Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Frankie is doing some shows at the Leicester Square Theatre and Museum of Comedy to try out some brand new jokes.
Estonian and Scottish music traditions converge for a night of piping and jazz improvisation at The Hub.
Guitar and Songs: ‘Claude Bourbon’s music is rooted in multiple traditions – blues, jazz, folk, Mediterranean, and for good measure classical.
Singing the Diaphragm Blues and Other Sexual Cacophonies explores the tragic, hilarious and baffling road of silence travelled by women in Western culture.
Electric swing blues tribute show, celebrating the music of the three blues masters: BB King, Albert King, Freddie King.
Award-winning, live music variety cabaret from Blues and Burlesque.
Tim plays a new show every year at the Fringe.
2022 and 2023 Fringe sell-out show.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the sixth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double-bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Alison, Dick and the band welcome you to their Swinging Parisian Café, featuring the music of Django Reinhardt, Edith Piaf, Sidney Bechet et al.
Following successful shows in 2021, 2022 and 2023, Scottish blues singer/guitarist Derek Smith (Main Street Blues) returns to the Jazz Bar to perform his new show of authentic, up-…
Performance poet/musician Attila the Stockbroker has been writing and performing since 1980: 4,000 or so gigs in 25 countries so far.
Start each morning with this curated variety showcase, featuring the very best solo shows at the Fringe! Rotating daily line-ups include storytelling, theatre, clown, cabaret, spok…
Welcome to our Speakeasy and a vibrant night of swinging trad jazz improvisation.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
A musical soirée breathing life into the timeless allure of the legendary divas of jazz.
The feel-good, eight-piece band returns to Edinburgh with their award-winning show, taking its audience across America and discovering the roots of blues and soul.
Following sell-out runs in Edinburgh, Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back with a brand-new show.
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with their five-star show, which made Best Production lists from London Theatre (2022) and Theatre Scotland (2022 and 2023).
The tales of the dragons are special for many reasons.
If you can break up with your dad, you can break up with anyone.
After thrilling the world, with more than 600,000 spectators and astonishing appearances at the Royal Variety Performance, Monte Carlo Festival and Moulin Rouge, the ‘best circus s…
Ali’s in love for the first time and he hates it.
Abby awoke in hospital after a late miscarriage and, high on anaesthesia, decided to become a comedian.
The Guardian’s Top 50 shows to see! Jillian is back at the Fringe with her yoga mat and blender after a hit premiere at last year’s Fringe and subsequent sell-out runs in New York …
Join Ken Wood and the Mixers on a once in a lifetime musical journey around America to discover the roots of soul.
Following an Edinburgh fringe sell-out season, award-winning stand-up and viral sensation Ali Woods returns with loads of new material! Nominated for Best Show at Leicester Fringe …
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
Choreographer Dam Van Huynh draws upon the words of writers, poets, activists, and his experience as a child refugee from the Vietnam war to create a choreographic work about overc…
Saucy, sexy, dirty blues songs from the 1920s-40s, many of which feature the word ‘hot dog’ performed by chanteuse Suzanne Noble accompanied by ‘Gorgeous’ George Webster on the pia…
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Bye bye Gatsby! Ali is celebrating 30 years of pioneering blues and hokum (1913-1933).
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
Rediscover the golden age of swing jazz – Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Anita O’Day, Maxine Sullivan, Peggy Lee.
Comedy Central’s Chanel Ali (USA) brings her no-holds-barred stand-up from Philly to Fringe for the first time for a strictly limited run.
Forget ‘Party like Gatsby’; This is the real deal! Fresh new show featuring an international band of women who play authentic old-time music and know the history.
Pitchblenders swing quartet dishes up old-school blues and jazz.
Forget ‘Party like Gatsby’; This is the real deal! Fresh new show featuring an international band of women who play authentic old-time music and know the history.
Alexander’s strong songwriting, riff-driven guitar work and rich vocals, strut the high ground between folk, blues and Americana music.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fifth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt and Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 100 years.
Following their sell-out shows in 2022, Scotland’s acclaimed band Main Street Blues return with their fabulous Kings of the Blues show.
Up Close with the Blues with international blues star Giles Robson and featuring Sandy Tweeddale, guitar.
2022 Fringe sell-out show.
Following sell-out Fringe shows in 2022, acclaimed Scottish blues singer/guitarist Derek Smith (Main Street Blues and Whisky Road), is back at the Jazz Bar to perform his authentic…
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
Popular Edinburgh-based guitar duo Hot Tin Roof play original bluesy tunes and well known blues covers, featuring Andy Challen on acoustic guitar/vocal and Gavin Jack on electric g…
Veteran singer/songwriter/pianist Charlie Wood takes you on a live listening tour through the Blues.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Come on a musical journey around America to discover the roots of soul.
Tim Barton plays the piano.
Following sell-out runs in Perth and Adelaide, this award-winning live music cabaret is back from London’s West End with their star-studded revue.
The Birth of Frankenstein tells us the story of Mary Shelley, the mother of science fiction, on her fateful trip to Geneva with Percy Bysshe Shelley.
WPB are six rising comedy stars who’ve been performing in prisons across Scotland since November 2022.
Following his sell-out 2022 show, award-winning stand-up and viral sensation Ali Woods returns with loads of new material! Nominated for Best Show at Leicester Fringe 2023, Ali has…
24 different award-winning or nominated comedians perform their full shows, recorded for Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube. See FringeSpecials.com for listings.
An acrobatic spoof of the movie The Blues Brothers, with plenty of flips and stunts weaved in alongside some clowning.
The UAE’s King and Queen of comedy: Ali Al Sayed from Dubai, and Broadway veteran Mina Liccione from New York, deliver powerhouse punchlines and share hilarious stories about life …
BBD Productions return to the Fringe with their five-star show, which made Best Productions of 2022 lists from London Theatre and Theatre Scotland.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don't have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I've almost made my mind up, but I'm more interested in what you …
Awwwww I Feel Good! Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to jump and jive to the fun, all-action sounds of ‘Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul’.
Awwwww I Feel Good! Join manic frontman Kenneth B Woode and the cast of ‘Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul’ as they tell the sensational story of soul music and its greatest pe…
Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta…
Get ready for a night of sultry jazz, swing, blues, and soul like you’ve never experienced before! Meet Suzanne Noble, a performer following in the footsteps of legendary enterta…
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
What is confidence? Can it be obtained if you don’t have any? Is 36 too late to start being assertive? I’ve almost made my mind up, but I’m more interested in what you have to say.
Highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour from the Hackney Empire New Comedian of the Year Winner, tackling all the big topics; Scottish mothers, A&E, karate teachers, …
Award-winning comedian Ali Woods returns with his latest jokes! Half-English, half-Scottish Londoner, Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hac…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
Are dreams supposed to be ambitions we strive to realise? Or simply ideals meant to be unattainable, existing to help us get through our mundane everyday lives?This seems to be the…
Ready for a unique, talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and…
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
John Carnie and Spider Mackenzie explore Dylan’s bluesier side, which has influenced half of his canon of over 500 songs, as well as interpretations of his other classics.
Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald return to the Fringe this year in an act that delivers a whisky-soaked night of tremolo and bass that walks through the annals of blues classic…
Taylor & Leigh return to the festival with blisteringly hot country blues.
See The Main Street Blues band perform a special two-hour show featuring an expanded line up to their usual four-piece set up for one night only at The Brunton.
BBD Productions return to the Fringe to premier their new show, Divas, after their five-star sell-out run in 2019.
A carefully considered celebration of the trailblazing musician Nina Simone.
The Blueswater return to the Fringe with a special 10th anniversary edition of their award-winning show.
The Jennifer Ewan Band performs a stirring mix of heartfelt original songs, Louisiana accordion blues and old-time Cajun dance music with a Celtic tint.
An Electric Blues tribute to the masters, BB King, Albert King and Freddy King, including classics such as The Thrill is Gone, Born Under a Bad Sign, Hideaway and many many more.
Captain Ali, the famously heroic explorer of time, space and all reality.
An aural delight of soulful, melodic jazzy-blues, pop and folk-blues to shake your tail-feather.
Bye bye Gatsby! It’s 1933 and Ali is throwing a party with her pals.
Internationally acclaimed bluesman Lone Bear brings to the stage the powerful delta blues and ragtime on resonator guitar, harmonica and vocals.
Following their sell-out Fringe shows from 2018 / 2019, Whisky Road are back to perform their latest acoustic blues show at The Jazz Bar.
Captain Ali, the famously heroic explorer of time, space and all reality.
Rediscover the golden age of swing jazz – Ella Fitzgerald; Dinah Washington; Keely Smith; Maxine Sullivan; Peggy Lee.
The Jennifer Ewan Band performs a stirring mix of heartfelt original songs, Louisiana accordion blues and old-time Cajun dance music with a Celtic tint.
Fade In: Heidi sits at her desk writing the blurb for this show.
Ali Brice is embracing life after almost losing it.
‘Fantastic!’ (Jools Holland).
Captain Ali, the famously heroic explorer of time, space and all reality.
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show, Queens of the Blues, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last one hundred years…
This feel-good show connects audiences with the energy, excitement and raw emotion of the pioneering R&B and soul acts of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Black Blues Brothers have quickly gained the reputation as one of the go-to circus-based acts on the Fringe, and, after witnessing this spectacle, it’s not hard to see why.
Highly anticipated debut stand-up hour from the Hackney Empire New Comedian of the Year Winner, tackling all the big topics; Scottish mothers, sex parties, karate teachers, and men…
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Highly-anticipated debut stand-up hour from the Hackney Empire New Comedian of the Year Winner, tackling all the big topics; Scottish mothers, sex parties, karate teachers, and men…
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul returns to the Brighton Fringe for a second great year with a humorous all-action stage show that mixes storytelling with great music.
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
An Anarchist- activist or terrorist? Two Novice activists get jobs on a North Sea oil rig with the sole intention of staging a sit-in protest.
An Anarchist- activist or terrorist? Two Novice activists get jobs on a North Sea oil rig with the sole intention of staging a sit-in protest.
Woods is an exciting new stand-up comedian on the UK circuit, having won Hackney Empire New Act of the Year 2020, and will be working on his debut stand-up comedy show.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus presents the mother of all reality shows – ‘Divas!’.
A stellar jazz sextet performs a musical tribute to the jazz composer and pianist, Horace Silver.
Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus presents the mother of all reality shows – ‘Divas!’.
There’s something truly life-affirming about theatre that entertains and makes you think.
An anarchist – activist or terrorist? A darkly funny play by Luke Ofield.
Luke Oldfield’s Accidental Birth of an Anarchist at The Space on the Isle of Dogs tells of two novice activists from The People’s Movement to Protect the Planet who get jobs on…
DIVAS introduce this sensational new fine dining experience with drag queens SESSION TIME: 18.
DIVAS introduce this sensational new fine dining experience with drag queens SESSION TIME: 18.
Get ready for the best songs from all your favourite female stars in one fabulous fun-packed show.
Sondheim aficionado Tim McArthur performs a classic evening of the leading ladies songs from Sondheim’s greatest musicals.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Ed and Bunny delve into the downsides of being highly evolved sentient beings in a culturally (in)sensitive post-pandemic wasteland/wonderland.
Ed and Bunny delve into the downsides of being highly evolved sentient beings in a culturally (in)sensitive post-pandemic wasteland/wonderland.
WHEN WE SAY YEE, YOU SAY HAW! WE DIDN’T F**KING SAY YEE! Join East London’s showgirl LORI MAE (yall!) & international drag idiot CRYSTAL LUBRIKUNT down in…
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
Nicole Smit returns with her sell-out show after a year-long hiatus, celebrating the women who have defined blues and popular music over the last 100 years with an intimate perform…
You will need a group of 2-5 detectives, internet access on your phone, your brain and your legs! We’ll provide the specialist kit.
Scots-Cajun music, Louisiana French classics and vintage blues jostle with distinctively Scottish straight-from-the-heart original songs by Jennifer Ewan and the blues-drenched Caj…
Award-winning Ali joins up with pals back in California for this unique show filmed live from the true home of jazz! All-star band of Katie Cavera, Clint Baker, John Reynolds and C…
2020 sees The Blues Band Celebrate their 40th year together Paul Jones, Dave Kelly, Tom McGuinness, Rob Townsend and Gary Fletcher.
When two alien women wash up on the shores of earth in their seashell spaceship all the way from Venus to lose their virginity, they are in for a shock to discover what lies before…
Hayley May Muirhead and Molly Dooner under the company name of Pink Mango Comedy, bring a show that is zany, bizzare, upbeat and sexually empowering for any females watching.
Sara Segovia Rodao and Lachlan Werner are cuties by nature, cancers by astrological sign and clowns by trade.
Direct from a sell-out five-star hit tour of Australia and New Zealand, join international award-winning singing sensation Velma Celli for an overindulgent diva fest celebrating th…
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul returns to the Brighton Fringe for a second great year with a humorous all-action stage show that mixes storytelling with great music.
Tl;dr: Two female comedians debut their 30 minute solo shows on one bill.
In between lockdowns, two masked up American comics met at a Camden gig, bonding over their expat status and comedy.
An absurd debut work in progress show from two of Brighton’s best-loved (hopefully by someone) comics.
An absurd debut show from two of Brighton’s best-loved (hopefully by someone) comics.
Please note that these sessions will take place online for the Jan 2021 term due to COVID restrictions.
Ready for a unique, talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, Spanish and…
This year Jennifer and her band bring a blues theme to their bonnie bayou.
Returning to the Jazz Bar for the fourth year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double bass duo Malt & Rye will be playing classic blues and roots songs from the last 90 years.
Whisky Road are very pleased to be back for a third year at the Jazz Bar presenting their top-class, sell-out, lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Join The Rhythm and Booze Project duo as they play you a set of stomping blues music and serve you three top quality drams.
Lone Bear plays early blues and country rags on resonator guitar, blues harp and kazoo, with classics from the 20s, 30s, 40s and originals which showcase his unique finger-picking …
This pair of renowned musicians met and regularly play in Texas.
An electric blues tribute to the masters, BB King, Albert King and Freddie King, including classics The Thrill Is Gone and Born Under a Bad Sign.
‘Fantastic’ (Jools Holland).
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting hour of foot-stomping acoustic blues.
Rockin’ blues, stomping boogie-woogie and silky soul jazz! Pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith delivers class and variety, explosive dynamism, classic songs and dry humour.
The Blueswater return to the Edinburgh Fringe with a special 10th-anniversary edition of their award-winning show, telling the stories and performing the songs of the artists that …
Acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit returns to the Fringe with her sell-out show Queens of the Blues, a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we kn…
Get ready to experience all your favourite pop divas as the greatest female stars of today appear on the same stage for the first time ever! The UK’s number one girl band, Lit…
Cold Turkey Blues – singer/songwriter Chris Ray King with a one-off, solo acoustic set. Storytelling, dark humour, romance and a surprisingly high body count.
Saucy, sexy, award-winning live music cabaret.
‘Bourbon weaved his songs through the audience as if on a journey through life, taking in different flavours of Europe and beyond.
Cora is at the festival to see her ex-boyfriend perform.
Learning from the Chicago Symphony, the home of the blues, Chi-Town’s singular jazz scene, folk, roots-rock and life in the 60s-70s, Tim’s wondrous musical immersion allowed him to…
The 25th year of the Festival’s best free music event.
Following triumphant tours of Australia, Europe and the UK, this Scots-English duo returns to Edinburgh (and AMC debut) with a live album recorded on the road with, and featuring, …
The show they couldn’t stop! Back by popular demand for their second year running, join the most famous Brothers in Blues as they sing and dance their way through the greatest hi…
Award-winning jazz vocalist Ali, with a heavy hitting band of internationally acclaimed musicians, resurrects the original outspoken blues and torch song divas.
It’s an old feminist adage that the personal is political – and it doesn’t get much more personal than this.
Amazing Stories of Blues and Soul connects audiences with the energy, excitement and raw emotion generated by the pioneering R’n’B and soul acts of the 40s, 50s and 60s.
This is hip.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot-stomping acoustic blues and roots.
Is there a more intoxicating combination than blues music and good whisky? There is – blues music and multiple good whiskies.
Rediscover the golden age of swing jazz: Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, Maxine Sullivan, Peggy Lee.
Main Street Blues present an hour of blues from the trio of blues icons known as The Three Kings.
A return Fringe visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their highly successful show.
A beautiful wordless dialogue between Iraqi traditional music and Finnish contemporary dance.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
From their critically acclaimed show Six Gals Named Smith, the six women of the RHRM present songs and fun chat on original jazz and blues queens.
Award-winning jazz vocalist, washboarder and early jazz historian Ali resurrects the original outspoken blues and jazz divas who shaped today’s music via their passionate and dange…
Following their run of sell-out lunchtime acoustic blues shows in Fringe 2018, Whisky Road are back with their lunchtime acoustic blues show.
Edinburgh’s leading independent music venue showcases the very best local talent with nightly danceable funk, blues and special jazz performances (including The Jazz Bar’s 17-piece…
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Returning for their ninth year, the award-winning Blueswater tell the stories and perform the songs of the artists that defined popular music around the world.
Playing their eighth consecutive Festival Fringe, Hot Tin Roof are back with their highly acclaimed show Blues Guitar Duo, playing originals and popular blues classics at Edinburgh…
Having spent time in a wheelie bin (for warmth, obviously), Ali’s mind has been wandering and wondering.
It’s a sell-out audience in the huge space at Assembly Rooms.
Life and death, love and loss, birth and miscarriage are all explored in this visual cycle of life.
Poettess is a psychotherapist.
Vauxhall Comedy presents two of the brightest up-and-coming comedians on the UK circuit: Tom Elwes and Ali Woods (as heard on BBC Radio 4).
Divet Show will bring glitter, glamour, fun and over 30 world-class stars like Adele, Whitney, Celine, Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Freddie Mercury, Cher.
Witch is an old word.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Perhaps the end of Romeo & Juliet wasn't quite as tragic as we remembered.
A man is a two-face, a worrisome thing who will leave you to sing, the blues in the night.
Having spent time in a wheelie bin (for warmth, obviously), Ali's mind has been wandering and wondering.
BA Theatre Arts at GBMet.
The legendary Brighton-based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul, with a set including original numbers, and new arrangements of classics …
How many near death experiences have you had? One audience member in The Birth of Death directed by Yael Karavan claimed 10 or 11, which is as impressive as it is shocking.
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul, from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smoldering sounds of Stax and Motown.
One of The Guardian’s Best Shows at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018.
Duration: Approx 2hrs Get ready for the best songs from all your favourite female stars in one fabulous fun-packed show.
Six Night of Live Blues Music in the Heart of Central London.
Now a massively-popular sub-genre of crime writing, Domestic Noir takes as its premise the belief that the domestic sphere can be a dark and dangerous environment for wo…
Two shows only! Award-winning jazz vocalist, washboarder and early jazz historian Ali resurrects the original outspoken blues and jazz divas who shaped today’s music via their pass…
Two nights only! Rediscover the immortal jazz divas of Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and Peggy Lee.
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist, Daniel Smith and band, with John Burgess.
An intensely dramatic short play inspired by authors such as Sarah Kane and Martin Crimp, our script is an original attempt at an absurdist horror story.
From Show Boat to Showman, there’s always Another Op’nin, Another Show about the sparkling self-obsessed world of musical theatre! And why not? Some of the best shows are all a…
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, rhythmic New Orleans piano, hard bop classics with searing guitar evoking the good-time speakeasy atmosphere.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe, bringing soulful Country Blues.
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Yard Of Ale and Sandy Tweeddale featuring guests Bedford Falls, FCUKulele, On The Wagon, Mad Ferret Band, Edgehill, Kevin Gore and …
Winner of the UK Perrier Jazz Vocal Award, Scottish Style Award and Spirit Of Scotland Music Medal, Niki King has released five albums and performed in leading jazz venues includin…
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era with her gorgeously characterful and distinctive voice and a stunning five-piece band of outrageous mus…
It is very hard to describe the almost endless amalgam of different influences in Claude’s playing, all melting into each other as he moves from classical openings, across a whole …
With original evocative songs, Avocet explore folk over blues.
You may think you’ve seen The Bacchae – but have you seen Dionysius wreaking havoc upon his namesake play in an attempt to modernise it? This is the premise of Mermaids: The U…
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul – from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smouldering sounds of Stax.
Every singer and member of our Blueswater Presents family, featuring 20 musicians, will be playing in a raucous showcase that presents the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
The show they couldn’t stop.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
Exciting Scottish acoustic blues trio featuring three acclaimed Scottish blues musicians.
‘Boogie-woogie, slide-guitar master’ **** (Scotsman).
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot stomping, acoustic blues and roots.
New(ish) for 2018! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
Led by acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely …
Feeling pressured by his success last year with The Elvis Dead, Rob Kemp returns with ten(!) shows stuck to a spinning wheel.
A return visit by Scottish duo Malt & Rye to the award-winning Edinburgh Jazz Bar with their own brand of acoustic blues and roots music played on acoustic guitar and double bass w…
Join Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, on a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired each other.
One hundred years of blues, 60 minutes to play it.
You are cordially invited to the grand reopening of Ali Brice’s Lemonade Stand.
Tales of woe, tales of science, tales of curses, tales of defiance.
Ali returns to Edinburgh with her sold-out show Decadence.
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
This is not your grandmother’s Dracula, which may be immediately obvious when you walk into the theatre to the sounds of a Queen song.
The year is sometime in the 1800s, it seems, or else 2018.
Hold onto your shades as the smash hit returns – back by popular demand! We’re putting the band back together for rhythm’n’blues to remember.
Multi-award winning vocalist and BBC Radio presenter, Clare Martin OBE, joins the acclaimed Ronnie Scott’s All Stars for a celebration of the music of Ella Fitzgerald and t…
Get set for another hot performance by the legendary Brighton-based nine-piece.
By popular demand! Original musical journey from 400 AD Boerthelm’s Tun to present day Bom-Bane’s, with portraits of all the colourful inhabitants along the way.
Ali McGregor, The Opera Australia soprano who ran away with the circus has gone on to become international cabaret royalty.
French cabaret star Oriana Curls, acclaimed 5-star ‘Piaf remembered’ (Edfringe 2017) and singing judge on BBC TV show ‘All together now’, contemplates the future with ex-Dexy…
Bringing us four short scenes, Puck’s Players – consisting of Bill Poulton, Phillip Lee and Aaron Thaddeus Lee – were able to exhibit outstanding versatility as performers, d…
Bisha K Ali brings a work in progress show to Brighton Fringe.
70s themed Cabaret with saucy, sexy live original music.
You loved them in last year’s smash hit, sell out show at Mary’s Poppin.
Dave Kirby (Lost Soul, Brick up the Mersey Tunnels, Reds & Blues, Dreaming of a Barry White Christmas, Brick Up 2 the wrath of Ann Twacky) is back with his smas…
The Incredible BLACKHAWKS present an evening of fabulous New Orleans Rhythm & Blues and Roots music, coupled with a sumptuous , fully catered dinner, and bar service, at the beaut…
The blues exists in Adelaide in all of its glorious variations.
Ragtime, Chicago Blues and classical concert pianist Tim Barton performs: Toccata by J.
This original work, written specifically for DTC with the approval of the book’s creators – Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey.
Multi-award-winning blues guitarist Cal Williams Jr, double-bass virtuoso Kory Horwood and Canadian harp maestro Will Kallinderis will guide you through the songs and stories of ea…
Join Adelaide-based blues collective The Furball Express as they stomp, strum and croon their way through an hour of swampy blues classics interspersed with a modern bluesy numbers…
Diamonds and the Blues are creating a sultry and potent cocktail of Jazz and Blues performances in some of Victorias most iconic Venues and Festivals.
TOM JONES & THE DIVA’S- Performed by Joe Guidace and Susie Jay (2016 Australia’s Got Talent Finalists) This show is full on, non-stop pulsating music, brilliant costumes and…
Constella OperaBallet return to the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells this November with their award-winning Sideshows.
Imagine you have two bodies.
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that bring together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Remembering their lives, their way.
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Sandy Tweeddale Band and Yard of Ale featuring guests Bedford Falls, Mike Whellans, Delacroix, Coaltown Daisies, Hot Tin Roof, On the…
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, will be performing an exciting evening of foot stomping, acoustic blues and roots.
Oww! I feel good! The sensational story of soul – from the pounding R’n’B of the 1940s to the smouldering sounds of Stax.
This world premiere devised theater piece imagines that Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland falls through a black hole and meets five visionaries who challenge societal assumptio…
Scotland’s ‘queen of vintage blues and jazz’ (OCWeekly.
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Every member of our Blueswater Presents family will be playing a set in a raucous showcase that will present the best blues music the Fringe has to offer.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Edinburgh sibilings Taylor & Leigh return to the Fringe after last year’s sell-out show, bringing their blisteringly-hot country blues.
Part of the Fringe Central Events Programme, for Fringe participants.
Main Street Blues, one of Scotland’s top blues bands, performing a powerful set of up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus some new and old blues …
Award-winning vocalist Ali transports you to the underground prohibition era.
Award-winning vocalist Ali presents a showcase of the most powerful songs ever written on love and loss, within blues and jazz.
New show for this year at the award winning Jazz Bar from Scottish duo Colorblind Slim.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
Award-winning vocalist Ali – ‘stunningly expressive’ (San Diego Union-Tribune) – celebrates the powerful songs of the bold women who laid the ground for today’s music.
New for 2017! Not featuring televised comedians or Fringe legends, just friendly unknowns being friendly.
“Scotland’s ‘queen of Vintage Blues and Jazz’ (OCWeekly.
‘Boogie-woogie.
Hot Tin Roof regularly pack The Jazz Bar playing classics and originals, earning a reputation for playing excellent music while creating a relaxing atmosphere.
The Bluebelles return to take Edinburgh for the third year running! Following sold-out performances and 5-star reviews, this year expect a night of vintage cabaret, as you are whis…
A monk starts the show.
Led by superb vocalist Nicole Smit, Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely unr…
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents a solo musical exploration of blues, showing how early guitarists inspired eac…
One hundred years of blues, one hour to play it.
Award-winning performer Paula Valluerca, aka Madame Señorita, is committed to reconnect with the pleasure of being a totally deluded idiot.
Ding dong the witch is back! Multi award-winning Fringe sensation Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho returns with the most fabulous game show of all! Join the Iron Lady for songs, gam…
Hold onto your shades as this smash hit returns – back by popular demand! We’re putting the band back together for a night of rhythm and blues to remember.
After last year’s sell-out run, the Blues and Burlesque are back with a new show.
Talking about Birth Matters.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
An original musical & gastromonical journey from the 5th Century settlement of Boerthlelm’s Tun to Brighton in 1795, with affectionate portraits of the colourful inhabitants of 24 …
Three weddings in three months - every girl’s dream.
“The true mystery of the world is the visible .
3pm-4pm The first show of the day will feature about as wide a variety of improvisation styles as one could ask for, with three groups that could not be more different from each o…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
Join Celine Dion, Adele, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Britney Spears & more of your favorite female vocalists, on stage together in the singular form of Christina Bianco!&…
This is not the Birth of a Nation that revolutionised filmmaking by mythologising the Ku Klux Klan over the most gruelling three hours every film student will …
Thursday 6 – Saturday 8 & Tuesday 11 - Saturday 16 October, 7.
Every single band and singer from our Blueswater Presents family will be part of a huge blues party taking place in a converted church.
LondonTheatre1 says ★★★★★ “Appropriately camp and stagey, but warm and good-humoured, I would happily sit through all of it again.
Festival’s best free music event hosted by Sandy Tweeddale Band and FCUKulele featuring guests like Hot Tin Roof, Mike Whellans, Heidrum, Mud in Your Ear, Coaltown Daises, Chilli D…
Not a same ol’ same ol’ gig! Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performan…
Upstairs Downton and Petting Zoo (‘Improv supergroup’ TimeOut) star creates a staggering array of characters using his mouth, brain, hands and body.
Corelli Theatre Company in association with Greenwich Theatre presents Just, by Ali Smith and directed by Lucy Cuthbertson.
A music and projection performance through the prism of blues with live music by Justin Lavash and projections by Darrell Jónsson.
Pakistan's most famous Qawwali singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Khan, the nephew of the late, world-renowned singer Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, will perform his greatest hits live for…
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their sell-out show of blisteringly hot country blues.
Later, considerably ruder and darker shows from internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up comedy meteor.
Following outstanding sell-out shows in 2014 and 2015, stunningly expressive vocalist Ali is back to perform gems from early New Orleans jazz and blues with two award-winning bands…
Blues and Roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Back by popular demand! A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie-woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist-vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
New for this year: Main Street Blues have created a fully acoustic blues and roots show with a powerful set of original material plus blues classics.
Blues – the base root of modern music – presented by popular, in demand Edinburgh four-piece, playing lovable, timeless standards plus some driving originals.
Fringe royalty Ali McGregor takes the helm of this reimagining of the Big Comedy Gala in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support, with special guest Hollywood and Broadway star Alan Cummin…
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band with a powerful set of up-tempo original material plus new and old blues classics.
Downhome blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s was not the only force of nature that ripped families apart.
The Jazz Bar is packed for this one, and no wonder: this is music you can’t help but tap your feet to.
100 years of blues, one hour to play it.
Following outstanding sell-out shows in 2014 and 2015, stunningly expressive vocalist Ali is back to perform gems from early New Orleans jazz and blues with two award-winning bands…
Acclaimed Edinburgh bluesman and lead singer of The Black Diamond Express, Toby Mottershead, presents his personal history of early blues and roots music in an intimate solo show.
Blueswater go from strength to strength with their all new show, Queens of the Blues, focusing entirely on the often overlooked heroines of Blues music and taking us on an incredib…
We join Eric Meat on what is a sad occasion: the day is due to move out of his childhood home.
Ding dong, the witch isn’t dead! And this time it’s definitely cause for celebration! After her previous success as an ‘international cabaret superstar’ Maggie is back in b…
Bob drives his BlundaBus around Europe looking for adventures.
It’s a pretty short drive to Stockbridge, I’ve got a full tank of gas, no cigarettes whatsoever, it’s dark.
As a father of four, Ali is well versed in dodging difficult questions or just making up the answers.
Masculinity meets Artificial Intelligence in jukebox sci-fi ‘The Daddy Blues’.
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind, and reconnect with the world.
A funny, angry and poignant story of one man using his creation of a new stand-up comedy act to find a path through his confused and damaged mind; and reconnect with the world.
David Greig and National Theatre of Scotland have created something across the board brilliant with The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.
The Blues Corporation returns! New material, new show.
“God is beauty with feeling” insists Nijinsky, gazing searchingly at his audience.
This clever infusion of comedy and burlesque from Dexys’ former piano man Pete Saunders proved to be a treat.
“Faustus shall never repent” the titular character states brazenly – almost convincing himself, but with tears in his eyes.
It might seem a strange thing to do, but director Taryn O’Connor’s decision to cast three different leads in this three-performance production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch w…
Good theatre doesn’t necessarily have to change the world, sometimes it is enough just to entertain.
Valentine’s Day may have a cheesy reputation, but the heart-filled holiday has inspired plenty of great live comedy for devoted couples, optimistic daters and determinedly si…
Hartshorn - Hook Productions presents The Blues Brothers XMAS Special, the most electric rock'n'roll party of the year.
Cinderella is so familiar a story that anyone above the age of 12 might be weary of the annual parade of ‘reimaginings’ attempting to keep it relevant.
Pantomime is arguably the most self-aware and self-mocking of theatrical forms, with the most successful shows seeing cast and audience mutually shattering any metaphorical four…
In an epic journey from China via East Asia and Australia to England, British-Malaysian writer-performer Yang-May Ooi explores female empowerment and desirability through the o…
Hector (Was So Great A Crime) is based on the true story of the Scottish military hero in the Second Boer War who was brought down by malicious attacks on his good name.
One of the songs included in Captain of the Lost Waves: Unsolved Mysteries is titled A Song No One Wants to Hear.
Tearing it up with his own raucous interpretation of traditional blues, Pistol Pete Wearn is a renowned vocalist, slide guitarist, harmonica player and songwriter.
Heather has the voice of an angel with the power of a hurricane.
The festival’s best free music event hosted by Yard Of Ale, Scotland’s favourite folk’n’fun band and guests: Sandy Tweeddale, Bedford Falls, FCUKulele, Maria Barham, and On The Wag…
Ready for a unique and talented take on a wide range of musical traditions? Claude Bourbon is known throughout Europe and America for amazing guitar performances that take blues, S…
For one night only! A decade of jaw-dropping vocals, sensational song interpretations and sparkly gowns from cabaret superstar Ali McGregor.
Blues and roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Due to massive demand, six later, quite probably ruder, shows! Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedy half-man-half-Xbox.
A rocking Chicago blues set, stomping boogie-woogie and bluesy soul jazz from dynamic pianist and vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
Following sell-out shows in 2014, stunningly expressive award-winning vintage vocalist Ali is back to perform early New Orleans jazz and blues with a cheeky mix of renowned local m…
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind the award-winning show Blues! They will be performing five high energy late night gigs at The Jazz Bar.
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
Local songwriter Allan Grant.
In Poker Night Blues, Williams’ masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire is undone – dismantled and distilled to its essential elements.
Hard-hitting blues from Edinburgh four-piece: Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, w…
Bayou Blues is beautiful.
Lunchtime is perhaps not the right time for a hypnosis show for adults.
Daniel Smith Blues Piano.
Tricnic is a comedy magic show featuring twin magicians Kane and Abel who reject your preconceived notions of the props and common items magic is usually done with and instead perf…
Chris Cook is an unexpected gem of Edinburgh Fringe magicians, and an absolute master of his stage.
A family magic show accessible for even the youngest of children, Edward Hilsum: Genie is a charming magical experience.
Bibs ‘n’ Bobs Reloaded is a magic show exactly as it sounds, being constructed of simple objects from an ordinary Morrisons bag.
“We are the first show… in the Edinburgh Fringe Guide” magicians Malin Nilsson and Charlie Caper crow happily, claiming this as the reason for their strangely named show.
‘Boogie-woogie.
Toby Mottershead presents an excellent selection of blues tracks in a 50 minute display of musical talent in the SpaceTriplex venue on Nicolson Square.
Created by the wonderful Pete Saunders and his lovely ladies Miss Vicious Delicious and the delightful Scarlet Belle, Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour offers an enchanting evening o…
100 years of blues, 55 minutes to play it.
Named after New Orleans’ historic red-light district, Blues! Storyville features the raunchiest, smuttiest blues songs ever written, guest burlesque performers, and the band behind…
In Linking Rings Paul Zenon interweaves the stories of two Collinses, both of the storyteller himself, Paul Collins (Zenon is a stage name) and of Jim Collins, Houdini’s go-to m…
Comedian Bisha K Ali (Funny Women Finalist 2013, Laughing Horse Semi-Finalist 2014) takes you on a 40 minute journey through life, love, society and space.
Following sell-out shows in 2014, stunningly expressive award-winning vintage vocalist Ali is back to perform early New Orleans jazz and blues with a cheeky mix of renowned local m…
A tale of gold, ghosts and Gary! When you’re as poor as Ali Baba, a cave full of gold can change your life.
Boogie on down with sassylicious Vicious Delicious and divatastic Scarlett Belle for a late night disco-cabaret at the historic Caledonian Hotel.
“Just go with the magic,” says one of the three singers on stage to a slightly reluctant compatriot.
A simple set, a modest stage and enough enthusiasm for magic in one man to inspire his audience to audible, astonished gasps.
Oliver Meech is no stranger to the Edinburgh Fringe, having brought his show When Magic and Science Collide in previous years.
Ali McGregor returns with her award-winning hour of jazzy beats and trashy pop-treats that will get your kids singing, twisting and dancing.
Word of advice: the four stars you see here are only for the brave at heart.
The show is called Happy Medium, and Peter Antoniou introduces himself early into it as a ‘Comedium’, but these excellent puns are far from the best part of this show.
Brice is back with a host of silly characters.
‘It’s fucking magic.
Colin Cloud is the ultimate rockstar mentalist, or as he styles himself, deductionist.
Nailed It! is introduced by singer Andrew Strano and keyboardist Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer as being “about life, about love, about relationships”, and they succeed fantastically in …
FUBAR Radio and Underbelly present The Underbelly Radio Shows recorded live from 12:30pm each day at Ermintrude, Underbelly hosts a series of live radio broadcasts brought to you b…
Wonders at Dusk is not just a magic show; it is a magical experience.
Divas charts the relationship of two men from first meeting to last parting.
If you’re looking for an enjoyable, happy-go-lucky hour of rhythm and blues entertainment, then look no further than this show.
(previews start on Saturday; opens on June 29) Having just brought us Moss Hart’s entrancing “Act One,” Lincoln Center offers another piece of showbiz reminiscenc…
Hebden Bridge Blues Festival: “This was a quite breath-taking performance by a phenomenal musician who brought the clamouring audience to its feet on more than one occasion and had…
The legendary Brighton based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul.
The Improverts are back for two Exam Specials in the Teviot Debating Hall! A different combination of players will take to the stage each night for a round of high-class, high-ener…
‘Flamenco Blues’ arrives with a tender tribute to blues and flamenco.
Star of ‘Derek’, ‘Being Human’ and ‘Carnival of Monsters’ returns to the Brighton Fringe with two entirely new shows: Sit on the Ledge and Jump Down to the Ground (7, 2…
Fresh from a bucket of chocolate, comedian Bisha K Ali (Funny Women Finalist 2013, Laughing Horse Semi-Finalist 2014) takes you on a 40-minute journey through life, love, society a…
In the 19th century, the painter Paul Cézanne bragged, “I will astonish Paris with an apple!” He did so by painting hundreds of them, from every angle, in extraord…
Always Different, Always Funny! After a sell out run at Edinburgh Fringe 14 and comedy residents during term time Edinburgh University, The Improverts are performing two shows in L…
In her intriguing solo performance Bound Feet Blues, Yang-May explores themes of female desirability, identity and empowerment, taking us from the ancient practice of footbinding i…
Australian chanteuse and cabaret royalty Ali McGregor returns with her cult hit show.
Jumpin’ jivin’ jazz for kids led by chanteuse Ali McGregor.
Award-winner Alison, ‘Stunningly expressive’ (Union Tribune, San Diego), with her band of master musicians presents a bright and cheery approach to the hot jazz tradition.
Main Street Blues are a high energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
A set of rocking Chicago blues, stomping boogie woogie and bluesy soul-jazz from dynamic pianist/vocalist Daniel Smith and band.
The festival’s best free music event, 20th year hosted by Yard Of Ale, Scotland’s favourite folk ‘n’ fun band and guests - Sandy Tweeddale, FCUkulele, Bedford Falls, Gallo Rojo, an…
Claude Bourbon grew up in Switzerland, where he was classically trained.
From the band behind award-winning show Blues! comes a selection of not quite family friendly blues songs that couldn’t be picked for the show.
Main Street Blues are a high-energy blues band that brings together a powerful mix of acoustic and up-tempo electric blues material, with a range of original numbers plus new and o…
Award-winner Alison, ‘Stunningly expressive’ (Union Tribune, San Diego), with her band of master musicians presents a bright and cheery approach to the hot jazz tradition.
Due to massive demand, six extra, later, and quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man/half-Xbox.
Taylor & Leigh return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with their blisteringly hot country blues.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues! They will be performing a special late night gig at the Jazz Bar, one of Edinburgh’s best live music venues.
Blues and roots with The Dana Dixon Band.
Down-home blues, stomping boogie-woogie, foot-tapping New Orleans piano/vocals, hard-bop classics and exciting originals evoking the good-time atmosphere of the speakeasy.
‘Boogie-woogie.
From Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, Lisa sings with passion, humour, ease and sophistication.
Blues and Burlesque: Happy Hour is an enjoyable, if not particularly spectacular, way to spend an hour.
Seven years with Ray Charles, Barbara Morrison demonstrates her full range of musicality and fun.
Aiming to cover ninety years of Blues in sixty minutes is a mightily ambitious endeavour.
Blues and Burlesque, featuring sexy Scarlett Belle, sassy and silly Vicious Delicious and their smooth accompanist, Pete Saunders, is a good value 50 minutes of raunchy entertainme…
Miss Fletcher Sings the Blues is a fabulously facetious musical comedy produced by New Zealand’s Cuba Creative.
The star of Weirdo’s cult hit The Colonel, Ali Brice brings his long-overdue, hotly anticipated and ridiculously silly debut show to Edinburgh.
These Blues Brothers take a cliché and put their own mark on it.
Hosted by some occasionally fallible blues band members and housed in “deepest, darkest Dorset”, Inheritance Blues is a tale of three sons as they meet to mourn their father (o…
The legendary Brighton-based Blues Corporation are back for another sizzling night of funky blues and soul.
The legendary,Brighton-based,nine-piece blues and soul band are back for one of their rare appearances. Frequently a sell-out so book ahead and don’t miss out!
A celebration of children and young people in the Performing Arts featuring theatre, literature, music and movement.
A dress-up sing-along celebration of everyone’s favourite musicals.
Panto meets Viz meets Shameless in a comical journey along the exoctic and mysterious London Road.
Ronnie Rialto, Lounge Singer Extraordinaire, entertains at the Cubar Chill-Out Lounge Bar in Preston Street, Brighton.
Master character comedian and star of ‘Derek’ and ‘Being Human’ performs all his critically acclaimed, sell-out, weirdly wonderful comedy shows, fresh from his hit Radio 4 series.
“Blues in the Night” is a compilation revue, a tribute to the black performers and music of Harlem in the 1920s and 30s.
Edinburgh’s favourite blues / rock combo play Heat, Feat and much more.
A musical journey from haunting Spanish moods, ethereal eastern influences and strains of western folk.
For those unaware of Do the Right Thing, it’s a multi-award nominated panel show podcast recorded in front of a live audience.
A driving mix of celtic, jazz, folk and blues.
From Billie Holiday to Frank Sinatra, Lisa sings with passion, humour, ease and sophistication.
Festival’s best free pub music event, 19th year hosted by Scotland’s favourite folk’n’fun band Yard Of Ale and guests - Sandy Tweedale, Bedford Falls, FC Ukulele, Eddie Walker, The…
Folk stalwarts Yard of Ale are in residence at the Guildford Arms for the duration of the 18th Caledonian Folk and Blues Festival and they play with the confidence and verve of old…
A soul-grasping musical road trip from this Glasgow roots and bluesman.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a limited run of five shows at the enigmatic Venue 45.
At a time when making a name in the world of stand-up comedy is at its most difficult, 8 young hopefuls, whittled down from hundreds, came together to compete for the distinguished…
Due to massive demand six extra, later, quite probably ruder shows from comedy’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning half-man, half-Xbox.
Performing under the simple show title ‘Blues,’ the Dana Dixon Blues Band want to be perfectly clear about what kind of music they’re performing.
The Blueswater is the 12-piece band behind award-winning show Blues!, and they will be performing a special late night gig at the Jazz Bar.
You wouldn’t guess that John McNamara had only decisively started his Blues career last year at this very festival.
An evocation of early American rural roots, guitar ragtime, blues and hillbilly country.
Must see Australian artist.
The Blues Band are acknowledged throughout the world as being the finest and most entertaining purveyors of rhythm and blues.
International experiment sharing a story about a woman called Thyme, with local interpretations.
Andy McKay-Challen and Gavin Jack are the ‘Blues Guitar Duo’ you’re likely to find listed in your Fringe guide.
Picture, if you will, your idea of a swing band leader.
Plumpy’nut encapsulates all those parts of the DIY ‘let’s throw together a show’ side of fringe comedy.
Despite claiming to encapsulate the very finest entertainment at the Fringe, this show is only average at best.
Rolling into Edinburgh with a brand new barnstorming show, The Horne Section will yet again provide the festival’s best musical mayhem.
Ian Rankin once described a John Hunt blues set like ‘Seasick Steve in a science lab.
“I have a moshpit!” yelled Ali McGregor as her eager audience gathered round and popped the bubbles she was producing.
In the bowels of The Jazz Bar, John Hunt perches on his stool clutching a guitar, his ageless face cast in red shadows.
There is a huge difference between having obvious musical talent and putting on an entertaining, engaging show.
2012 reviews: ‘Loaded with energy’ **** (BroadwayBaby.
The age old question whether a white man can sing the blues was answered fairly conclusively at the Space on Niddry Street last night.
***** ‘Blues and Burlesque is a thoroughly engaging show that gives burlesque a range most other shows aren’t even aware of’ (ThisIsCabaret.com).
Let Ali McGregor (‘La Clique’ and ‘Opera Burlesque’) with Saxon McAllister guide you through the festival’s finest stand-up comedians, burlesque dancers, sideshow acts, and musicia…
Having bought a house with his girlfriend the Edinburgh-born comic explores how a decision that comes from a place of love can lead to such fear and uncertainty.
From the moment you walk into the room, the mood is set.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
I have a confession to make.
Advertised as a five star crowd-pleaser from Fringe’s past, this show might be expected to drum up a frenzy.
The Edinburgh Festival has some unusual venues – that is a well-known fact amongst regular Fringe-goers, as avid audience members hop from university building to converted wareho…
Bishops Diocesan College, an independent boys’ school in Cape Town, brings this ambitious production of Biloxi Blues to Edinburgh after their run of Master Harold.
Amused Moose has the unusual ability of being able to boast a harbouring ground not only for breaking talent, but also well established acts.
What do you get if you mix Gogol Bordello with Bob Dylan, but without Dylan’s lyrical genius? The New Gondoliers.
The star of Jonathan Creek and QI returns to the stage in his first foray into the world of stand-up since 2001.
One man’s Skrillex is another’s alien communique; one woman’s James Blunt is another’s coffee table garbage.
Tom Owen does well to capture the raw physicality of Beckett’s anti-hero in this new production of Krapp’s Last Tape.
Chortle has long been a staple for any keen comedy fan.
David Longley’s opening skit is enough to put you off children’s television for life.
The concept of Bite Size is a perfectly simple, yet novel one, and the clue really is in the title.
With her phenomenal voice and subtle and sexy ambiance, Ali McGregor knows how to make an entrance.
Multiple acts collide in a variety show that combines some of the top names in sketch comedy.
Less a comedy show and more an inventive piece of storytelling, Michael Workman presents an immersive tale of love and freedom of speech.
Daniel Sloss delivers a supposedly darker, meaner show in his later slot but most of his material is relatively clean, geared towards an audience who can laugh at him as well as wi…
Dr Ryegold returns to Edinburgh with a new show that wouldn’t be amiss on Radio 4.
Billed as storytelling, I didnt actually believe that after I was sitting comfortably a story would begin.
When one of the acts announced that this shouldn’t be called The Best of So You Think You’re Funny, but instead, Which Comedian is Free on a Week Night at 11.
Pink pants, Doris Day and Spider Man trainers.
Early afternoon jazz runs the risk of coinciding with an early afternoon sugar crash; it’s possible that mellow blues might prove more soporific than scintillating.
Rachel Anderson needs to find a more balanced middle ground for her material.
Fans of the film ‘Cabaret’ and 80’s cheese will enjoy this show: a jazz and blues mash-up of 80’s and 90’s hits.
Magnus Betnér is not for the faint hearted.
Barry Ferns has made a considerable impression at this year’s Fringe with his numerous shows involving the moniker Lionel Richie.
It’s impossible not to like Sam Fletcher.
Lisa Scott was introduced by her venue manager as having ‘been here for many, many a Fringe’, and Scott is indeed showing her age as a performer.
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…
Spanning an impressive 90 years of blues, from its roots and founders to 21st Century contemporaries, The Blueswater Collective are back at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, exploring…
Ali Cook leaves mouths gaping as people gasp in wonderment at magic tricks that make rabbits appearing in top hats seem like an everyday occurrence.
Sam Simmons takes absurd comedy to new extremes in his latest offering All About the Weather.
The hour-long musical and cultural immersion created by the Blueswater Collective would have received a perfect five stars if they had started as strongly as they finished.
Deja Vu, according to a very quick Google search I just did, means ‘a feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
Science Shows for Schools have take three of their popular science presentations for schools and turned them into a 50 minute production for children at the Zoo Aviary.
Shrouded in fans of red, showgirl feathers, our French prostitute heroine Isobel slinked across the stage for the big reveal.
Given the perpetual debate concerning the over-commercialisation of the Fringe that has been prominent this year, it is with a great sigh of relief that events such as the Malcolm …
Olivier award-winning actor Julian Glover delivers a poignant performance in this new tragicomedy by Nichola McAuliffe.
It’s a beautiful day at the Fringe and I’m sat on the top deck of a red bus in the Meadows.
Shuffling grooves, wailing guitar solos and growling, whiskey-drenched vocals: This is Main Street Blues, who for one hour brought a slice of America to Scotland.
It’s very difficult to pull off a routine that focuses largely on lengthy rants whilst still retaining an audience’s affection, but Nick Doody manages to pull this feat off wit…
One of the most original and refreshing sketch acts to emerge in years, Sheeps have helped to reinvent sketch comedy.
Join Jake, Elwood and the band as they roar their way through the classics from Soul Man to Jailhouse Rock.
DugOut Theatre’s Inheritance Blues has already proven to be a winner, picking up ISDF 2012 Festgoers’ Choice Award.
A show about shows is not the most original idea there has ever been but Dan Nightingale’s ‘what might have been?’ take on performing in this year’s Edinburgh Fringe provid…
Warning: this show will put you in a permanent state of happiness, fill your head with music and make you want to dance all day long.
Following last year’s acclaimed Edinburgh show Becaves, Doctor Brown returns for another hour of sublimely surreal alternative comedy.
Nick Helm returns to Edinburgh once again following last year’s highly successful Dare to Dream.
Looking more like a cheeky London chap than a mysterious magician, Ali Cook blends comedy and sleight of hand to create a great show that will keep you laughing and leave you speec…
Claudia O’Doherty isn’t your average comedian.
Frenchman Claude Bourbon’s one-off evening of Medieval and Spanish blues opened with what at first seemed to be a lengthy instrumental number: as fine a demonstration of Bourbon’s …
If you are looking for something fun and free with a few laughs at this year’s Fringe, then head on up the stairs of The Laughing Horse for a drink and some Blues and Burlesque i…
A coveted Bobby has been presented to five shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.
Ditch the messy arts and crafts this half-term and entertain your little darlings with the best live family friendly performances Brighton and Hove have to offer instead.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (apart from Brighton Fringe, of course) and there are plenty of delightful performances to entertain you this winter.
Welcome to our top 5 picks from the third year of Brighton HorrorFest, the spooktacular celebration from Sweet of all things that go bump in the night.
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Architect Rob can't find his Rotoring mechanical pencil.
Greenwich Theatre is set to have an unprecedented profile at this year’s Brighton Fringe, with no less than eight productions heading for The Warren either co-produced or support...
With Easter on the horizon it’s time to turn attention to Brighton Fringe with a look at some shows that are likely to sell out. Book early – you have been warned.
Brighton Fringe has officially launched.
Christmas is the one time of year you can drag your non-theatre-going friends to the theatre.
Ali Maloney of the SHIFT/ collective tells us about HYDRONOMICON, his tentacle-related spoken-word show at Summerhall this August.