Venue 57
The Jazz Bar
1A Chambers Street, EH1 1HR
Venue website: thejazzbar.co.uk — for directions, access and food & drink. Fringe tickets are booked from each show’s page.
This stylish basement bar is Edinburgh's coolest, multiple award-winning, year-round live music venue, with a crammed programme of multi-genre music and Fringe shows running all day, every day, from 13:00 – 04:00. As well as all the independent Fringe shows hosted by the venue, you’ll hear the bar’s excellent music, with great jazz, funk, acoustic, blues and rocky sounds – and bar service to 04:00 nightly!
Accessibility
Limited access to some parts of venue site, No wheelchair accessible toilet, No reserved accessible parking, No on street blue badge parking, Assistance dogs welcome in all areas. Access to the basement venue is by two flights of stairs down from street level
Eat & drink nearby
What’s on at The Jazz Bar — Fringe 2026
Blues Guitar Duo – Hot Tin Roof · Music · £12
Fri 7 Aug 14:30 · Mon 10 Aug 14:30 · Wed 12 Aug 14:30 · Mon 24 Aug 14:30 · Tue 25 Aug 14:30
Amy Winehouse Meets Jazz by Marianne McGregor · Music · £15
Fri 7 Aug 16:00 · Sun 9 Aug 16:00 · Mon 10 Aug 16:00 · Tue 11 Aug 16:00
5 Dates with Italian Jazz Affair · Music · £15
Fri 7 Aug 17:30 · Sat 8 Aug 17:30 · Sun 9 Aug 17:30 · Mon 10 Aug 17:30 · Thu 13 Aug 17:30
Lean On Me – A Bill Withers Tribute · Music · £15
Fri 7 Aug 19:00 · Sat 8 Aug 19:00 · Sun 9 Aug 19:00 · Mon 10 Aug 19:00 · Tue 11 Aug 19:00
Blue Note Nights: JazzMain on the Fringe · Music · £16
Fri 7 Aug 21:00 · Sat 8 Aug 21:00 · Sun 9 Aug 21:00 · Mon 17 Aug 21:00 · Sun 30 Aug 21:00
Lights Out By Nine – Live! · Music · £15
Sat 8 Aug 14:30 · Sun 30 Aug 13:00
14th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing · Music · £9
Sat 8 Aug 16:00 · Wed 12 Aug 16:00 · Fri 14 Aug 16:00 · Sat 15 Aug 16:00 · Sun 16 Aug 16:00 · Wed 19 Aug 16:00 · Fri 21 Aug 16:00 · Sat 22 Aug 16:00 · Wed 26 Aug 16:00 · Sat 29 Aug 16:00
Red Hot Roots of Jazz · Music · £15
Sun 9 Aug 13:00 · Sun 16 Aug 13:00 · Fri 21 Aug 13:00 · Sat 22 Aug 13:00 · Sun 23 Aug 13:00
Aaaah it's Nicole Smit and Jed Potts! · Music · £15
Sun 9 Aug 14:30 · Tue 11 Aug 14:30 · Thu 13 Aug 14:30 · Mon 17 Aug 14:30 · Sun 23 Aug 14:30
Kevin Gore: Original and Traditional Folk Songs of Scotland, Love, and Social Justice · Music · £9
Mon 10 Aug 11:30 · Mon 24 Aug 11:30
Acoustic Blues with Smith and Tweeddale · Music · £12
Mon 10 Aug 13:00 · Tue 11 Aug 13:00 · Thu 20 Aug 13:00 · Mon 24 Aug 13:00 · Tue 25 Aug 13:00
Soundbone plays Led Zep · Music · £13
Mon 10 Aug 21:00 · Wed 12 Aug 21:00
The Katet vs 1995 · Music · £15
Mon 10 Aug 23:00 · Tue 11 Aug 23:00 · Sun 16 Aug 23:00 · Tue 25 Aug 23:00 · Thu 27 Aug 23:00
Ali Affleck's Queens of Swing · Music · £15
Tue 11 Aug 17:30 · Thu 13 Aug 21:30
Hot Sounds Island: A Celebration of Japanese Jazz Fusion · Music · £14
Tue 11 Aug 21:00 · Tue 18 Aug 21:00
Ali Affleck Presents the Louis Armstrong Duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby · Music · £15
Wed 12 Aug 13:00 · Mon 17 Aug 17:30 · Mon 24 Aug 21:00 · Thu 27 Aug 16:00
Lorna Reid Sextet: Ain't Misbehavin'! · Music · £20
Wed 12 Aug 17:30
Aja! A Steely Dan Tribute · Music · £15
Wed 12 Aug 19:00 · Mon 17 Aug 19:00 · Tue 18 Aug 19:00 · Mon 24 Aug 19:00 · Sun 30 Aug 19:00
The Blueswater · Music · £14
Wed 12 Aug 23:00 · Thu 13 Aug 23:00 · Mon 17 Aug 23:00 · Tue 18 Aug 23:00 · Sun 23 Aug 23:00
Acoustic Blues and Roots in the Afternoon · Music · £12
Thu 13 Aug 13:00 · Fri 14 Aug 13:00 · Sat 15 Aug 13:00 · Wed 26 Aug 13:00 · Thu 27 Aug 13:00
Bonnie Bayou · Music · £15
Thu 13 Aug 16:00 · Mon 17 Aug 16:00 · Thu 20 Aug 16:00 · Mon 24 Aug 16:00 · Tue 25 Aug 16:00
The Rat Pack – Iain Ewing Quintet · Music · £15
Thu 13 Aug 19:00 · Fri 14 Aug 19:00 · Sat 15 Aug 19:00 · Sun 16 Aug 19:00
Tenement Jazz Band: Interactive Live Jazz for Kids · Children's Shows · £13
Fri 14 Aug 11:00 · Sat 15 Aug 11:00 · Sun 16 Aug 11:00 · Fri 21 Aug 11:00 · Sat 22 Aug 11:00 · Sun 23 Aug 11:00 · Fri 28 Aug 11:00 · Sat 29 Aug 11:00 · Sun 30 Aug 11:00
La Chatte Chanteuse · Music · £13.5
Fri 14 Aug 14:30 · Sat 15 Aug 14:30 · Sun 16 Aug 14:30
Sip Sparkle Skull · Cabaret and Variety · £14
Fri 14 Aug 17:30 · Sat 15 Aug 17:30 · Sun 16 Aug 17:30 · Fri 21 Aug 17:30 · Sat 22 Aug 17:30
Espirito do Brasil · Music · £15
Fri 14 Aug 21:00 · Sat 15 Aug 21:00 · Sun 16 Aug 21:00
Derek Smith Sings The Blues · Music · £10
Mon 17 Aug 13:00 · Tue 18 Aug 13:00 · Wed 19 Aug 13:00 · Fri 28 Aug 13:00 · Sat 29 Aug 13:00
Everything Is Everything – A Donny Hathaway Tribute · Music · £12
Tue 18 Aug 14:30 · Wed 19 Aug 14:30 · Thu 20 Aug 14:30 · Fri 21 Aug 14:30 · Sat 22 Aug 14:30
1933 – Fats Waller, Harlem and the Blues Belters · Music · £15
Tue 18 Aug 16:00
Tùs/Origin... and Jazz Was Born in Scotland · Music · £9
Tue 18 Aug 17:30 · Wed 19 Aug 17:30 · Thu 20 Aug 17:30
5 Nights of Valery Ponomarev: The Jazz Messenger · Music · £18
Wed 19 Aug 19:00 · Thu 20 Aug 19:00 · Fri 21 Aug 19:00 · Sat 22 Aug 19:00 · Sun 23 Aug 19:00
Colin Steele Quintet play Miles Davis · Music · £15
Wed 19 Aug 21:00 · Thu 20 Aug 21:00 · Fri 21 Aug 21:00 · Sat 22 Aug 21:00 · Sun 23 Aug 21:00
The Katet vs John Williams · Music · £15
Wed 19 Aug 23:00 · Thu 20 Aug 23:00 · Mon 24 Aug 23:00 · Wed 26 Aug 23:00 · Sun 30 Aug 23:00
Ali Affleck Presents Billie Holiday – Swing Brother Swing! · Music · £15
Sun 23 Aug 16:00 · Fri 28 Aug 16:00
The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook · Music · £14
Sun 23 Aug 17:30 · Mon 24 Aug 17:30 · Tue 25 Aug 17:30 · Wed 26 Aug 17:30 · Thu 27 Aug 17:30
Colin Steele and Martin Kershaw Quintet play Chet Baker and Stan Getz · Music · £15
Tue 25 Aug 19:00 · Wed 26 Aug 19:00 · Thu 27 Aug 19:00 · Fri 28 Aug 19:00 · Sat 29 Aug 19:00
Glamour and Grit: The Women Who Defined Soul · Music · £15
Tue 25 Aug 21:00 · Wed 26 Aug 21:00 · Thu 27 Aug 21:00 · Fri 28 Aug 21:00 · Sat 29 Aug 21:00
Tenderly: The Life and Times of Nat King Cole · Theatre · £15
Wed 26 Aug 14:30 · Thu 27 Aug 14:30 · Fri 28 Aug 14:30 · Sat 29 Aug 14:30 · Sun 30 Aug 14:30
Django Reinhardt's Hot Club Jazz Meets Scottish Folk · Music · £16
Fri 28 Aug 17:30 · Sat 29 Aug 17:30 · Sun 30 Aug 17:30
Ali Affleck Presents the Queens of Country · Music · £15
Sun 30 Aug 16:00