Vaux Room Jazz: Tom Remon & John Moriaty

John Moriaty –

Guitarist and guitar-builder John Moriarty is a graduate of the National College Of Art And Design in Dublin where he studied Visual Communications. 

He has played countless concerts including Guinness Jazz Festival, Glasgow Jazz Festival, Euro-Jazz Festival in Mexico City, JJ Smyth’s and Vicar Street. John has recorded and toured with U.S. pianist Bill Carrothers and performed with Bobby Watson of ‘Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers’. He has also played many guitar duets with fellow Irishman Louis Stewart. As a guitar builder John’s guitars were featured at the Healdsburg International Guitar Festival 2009 in California and more recently at the launch of the Holy Grail Guitar show in Berlin.

Tom Remon –

A jazz guitarist and alumnus of Tomorrow’s Warriors, Tom has released three albums as a bandleader and performed extensively across the UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. 

He has collaborated with leading UK, Irish, and US jazz artists, including MOBO Award nominee David Lyttle; guitarists Hugh Buckley, Jim Mullen, and John Stowell; violinist Benet McLean; saxophonists Soweto Kinch and Steve Williamson; and trumpeter Neil Yates, among many others