On June 12, saxophonist Alex Mathias and his quartet will perform at a special gig to launch their new CD Goin’ Roamin’. A graduate of the famed Berklee College of Music, Mathias has already become a firm favourite on the Irish music scene.

The series continues on July 17 with Irish jazz-blues artists Mary Coughlan playing the WAC in the wake of widespread acclaim for her latest album The House of Ill Repute. Reviewing the album in Hot Press, Jackie Hayden wrote “Coughlan’s 12th album explores the widest range of emotions and subjects, from sexual allure to prostitution, pornography and all manner of pleasures, be they legal or healthy or neither. They rarely come more consistently open, nor more painfully honest, than this.”

August 7 sees the Australian jazz/swing/folk guitarist Bruce Mathiske bring his eclectic style to Wexford, and on August 21 it’s a night of New York Jazz, with vocalist Rebecca Sinnamon coming to town with a band that includes Phil Ware (piano), Andrew Csibi (bass) and local man Kevin Lawlor on drums.