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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folk
country
traditional folk
bluegrass
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soul
hip hop
blues
alternative hip hop
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blues
country
blues-rock
country rock
delta blues
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indie pop
grunge
art pop
progressive rock
prog rock
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jazz
contemporary jazz
contemporary classical
hard bop
bebop
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experimental
folk
jazz
contemporary jazz
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funk
soul
jazz
blues
contemporary jazz
Get a feel for The Bristol Fringe
Our recent recommendations for The Bristol Fringe
Sumptuous local chamber jazz from Get the Blessing’s trumpet maestro Pete Judge, melding perfectly with the delicate folk cello of James Gow. Four years young now, this duo feels like an infinite well of pastoral bliss FFO: ECM, Arthur Russell, Memotone, Arve Henriksen.
Duo between celebrated trumpeter Pete Judge and James Gow on cello & tenor guitar
Western Gothic / fringe roots supergroup of the macabre, LA’s Heathen Apostles effortlessly alchemize the honky tonk, bluegrass and dark folk chops of their Cramps, Kings of Nuthin + Legendary Shack Shakers pedigree. Haunting, hard-edged outlaw country that’ll ride you past the sunset into the underworld FFO: 16 Horsepower, Graveyard Train, Those Poor Bastards.
With Halloween drawing near what better band to see than Heathen Apostles? A band that have created a style of music that at once conjurs both angels and demons, and will enlighten a darkened soul. Enter the back room of The Bristol Fringe and be entertained like you've never been before!
Award-winning jazz pianist Robert Mitchell brings one of his uniformly gorgeous solo shows to The Fringe. Bold staccato numbers, vaporous improv, classic covers, poetry – Mitchell is as versatile as they come. A kaleidoscopic key-slinging séance!
Exciting solo show from leading UK pianist and improviser
What do Shabaka Hutchins, Dinosaur, Ligeti Quartet and Emma-Jean Thackray all have in common? Avant-garde pianist extraordinaire Elliot Galvin! Elliot’s astonishing solo outings conjur haunted electro-acoustic music halls filled with the Keith Jarrett's classical fusion and Nils Frahm’s pulsing synths. Total unmissable for all nu-jazz disciples.
For this one off solo concert Elliot will be playing reinterpretations of his critically acclaimed recent album 'The Ruin', alongside improvisations that combine soundscape modular synths with exploratory acoustic piano.
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)