, great sound and what a sound . Pure heaven. If you haven't seen this band you need to. Went to see them twice this weekend and they have to be one of the tightest most entertaining bands you will ever see. If you love your ska, f**k even if you dont, go see them and I bet you will end up dancing and leaving a fan. Thanks for a great time hope to see yous soon again.

skalendar - skazz gigs in 2024

february 2024

Sat 3rd
9pm
Bofey's Bar
Corofin Co. Clare
Mon 5th
midnight
Crane Lane Theatre
Crane Lane Theatre, Cork

march 2024

Sun 17th
4.30pm
Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
Sun 17th
10pm
Poor Relations
Cork City

april 2024

Sat 20th
7pm
SSM Sozialistische Selbsthilfe Mülheim
Düsseldorfer Str. 74, 51063, Köln Mülheim, Germany

may 2024

Fri 3rd
6pm
Bofey Quinn
Main St, Baunkyle, Corofin, Co. Clare, V95 HE39
Sat 4th
9.30pm
Bray Jazz Festival
The Martello
Sun 5th
9.30pm
Bray Jazz Festival
Duff's Bar
Sun 5th
tba
Dublin Ska Festival
Whelan's, 25 Wexford St, Dublin, Ireland
Sat 18th
9pm
Crane Lane Theatre
Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
Fri 31st
10.30pm
Doonbeg Int. Swing & Jazz Festival
Comerford's Bar

june 2024

Sat 1st
11pm
Doonbeg Int. Swing & Jazz Festival
Igoe Inn
Sun 2nd
6pm
Doonbeg Int. Swing & Jazz Festival
Comerford's
Sun 2nd
10.30pm
Doonbeg Int. Swing & Jazz Festival
Tubridy's Bar

july 2024

Fri 5th
tba
Booleigh Ska Fest
Boley Cross, Boley Great, Kildare, R51 AX71
Sat 20th
9pm
O'Mara's Pub Kilkee
Sun 28th
6.30pm
Cork Ska Festival
Crane Lane Theatre

august 2024

Sat 3rd
9.30pm
Imokilly Tavern Mogeely
1 Woodview Pl, Mogeely, Co. Cork, P25 YX56

october 2024

Fri 25th
7.30pm
Cork Jazz Festival - The Woodford
Paul St, Centre, Cork, T12 XY84
Sat 26th
8pm-10pm
Cork Jazz Festival - Gallagher's Bar
32 MacCurtain Street, Victorian Quarter, Cork, T23 Y07X
Sun 27th
8pm-10pm
Cork Jazz Festival - Gallagher's Bar
32 MacCurtain Street, Victorian Quarter, Cork, T23 Y07X

videos - view skazz gigs in 2022/2023

Skazz at Doonbeg Jazz Festival 2023
Perfidia - poor Relation Cork 2023
Pressure Drop - Booleigh Ska Festival
Skinhead Dem A Come - Booleigh Ska Festival
Blue Moon - International Ska & Reggae Festival
Bonanza Ska - International Ska & Reggae Festival
Me Myself and I - International Ska & Reggae Festival
Kingston Prison - International Ska & Reggae Festival
Ska Fort Rock - Doonbeg Jazz Festival
Garden of Love - Doonbeg Jazz Festival

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