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Summer starts early…
7 May 2026
The heading doesn’t imply quite the good news you might assume. I mean the Summer break. I reckon quite a few of you are regulars at the Wednesday Bristol Music Club sessions and/or the BeBop Club. Both are gigs where the organisers take a well-deserved breath over the Summer. At BMC, recently revived under new […]
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Mark Lockheart, anyone?
5 Mar 2026
All gigs are equal as far as the calendar goes, but I’ll draw attention to reasons others give to anticipate the odd one or two that stand out… Case in point: there’s a terrific feature interview with ex Loose Tubes and Polar Bear sax player Mark Lockheart on UKJazzNews this week. It’s about his new […]
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Jam Sessions? Oh yes…
1 Mar 2026
If Bristol looks like it has more gigs than you’d expect for a city our size, I reckon the same is true for Jam Sessions. These don’t get listed every month on the calendar as I want to make it easy to find the regular gigs, and because it would mean putting in quite a […]
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New gig – Brilliant Corners at the Fringe
5 Jan 2026
Using this page again to note, not a new venue, but a new gig. Worth a mention as it was announced too late to make it into Tony Benjamin’s Bristol 24/7 monthly roundup for January. Brilliant Corners is the branding for a new promotion at The Bristol Fringe in Clifton, on the final Tuesday of […]
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Fringe Jazz continues!
19 Dec 2025
Just a quick update – having wished farewell to Jon Taylor as organiser and promoter of Fringe Jazz (see previous post), it is good to hear that the gig will carry on. It was a last minute thing, evidently, as Bristol247’s nice Tony Benjamin feature on the history of the gig a couple of weeks […]
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