The Jam Jar
Volunteer-led venue and live music haunt.
The Jam Jar isn't just a venue, it's a shining beacon attracting the most authentic artists from planet Earth. With boundary-pushing gigs and sweat-soaked clubnights from more corners of the globe than anywhere else: cumbia to ska, folk to salsa, afro-rap to acid techno. Bristol would be a much greyer place without that!
What's On At The Jam Jar
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world
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salsa
disco
tropical
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cumbia
bhangra
dancehall
afrobeats
amapiano
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funk
soul
disco
disco house
chicago house
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world
latin jazz
afrobeat
house
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alternative hip hop
underground hip hop
grime
grime
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rock-and-roll
blues-rock
garage rock
rockabilly
soundtrack
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hip hop
old school hip hop
alternative hip hop
underground hip hop
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Our recent recommendations for The Jam Jar
Sell out warning! Your annual booster of sonic ritualism and spiritual liberation from psychedelic funk, hip-hop and Afro-punk luminaries BCUC. The Soweto seven-piece returns to Bristol on rapturous waves of adoration with a two date show due to ever-popular demand - don’t sleep on it.
BCUC at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! The majestic trad/not-trad fiddle of Mikey Kenney is a real treat: giddy strings steeped in 1,000 years of rich UK ballads, peppered with Mikey’s own urban Merseyside compositions and influences from bluegrass to Italian folk and beyond. Plaintive delights FFO: Tommy Peoples, Aidan O'Rourke, Aaron Catlow, Band of Burns."
Mikey Kenney + Âellin at The Jam Jar.
Sell out warning! It’s a beachside burial for local twanging surf-xotica institution Los Dedos, bowing out in Jam Jar appropriate environs with one last wash-out of reverb-drenched tremolo shredding. With trashy garage-billy scuzzers The Mudd Club for starters, this is totally unmissable FFO: Link Wray, Duane Eddy, Tarantino, La Luz, The Cramps.
Los Dedos - Farewell Gig & Party + The Mudd Club at The Jam Jar.
SONGØ's a psychedelic honeypot of live amapiano, afro/pop, reggae, funk, neo-soul and electro with bewitching vocal theatrics in Xhosa, French and English. Fully transportative global fusion FFO: MHD, KOKOKO!, TSHEGUE, Mbongwana Star, BCUC, Quinzequinze.
SONGØ at The Jam Jar.
Worldwide FM’s Santa Leticia beams in with a goodie bag of sun-kissed sounds to nurture your soul and get your body moving. Expect cumbia, jazz, funk and disco gems from the Andalusian selectora as she steers the cosmic groove spaceship for La Bomba’s next transmission.
LA BOMBA present Santa Leticia at The Jam Jar.