John Donegan Quintet

John Donegan, a modern jazz pianist and composer originally from Cork, UK, has performed with a diverse range of artists including UK, Irish and international names like Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Barney Kessel and Greg Abate. He’s also been featured on BBC Jazz FM RTE Lyric FM and various independent radio stations across the UK, Europe, USA and Canada.

Consistently receiving 4-star reviews from Jazzwise Magazine, including Editor’s Pick and a spot on their top albums of 2025, he’ll be performing material from his latest albums.

John Donegan, UK based and originally from Cork, is a modern jazz pianist and composer. His music has been featured on National and independent radio stations in UK, US, Canada and Europe.

He has performed with a variety of UK, Irish and International artists, including Art Blakey, Art Farmer, Greg Abate, Arnie Lawrence, Louis Stewart, Jeff Clyne, Steve Waterman, Alex Hitchcock and many more and has performed in Europe and at Birdland in New York.

He has already released 10 albums, all comprised of original material and received multiple 4 *reviews, including Editor’s choice in Jazzwise magazine’s Best albums of 2025 - February 2025. “It’s a packed and varied programme coupling fine writing and striking playing by these Irish Superstars”. (Peter Vacher). His 11th album is due for release in November 2026. All material is available on his Website: johndoneganjazz.com and on all the usual media sites including Bandcamp.

Steve Waterman is one of Britain’s top jazz trumpeters and educators. He began his career at Trinity College of Music and regularly works on the UK and International jazz scenes.

He has worked with John Surman, Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Tony Coe, Alan Barnes, Don Weller and many more. As well as being a prolific composer, he has performed internationally with the likes of Chucho Valdes, playing in in Havanna with Bobby Carcassés Big Band. He holds teaching posts at Trinity College and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Dan Newberry, holds a Masters Degree from Royal Welsh College and is one of the brightest rising stars on the UK jazz scene. He studied with Ian Bellamy and plays in all styles of Jazz from 30’s Swing to contemporary and modern idioms. Reviews include “fluent and authoritative .. a technical tour de force” – The Jazz Mann.

Bernard O'Neill, born in Dublin, studied Piano, Cello & Composition at The Royal Irish Academy of Music. He has been a professional Double Bassist since 1986 and has performed with the likes of Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Natacha Atlas, Victor Manuel, Donovan & Sinead O'Connor.

As a jazz musician he has worked with John Donegan for many years as well as John Etheridge, Neil Stacey, Don Rendell, and many others. He has been associated with Real World records both as artist and producer . His credits include amongst others Loreena McKennit, Dub Collossus, Little Axe, Samy Yirga, Olcay Bayir as well as his own project Syriana.

John Daly, currently Chairperson of Limerick Jazz Society and Director of Limerick Jazz Festival, has played in every musical genre from Classical to Jazz, from small bands to big bands & orchestras.

John has played with Louis Stewart, Richie Buckley, Dan Bodwell and International artists Tony Miceli, Paul Jost, David Kikowski, Arnie Lawrence, Ken Peplowski, Ben Boone(USA) John Donegan (UK) Paul Tynan (Canada).He has toured extensively and performed In US and Europe.

John is heavily involved in music education and, in April 2022, launched the inaugural Young Irish Jazz Musician Award which was held in University Concert Hall Limerick.