{"id":460665,"date":"2026-05-21T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460665\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:11:11","slug":"bob-geldof-and-the-boomtown-rats-to-rock-cork-for-jazz-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460665\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats to rock Cork for jazz fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats have been announced for this year\u2019s Cork Jazz Festival when the Cork City Hall Series returns to the city centre venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The line-up for this year\u2019s event, from October 23 to 25, was unveiled this week, with performers from a mix of genres expected to broaden the horizons of the traditionally jazz-centric celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The weekend will open with a double-bill performance from Galway band The Stunning and special guest Mundy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">This will be followed by a 50th anniversary performance from Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats, which organisers said \u201cpromises to be one of the standout performances of the entire Guinness Cork Jazz Festival weekend\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The weekend will then close with performances from Rory Gallagher tribute band Moonchild, and Mackwood Fleet, a Fleetwood Mac tribute act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Tickets for select performances are available online, with tickets for The Boomtown Rats available from Eventbrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bob Geldof and The Boomtown Rats have been announced for this year\u2019s Cork Jazz Festival when the Cork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,57577,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-460665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-jazz-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}