Nubya Garcia is one of the big breakthrough stars of the recent UK urban jazz boom.
A generational talent since long before she released her Mercury Prize nominated debut album in 2021, tenor saxophonist Garcia was named Breakthrough Act of the Year by both Sky Arts and Jazz FM back as far as 2018, and was the Jazz FM's Jazz Act of the Year, a year later.
In 2021 she won Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll 'Rising Star' Award, a Parliamentary Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year Award, and the Jazz Journalist Award in the UK. Since then she has played televised slots at Glastonbury Festival, appeared on Later… with Jools Holland, and co-released a live album with psychedelic rock band Khruangbin – after a period touring with the Texan instrumentalists, in 2023.
One of an array of gifted graduates of the UK’s inspirational jazz education and artist development organisation ‘Tomorrow’s Warriors,’ Nubya Garcia is a regular collaborator with such contemporaries as Ezra Collective, Moses Boyd and Sons of Kemet, amongst others.
The 33-year old London born composer and band leader earned a Rolling Stone ‘Artist of the Year’ nomination following the release last Autumn of her second album ‘Odyssey, while The Irish Times called her new recording as “an exhilarating mix of jazz, neosoul and R & B”.
Nubya Garcia’s gig in Bray will be her first major concert appearance to an Irish jazz audience.
OPENING: CHRISTINE TOBIN & PHIL ROBSON
You may also like the following events from Bray Jazz Festival:
- This Saturday, 3rd May, 02:30 pm, ZASKA (IRL), BRAY JAZZ FESTIVAL in Bray
- This Saturday, 3rd May, 08:00 pm, VIJAY IYER (USA), BRAY JAZZ FESTIVAL, OPENING: RONAN GUILFOYLE’S BEMUSEMENT ARCADE in Bray
- This Sunday, 4th May, 02:30 pm, NABOU CLAERHOUT & LYNN CASSIERS (BEL), BRAY JAZZ FESTIVALTIVAL in Bray
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