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.

What’s playing nearby

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

Greyfriars Bobby's Bar5 min walk · ££ · pub food The World's End5 min walk · ££ · pub food Deacon Brodie's Tavern5 min walk · ££ · pub food

What’s on at The Jazz Bar — Fringe 2026

Blues Guitar Duo – Hot Tin Roof · Music · £12
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Amy Winehouse Meets Jazz by Marianne McGregor · Music · £15
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5 Dates with Italian Jazz Affair · Music · £15
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Lean On Me – A Bill Withers Tribute · Music · £15
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Blue Note Nights: JazzMain on the Fringe · Music · £16
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Lights Out By Nine – Live! · Music · £15
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14th Year! John Hunt Four O'Clock Afternoon Blues and Swing · Music · £9
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Red Hot Roots of Jazz · Music · £15
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Aaaah it's Nicole Smit and Jed Potts! · Music · £15
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Kevin Gore: Original and Traditional Folk Songs of Scotland, Love, and Social Justice · Music · £9
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Acoustic Blues with Smith and Tweeddale · Music · £12
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Soundbone plays Led Zep · Music · £13
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The Katet vs 1995 · Music · £15
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Ali Affleck's Queens of Swing · Music · £15
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Hot Sounds Island: A Celebration of Japanese Jazz Fusion · Music · £14
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Ali Affleck Presents the Louis Armstrong Duets with Ella Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby · Music · £15
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Lorna Reid Sextet: Ain't Misbehavin'! · Music · £20
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Aja! A Steely Dan Tribute · Music · £15
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The Blueswater · Music · £14
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Acoustic Blues and Roots in the Afternoon · Music · £12
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Bonnie Bayou · Music · £15
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The Rat Pack – Iain Ewing Quintet · Music · £15
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Tenement Jazz Band: Interactive Live Jazz for Kids · Children's Shows · £13
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La Chatte Chanteuse · Music · £13.5
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Sip Sparkle Skull · Cabaret and Variety · £14
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Espirito do Brasil · Music · £15
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Derek Smith Sings The Blues · Music · £10
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Everything Is Everything – A Donny Hathaway Tribute · Music · £12
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1933 – Fats Waller, Harlem and the Blues Belters · Music · £15
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Tùs/Origin... and Jazz Was Born in Scotland · Music · £9
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5 Nights of Valery Ponomarev: The Jazz Messenger · Music · £18
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Colin Steele Quintet play Miles Davis · Music · £15
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The Katet vs John Williams · Music · £15
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Ali Affleck Presents Billie Holiday – Swing Brother Swing! · Music · £15
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The Gil Scott-Heron Songbook · Music · £14
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Colin Steele and Martin Kershaw Quintet play Chet Baker and Stan Getz · Music · £15
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Glamour and Grit: The Women Who Defined Soul · Music · £15
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Tenderly: The Life and Times of Nat King Cole · Theatre · £15
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Django Reinhardt's Hot Club Jazz Meets Scottish Folk · Music · £16
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Ali Affleck Presents the Queens of Country · Music · £15
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