The Bristol Fringe
Bar in Clifton with regular live music.
The Bristol Fringe is a small bar and live music venue in Clifton. Live music can be found regularly in the front bar while the Bristol Fringe's back room is host to intimate gigs a couple of times a month. The front room / bar is always free while entry to gigs in the back room ranges from £3 to £6. Live music usually starts around 9pm and The Bristol Fringe is open until midnight except on Fridays and Saturdays when the venue remains open until 1am.
The music policy at the Bristol Fringe is diverse with previous bands including Vamos, Andy Sheppard, Muff Said and Jake Mclurchie.
The music policy at the Bristol Fringe is diverse with previous bands including Vamos, Andy Sheppard, Muff Said and Jake Mclurchie.
What's On At The Bristol Fringe
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blues
blues-rock
new orleans blues
country rock
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funk
blues
contemporary jazz
jazz funk
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lgbtq+
workshops & classes
talks
poetry
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jazz
soul
contemporary jazz
jazz funk
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jazz
soul
hip hop
contemporary jazz
jazz funk
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traditional folk
country
folk rock
gypsy jazz
country rock
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folk
folk rock
indie pop
indie folk
folk-pop
Get a feel for The Bristol Fringe
Our recent recommendations for The Bristol Fringe
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: Fabio Ferri is the Bristolian-Italian Frank Zappa! His mind-boggling prog alchemy is forged with a mathematician’s precision and a mad scientist’s unhinged brilliance. Jazz-fusion meeting avant-garde classical to take you to new musical frontiers FFO: Allan Holdsworth, Nik Bärtsch, Jaga Jazzist, late Soft Machine.
Fabio Ferri (full band) + Benkins (DJ set)
A unique experimental exhumation of the outlandish jazz manouche of Jacques Montagne. This fresh quartet - ft. Adrian Utley (Portishead), Alex Bishop (on Django’s beloved steel-string Maccaferri guitar), Riaan Vosloo (double bass) and Ross Hughes (clarinets) - will astound with a sound somewhere between Tchavolo Schmitt, Roland Kirk and Link Wray.
Jazz Manouche - Electric Django Reinhardt - Experimental Improv
Free entry! Celestial cinema from multidisciplinary artist collective Snowapple: ‘A Moonless Night’ is a surrealist cabaret that follows the moon’s fall to earth, merging animation, poetry and dance in a dreamlike, shapeshifting odyssey.
A short film from music collective, Snowapple
Superlative hard-bop ft. Ronnie Scott’s veteran in-house drummer Spike Wells totally reinvigorated in a trio spanning three generations. And hey, they can really wail - sailing through a repertoire of Monk, Ellington, Lee Morgan and Stone-Lonergan’s fresh compositions. Spellbinding stuff from Bristol’s House of Jazz (aka the Fringe).
Riley Stone-Lonergan, Spike Wells, Eddie Myer
Rare deep listening treat for Blue Note heads in celebration of one of jazz’s great tenors, Joe Henderson. A high quality playback session of his fourth hard bop firecracker In’n’Out leads into a thrilling live re-interpretation of the disc by the Fringe in the Round Allstars. Get those feet tapping!
Bristol's only circular jazz and improvisation night!