Stella Bass

Fresh from sold-out jazz concerts around Ireland, Stella Bass is thrilled to showcase her 2024 album, Look for the Silver Lining, a collaboration with the Johnny Taylor Trio, featuring a heady mix of delightful swing, intimate ballads, intoxicating Latin grooves, and some of her original songs.

Faced with a pandemic-induced empty diary, Bass dived into songwriting. Bingeing (belatedly!) on Downton Abbey during a nasty ‘flu, her ears pricked up at the sound of a rather obscure Jerome Kern song in one key scene: she knew immediately it would be perfect as the album’s name and theme.

Two of her own songs fit the album’s vision perfectly and, having spent time in musical theatre where the art of storytelling is everything, she carefully selected eight standards, each telling its own tale and with a special nod to those strange times.

Stella Bass – vocals
Johnny Taylor – piano
Barry Donohue – double bass
Dominic Mullan – drums

“…it would be hard to pick out Bass’ originals from those by Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin et al. She should not wait for the next pandemic before reaching for pen and blank paper.”  All About Jazz (UK)

“Every now and again an album appears as if from nowhere that immediately you get, and more importantly gets you.” Jazz Views (UK)

“A great sense of clarity in her enunciation and a relaxed sense of timing.” – Jazz Weekly (USA)

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Venue Information - The Triskel Arts Centre

Triskel Arts Centre is a vibrant cultural HUB in the heart of Cork City and we celebrated 40 years in 2018. Our main auditorium Triskel Christchurch is a multidisciplinary space housed in a fully refurbished neoclassical Georgian Church.

This state of the art venue, which launched in 2011, is programmed with a rich bill of live music, with a focus on Classical and Jazz concerts, cultural cinema, visual art exhibitions and literary events. Triskel also runs a contemporary art room Triskel Gallery Space. Unique in Ireland, Theatre Development Centre is the only fulltime operation dedicated to the development of theatre, this is managed by Corcadorca Theatre Company.