Roper Theatre, West Wing, Hayesfield Girls School

Price: £10
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath Community Gospel Choir

with Hayesfield Girls School Choir and City Sound in a Charity Concert

A Charity Performance to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Childline
In recent months we have been made very much aware by the media that child abuse is both prevalent and widespread and reaffirms the need for Childline
The full value of tickets sold and all donations will go to the charity.



More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £8 Adv / £10 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Politically driven roots-reggae folk-hop with a sly sense of humour from festival favourite The Undercover Hippy. Guaranteed to make you jump up and dance whilst simultaneously contemplating the state of the world and your place in it. Not to be missed!
“As real as music gets” - BBC Introducing. More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

FAB & Bath Fringe

It's the night all the FAB art shows open in town - several of them in Walcot Street - and artists like a drink, something to look at, and a dance as much as anyone else does. And here's where they'll be doing it. There will be entertainment and a DJ; when we know more we'll tell you all about it. More info and booking...

Radstock town centre

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Back by popular demand DNA arts takes you on a journey of exploration. Round-about Radstock is a day of free arts activities, workshops, performance, live music, dance, street theatre and food, all taking place in unusual locations across the town from 12 noon - 6pm. Perfect for the family on May bank holiday weekend. Will you complete the trail and win the prizes? For more information www.boomsatsuma.com/dna More info and booking...

The Chapel, Royal Mineral Water Hospital

Price: Free
Start time: 19:00

"Harmonium" is a beautiful interlocking of rhythms and harmonies, created by layering 12 women's voices. It is a composition by Su Hart (of Baka Beyond and Walcot State Choir) and Sian Croose. Experience this new experiment in vocal sound sung in a fine acoustic space More info and booking...

The Circus

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

"Harmonium" is a beautiful interlocking of rhythms and harmonies, created by layering 12 women's voices. It is a composition by Su Hart (of Baka Beyond and Walcot State Choir) and Sian Croose. Experience this new experiment in vocal sound sung in a fine acoustic space More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Joel Savoy, Jesse Lége and

"Two Cajuns and an old time stringband walk into a bar…”
Spanning generations from across the nation the Cajun Country Revival is a veritable supergroup of American roots musicians. Comprised of Cajun musicians Jesse Lége and Joel Savoy - Son of Cajun music royalty Marc and Ann and the founder of the Louisiana label Valcour Records - and two members of Portland Oregon’s Foghorn Stringband, this group presents a music that seems to embody all of the things that make life wonderful and together they’ve delighted audiences around the world celebrating rather than “performing" the music that brought them together: Cajun music and early Country music. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £8 / £6 concs
Start time: 14:00

Running Dog Theatre

Josh is good at dancing, but not at people. On the other hand he did once read ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Stephen Hawking so he reckons he’ll probably be alright.
A new show about social anxiety, coping mechanisms, big ideas and how they impact on small things. About taking chances. And about dancing.

More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Entry by donation, £5 suggested
Start time: 19:30

Sam Lindo with

featuring Pip & The Polar Bears & Jacob Spencer

Distinctively different, but complementary in styles, this three-in-one package, has inspired audiences across the country with their infectiously fun and joyful performance as well curating their own ‘Homegrown’ festival at Wick Court, just outside Bath. They share justice related themes in their music, although at the same time embody a huge diversity of sound. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £6 on the door
Start time: 20:00

Asteroid Deluxe

plus ARCC

Asteroid Deluxe are making a name for themselves playing warped-out music to soundtrack warped-out movies. Their recent rendition of 'The Holy Mountain' in Bristol sold out in a flash. Their psych/prog is reassuringly epic and dazzlingly played. Fantastic Planet is a sci-fi animation from 1973 with surreal and mesmerising psychedelic imagery.
ARCC are a Bath-based impro-to-film collective. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £10
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

WE ARE SORRY BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
One of the most exciting new talents to emerge from the Americana, alt country scene. Influenced by ‘sad guys with guitars’ like Zevons, Cohen and Van Zandt, Ben’s songwriting possesses a lyrical and stylistic maturity whilst weaving stories with depths of meaning - sometimes dark, often personal. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £8 / £6 concs
Start time: 18:00

Running Dog Theatre

Josh is good at dancing, but not at people. On the other hand he did once read ‘A Brief History of Time’ by Stephen Hawking so he reckons he’ll probably be alright.
A new show about social anxiety, coping mechanisms, big ideas and how they impact on small things. About taking chances. And about dancing.

More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 19:30

Phil Cooper

Singer-songwriter Phil Cooper presents an evening of live music and spoken word, investigating the art of song-writing. Through stories and examples he will explain how a song can go from non-existing to real and memorable within a matter of minutes, and show how songs change over time. In a final brave/stupid move he will try to write a brand new song on the night, which will then be recorded and sent to all in attendance. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

A trio of like-minded musicians - Nick Smart piano, Jesse Barrett drums and tabla, and Jordan Smart saxophones - who have carved out a growing following both here and abroad for their hypnotic fusion of jazz, folk and electronica: they have been compared to both Portico Quartet and GoGo Penguin (who the group have toured with). More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £6
Start time: 20:00

This Bristolian 7 piece draw influence from such diverse players such the wonderful Memphis Minnie, Jazz singers from the 20’s & 30’s and the western swing of The Texas Playboys all mixed up with the country folk of Doc Watson. Whether it’s their own original tunes or their own unique take on an early classic the energy and passion all seven have for the music is more than apparent. More info and booking...

St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs

Price: 6 pounds
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 19:30

RMT Music Presents

RMT Music Presents Effra & Galleons

Effra
“Stylish, high-energy brand of folk-minimalist music”

Galleons
"Indie-folk 3 piece from Utrecht, the Netherlands (via London), midway through their UK mini-tour" More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £6adv / £8 door / £5concs
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:30

Senegalese multi instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Amadou Diagne and his UK based band Group Yakar have a style that is uniquely their own. Amadou weaves his Senegalese melodies and rhythms with vocals that though soft and warm can deliver great power, or rousing the audience into a dancing frenzy with superb African percussion. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £5.00
Start time: 18:00

Under Two Floorboards

A new show by Roman Bloodworth and Rikki Howard

Like 'Waiting for Godot' on speed, this hilarious and moving new show revealing the dramas that transpire when an old TV actress from Hi-De-Hi and a young classical actor get together and stage their own play. Confronting issues of age, gender and prejudice. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

One of the most successful and consistent bands in the city, the original Afro-Celtic fusion, played with considerable verve as well as authenticity: freewheeling and infectious dance rhythm. Full band playing a warmup to some European dates. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 19:30

(with special guest Ruby Brown) and Tim Graham

One of Bath's most treasured singer/songwriters, Ali's beautifully controlled voice reminds many of Cat Stevens and Nick Drake. He will be joined by special guest Ruby Brown; a singer whose stunningly beautiful voice always compliments Ali’s in harmony and timbre. Plus support from Tim Graham, inspirational guitarist and vocalist - and member of Pedal Folk. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £5.00
Start time: 20:00

Under Two Floorboards

A new show by Roman Bloodworth and Rikki Howard

Like 'Waiting for Godot' on speed, this hilarious and moving new show revealing the dramas that transpire when an old TV actress from Hi-De-Hi and a young classical actor get together and stage their own play. Confronting issues of age, gender and prejudice. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12Adv; £14 Door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

The Mojo Hobo Agency

Support from Pirate Joe

Join the theatrical Urban Voodoo Machine as they invite you on a musical journey with their unique brand of Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop’n’Stroll. Visually stunning and musically beguiling they’ll transport you to a world of burlesque houses, saloons, back street London dives and places where you’ve never dared go. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: From £22
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

’Purveyors of Cool’ swing into town with The Greatest Music of the 20th Century Wonderful memories of classic Las Vegas: Frank Sinatra-Dean Martin-Sammy Davis
Every song a winner: Come Fly with Me, Volare, That’s Amore, Under My Skin, Mr Bojangles, Sway, Mack The Knife and many more of your favourites. More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £12 / £10 concs
Start time: 20:00

with John Christopher Wood & Kettle of Fish

A fun-packed evening of a kind you won’t have seen anything quite like before, we promise. Features Bristol’s quirkiest and funniest acappella group Kettle of Fish and stand-up comic poet John Christopher Wood - in a pink suit! Expect oddball musical virtuosity, idiosyncratic versifying, and plenty of laughs. “One word – brilliant!” More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8
Start time: 20:00

with support from 'Johns and Nowak'

The Saskia Griffiths-Moore trio perform heartfelt atmospheric folk/pop, passionately sung over classical and acoustic instruments. The all female Bristol based trio are being supported by a local Americana duo, Johns and Nowak. Expect a night of engaging songs, captivating instrumentation and crystal clear vocals. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £8
Start time: 20:00

WE ARE SORRY BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
Founded by Trinidadian/Canadian songwriter Drew Gonsalves, Kobo Town is named after the historic neighbourhood in Port-of-Spain where calypso was born.
“Merging calypso, roots reggae, acoustic performance, dub studio techniques and Trinidadian/Jamaican cultures, Kobo Town is a unique, stylistic, transnational composite of rhythm, poetry and activist journalism." Brent Hagerman, Exclaim!

More info and booking...

Prior Park

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 19:30

Kilter Theatre presents

A Play. Outside. After Dark.

Stay up late tonight, pack a torch, and make a pilgrimage into the great outdoors. As the sun sets over Bath, join a band of musicians and outsiders for an expedition like no other! Cosy up as darkness falls and watch the wonder and wisdom of the night unfold before your very eyes! More info and booking...

Various venues

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Streats Ltd. & Bath Fringe

The Fringe's Street Arts weekend is returning to the city centre on Saturday afternoon and then heads to Green Park Station to continue our railway theme. On Sunday we'll be dodging between the building works and confused traffic in SawClose and Kingsmead Square. More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

Streats Ltd. & Bath Fringe

The Fringe's Street Arts weekend is returning to the city centre on Saturday afternoon and then heads to Green Park Station to continue our railway theme. On Sunday we'll be dodging between the building works and confused traffic in SawClose and Kingsmead Square. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10
Start time: 20:00

World Premiere!

Brought to you by the people behind Sgt Pepper's Only Dart Board Band, this is the first ever live performance as The Unravelling Wilbury. Aa tribute to the greatest ever super-group, featuring not only the best Travelling Wilbury songs, but many of the finest hits of Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne
Opening the show, Martin Dimery presents extracts from his previously unperformed comedy music- revue. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £5 / 3 Concs
Start time: 20:00

OnSet Productions present

A musical murder mystery set in 1935. A pompous upper class family are grief stricken after receiving news of Granny’s death. That is until an even more pompous Inspector starts to uncover the truth. Whodunit? Everyone is a suspect - even the band!! More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £15 / !3 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

The Arabian Fantasy Dance Theatre

Plus music and belly dance with 'Hazir'

‘Julnah of the Sea’ is a fairy tale filled with magic, marvels and wonders. Originating in Middle Eastern dance, the company also combines contemporary and ballet dance to express the true nature of the characters.

Hazir will perform classic songs from the Middle East and Turkey accompanied by a dazzling array of belly dance artists.
More info and booking...

Prior Park

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 19:30

Kilter Theatre presents

A Play. Outside. After Dark.

Stay up late tonight, pack a torch, and make a pilgrimage into the great outdoors. As the sun sets over Bath, join a band of musicians and outsiders for an expedition like no other! Cosy up as darkness falls and watch the wonder and wisdom of the night unfold before your very eyes! More info and booking...

Sawclose & Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

Streats Ltd. & Bath Fringe

The Fringe's Street Arts weekend is returning to the city centre on Saturday afternoon and then heads to Green Park Station to continue our railway theme. On Sunday we'll be dodging between the building works and confused traffic in SawClose and Kingsmead Square. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

How come one of Bath's most popular bands has never played The Bell?
Back in the day they were playing literally everywhere else so we left them to it. Nowadays they don't do so much, so a triumphal return to the city where they began seemed a great idea.
Blues & boogie-woogie with a fine pianist and assortment of vocalists. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £6 door £5 advance
Start time: 18:00

RMT Music & Furthur present:

Ulysses, The Brackish, Cloudshoes, Rauschenberg

5 hour psych melt-down referencing many of psychedelia’s myriad faces (maaaan). Headliners Ulysses are from the glam-rock end of the spectrum and probably the best rock band in town right now; The Brackish are arty post-Beefheart mindboggling; Cloudshoes float through the sky, beaming; and Rauschenberg make a lovely and cosmic noise.. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00

Jerri Hart hosts an evening featuring music from the best entertainers to be found performing on the streets of the Bath. Full line-up TBC, please see web-site for further details. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £10 Adv: £12 Door Price
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

BBC Radio 2 Folk Horizon Award 2012, and being nominated for BBC Folk Singer of the Year Award 2014, Lucy is now established as one of the UK’s top folk performers who delights audiences with her beautiful voice, depth, originality of her songs and her witty and warm stage persona. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Kevin Figes Sextet More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £5 / 3 Concs
Start time: 18:00

OnSet Productions present

A musical murder mystery set in 1935. A pompous upper class family are grief stricken after receiving news of Granny’s death. That is until an even more pompous Inspector starts to uncover the truth. Whodunit? Everyone is a suspect - even the band!! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Tuesday Choice

John Fairhurst truly epitomises the modern day wandering blues man. Stories of hunger, listlessness, roaming and reckless abandon are just a prelude to John’s amazing story.
The Guardian described his 2008 debut album Joys of Spring as “Truly exquisite” More info and booking...

Club XL - Upstairs

Price: £10
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Comedy @ Bath Fringe

Foxtrot Tango! Foxtrot Tango!.....Bill Smarme hosts a cheeky evening of dance inspired Musical Cabaret.
A riotous fandango of hip hop, flip flop, lindy hop and new fangled tangos performed by Bill, his swinging band The Bizness and Special Guests. Watch Bill put his left leg in and shake it all about for a truly terpsichoreal experience.
Sold out last year so book early to ensure disappointment. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Innovative Bristol electric funk band recently returned to the live businss after a long lay-off in other bands, new serious recording out very soon, in fact this should be the launch.
Joe Wilkins, Evan Newman, Pedro Alves, Marcel Osborne and Edward Gallimore. all familiar faces from some of the best rhythm-inclined outfits in the city. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £7 / 5 Concs adv; £8 door
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:30

Plus DJ and Visuals

Versatile jazz violinist and vocalist, Azhaar made her name fronting the excellent Brazilian Jazz group Sirius B. She returns from travelling and touring the Americas with her new project, Global Wave
Azhaar Saffar: violin and vocals / Anders Olinder: keyboards / Jake Miles Tyghe: bass / Paolo Adamo: drums / Ivan Moreno: percussion More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10
Start time: 20:00

An evening with Eddie Martin

Performance

“Absolutely Superb” BBC Radio 2 Paul Jones. “A Blues Master” New Jersey Times. Eddie Martin’s performances with Big Band or one-man-band have been acclaimed from Festival stages round Europe to Jook Joints in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Tonight his solo show brings the history of his beloved blues music alive with anecdotes, guitar and harmonica wizardry, and songs from the Delta to the British Blues Boom and back to Chicago.
Eddie will run a harmonica workshop before the performance, commencing at 6.30pm. For workshop details and prices contact Eddie direct through his website.

More info and booking...

Museum of Bath Architecture

Price: £8 including wine/refreshments
Start time: 18:30
Doors open: 18:00

Musicke in the Ayre presents

songs & duets based on 17th century

An early-evening chill-out with beautiful music created over simple popular patterns. Two sopranos and early plucked strings bring to life early Baroque masterpieces by Monteverdi, Purcell, Lambert and Legrenzi.
Maria Danishvar Brown and Jane Hunt are accompanied by Din Ghani on lute, archlute and baroque guitar.
HIGH RISK OF EARWORMS!
More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10
Start time: 19:45

Double Bill

DLM are a vehicle for some of the finest songs Andrew Cresswell Davis has ever written. Along with Clare Lindley and Brian Mullan they play a variety of instruments and the addition of three fine voices singing beautiful harmonies breathes life into songs about love, loss, life ......and squirrels. New duo of bluegrass masters Leon Hunt and Jason Titley completes the bill More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Entry by donation
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

and Friends

The Duckworths have been cooking up a new album, and Lawrie's been off on the road in the States getting into the kind of trouble that will write the next one and make his legend one day: this is their first serious live showing in a while, and will feature side-performances from various bandmates & associates. Ray Bradbury stories set to alternate-reality lullabies. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £6 on the door
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

Two unique musicians with a DIY attitude.
Ichi makes his own instruments and his performance, while breaking barriers and misusing conventions, is always entertaining, tuneful, danceable even.
Kid Carpet makes a sort of candy punk rock with toy and broken instruments and a lot of (sometimes misplaced) energy. More info and booking...

The Royal Oak

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Furthur presents

WE ARE SORRY BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
Formed in 2015, not far from Stonehenge in the confluence of the five rivers, The Neighbourhood Strange's edgy punk-tinged psychedelic garage-rock will certainly gain approval from weird neighbour Julian Cope: desolate heartfelt vocals, fuzzy guitars and reedy organ: the bastard love child of Lou Reed and Reg Presley! More info and booking...

Prior Park

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 19:30

Kilter Theatre presents

A Play. Outside. After Dark.

Stay up late tonight, pack a torch, and make a pilgrimage into the great outdoors. As the sun sets over Bath, join a band of musicians and outsiders for an expedition like no other! Cosy up as darkness falls and watch the wonder and wisdom of the night unfold before your very eyes! More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

The Oxymoron

The Oxymoron on line alternative comedy club live!

The Oxymoron on line alternative comedy club, found as a group on Facebook. Emerges from cyberspace to present a live comedy show, featuring members of the club and guests.
This show will be streamed live via The Bell,Bath UK. Donation on the door
The word on the street (or, rather, the pub garden) is that there are still some slots but they're filling up fast! More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £9
Start time: 20:00

Klassic Hits, Kovers & The Korgis

The vibrant Bath music scene has given rise to a succession of critically acclaimed bands through the years, including Strackridge, Graduate, The Korgis, and Tears For Fears. Many of the musicians associated with those groups have led a double life as Lose The Shoes, a sideline act dedicated to celebrating classic pop, rock, Motown and Disco, in addition to their own musical legacies. Limited Seating Available More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £8
Start time: 20:00

One of the UK’s finest, this 9 piece Latin band is strongly influenced by music and rhythms from across Latin America. Artists including ‘Tito Puente’, 'Patato Valdés’, 'Buena Vista Social Club’ and ‘Eddie Palmieri’, have influenced their mix of Cuban classics with their own original compositions, that combine Afro-Cuban dance rhythms such as Son, Danzón and Cha-Cha-Cha with a blend of Latin Jazz and Salsa. More info and booking...

Prior Park

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 19:30

Kilter Theatre presents

A Play. Outside. After Dark.

Stay up late tonight, pack a torch, and make a pilgrimage into the great outdoors. As the sun sets over Bath, join a band of musicians and outsiders for an expedition like no other! Cosy up as darkness falls and watch the wonder and wisdom of the night unfold before your very eyes! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

and band

WE ARE SORRY BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED
Already featuring in that as-yet unwritten Walcot musical history book for creating Slow Twitch Fibres with a post-Korgi Andy Davis, Pete is something of a legendary musos’ muso over in Bristol, with everything from hardcore free jazz to soundtracks to idiosyncratic and witty songwriting to his credit. We think it’s the latter that will characterise today’s performance: band also featuring Andy, Eddie John and Valere Speranza. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Bath Music super-bill

Three of the most creative minds in town...

Replacing the cancelled Pete Brandt show (to be rescheduled) we have a triple bill - no less - of contemporary Bath creativity.
Two projects involve musician/novelist/academic Emma Hooper - one performed by her partner Charlie - and the third head to this trinity is her fomer colleague from The Cedar, Neil Gay, one of the most under-rated but creative musical minds in the city for some years now. More info and booking...

Bath Aqua Theatre of Glass

Price: £4
Start time: 14:30
Doors open: 14:00

Bath Aqua Glass presents

Madness in its purest form

Return to the world of Obsidian. Journey through the depths of creativity and insanity to arrive in a place where logic has no power.
This family friendly show combines music, glass blowing and spoken word in a string of acts that will leave you speechless.
All profits go to charity.

Extra info: Wheelchair access

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 20:30

with ShakShak

We end the festival with Walcot favourites and all-round festival goodtimes guaranteed collective ShakShak. Eternal spring in your step ska groove referencing Afro, Calypso and Celtic flavours from a familiar bunch of faces who are themselves embodiments of Walcot history and connectedness. More info and booking...

The Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill

Price: £14
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Kelston Records presents:

plus support

The mighty Gas Giants re-emerge from interstellar cloud for special intimate event in the unique surroundings of the barn. The stars are closer out there. Will (Goldfrapp) Gregory meets superlative drummer Tony Orrell and cosmic tinkerer Ross Hughes in a surrealist soundtrack world of their own. Unique and unmissable. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Strikingly theatrical take on that old Gipsy Cabaret style, still coming up with new spins of the wheel since the 19th Century. A clear vision of what they want to say and the musical ability to make it work. Will appeal to Euro intellectuals, goths and plain ol' weirdoes More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

One of the myriad ways that British Folk Forms are spinning themselves in the modern world, the six B.Rads pack in influences from World, Rock and Early Music to form something that veers dangerously from the calm, considered or clever into jumping around raucously. They're really not much like anything else out there, though fans of The Moulettes and the folkier end of Prog will share aspirations. More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

FAB & Bath Fringe

Dance yourself Arty

It's where you head after the art openings close: we're still celebrating! Late licence and guest DJs/performers to be advised nearer the time. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12.50 Advance: £10.00 adv; £12.50 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Violin and guitar duo

Papillon is the new project by Anna Phoebe and Nicolas Rizzi. It combines raw Eastern inspired violin and guitar melodies set within cinematic soundscapes. Anna Phoebe has performed throughout the world as a featured soloist for various artists and is now carving a career with her own projects. More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: £10 (plus £3 drum hire if needed)
Start time: 15:00

Amadou Diagne

Beginner/Intermediate level Djembe workshop. Connect to some new rhythms that - however simple or complicated - end up as an exciting whole experience within the group.
Bring your own drum or pre-book one for loan (£3 extra) if available. More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: £6 (£5 concs.)
Start time: 20:00

Solo Kora Concert

Amadou's great contribution to a number of bands (including his own) tends to obscure the fact that he's also a fine solo artist with a number of strings to his bow (or Kora). A solo Kora concert could go in a number of directions, traditional from his griot heritage, or contemporary with pedals and loops - or conceivably both! Only one way to find out!!
See also Djembe workshop in the afternoon More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: £3 / £4 on door
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:00

Foxy Music presents

Luke Gittins and Ashley Smith

Described as 'the new Lennon & McCartney' and signed without hesitation; with captivating original songs and harmonies, some fabulous guitar playing and a confident delivery (influenced by John Mayer & Ed Sheeran amongst others) see this talented new duo warm up for festival headliners & a tour of America while you can!

Extra info: 2 x 45 minute sets with a break.

Komedia

Price: £6
Start time: 23:00
Doors open: 23:00

Bath’s busiest and best club night never fails to deliver a refreshing but classic mix of all the best Motown, Soul, Funk and Rock ‘n’ Roll Anthems to keep your feet stomping into the early hours! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

More usually seen with Canadian carney crew Blackberry Wood, musical omnivores to the max, this project sees frontman Kris making the style more straightforward but certainly not playing safe or straight. And he’s always been a great frontman too. Electro Blues this way! More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: £7
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Comedy presents

Cult favorite singer/songwriter, who has opened nationally for comedy iconoclast Doug Stanhope and is known as one of Johnny Depp's favourite artists. Gruff-voiced Mishka takes time out of touring dive bars in the USA to play dive bars in the UK... More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Mark Lewandowski Trio

The Fats Waller Project

Mark Lewandowski - double bass
Liam Noble - piano, Fender Rhodes
Paul Clarvis - drums
Exploring the catalogue of one of the early innovators of jazz - the great Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller - delving into his music and bringing their own personal spin on his repertoire in the intimate trio setting. Three musicians known for their intricate dialogues and strong humour, paying tribute to another musician who had these attributes. Mixing the traditional with the modern, this trio brings a little of 1930s Harlem into the 21st Century. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £7 Concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Simon Allen, Sam & Beth Eason, Tom Corneill and Lee Cole present

Choose Britpop. Choose anthems. Choose reminding yourself of staying out past midnight on school nights. Choose songs you fell in love to. Choose incredible acoustic twists on the best dance and grunge music. Choose remembering muddy festival moments. Choose guilty pleasure pop songs. Choose music to make you feel alive.

Extra info: Full disabled access

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Tuesday Choice

We’ve been awaiting great things from Declan since he won the Bath Folk Festival’s 2015 New Shoots competition against much more obvious & conventional singers & players: a mark of his strong individuality and appeal. Part faerie foundling, part 21st Century agitator activist, the traditions are well served by his hand. Though tonight the focus is on his songs, he will be accompanied by bandmates from new Trad Folk combo Gorias. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £7 Concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Brian Madigan

plus Paul Bradley

Singer-songwriter Brian Madigan is famed for his lengthy, spoken intros. So what if he were to remove the songs altogether – only thinking them ‘out loud’ with the audience invited to imagine them? Would that be deeply uncomfortable, transcendental, or a brief moment of sanity amid the cacophony of everyday madness?

Extra info: Full disabled access

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Venezuelan psych-funk exiled to London for the predictable political/lifestyle issues as well as matters of the artistic economy, enigmatic frontman Baldo Verdú and his boys really do hit a time-slipped groove you won’t have encountered before, with rock’n’roll and street sass/suss. Big things are expected - and some sought-after festival dates in place - but still just breaking. Get in now! More info and booking...

Kingswood Theatre

Price: £8 / £6 Concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society continues into its fourth year with a fresh production of 'Fame'! Following the interlinking stories of a group of students at the High School of Performing Arts, this uplifting musical explores the highs and lows of tirelessly reaching for fame. More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £10
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:20

by Edward Day

An ocarina, a ukulele and a thirst for revenge. Lecoq trained Edward Day battles four decades of videogame nostalgia in an explosion of Shakespeare, live music, video projection and 16-bit mayhem. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £6 / £5 Concs excluding workshop
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

James Rippingale

Preceded by Guitar Workshop (book workshop separately)

Join award winning classical guitarist James Rippingale as he makes his Bath debut with a programme of musical delights and guitar favourites featuring pieces by J. S. Bach along with his own unique compositions, and ending with a musical journey through the heart of Spain.

Extra info: Full disabled access

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: Advance: £17.50 Door Price: £20.00
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

“It was Fifty Years Ago Today…”

featuring All You Need Is The Beatles

All You Need Is The Beatles celebrate 50 years of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band LP with a special celebration concert. The album will be performed in its entirety and the show will also feature many of The Beatles’ greatest hits.
“A splendid time is guaranteed for all!”

Extra info: Standing event

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £17.50
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

'All Of The Above' - WSC and Nod Knowles Productions present:

Celebrating 100 Years of Ella Fitzgerald

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the great jazz vocalist, multi-award winning guitarist Martin Taylor - internationally renowned for his work with everyone from Stephane Grappelli to Jamie Cullum - and Scottish-Canadian jazz singer Alison Burns highlight the Grammy-award winning collaboration between Ella and jazz guitarist Joe Pass More info and booking...

Kingswood Theatre

Price: £8 / £6 Concs
Start time: 14:30
Doors open: 14:00

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society continues into its fourth year with a fresh production of 'Fame'! Following the interlinking stories of a group of students at the High School of Performing Arts, this uplifting musical explores the highs and lows of tirelessly reaching for fame. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

2016 BGT Finalist

Jasmine moved some judges to tears with her audition on 'Britain's Got Talent' last year, winning Ant & Dec's Golden-Buzzer nomination before going on to finish fourth in the Final. Come and experience live the 15-year-old girl that David Walliams said "looked like an Angel and sounded like one too."

Extra info: Full disabled access

Rondo Theatre

Price: £10 (£9 concs)
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Mike Scott and David C Johnson's World Premiere

Full of wit, songs, poetry and banter.
How did talented singer/songwriter Mike Scott, ex pupil of PenPole Point Secondary Modern, and David C Johnson, witty, prize-winning performance poet, ex cadet of the Nautical College Pangbourne, find themselves writing a show and sharing a stage? Their entertaining and original “Still doing it” attempts to answer this question. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £5
Start time: 23:00
Doors open: 23:00

With all your guilty pleasures under one roof, Fame is Bath’s biggest night for you to unleash your inner dancer to the soundtrack of nostalgic numbers from the past and modern groovers that you wouldn’t normally dare sing out of the shower! More info and booking...

Kingston Parade

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

Old Spot Theatre Company have worked the circus and street theatre circuit for years, nay decades but will bring something decidedly new to Bedlam Fair this year as part of the New Work Works Scheme
More info and booking...

Kingswood Theatre

Price: £8 / £6 Concs
Start time: 16:00
Doors open: 15:30

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society continues into its fourth year with a fresh production of 'Fame'! Following the interlinking stories of a group of students at the High School of Performing Arts, this uplifting musical explores the highs and lows of tirelessly reaching for fame. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:50

Frenetic Fox Theatre presents

by Paul Lawless

Serenading you with original song, spoken word and just the right amount of desperation, join Paul as he questions your relationship with dating apps - exploring tech-addiction, disillusionment and how far are we prepared to go to be fulfilled.

Extra info: May contain mild swearing and sexual references (non-vulgar)

Kingswood Theatre

Price: £8 / £6 Concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society presents

Bath Spa Musical Theatre Society continues into its fourth year with a fresh production of 'Fame'! Following the interlinking stories of a group of students at the High School of Performing Arts, this uplifting musical explores the highs and lows of tirelessly reaching for fame. More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

With a diverse repertoire spanning Rajasthani folk songs, Bollywood hits, spiritual qawwali and Bhangra beats these ten vividly costumed artists cover the full spectrum of the evocative and joyous music that governs life in Rajasthan.
More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Street Performers' Party

The Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band, Avanti Display, and more...

After a busy day on the streets of Bath what we all need is a bit of a party to recharge the batteries for tomorrow. Highlight shows from some of this afternoon's key performers, a work-in-progress from the legendary Avanti, Indian Brass madness from the very watchable (and still more danceable) Rajasthan Heritage crew, then on into the night with Indian-into-Worldbeat DJ Desi Heights inside the Brasserie.
To see all the acts, click here
Full details download here:
www.bathfringe.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Bedlam-Fair-2017-v-10.pdf

Extra info: till late

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £6 / £5 C-oncs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

plus support

19-year-old Bristolian Joe Probert is one of the UK’s most promising singer/songwriters - single-mindedly motivated to deliver fresh music that people love. Self-taught, whilst other kids were on X-Boxes, Joe was busking on the streets of Bristol & Bath, before setting-up his own DIY recording studio in the garden shed.

Extra info: Full disabled access

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £15 includes supper
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Amuse Bouche present

with the Boxcats

Valerie has reached a significant age, so her Aunties have secretly planned a fabulous party … and you are all invited! Comedy troupe Amuse Bouche and Boxcats blues band present a birthday party to remember: expect a retro buffet supper, family rows and inappropriate presents. What could possibly go wrong? More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: £3 / £4 on door
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:00

Foxy Music presents

plus Flies Fly Away

Bath’s most exciting & new band creating a real stir, packing out Moles, The Bell & other venues. The Swings play psychedelic, soulful, alternative rock originals with highly unique & heavy latin-influenced guitar riffs; gutsy lead singer Millie reminds us a bit of Janis Joplin is "a star in the making" (Tim Orchard, Purr Records). More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £6
Start time: 23:00
Doors open: 23:00

Bath’s busiest and best club night never fails to deliver a refreshing but classic mix of all the best Motown, Soul, Funk and Rock ‘n’ Roll Anthems to keep your feet stomping into the early hours! More info and booking...

Sawclose & Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

It’s the street theatre event of the year with dozens of performers from the emerging new ideas through to renowned companies at the top of their game, spilling around the streets in and around Kingsmead Square & Saw Close (roadways closed for the afternoon, no parking).
See all of Sunday's acts here
Click here for Sunday's running order (timings are a guide and are subject to change)
The event is free but please put money ‘in the hat’ if the performer is using one.
Full details download PDF programme here:
www.bathfringe.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Bedlam-Fair-2017-v-10.pdf More info and booking...

Sawclose & Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

With a diverse repertoire spanning Rajasthani folk songs, Bollywood hits, spiritual qawwali and Bhangra beats these ten vividly costumed artists cover the full spectrum of the evocative and joyous music that governs life in Rajasthan.
More info and booking...

Sawclose & Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

Old Spot Theatre Company have worked the circus and street theatre circuit for years, nay decades but will bring something decidedly new to Bedlam Fair this year as part of the New Work Works Scheme
More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Gerry Colvin made a lot of friends in Bath and The Bell some years ago with Colvin Quarmby, but now he’s back with a revival of his much loved ‘80s skiffle combo who recorded 3 Peel sessions and scored Indie Chart hits with straight-to-the-point tales like ‘Clothes Shop’ and ‘Last Bullet in the Gun'. Great writing and no-fuss delivery. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £12
Start time: 15:00

Annette Gregory

Jazz Vocalist Annette Gregory celebrates the music of the iconic jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, 100th Year. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £10 / £8 Concs/ £5 BSU Student
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:50

Frenetic Fox Theatre presents

by Paul Lawless

Serenading you with original song, spoken word and just the right amount of desperation, join Paul as he questions your relationship with dating apps - exploring tech-addiction, disillusionment and how far are we prepared to go to be fulfilled.

Extra info: May contain mild swearing and sexual references (non-vulgar)

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £9 / £7.50 Concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Musical Comedy with Virtuosic Musicians

6plus1 is a band of 7 musicians playing New Orleans Jazz, mixing in Funk, Rock and Ska with two Saxophonists doubling woodwind, two trumpets, trombone, tuba and drums. Some of the music is presented with a comic edge, next to virtuosic playing.

Extra info: Full disabled access

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £5. The 4-6pm session is FREE.
Start time: 19:45
Doors open: 19:00

Misha Carder, the current Bard of Bath, invites you to

Themed concert with Wessex Musicians & Wordsmiths

Venue: The Wharf Room, Widcombe Social Club. Come to either or both sessions
4-6pm Poetry, Music, Digital Exhibition, and Pop-Up Gallery.
6.30 - 7.30 Optional Shared Supper at 6.30
7.45 - 10pm Stories and Music from local performers, featuring Brighid's Flame: an hour of Irish music, myths, stories, with harp.

Extra info: optional shared supper at 18.30 -19.30

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

plus Support from Prairie Dog

Phoenix River Band’s music is original with an undoubted salute to country influences plus hints of R&B and Blues. Think Allman Brothers meet Chris Rea meets Jackson Browne with a touch of Fleetwood Mac and you have a potent mix of original songs with driving beats and soulful melodies. Prairie Dog are a Southwest-based country roots duo playing mostly original songs with a bluegrass-tinged style and vocal harmonies that are rootsy, humorous, edgy and sometimes sensitive.

Extra info: Full disabled access

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Formerly Soweto Entsha (played Fringe a few years ago), these guys are a phenomenon: acappella singers bringing a wide range of Afro-American vocal styles together to show continuity in the traditions and the value of sheer style and skill. Traditional to Doo-Wop to Soul to RnB. Close-up they'll be dynamite! More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £14
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Comedy presents

The Village Hall

The Vicar of Lower Swell introduces some bizarre and frankly quite nutty locals performing in The Village Hall, They will include former cabinet minister the Rt. Hon. Dickie Daventry, who will regale us with tales from the corridors of power and be plugging his memoirs, and special guests Bill Smarme & The Bizness who will be travelling all the way from Twerton to perform their unique comedic take on a farrago of musical genres. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

A product of the restlessly recombinant Bristol funk/jazz/soul scene, Jackson sprays colours from all over the musical spectrum onto the canvas, featuring faces that the truly alert will have seen before: Jack Baldus, Asian Hawk, Rich O’Brien, Joe Price and other hotshots. A very contemporary sound that is not afraid of its own intelligence, nor of shaking that thing or rocking it out. And already better than their acclaimed debut EP. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £6 / £5 Concs
Start time: 19:00
Doors open: 18:00

Open Up Music present

including the Premiere of a new piece by Liam Taylor-West written especially for them

TSWOYO is the UK’s first disabled-led regional youth orchestra, featuring disabled and non-disabled young musicians playing conventional and electronic instruments incorporating accessible EyeGaze technology. On the eve of their BBC Music Day performance, come and experience these uniquely modern young musicians in the intimate surroundings of the Old Theatre Royal.

Extra info: Full disabled access

Rondo Theatre

Price: £14
Start time: 20:00

moonson.co presents

Songs, Stories and Music

Robin and Bina Williamson perform an exotic mix of English, Celtic, and Old Timey roots. Their unique interweave of songs stories and music feature the East/West harmonies of their voices with harp, bowed psaltery and diverse other instruments.
"An enchanting evening 's entertainment" - Edi Stark, Celtic Connections -
"Pure beauty through simplicity" - Robert Plant More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £8 Adv; £10 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

A night where folk and blues meets cuban, reggae and latin grooves. One-man-band and story teller, Rik van den Bosch, is armed with his slide, harmonica and his incredible vocal range.
Rainy takes you on a journey with his laid back grooves, sun soaked open roads and a healthy dose of wonder. Watch, listen and enjoy. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Following their sell-out world debut at last year's Fringe@theOTR, this band of good ol’ boys from Nashville Tennessee who had a whole bunch of songs (allegedly) stolen by some supergroup called “The Travelling Wilburys” have been hitting the highway and are back with an even bigger show this year.

Extra info: Full disabled access

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £5 for Students and Concessions, £8 Standard Ticket
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath University Student Musicals Society Presents:

A New Musical with the Songs and Lyrics of Frank Turner

A new jukebox musical written for this year's fringe follows the life and times of musicians, artists and other failed 21st century bohemians trying to make it in contemporary London. Taking inspiration from Frank Turner's lyrics and live shows, the performance weaves together gig and theatre in Bath University's new arts complex, The Edge. More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £12:50 / £10:50 Concs/ £8:50 UoB Students
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Nowadays Tipi

A celebration of summer strings

Nowadays is popping up this summer with a rich blend of new and old music. Join us for this unique musical evening in our enchanting tipi venue, set in the grounds of The Edge. A delicious summer’s evening treat… with mixed seating including cushions, picnic benches, chairs and cosy snug…

In part one of our summer music pop up, we welcome master Kora player and songwriter Kadialy Kouyate and Bristol-based French violinist Claire Northey to play in our Tipi. More info and booking...

The Nest

Price: £5 (£3 NUS), ££ in advance
Start time: 20:00

RMT present

plus Tiger Trail and Bird Noire

Channelling ingrained deep grooves, progressive soundscapes and contemporary hip hop, the Trio’s sound represents an amalgamation of different influences, with the extraterrestrial electrified leanings of prog and jazz-funk anchored to a deep backbeat, hyperactively engaging audiences with their heavy groove and energetic live sets. A hip-hop-infused reinterpretation of jazz for contemporary audiences with a distinct twist of their own.
The band sold out The Jazz Cafe on Monday 13th February with a live rendition of Madlib’s Shades of Blue. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

As a prelude to the Walcot Nation Day celebrations, The Bell will be buzzing to an upgrade on the usual already-groovesome vinyl DJ malarkey, and, we are assured, some popup events to match. More details on their website and ours nearer the time. More info and booking...

The Royal Oak

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

New-ish Bristol psych quartet including ex-members of the rather-good-sadly Towns, surfing a tidal wave of feedback & noise but with punk/grunge energy and attitude to keep them out of any trouble they didn't choose to be in. Ones to watch (and indeed listen to). More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £5
Start time: 23:00
Doors open: 23:00

With all your guilty pleasures under one roof, Fame is Bath’s biggest night for you to unleash your inner dancer to the soundtrack of nostalgic numbers from the past and modern groovers that you wouldn’t normally dare sing out of the shower! More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre

Price: £6 / £4 students
Start time: 11:00
Doors open: 10:40

Back In Time Productions Presents

When a husband is caring for his very unwell wife, the memorable moments they've shared bring them closer than ever as they reflect on their adventurous journey together. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

K'Chevere, Nathan, Mick & Bruno

To celebrate 20 years of the re-birth of Walcot Nation and its sensational street party, on top of the Bell's usual eclectomaniac Saturday formula we're adding a classic Bath live band and then on into 2 rooms of major DJ action from some of our traditional longterm local favourites. Lineup to be announced, see our website and The Bell's. More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £5 for Students and Concessions, £8 Standard Ticket
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath University Student Musicals Society Presents:

A New Musical with the Songs and Lyrics of Frank Turner

A new jukebox musical written for this year's fringe follows the life and times of musicians, artists and other failed 21st century bohemians trying to make it in contemporary London. Taking inspiration from Frank Turner's lyrics and live shows, the performance weaves together gig and theatre in Bath University's new arts complex, The Edge. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 (concessions £7)
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Indie set to Blow-up

A backlash to A-sides, a response to four-minute songs by manicured manikins, a single finger to the Ed's of this world, the beginning of the good new days. But most of all Indie that seamlessly blends nuance and beauty with energy and rhythm. Set to blow up.

Extra info: Full disabled access

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £10 ADULT / £8 CONCS/ £8:00 CHILD/ £24 GROUP TICKET – OPTION ONE (INC:1 ADULT & 3 CHILDREN) / £26 GROUP TICKET – OPTION TWO (INC: 2 ADULTS & 2 CHILDREN)
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 18:00

Adventures in Story, Theatre and Music

JOIN US ROUND THE CAMPFIRE FOR MUSIC AND STORYTELLING! At the magical tipi with your family, catch up with your friends and picnic on the lawn or sit at tables on the Edge terrace enjoying the summer’s evening. Take part or watch your children create their own ‘moving suits.’ Then it’s time to sit back together around the tipi camp fire (mixed seating including cushions, chairs and a snug) and hear marvellous and fantastical stories with a musical twist…Enjoy Kilter Theatre, Storytelling with Somerset Storytellers, James Watts and Michael Loader and create wonderful moving costumes with Lets Make Art! A wonderful summer’s evening treat… This event is suitable for grownups and under 12’s.
More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: £5 / £6 door
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:00

Foxy Music presents

by James Hollingsworth

James creates amazing soundscapes using skilful guitar effects and loop technology to recreate the legendary rock of Pink Floyd and totally blow your mind! A “truly phenomenal experience” (Barry ‘The Fish’ Melton, Country Joe and The Fish), an absolute must for all fans of Pink Floyd and psychedelic, folk, blues, trance or metal guitar. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £6
Start time: 23:00
Doors open: 23:00

Bath’s busiest and best club night never fails to deliver a refreshing but classic mix of all the best Motown, Soul, Funk and Rock ‘n’ Roll Anthems to keep your feet stomping into the early hours! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

It was 20 years ago today...

Walcot Nation Day festival - run by Bath Fringe, The Bell, and key local traders - was 20 years ago on the Sunday at the end of that year's Fringe. We reckon that's a major excuse for a party. Already confirmed: an afternoon of top local live music, events in the yard, archive film showings of past local misdemeanours, pop-up art, and the unpredictable. See our website and The Bell's for details nearer the time. More info and booking...

The Bell - Love Lounge (Back bar)

Price: please make a donation (£3 suggested, price of a pint)
Start time: 20:00

Comedy & Music

featuring Calico Jack

The Fringe of the Fringe gets excited round the back of the pub tonight: a phalanx of performances from the truly alternative edge of the city, featuring:
Onanism - Matt Cranium - The Whistleblowers - Arnold Kuenzler-Byrt --- plus a little bit more.
The night culminates with a show from yer actual Pirates of the Kennet & Avon, Calico Jack More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

6 piece from Portland Oregon who had such a ball last summer they were begging to be back this year. Balkan, Klezmer, Hot Jazz, Swing and other stuff that makes air and feet move in an inescapably joyous fashion, with the commitment and hard work on presentation and motivation that our transatlantic cousins do so well. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

A festival perennial for 30-odd years and always a guarantee that summer is finally here - not least because they used to work the double-summer trip so beloved of performers with a strong antipodean connection. Celtic and tranced-out grooves, future primitive eco instincts and a shot of the mystic derived from their Planet Gong connection. Plenty have tried to copy but none hit it like they do. More info and booking...

St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs

Price: £5 on the door
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

Live at St James Wine Vaults

Local band Latino Groove and Colombian singer-songwriter sensation, Alejandra Restrepo, team up for a night of uplifting musical entertainment at the famous St James Wine Vaults. A unique fusion of Latin American rhythms and other traditions - their high-energy performance is guaranteed to fill the dance floor! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Six-piece string band with suitcase percussion playing a unique blend of bluegrass and outlaw country with a sublime storytelling sense: every song is a Murder ballad or at least a NorthAmerican Noir worthy of a great movie. Very much a cut above the usual ranch stash. More info and booking...

The Royal Oak

Price: Free
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

Live at The Royal Oak

Local band Latino Groove and Colombian singer-songwriter sensation, Alejandra Restrepo, team up for a night of uplifting musical entertainment. A unique fusion of Latin American rhythms and other traditions - their high-energy performance is guaranteed to fill the dance floor! More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £13.50 adv / £15 door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

20th Century Foxes Presents

A Ride Through The Swinging 60s

Relive the heady 1960s as this unforgettable live band whirls you through the decade of the British Explosion, from early '60s kitsch to rooftop rock, and everything in between. Sixties Britain created a style and sound all its own - and made the world sit up and take notice. More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 22:00
Doors open: 18:00

Everywhere

featuring The Gin Bowlers

Our Openings Night features a little party in every FAB Art venue, and a bigger one in Green Park Station at 10pm with The Gin Bowlers playing their own angle on that much-abused lady, Swing (they played the Zen Hussies birthday party so they're the tops).
Plus: the milkfloat of music, various excursions from performanmce artistes, and a great selection of this year's top crop of Circomedia specialist performance students, on the streets and coming at you. More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Upstairs theatre

Price: £6 / £5 concs
Start time: 12:30
Doors open: 12:00

Thereby Hangs A Tale presents

Two epic stories from the 16th Century Spanish colonisation of the Americas told with live original music.
"The power of maintaining life in others lives within each of us, and from each of us does it recede when unused" More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £12:50 Full price// £10 Concs// £2:50 Edge Arts Community members.
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

The Edge Proudly Presents ..

In conversation with Ian Shaw ..

Pee Wee Ellis, In conversation with Ian Shaw, Join us to hear the legendary Pee Wee talk about his life and times. In what promises to be an atmospheric and beautiful evening - not to be missed! Tickets from https://bit.ly/2JqUiT7

Extra info: Two conversations with a Q&A session

The Nest

Price: £5 adv / £6 door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Spellbinding celtic blues improvisation to an iconic film

50 years of 2001 : A Space Odyssey

Local band ARCC, in one of their are live appearances, improvise a soundtrack to the iconic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Kubrick’s seminal work that has defined sci-fi movies since it’s release in 1968. With a live band and VJ mixing multiple projections, expect a spectacular show. More info and booking...

St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs

Price: £7
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:45

Close Enough picked up a Buxton Fringe nomination in 2017 for their slick and stylish singing. Join the feisty foursome - Woody, Tom, Tom (!), and Johnny - as they perform their unique mix of classic barbershop alongside choice close harmony arrangements, spanning everything from East European folk to Big Band swingtime, and guaranteed to put a smile on your face! More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: £3 adv / £4 door
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 19:30

Foxy Music

Passionate, experimental three-piece fusing post-rock, traditional folk and classical into a unique, ambient electronic sound. These superb young musicians have been selling out venues in Bristol and captivating audiences with their atmospheric sound and front man Louis's sublime delivery of edgy and unique songs. Definitely a catch them while you can! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Great new Brit-folk ensemble with quite another angle on the current resurgence of interest in all things home grown. Isembard is one of those with a very clear vision, the mission to go with it, and something new to bring to the table: a fearless attitude to the tradition and to their own creative place in it. More info and booking...

The Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill

Price: £10 adv.
Start time: 19:00
Doors open: 18:00

RMT presents

SR - new school improvisation from hard-edged & out-there quintet combining the thought processes of Jazz, the attitude of Free and the sonics of Post-Rock. RLR emphasise loops, effects and rhythm in their quest to show how a sax/drums duo can map a future. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Galway duo Mossy Nolan and Colm McGowan, artfully combine the bygone and the new, drawing on Irish and Balkan influences; songs that on the face of it will seem instantly familiar, but that supplant the traditional with fresh melodic and conceptual ideas. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £10 adv / £12 door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Years before Samba emerged, Brazilian Choro music and Maxixe dances rocked the world. Join Brejeiro and friends to experience this infectious music and its social history from its beginnings in the 1860's to today. Come and dance, sing, play and smile with us and catch the Choro bug too. With 12 dancers on stage! More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

An outstanding fingerstyle guitarist, with a voice that slots in beside the hallowed names of the '70s Folk & Beyond crowd, Ben is an artist of a kind you might have feared they didn't make any more. Depths of study and troughhs in life have brought him here, an experience we are all the richer for. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5 / £7 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

with Geoff Robb

A guitarist and composer whose music blends his classical training with his love of Spanish and Celtic music. Geoff has performed his well crafted and deeply moving compositions at festivals and concerts all over the UK and Europe. An outstanding guitarist..his innovative technique was of the highest standard.” The Argus More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £18 adv / £20 door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

'Arte Flamenco Puro'

with Antonio Aparecida & Amparo Navarro

The awe inspiring guitarist and composer Juan Martín brings his fantastic flamenco trio direct from Spain featuring the tremendous footwork and artistry of prize winning dancer Amparo Navarro. The Times said of Juan Martin: 'A giant of the flamenco guitar tradition'. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

A new frontier in the unfolding worlds of psych/folk, the LOT blend the intensity, elusiveness and boundary-skipping skills of a Pentangle with the blissed out stonerdom of the West Coast koolaid jug bands. Unafraid of Trad, unafraid to write - there is so much to like! More info and booking...

FAB 1, 94 Walcot Street

Price: Pay What You Can
Start time: 12:00

Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present

A theatrical space to ponder & play with cutting-edge research on body image.

Activities of every shape & size! Guest speakers celebrating the amazing body you already have! Workshops for singing, stretching, dancing, laughing... but not changing a thing! Developed in collaboration with University of Bath Psychology Researchers, The Cubicle will have you head over heels with your hiccups & hairy armpits.
Open 12 noon to 10pm

Extra info: Details at kiltertheatre.org

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

An Evening with Jelli Records

A potent mix of original songs with driving beats and soulful melodies . There is an undoubted salute to country influences with hints of R&B and Blues and a touch of Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac for good measure.
Higgs Bison sing beautiful songs of love, loss, money and menace. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Nick Steel presents

A sensational solo show from ace guitarist

A special event centred on the music of Pink Floyd, performed by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist singer/guitarist James Hollingsworth.
"Fascinating one man band James Hollingsworth conjures some wonderful soundscapes with guitar effects and loops to create colour and build the suspense." - Somerset Guardian More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12 adv / £14 door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

fromthewhitehouse presents:

with special guest, harpist Anna Tanvir

A captivating musical evening with multi-award winning Somerset singer-songwriter Reg Meuross and his special guest the harpist Anna Tanvir. Anna will perform a solo opening set, and will join Reg for part of his headline set. The combination of these two musicians is magical. More info and booking...

FAB 1, 94 Walcot Street

Price: Pay What You Can
Start time: 12:00

Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present

A theatrical space to ponder & play with cutting-edge research on body image.

Activities of every shape & size! Guest speakers celebrating the amazing body you already have! Workshops for singing, stretching, dancing, laughing... but not changing a thing! Developed in collaboration with University of Bath Psychology Researchers, The Cubicle will have you head over heels with your hiccups & hairy armpits.
Open 12 noon to 10pm

Extra info: Details at kiltertheatre.org

Komedia

Price: Free
Start time: 19:00
Doors open: 19:00

Young Acts and Bands from across the region

Rural Music Network works to support young people from across the region to rehearse, record and perform. We are delighted to be back in Bath with a great line up of singer-songwriters, psychedelic rock, metal, acoustic, and lyrical. These guys are super talented. If you want to get involved contact jamesbrookes@sryp.org.uk More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £14 / £12 concs
Start time: 20:00

Originally the UK rhythm section of the Canadian powerhouse Tanglefoot, RPR have now teamed up with percussionist/singer/songwriter Beaker Granger. Their music, storytelling, humour and high-spirited stage presence bubble over with that same combination of aggressive enthusiasm & personality that made Tanglefoot famous. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

An Evening with Jelli Records

with Special Guest Bashema

This trio has crafted a truly original master sound, with amazing vocals and breathtaking guitar from Sal Wyatt and phat slap bass from Alex Gabb, and the mighty Jon Carter on drums, all together they give a truly dynamic performance. Bashema is a jazz influenced soulful songstress with an edgy twist. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12 adv / £14 door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Mondegreen Records presents

Track Dogs make "sun-shiny songs thriving on dark themes behind irresistible rhythms". The Madrid-based ex-pats release their 4th album Kansas City Out Groove in 2018, the perfect showcase for their unique brand of acoustic music. A multi-instrumentalist line-up of cajun, bass, guitar, ukulele and trumpet; four-part harmonies steal the show. More info and booking...

Walcot Chapel

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Live at Walcot Chapel

Su Hart, the dynamic choir leader and singer-songwriter, joins the composer Sian Croose to lead an adventurous evening of layered women's voices, using interlocking rhythms and harmonies. Their influences are as diverse as Meredith Monk and Baka women's rainforest singing. More info and booking...

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £8 / £6 concs
Start time: 10:00
Doors open: 09:45

Howard-Vick Productions presents

A new family musical by Gabriel Vick

Wesley is a 10 year old boy who loves trains and spends too much time at Swindon station for his parents liking. But on this day of the launch of the new intercity express train, Wesley finds himself in charge of the entire station! More info and booking...

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £10 / £8
Start time: 11:30
Doors open: 11:00

OOOH ARRR Productions presents

All of your favourite musicals in one place.

Let our two dazzling divas take you directly to the West End. It is here where they will serenade you with a feel-good hour of toe-tapping tunes and the ballads that are sure to hit home. They will take you through the A-Z of Musical theatre to ensure you do have the time of your life. Dance and sing along to all of your favourite show tunes for 60 minutes of pure entertainment! More info and booking...

Radstock town centre

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bedlam Saturday in Somer Valley

featuring Outside! NOW!! More info and booking...

FAB 1, 94 Walcot Street

Price: Pay What You Can
Start time: 12:00

Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present

A theatrical space to ponder & play with cutting-edge research on body image.

Activities of every shape & size! Guest speakers celebrating the amazing body you already have! Workshops for singing, stretching, dancing, laughing... but not changing a thing! Developed in collaboration with University of Bath Psychology Researchers, The Cubicle will have you head over heels with your hiccups & hairy armpits.
Open 12 noon to 10pm

Extra info: Details at kiltertheatre.org

Bedlam Fair in Radstock

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

‘The Milk Float Stage’ is a solar powered mobile music stage, run by singer-songwriter Paul Thompson. Paul gained a Guinness World record with his eco-float (named Bluebell!), after touring from Norfolk to the Edinburgh Fringe and back…at 10mph!!

Paul’s latest venture is the creation of ‘Milk Float TV’ with fellow Bath Spa University MA Songwriter, Andy Jones. MFTV features music sessions, live gigs and interviews with songwriters, all from the back of Bluebell.

The Milk Float Stage will be showcasing some of the fabulous students from Bath Spa’s Commercial Music and Songwriting MA courses, as well as filming some ‘Bedlam Specials’ for MFTV. Come and experience some great moo-sic, once floated, never forgotten!
More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 18:30
Doors open: 18:00

Festival of Nature presents

Festival of Nature - After dark! This takeover of Green Park Station will find performers, artists and new technologies joining forces with conservation organisations to create an evening of wildlife surprises! More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

This local four piece indie/dream-pop outfit feature intricate guitar styles and soundscapes, four part harmonies, rhythmic drums and synths, and their debut recordings have been championed by BBC 6 Music's Lauren Laverne,
with songs featured heavily on 6 Music "A marvellous little curio of a record" - Steve Lamacq More info and booking...

Kingswood Theatre

Price: £15.68
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Live music, dance and theatre from the Middle East and beyond!

featuring the 'Serpent Slayer'

Club Cairo presents live music, dance and theatre from the Middle East and beyond. Experience the drama of our theatrical production 'The Serpent Slayer' - a story where tough reality meets fairytale - followed by a fun live music set accompanied by a dazzling array of belly dancers.

Extra info: strobe lighting

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £8
Start time: 10:00
Doors open: 09:50

(miniature youth version)

"A brilliantly imaginative evocation of a whole new universe" The Telegraph.
Teenager, C.P., enters the world of the lost and forgotten. Devices, gadgets, and creatures take on new meaning as a musical adventure unfolds.

Extra info: Family musical

FAB 1, 94 Walcot Street

Price: Pay What You Can
Start time: 12:00

Kilter Theatre & University of Bath present

A theatrical space to ponder & play with cutting-edge research on body image.

Activities of every shape & size! Guest speakers celebrating the amazing body you already have! Workshops for singing, stretching, dancing, laughing... but not changing a thing! Developed in collaboration with University of Bath Psychology Researchers, The Cubicle will have you head over heels with your hiccups & hairy armpits.
Open 12 noon to 10pm

Extra info: Details at kiltertheatre.org

Bedlam Fair: Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

‘The Milk Float Stage’ is a solar powered mobile music stage, run by singer-songwriter Paul Thompson. Paul gained a Guinness World record with his eco-float (named Bluebell!), after touring from Norfolk to the Edinburgh Fringe and back…at 10mph!!

Paul’s latest venture is the creation of ‘Milk Float TV’ with fellow Bath Spa University MA Songwriter, Andy Jones. MFTV features music sessions, live gigs and interviews with songwriters, all from the back of Bluebell.

The Milk Float Stage will be showcasing some of the fabulous students from Bath Spa’s Commercial Music and Songwriting MA courses, as well as filming some ‘Bedlam Specials’ for MFTV. Come and experience some great moo-sic, once floated, never forgotten!

Extra info: Sessions, live gigs and interviews until 5pm

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Folk Noir from Texas and Somerset via Amsterdam & Brighton, these two chaps (DS is, in the modern way, one feller by the name of Jonathan Brown) are great pals and one ca see the attraction. Jonathan is renowned for the beauty of his writing; Stuart has been better known for electronica but this step into the acoustic is an artistic rebirth. More info and booking...

Bedlam Fair: Bath Street

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

Ramshacklicious

They arrive in a cloud of raucous brass heavy music, driving a water spurting, flaming and smoking battle contraption. These idiots are convinced that the inevitable end of the world is upon us, maybe today, maybe right here, maybe right now! More info and booking...

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £6 / £5 concs
Start time: 15:00
Doors open: 14:55

Thereby Hangs A Tale presents

Two epic stories from the 16th Century Spanish colonisation of the Americas told with live original music.
"The power of maintaining life in others lives within each of us, and from each of us does it recede when unused" More info and booking...

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £6 / £4 concs
Start time: 16:30
Doors open: 16:00

Etherman Music Group

Finally Made It To The Fringes

Tim is a gifted songwriter and performer, playing a mix of original acoustic and echo/looped material, offering tons of atmosphere in songs documenting the triumph of love and hope over adversity. More info and booking...

Bedlam Fair: Bath Street

Price: Free
Start time: 17:00

Ramshacklicious

They arrive in a cloud of raucous brass heavy music, driving a water spurting, flaming and smoking battle contraption. These idiots are convinced that the inevitable end of the world is upon us, maybe today, maybe right here, maybe right now! More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 19:30

featuring The Hot Potato Syncopators

In for the evening in our favourite covered open air space, Bedlam Cabaret features faces from the afternoon on the street, plus some extra stunning up & coming artists from the region, all rounded off by a show from the West's most stylish street band.
Full bill to be confirmed on the Bedlam leaflet and website nearer the time. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £9 / £7.50 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Nationally-acclaimed singer Cecilia Le Poer Power will be joined by the evocative Senegalese singer /multi-instrumentalist Amadou Diagne for an evening of intimate and atmospheric music. A spellbinding collaboration, which promises a sumptuous melting pot of two continents'. 'Elegant new music star' - The Guardian; 'A beautiful voice' - Jools Holland More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £4
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

One of Bath's most treasured singer/songwriters, Ali's beautifully controlled voice is reminiscent of Cat Stevens and Nick Drake and his fingerstyle guitar of John Martyn and Bert Jansch. His self-penned songs are as exciting and entertaining as they are honest and original. Ali will be joined by double-bassist Tom Allen (Zen Hussies). More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Born in Muswell Hill to Polish mother and Hungarian father, Eva grew up with music in her blood. Fronting touring soul/jazz bands and deep involvement with the original Big Chill, then to a physical and emotional turning-point, she has become a performer of transformative sensitivity & power. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £7 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

With Brian Madigan

Following last year's ground-breaking 'Think of a Song', Brian Madigan teams up with Tony Orrell, Paul Bradley and James Watts in 'Think of a Sequel'.
Three of the region’s finest musical improvisers create unique interpretations of songs they’ve never heard… Engrossing story-telling, dazzling musicianship, and a show-stopping finale are assured. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

with The Fire Blaze Band

A new voice, a new face, and a new energy in Roots Reggae: born and raised in St Ann, Jamaica; currently the most sought after vocal collaborator over in Bristol town; tonight with his young and hungry westcountry band, songs that could have come from the '70s golden age, and sounds of now. More info and booking...

Central United Reformed Church

Price: £5
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:30

Judith Gore - Piano

You've seen the films. Read the books. Now come and hear the music from Jane Austen's personal collection. Pianist Judith Gore has selected a special collection of pieces for audiences to enjoy and experience Jane Austen's musical interests. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

with Audrey Riley and special guests.

Unfortunately the artist has now cancelled this event.
A rare live performance of this acclaimed electronic work - an epic psychedelic journey into the mind taking inspiration from Stockhausen's 'Hymnen', The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Delia Derbyshire but remaining totally unique in every way. Performed with a full band, contemporary dance and spoken word plus special guests. More info and booking...

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £ 10 adv / £12 at the bus stop
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:15

The Beige Brothers Omnibus Company presents :

With Bill Smarme and The Bizness

It's not easy being an international entertainer and ladies’ man. Hear the warts-and-all story behind Bill's relentless 47-year rise to fame and mis-fortune whilst running the Smarme's Arms, and Smarmerection simultaneously! Climb on board for an intimate evening of comedy, music, repartee-hee, exposes, enlightenment and prizes with Bill and The Bizness, all in the best possible taste. Running time 1 hour.

Extra info: This performance takes place on the Bath Theatre Bus

The Moorfields Inn

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

The Old Town Reclamation String Band present

In association with Bath Songwriters Group

Come along with your voices and acoustic instruments and join in the skiffle, country, folk, rockabilly classics - or just come along. Songsheets with chords will be provided. There will also be original songs from local singer songwriters. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £10 / £8
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Comedy presents

A tribute to Scott Walker

Part stand up and part tribute to one of the greatest singers in popular music, The Scott Walker Songbook is an intimate, touching and funny evening for both Scott Walker fans and newcomers alike. More info and booking...

Theatre Bath Bus - Brunel Square

Price: £ 10 adv / £12 at the bus stop
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:45

The Beige Brothers Omnibus Company presents :

With Bill Smarme and The Bizness

It's not easy being an international entertainer and ladies’ man. Hear the warts-and-all story behind Bill's relentless 47-year rise to fame and mis-fortune whilst running the Smarme's Arms, and Smarmerection simultaneously! Climb on board for an intimate evening of comedy, music, repartee-hee, exposes, enlightenment and prizes with Bill and The Bizness, all in the best possible taste. Running time 1 hour.

Extra info: This performance takes place on the Bath Theatre Bus

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Judith Gore - Piano

You've seen the films. Read the books. Now come and hear the music from Jane Austen's personal collection. Pianist Judith Gore has selected a special collection of pieces for audiences to enjoy and experience Jane Austen's musical interests. More info and booking...

Mystery location

Price: £8
Start time: 18:00

Rock of Eye

Unique musical experience featuring some of our favourite players in the region taking you on a tune-full amble around some of Bath's hidden corners, to end with tonight's performance by new acoustic explorers Rock of Eye.
Come prepared for a walk and for some surprises. You will have time to snatch a bite to eat in Walcot St. before the concert. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £12.50 / £10 concs
Start time: 19:00

Pressure to Pleasure Tour

Femi and The InRhythms, a 7-piece band from Lagos, Nigeria, mixes the cerebral musicality of afrobeat with the visceral grooves of funk underpinned with Yoruba-English vocal styles to create an eclectic futuristic world dance music, making them one of the key bands from the contemporary African music scene.
14+ (under 16’s must be accompanied by an adult) More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

With Paul Mallon

If you were you a clubber in Bath between 1968 and 1983, you’ll remember when local Discos played Stax Soul, Motown and Ska – and later Funk and Northern Soul. Dance those years away and relive the atmosphere with ex-Tiffanys & Nero's - and now Soul Train Radio - DJ Paul Mallon. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Are We There Yet? is the 5th solo album by Paisley born singer songwriter Jill Jackson, a record that bears the hallmarks of a 25 year musical journey that has taken her from Paisley to Top of The Pops to playing in every State of America (50 States in 50 Days.....yes really!), and then Nashville. The result is stunning, lyrically and beautifully tender. Don't miss the chance to see this major talent. More info and booking...

Walcot Chapel

Price: £6
Start time: 20:45
Doors open: 20:30

Taking a Tune for a Walk Part 2

Rock of eye are Alex Vann (Spiro, Three Cane Whale) with Ron Phelan and Madame Ceski. The name is a tailoring term signifying to be guided by the eye, to do by feel and intuition rather than by precise methods.
They are an extraordinary improvising folk-based acoustic experience.

This show is the conclusion to 'Taking a Tune for a Walk', which precedes it, and participants on the walk will be admitted before additional tickets are sold (see online in the days before the event). More info and booking...

Walcot Street

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

at large on Walcot Street

Make your way into town this afternoon by way of Walcot Street and you may well find yourself serenaded by this idiosyncratic street band from the deep South London home of many of our favourite performance bands, playing to shop, cafe, pub, queue, open street but never just to themselves. More info and booking...

Moles Club

Price: £5 Adults / £3 concs
Start time: 19:00
Doors open: 19:00

Young Acts and Bands from across the region

Rural Music Network works to support young people from across the region to rehearse, record and perform. We are delighted to be back in Bath with a great line up of singer-songwriters, psychedelic rock, metal, acoustic, and lyrical. These guys are super talented. If you want to get involved contact jamesbrookes@sryp.org.uk More info and booking...

St. Michael's Church

Price: £5
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Original music for Cello and Piano

Join composer pianist Edward Bettella and cellist Jonathan Stabler for an evening of modern new music written especially for the cello and piano. Your musical hosts will guide you through a bombastic and epic selection of music from the composer himself, plus short pieces by a diverse range of other composers, from Purcell to Stevie Wonder. No knowledge of music history required! More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

After previous sell-out gigs in Bath Fringe, this band of good ol’ boys from Nashville Tennessee (who had a whole bunch of songs – allegedly - stolen by some super group calling themselves “The Travelling Wilburys”) are back with all the old hits including: “Pretty Woman”, “Mr Blue Sky”, “Mr Tambourine Man” & “ Lay Lady Lay”. More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:00

Foxy Music presents

Alternative country? Acoustic Pop? Folk/Rock? Smallfry are not hung up on genres, they just love to play great songs. With their delicious musical mix of guitar, ukulele, bass and cajon and the sweet vocal style of front woman Irene, Smallfry serve up an irresistible musical treat to both Bath Fringe and The Barley Mow. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Walcot Sunday at The Bell

Walcot Weekend at The Bell brings three new acts from familiar faces: Nuala Honan we know all about round here, Claire Northey plays great fiddle and electronic bits; SP focus around Van Der Graff co-founder Judge Smith, and MB are a New Orleans marching band style combo from the makers of The Jazz Cannibals. Bands at 1pm, 3.30pm and 6pm, till 8pm. For running order see website nearer the time.

Extra info: Bands at 1pm, 3.30pm, 6pm

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £6 / £7 concs
Start time: 20:00

ShakShak, Jules Landau, Su Hart, Hodmadoddery, Clive TV & more

Way back last century, The Hat & Feather was the place in Bath to be, not least upstairs on a Thursday night at what was to become the longest running Open Mic night in the West, The Playgroup. Tonight reunites some of its regulars in music and something of the Hat's notorious party spirit. More info and booking...

St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs

Price: pay what you will
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

The Medicine Show Radio Revue Presents

plus Fraser Anderson

Austin Indie High Priestess includes Bath Fringe on her 50 date European Tour, described as Carol King meets Grace Jones
Fraser Anderson Hailed by Howard Thompson (Former Head of A&R, Elektra Records) as “the best singer-songwriter I’ve heard in a long time”, the BBC’s Bob Harris as a “truly beautiful voice” and by Rolling Stone Magazine as “one to keep an eye on”, Anderson is a “truly remarkable artist” (BBC Radio Wales). Likened to Damien Rice’s emotionality, Glen Hansard’s crafted storytelling, the intensity of Nick Drake and the lively humour of John Martyn, Anderson stands out in his own right.
If you haven’t heard Anderson’s music yet, you are in for a treat. Words fail to prepare you for the delicate warm and comforting tones of his voice More info and booking...

St. Michael's Church

Price: £7 / £5 concession
Start time: 19:00

The Blazing Hearts Chorus with Walcot Choir

This concert brings together two choirs with songs from many lands and cultures.
Bath’s very own Walcot State choir celebrates its 20th Anniversary by inviting a sister choir from Penzance to bring you a world of songs from The UK, Europe, Africa and beyond in Fabulous rhythm and harmony. Conducted by Vicky Abbot, Su Hart and Sian Penlington
More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12.50 adv / £15 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Modou Ndiaye aka Mamadou Cissokho is a virtuoso Kora player and vocalist from Southern Senegal. Performing with his Kora based group, blending together an irresistible mix of captivating harmonies, mesmerising Kora solos, groovy rhythms and soulful melodies, Moudou unites traditional and modern beats that will leave you invigorated and inspired. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free
Start time: 22:00

Openings Night

If you've wanted a serious c'mon everybody party in Bath or Bristol in the past couple of decades, there's been one name at the top of your shopping list. Horn-heavy Studio 1 ska and early reggae from the '60s is one of the world's favourite goodtimes recipes, and you'd have to walk a long way tonight to find it being done better than by this local institution, through whose ranks many of the city's top players have passed.
More info and booking...

St. Michael's Church

Price: £5 adv / £7 on the door
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bettella & Stabler Present

A night of music for cello and piano

Join composer pianist Edward Bettella and cellist Jonathan Stabler for a performance of Debussy’s late masterpiece, Cello Sonata in D minor. Composed in 1915, this sonata displays Debussy’s full musical range combining dissonance, rich harmony and pentatonic melodies that would have a far-reaching influence on jazz and later modern music. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £3 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

New material night

The most chaotic comedy club in the South West! Featuring The Herb Albert Sound System plus a host of comedians trying out new material. If you'd like to book a slot, please call Arnie on 07501438879.
More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

Way back in the '90s Gris Sanderson was one of the first people we heard taking the fusion of folk music and electronics out on the road as a working live band, and since then we've heard her get to grips with exotic instruments like the nyckelharpa, and traditions as far away from the frozen north as West Africa (with our friend Amadou) & Morocco. This here is a mother-and-son duo, drawing on their experiences from a travelling circus band all the way through to academia. Special stuff. More info and booking...

Parade Gardens

Price: £10/£7 under 16 or with a valid student card. £30 for a group family ticket (2 adult + 2 child)
Start time: 18:30
Doors open: 18:00

Bath IRON and the National Heritage Ironwork Group present

Join us in Parade Gardens to celebrate the installation of the beautiful, hand forged, bandstand balustrade, a gift to the city of Bath. We’ll have a foot-stomping line up of talented local FOLK bands playing, bar, food stalls and we'll be celebrating the traditional heritage craft of the artist blacksmith with live forging demonstrations throughout the evening. There’ll be something for everyone so bring the whole family!

More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £25
Start time: 20:00

Bath Festival and Bath Fringe present:

Plus Dataline

Flexible, eclectic, APPARAT, a.k.a.Sascha Ring, started in pure dance techno, then caught the Glitch bug, and now the impurities in the sound come from 'real' instruments and singers. Genre isn't really a millstone round his neck. A landmark on the Berlin scene since the late '90s, he has never stopped experimenting and collaborating. This is a special event for Bath and for both festivals. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £7 Concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Plus Red Carousel

The Bookshop Band is the offspring of an artistic love-affair between a duo of English folk singer-songwriters, Beth Porter & Ben Please, and a multi-award winning independent bookshop in Bath, Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights.
More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Described as "a 21st century take on those maverick genius outsiders that Stiff Records used to release back in the punk wars" and unsurprisingly gaining plenty of 6 Music airtime, Lavene has inveigled himself onto The Bell's stage through the stratagem of grabbing a Bath band (the polyglot Port Erin) to provide the "wonk beats and scuzz riffs" upon which he writes his street stories.
More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £3
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Young Somerset & The Cheese and Grain Presents

Markus Smith, Patchwork Poet, Elliot Garcia, Swingray, The Frontrunners, Otto Wilde, The Marianas

Experience an eclectic mix of some of Somerset's most awesome up-and-coming music acts from across the County. Featuring: Markus Smith, Patchwork Poet, Elliot Garcia, Swingray, The Frontrunners, Otto Wilde, The Marianas. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 20:15
Doors open: 19:15

A musician, songwriter & actor whose charismatic presence on stage, makes every note seem effortless. Northern Sky Magazine described his third album 'Only a Flight Away', as 'Impressive in its scope, and almost a compendium of styles'. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Brian Madigan

The final part of the Trilogy that began with the ground-breaking ‘Think of a Song’ in 2017, and followed in 2018 with ‘Think of a Sequel’, 'Think of a Conclusion' asks what happens when the curtain comes down - Is this really the end? More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Upstairs theatre

Price: £8 / £7 concs
Start time: 20:30

Rob Johnston is one of the very best acoustic guitar players around. His brilliant playing style covers a huge range of influences from folk, world and classical. “Staggering playing...He is a mighty, mighty fine player.” Phil Jackson, South Live, BBC Southern Counties Radio. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Rockin' Soul with a funk backbone from 7-piece fronted by the very self-posessed Florence Pardoe. Playing the right venues in Bristol & Boomtown brought them to our attention and we judged them worthy of yours. The name is more about passion than depression and the vibe is UP. More info and booking...

St. Barnabas Church

Price: £10
Start time: 19:00

Young Dutch Orchestra

Purcell - Chacony In G Minor
Walton - Two Pieces For Strings From Henry V
Van Wassenaer - Concerto Armonico Nr. 1 In G Major
Delius - Two Aquarelles
Hellendaal - Concerto Grosso Op. 3 Nr. 2
Pärt - Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten - Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge
Van Klaveren - Hope Is The Thing With Feathers More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Plus The Shipmates

Neither heavy nor pop, the band play original songs with driving beats and soulful melodies. One reviewer described the band as "Like cruising in a Cadillac with Chris Rea at the wheel with Pink Floyd and the Allman Brothers in the back, and maybe some Eagles flying overhead". More info and booking...

Walcot Chapel

Price: £5 on door
Start time: 20:15
Doors open: 19:30

ARCC present

GothARCC. Bath swamp blues band ARCC play soundtrack to an iconic horror film from the silent era. Guaranteed chills and thrills. With scary poetry from Tim Burroughs, spoken word from the ghost of Eva and immersive video decor, come and experience.
Do you dare to be there? Do you dare not? More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £5.00 + booking fee
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:15

Bristol Shakespeare Festival presents

by Rachel Waterhouse

Experience Shakespeare's most famous play in its purest, most ridiculous form! The timeless tale of Hamlet is retold with cheeky irreverence and boundless energy through genius rewrites of modern hits - including classics by Queen, Britney Spears, ABBA, Kanye West, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, and Elvis Presley! More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £5.00 + booking fee
Start time: 18:30
Doors open: 18:15

Bristol Shakespeare Festival presents

by Rachel Waterhouse

Experience Shakespeare's most famous play in its purest, most ridiculous form! The timeless tale of Hamlet is retold with cheeky irreverence and boundless energy through genius rewrites of modern hits - including classics by Queen, Britney Spears, ABBA, Kanye West, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, and Elvis Presley! More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £7.50 / £6 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Paul Mallon

If you were you a clubber in Bath between 1968 and 1983 you’ll remember when local Discos played Stax, Soul, Motown and Ska, and later, Funk and Northern Soul. Dance those years away and relive the atmosphere with ex-Tiffanys & Nero's - and now Soul Train Radio - DJ Paul Mallon. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: £20.00 / £13.00 concs, Students (Balcony): £9.00, Meal Deal: £30.50, Meal Deal Plus: £41.00
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 18:30

Fusing the wild, weird and witty traditions of circus, cabaret and burlesque, The Ministry of Burlesque’s Cabaret unfolds as a bold and daring, ever evolving new-variety experience. Enjoy a myriad of musical comedy masters, provocative prima donnas, enigmatic exotic dancers and astonishing feats of human grace – all balanced on a contemporary knife edge. 18+ More info and booking...

St James Wine Vaults - Downstairs

Price: £10
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

"Australia's answer to Bruce Springsteen", OZ Folk-rock-roots singer-songwriter Carus Thompson has toured the world with Jack Johnson, John Butler & Dave Mathews. He's toured the UK opening for his good friend Seth Lakeman and plays this exclusive Bath show for the Fringe. Wonderful honest, singer-songwriter, acoustic music that rocks, engages and entertains. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £3 suggested donation on door
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

1st Birthday Bash

It’s Bella Cielo’s Birthday!! Are you ready for the queerest 1st Birthday in Bath?
We’re back bringing Walcot Street another night full of LGBTQ+ celebration. They’ve got music, comedy, burlesque, drag and much more - hosted as always by Bath’s premier Drag Couple, Candy Flipp & Joshua Beau Jangles.

More info and booking...

Green Park Station

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Try your Latino with a bit of Electro, the way they like it back home! Camo Clave are a local Latin band with a difference, inspired by the sounds of today and picking up influences from all over – again, just like they do South of Central – and have been grabbing slots at only the funkiest festivals (Boomtown, Wilderness). More info and booking...

SouthGate

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Bedlam Fair

Two old men with a sea chest, two sheep, and some cunning disguises. Add a violin, whistles, banjo, some teeny-weeny bits of juggling and some of those catchy olde tyme tunes, and you have a curious street performance, full of wonder, laughter and maybe something quite strange… More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 Concession
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

with Thomas Cameron

Thomas Cameron is a Classic Brit Award-nominated tenor whose vibrant voice, described as having 'velvet-like qualities', has blown-away sell-out audiences across the UK and Ireland.
More info and booking...

SouthGate

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

Bedlam Fair

Two old men with a sea chest, two sheep, and some cunning disguises. Add a violin, whistles, banjo, some teeny-weeny bits of juggling and some of those catchy olde tyme tunes, and you have a curious street performance, full of wonder, laughter and maybe something quite strange… More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £5.00 + booking fee
Start time: 16:30
Doors open: 16:15

Bristol Shakespeare Festival presents

by Rachel Waterhouse

Experience Shakespeare's most famous play in its purest, most ridiculous form! The timeless tale of Hamlet is retold with cheeky irreverence and boundless energy through genius rewrites of modern hits - including classics by Queen, Britney Spears, ABBA, Kanye West, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, and Elvis Presley! More info and booking...

Christ Church

Price: £15
Start time: 19:00

Young Dutch Orchestra

Purcell - Chacony In G Minor
Walton - Two Pieces For Strings From Henry V
Van Wassenaer - Concerto Armonico Nr. 1 In G Major
Delius - Two Aquarelles
Hellendaal - Concerto Grosso Op. 3 Nr. 2
Pärt - Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Britten - Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge
Van Klaveren - Hope Is The Thing With Feathers More info and booking...

Winsley Village Hall

Price: £8 in adv / £10 on door
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Live at the Village Hall, Winsley

An evening of insane lunacy and cacophonous jazz performed by the West Country’s most esteemed and ridiculous marzipans of tea time jazz and biscuits.
A joyous and celebratory evening of music, comedy, dance, silly noises, a giant paper plane fight and a lovely cup of tea.
Bring your own gin. Alternatively tea and biscuits will be served.
More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £10
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Brainfruit presents

Northern Exposure meets The Singing Ringing Tree

Absurd & funny with a dancing wolf, buffalo & grizzly. "Songs of lakes, firesides and bears. An impossible odyssey" Highly Recommended - Fringereview “The tables were turned and it was me who danced to Bear North’s tune”  **** FringeGuru. From the company who won ‘Best Ensemble’ @ Wellington Fringe 2017 More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £11
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

This band of good ol’ boys from Nashville Tennessee had a whole bunch of songs (allegedly) stolen by super group “The Travelling Wilburys.” After a lengthy legal battle, they can now hit the highway with all their old songs including: “Pretty Woman”, “You’ve Got It”, “Mr Blue Sky” and “Mr Tambourine Man”. More info and booking...

Walcot Chapel

Price: £6
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

Kimberly Moore’s songs immerse you in a world of the bizarre yet familiar and her voice haunts with honesty and beauty. Su Hart’s deliver interestingly uncomfortable messages coated in jolliness. Harmony and sensitive musicianship helped along by Su’s longtime mates Stevie (double bass) and Sarah (mandolin and accordion).

More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £5.00 + booking fee
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:15

Bristol Shakespeare Festival presents

by Rachel Waterhouse

Experience Shakespeare's most famous play in its purest, most ridiculous form! The timeless tale of Hamlet is retold with cheeky irreverence and boundless energy through genius rewrites of modern hits - including classics by Queen, Britney Spears, ABBA, Kanye West, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, and Elvis Presley! More info and booking...

Stall Street / Bath Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

Bedlam Fair

Kimberly Moore’s songs immerse you in a world of the bizarre yet familiar and her voice haunts with honesty and beauty. Su Hart’s deliver interestingly uncomfortable messages coated in jolliness. More info and booking...

Saw Close

Price: Free
Start time: 12:30

Bedlam Fair

Two old men with a sea chest, two sheep, and some cunning disguises. Add a violin, whistles, banjo, some teeny-weeny bits of juggling and some of those catchy olde tyme tunes, and you have a curious street performance, full of wonder, laughter and maybe something quite strange…

Extra info: This is a roaming performance.

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

The afterlife of Cardiff institution Railroad Bill has made for a few bonuses to balance the blues, and one of those is the first Western Swing band we've had in here in several years, and that at least is a very good thing. Described as "jazz with a cowboy hat on", Western Swing - greatest exponents Bob Wills & The Texas Playboys - is one of those side-roads in American Music that a few more should have explored and the maps are still worth studying.
More info and booking...

Sawclose, Kingsmead Square & Bath Street

Price: Free
Start time: 14:30

Bedlam Fair

This London based 8 piece Brass Ensemble mix modern tracks with New Orleans influences to create an up-beat and lively sound that will spread smiles and dance moves across the party. More info and booking...

Saw Close

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

Bedlam Fair

Two old men with a sea chest, two sheep, and some cunning disguises. Add a violin, whistles, banjo, some teeny-weeny bits of juggling and some of those catchy olde tyme tunes, and you have a curious street performance, full of wonder, laughter and maybe something quite strange… More info and booking...

Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 17:00

Bedlam Fair

Two old men with a sea chest, two sheep, and some cunning disguises. Add a violin, whistles, banjo, some teeny-weeny bits of juggling and some of those catchy olde tyme tunes, and you have a curious street performance, full of wonder, laughter and maybe something quite strange… More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £7 Concessions
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Curtis is a gifted banjo player, rock & roll singer and prolific songwriter, whose evocative compositions describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one. His dynamic, highly physical stage performances have gained The American Circus a devoted international following.

More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £10
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

The Hamoaze Band presents:

Songs and tales of murder

A show from S.E. Cornwall's premier folk/acoustic band. Based on the great folk tradition of the murder ballad "a highly engaging, deeply amusing, mix of concert and theatre ... terrific songs ... plenty of off-kilter humour ... surpasses all expectations!"

Extra info: In 2 acts with a 20 minute (approx) interval

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8
Start time: 19:00
Doors open: 18:30

Irantzu Agirre-Arrizubieta presents

A Multidisciplinary Arts Performance with Harp Music

This talented Basque harpist has performed around the world since the age of sixteen, as a soloist and in leading orchestras. Described by the 'New York Concert Review' as "a sensitive chamber musician as well as a virtuoso soloist", she here presents her latest project for Harp, literature and lighting effects. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Erstwhile queen of Bath Jazz returns to re-claim her crown. We’ve missed her. With Joan (vox), the sublime Tony Remy (guitar), Anders Olinder (keys), Andy Tween (drums/perc.), Nick Cohen (bass). More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Two of the key personalities from Bristol/festival favourites Mr Tea & The Minions, playing a set with some of the same influences as the bigger band, with a bit more subtlety but no less energy. Full of the joys of busking and being close to your audience. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £8.00
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Find a Performer Ltd Presents

Geoff Robb was the winner of the 2018 Brighton Fringe Live Music Award for his solo show. His beautiful meditative compositions blend his classical training and background in healing with his love of Spanish and Celtic music. If you enjoy beautiful acoustic guitar music then don't miss this award-winning show.
More info and booking...

The Moorfields Inn

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

The Old Town Reclamation String Band together with Bath Songwriters Group present

Sing along to skiffle, country, folk and rockabilly classics with The Old Town Reclamation String Band, and listen to original songs from Bath Songwriters Group. Bring your voices and acoustic instruments and join in - or just come and be entertained. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £7 Concessions
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Plus Shankara Andy Bole

Deepspace funk-punk psychedelic rock infused with a hint of jazz and a twist of gnome. The band’s set of all original material addresses the Tibetan situation, future politics, deep inner space, the nature of things and a few classic Gong and (founder member) Daevid Allen favourites. All played with deepspace funk-punk psychedelic rock infused with a hint of jazz and a twist of gnome. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Guitar-based Latin, not the most common flavour on The Bell's stage tho' it has a lot of traction on the other side of the Atlantic. The drums & perc. are really special too. From the same stable as Bell favourites born-again blues rockers Belle Day, LGs share with them the uncanny alchemy that can make you believe again in the oldest tricks of the trade.
More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Promoted by Nick Hales

50 years on from fabled festival Woodstock, a musical celebration of the 'Summer of Love'. Music from three years before and after. Joplin, Garcia, Hendrix, Grace Slick, Quicksilver et al. Hippie clothing and attitudes are encouraged. There will be free face/leg/arm painting too. Peace, Love and Music.

More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £12 / £10 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

One of the hottest live bands in the UK - that the founder, Ronnie Lane (Small Faces/Faces), would have been proud of. With three original members, Steve Bingham, Charlie Hart and Steve Simpson, they play ‘British Americana’/rock and roll and deliver a well-crafted show of new material and Ronnie Lane’s classics.

More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £12 / £10 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Vocal Stargazing

followed by her duo 'Cecilia & Amadou'

The debut of Cecilia's much anticipated one-woman vocal experience. Using loop pedal technology, Cecilia weaves exquisite layers of vocals creating ethereal and mesmerising landscapes and songs. In the second half of the evening, Cecilia will be joined by Senegalese musician Amadou Diagne for a set of spellbinding original duets. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

A Musical Revue by Martin Dimery

Martin (of Sgt Pepper's Only Dart Board Band) has a parallel career impersonating others, whilst maintaining a life in writing and directing. Here he brings together humorous readings from his autobiography "Being John Lennon" linked by a series of songs allegedly discarded by the likes of Elvis, John Lennon and Mick Jagger. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 Concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Jelli Records present

Plus Ellie Frank and Rosina Keri

Singer/songwriter Cindy Stratton produces beautiful, timeless music. Fresh from the finals of the Gibraltar song festival, she will be joined by band members Marius Frank, Ali Nourse and Susie Wright. Plus an intimate and soulful performance from up and coming local singer/songwriter Ellie Frank and witty and passionate songs from Rosina Keri. More info and booking...

Walcot Chapel

Price: £6
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 20:00

Discogs (the home of discerning music collectors) says "English Singer/Songwriter, renowned for his eccentricity" - but he's also a dab hand with classics of blues, RnB and even an electric canter through 'A Horse with No Name'. Scoring press plaudits in London during the '70s pub-rock boom, it was in Bath that his work shifted up a division, with classic songs and performances which he has no problem living up to now. Years down the road he's different, and still different, but still great! More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £6
Start time: 21:00

First Friday with

plus Bluesman Mike Francis

King of the Acoustic Blues in these parts, Mr Martin is doing the thing that he does the best in solo spotlight mode, so you get to hear every twist and turn of his award-winning guitar style and every nuance of the song close up.
More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

Saturday at The Bell

In the spirit of the Walcot Community print shop, we have invited Mr Simon Rigby back for the weekend - to play with letterpress and screen print behind The Bell, as the Bruno & Mick Saturday afternoon DJ summit gets into the swing (and indeed the shimmy and the slamdance). The Pink Milkfloat's work is all round The Bell, and the houses of the cognoscenti, here's your chance to make your own. Plus other diversions yet to be announced. More info and booking...

St. Michael's Church

Price: £5 adv / £7 on the door
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bettella & Stabler Present

A night of music for cello and piano

Join composer pianist Edward Bettella and cellist Jonathan Stabler for a performance of Debussy’s late masterpiece, Cello Sonata in D minor. Composed in 1915, this sonata displays Debussy’s full musical range combining dissonance, rich harmony and pentatonic melodies that would have a far-reaching influence on jazz and later modern music. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £8
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

plus Sylvia Hunt, Rare Species and Marty Skiver

An evening of cabaret with Bill Smarme

""Bill Smarme - international entertainer, playboy, building contractor - will entertain you with a farrago of songs
you may have heard but not in quite the same way." With special guests: Lady Tete de Pisse and Billy Bubbles, Marty Skiver, Rare Species and more acts to be announced. More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

The most musically creative (if not the most prolific) of his own Walcot generation, Lawrie's great songwriting has fuelled dozens of shows and a fine album of The Duckworths, and more recently a solo career with a lot of work Stateside. This gig is to celebrate the end of recording of his newest album, and will feature some old friends and maybe a few faces from The Playgroup, where he rules every Thursday night out back.
More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Thunderbridge bring their own version of bluegrass to you, using one microphone, five instruments and voices that blend together to make a highly traditional yet thoroughly original sound. All-acoustic music featuring fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and double bass, and playing some classics, some covers, plus many self-penned, there is something for everyone More info and booking...

St. Michael's Church

Price: £5 adv / £7 on the door Under 16’s free accompanied by an adult
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

with special guests Bristol Mandolin and Guitar Ensemble

Bath’s newest community orchestra is an informal group of mixed ability musicians who enjoy playing together a wide variety of music. They will be supported by a fretted instrument community orchestra from Bristol with similar tastes. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £14, £10 Unwaged, £7 Under 25s
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

All Of The Above - the people who brought you the Bath Jazz Weekend - present

featuring pianist Jason Rebello

The highlight of the Bath Jazz Weekend and so many other festivals, Iain Ballamy is an undoubted favourite: recognised as one of Europe's finest saxophonists and band leaders, plus remarkable pianist Jason Rebello, Percy Pursglove (bass & trumpet) and Mark Whitlam, drums More info and booking...

The Bell

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

The 2nd Annual...

Playgroup's Greatest Hits

Convened last Fringe to fill a date that had fallen apart, this turned into one of the hits of trhe festival, at least for the generation who started The Playgroup back in the latter days of The Hat & Feather, bringing us the likes of Zen Hussies, ShakShak, Hanover St., Hodmadoddery, Brian Mad, and a hundred mysterious visitors we would never see again. Which of those luminaries will make it tonight is as unpredictable as it ever was, but you can be sure something unprecedented will happen.
Dedicated to Johnny Rench and Phil 'just wanna be like Jimi Hendrix'. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:30

Friday Night Social

Palm Court piano from Pump Room to Punk.
The Waterside Arts Bar at Bath’s best wharf-side arts centre, Widcombe Social Club, is open to everyone every Friday from 5.30pm. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:30

Friday Night Social

Guitar led jazz trio featuring Andrew Murphy, Duncan Kingston and Dan Reid.

The Waterside Arts Bar at Bath’s best wharf-side arts centre, Widcombe Social Club, is open to everyone every Friday from 5.30pm, with free live music 6-8pm and a new bar food menu launching in June. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:30

Friday Night Social

Happy-go-lucky acoustic fingerpicking duo.

The Waterside Arts Bar at Bath’s best wharf-side arts centre, Widcombe Social Club, is open to everyone every Friday from 5.30pm. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: 15
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:30

Komedia presents:

With the fiddle leading the charge, Noble Jacks are out to take no prisoners with their high-energy footstompin’ rhythms, which have taken crowds by storm across the UK. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £13 and £11 (WSC Members)
Start time: 20:00

All Of The Above presents

Award-winning international pianist Dave Newton brings his trio, from the mainstream heart of the great jazz tradition, to once again celebrate the end of lockdown and the joyful beginning of a new Covid-secure chapter of All Of The Above's music promotions and the re-opened WSC.
More info and booking...

17-18 Milsom Street

Price: £3
Start time: 11:00

Ramshacklicious present:

An Audience with the WORSHIPFUL MASTER. The ULTIMATE roadshow, a group of “exceptional” people, demonstrating the untapped POTENTIAL that we all have to reach the kind of PERFECTION we desire: body, mind and lifestyle all operating at optimum levels.

Extra info: Ticketed performances throughout the day - Ticketed only today, sorry.

17-18 Milsom Street

Price: £3
Start time: 11:00

Ramshacklicious present:

An Audience with the WORSHIPFUL MASTER. The ULTIMATE roadshow, a group of “exceptional” people, demonstrating the untapped POTENTIAL that we all have to reach the kind of PERFECTION we desire: body, mind and lifestyle all operating at optimum levels.

Extra info: On-street free version at 11.56-12.30 and 2.15-3pm.

Komedia

Price: 12
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:30

Komedia Bath presents:

Striking a masterful balance between old soul & modern flair, Will Johns is one of the most distinctive and exciting British Blues performers in the world today. More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: General £16 - Concessions £14 (prices before box office service fees)
Start time: 18:30
Doors open: 17:30

Raices

Without losing purity and depth, this show aims to universalise Flamenco, make it sing, dance and play, to conquer the world like Rock or Jazz did, to bring Flamenco to a wide and diverse audience, a show for both aficionados and novices, for those who listen to flamenco and those who do not... just yet. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: 14
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:30

Komedia presents:

Drum and Bass MC turned singer-songwriter Billy Rowan, aka The Undercover Hippy, is definitely not your average singer songwriter. More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: General £16 - Concessions £14 (prices before box office service fees)
Start time: 21:00
Doors open: 20:45

Raices

Without losing purity and depth, this show aims to universalise Flamenco, make it sing, dance and play, to conquer the world like Rock or Jazz did, to bring Flamenco to a wide and diverse audience, a show for both aficionados and novices, for those who listen to flamenco and those who do not... just yet. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:30

Friday Night Social

Acoustic Slide Blues Trio playing their own unique blend of vocal harmonic blues.

The Waterside Arts Bar at Bath’s best wharf-side arts centre, Widcombe Social Club, is open to everyone every Friday from 5.30pm. More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: 15
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:30

Komedia presents:

Neville Staple, Legendary front man of The Specials, Fun Boy Three and Special Beat, also known as The Original Rude Boy, is credited with changing the face of pop music not only once but twice. More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £10/ £8 conc.
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

A cabaret revue of the finest songs by Jacques Brel More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:30

Friday Night Social

Top notch jazz Sax and Hammond Organ duo.

The Waterside Arts Bar at Bath’s best wharf-side arts centre, Widcombe Social Club, is open to everyone every Friday from 5.30pm.
More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: 10
Start time: 14:00
Doors open: 14:00

Komedia presents:

Sunday live music matinee with Scrumpy & Western favourites Skimmity Hitchers and John D Revelator! More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Free
Start time: 17:00
Doors open: 17:00

Komedia presents:

Bite The Bufallo, Meekers and more

Komedia Bath is proud to present a FREE night of the very best in live local music. Featuring 6 awesome bands across 2 stages, this mini-festival will run from 5pm – 10pm and is open to all ages (with under 16s to be accompanied by an adult).
POSTPONED TILL 19th JULY More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Free
Start time: 17:00
Doors open: 17:00

Komedia presents:

The Maitree Express, Plume and More

Komedia Bath is proud to present a FREE night of live music guaranteed to get your feet moving, this mini-festival will run from 5pm – 10pm and is open to all ages (with under 16s to be accompanied by an adult).
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TILL FRIDAY 13th AUGUST More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00
Doors open: 17:30

Friday Night Social

Tonight's act is to be confirmed.
The Waterside Arts Bar at Bath’s best wharf-side arts centre, Widcombe Social Club, is open to everyone every Friday from 5.30pm. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £12 / £10 concs (Students, unwaged or Friends of the Festival only, ID required on door)
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 19:45

Bath Comedy Club

Bath Comedy Club continues it's triumphant return to indoor comedy, at Widcombe Social!
Three top notch comedians in one night!
Covid-secure conditions incuding temperature checks, regular sanitising and cleaning, air conditioning, distancing disguised as cabaret seating, table service.
More info and booking...

Sawclose, Kingsmead Square & Bath Street

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Bath's own and only Street Theatre Festival More info and booking...

Kingsmead Square

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Analogue High Fidelity Stereo Sound

Ska Aerobics; Acid House Therapy;
Blimfield’s West Coast Jazz & Blues Review;
Pink Milkfloat Letterpress Poster Printing Press workshops.

--- More info and booking...

Sawclose, Kingsmead Square & Bath Street

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Rimski's Yard is now a fixture at the more discerning style of greenfield festival, Glastonbury, BoomTown, variety of
mobile and static, visual and performance Art spectacles, performed & produced by Oliver Cumming & Laura Pocket. More info and booking...

St Swithins Church

Price: 10.00
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Inkling Album Tour

Contemporary chamber quartet Spindle Ensemble will be performing pieces from their second album Inkling (Hidden Notes Records) at the beautiful St Swithin's Church, Walcot St.

"If you love to be delighted by fluid and sparkling musical arrangements and instrumentation you’ll greatly enjoy this record." Nick Luscombe (BBC radio 3 Late Junction)

Daniel Inzani - piano, Celtic harp
Caelia Lunniss - violin
Harriet Riley - marimba, vibraphone
Jo Silverston - cello

spindleensemble.com More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £13.50 - £11.50
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

2019: Stiff & Kitsch write a hit show about everything keeping them awake at night: tax, wooden cutlery and the consequences of last night's eight double G&Ts. Each.

2020: Global Pandemic hits... That wooden cutlery doesn't seem too scary now.

“Properly 'laugh until your face aches' hilarious" - Broadway World
More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: Tickets £14 and £12 (WSC Members)
Start time: 20:00

All Of The Above presents

Conceived by Iain Ballamy during the 2020 lockdown as a positive antidote to the Covid-19 and travel restrictions on musicians, The Jazz Locavores was formed with fellow internationally renowned musicians - all local Somerset residents - to capitalise on staying at home but making great music with brilliant friends. More info and booking...

The Guildhall

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00

Freedom in the City Festival

by Composer Juwon Ogungbe

This is an 'in person' live performance.

Please check https://www.crowdcast.io/fitcadmin%20 for further information.

Extra info: Please note: performance times are yet to be decided.

Komedia

Price: Free
Start time: 17:00
Doors open: 17:00

Komedia presents:

Bite The Bufallo, Meekers and more

Komedia Bath is proud to present a FREE night of the very best in live local music. Featuring 6 awesome bands across 2 stages, this mini-festival will run from 5pm – 10pm and is open to all ages (with under 16s to be accompanied by an adult).
POSTPONED TILL 19th JULY More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

This is not a shop

Bath three piece, The Pinkertons, play a mixture of Eastern European folk and gypsy jazz with Tom on piano, Stevie on double bass and Sarah on guitar and Accordion. More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

This is not a shop

Bristol-Belfast's premier spontaneous performer, composer and wordsmith, Paul invents microworld's of tune and imagery, and sweetly/wilfully conjures the energy of the day, time, and space that his performances happen to be in. Improvising ambient sentimental abstractions on guitar, voice and sundry therapeutic noises, Paul aims to heal the free or captive listener. 
More info and booking...

Online event

Price: Free
Start time: 18:30

Freedom in the City Festival

by Composer Juwon Ogungbe

Watch the video of this epic opera and meet composer Juwon Ogungbe, producer Charlotte Lang, and members of the cast. Q&A chaired by Sister Cee.
More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00
Doors open: 12:00

This is not a shop

New acoustic duo of James Gow (cello) and Pete Judge (trumpet)

The space will be animated by short atmospheric and intimate performances by James Gow (cello) and Pete Judge (trumpet) throughout the afternoon between 2pm - 5pm. More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00
Doors open: 12:00

This is not a shop

Bath three piece, The Pinkertons, play a mixture of Eastern European folk and gypsy jazz with Tom on piano, Stevie on double bass and Sarah on guitar and Accordion. More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Free
Start time: 17:00
Doors open: 17:00

Komedia presents:

The Maitree Express, Plume and More

Komedia Bath is proud to present a FREE night of live music guaranteed to get your feet moving, this mini-festival will run from 5pm – 10pm and is open to all ages (with under 16s to be accompanied by an adult).
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TILL FRIDAY 13th AUGUST More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

This is not a shop

Amadou Diagne is a singer and multi-instrumentalist who has the traditions of West Africa at his fingertips. Originally from Dakar, Senegal, Amadou comes from a long family line of West African Griot percussionists and praise singers and as a young man, was a full-time member of L’Orchestra National du Senegal.

Extra info: There will be short performances between 2 and 5pm

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 19:00

This is not a shop

For our closing night, retropxssy’s alternative hip hop blends with trap, house, UK Garage. Always eclectic, eccentric, punk as hell, the London chameleon journeys through a post-genre world. More info and booking...

5 Broad Street

Price: Free
Start time: 12:00

Bath Fringe & F@B present

Bath Fringe's Bargain-Busting Art in Empty Shops project More info and booking...

The Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill

Price: £15
Start time: 19:45
Doors open: 19:00

Kelston Records and Komedia Bath present

Bristol wordless folk trio, Three Cane Whale, open the 2022 season of performance at the off grid Old Barn, Kelston Roundhill on Saturday 21st May. Performing in the trees and on the threshing room floor, the band will conjure their sound pictures of countryside and country life.

Extra info: Break between sets 20.45 to 21.30

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00
Doors open: 12:00

We consider Sam one of our own: been playing for us since well before he was
legal in the pub! He has a beautiful folk/blues voice and his writing has really matured under the influence of the ‘60s masters. With guitar buddy & virtuoso Kit this will be a state-of-the-art statement of contemporary acoustic classics. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Anything with Jim Blomfield in is worth hearing. Anything with him playing Latin Jazz outclasses all else in the style in the region. No Lie. In cahoots with Cuban-born-and-bred brass maestro Michel, they risk lift-off. You can trust us on this one. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Si John made his name first with The Federation, biggest selling record to that point on Mo’ Wax, no less. Then he made a name again on bass with the
flatten-all-comers Ronnie Size Reprazent juggernaut. With a background like that, this project is more like just-for-fun. But it’s Big Fun, and just a little bit naughty with it... More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £15 adv / £17 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Classic blues and jazz tunes from the inter-war years with a selection of original songs and hand-picked covers.
More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:30

For one week only Tuesday night is Friday night and Friday night is Funk night!
Spearheaded by local favorite Tom Berge (Organ/ keys) and featuring some of the best musicians of the South West Ivan Moreno (percussion) and Jacob Tyghe (electric bass), this session is guaranteed to have you up and on your feet dancing. Come down, grab a drink and soak up the music.
Please note this is a closed session. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

with the Westgate Allstar Collective

We love our vinyl here at The Grapes and Saturday afternoons, we ramp up the grooves with the Westgate AllStar Vinyl Collective – a funky group of local DJ’s bringing their own brand of turntabalism to the bar. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £10 adv / £12 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Energised and authentic soul-infused blues from this 4 piece with an ear for the classic and an eye on the future.
More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Various prices - see Komedia web-site
Start time: 23:00

A classic mix of all the best Motown, Soul and Funk to keep you dancing till the early hours! More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

TESTED POSITIVE FOR CORONAVIRUS, TOUR CANCELLED
“Hard-hitting and heartfelt Old Time, classic Bluegrass, and original roots music from Astoria, Oregon”, says their website, and we couldn’t put it better. Masters
of at least 3 genres there, but none too fussed about the strict rules of any of them; we are happy to concede that our Stateside cousins are the guv’nors in this and will be happy to come, learn, and enjoy! More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

Young Musicians Showcase, headlined by

Join us for a Sunday showcase celebrating some of Bath’s brightest, funkiest and most talented up and coming musicians. Featuring some of our locals and followed by two of our own bar staff in ‘The Mayors of Shagtown’, this should make for a brilliant afternoon of homegrown live music.
Performing their civic duty to funk, The Mayors of Shagtown deliver a blend of naughty guitar riffs and humorous lyrics. Always with a lighthearted attitude and occasionally landing on profoundly positive notes. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £7 / £5 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

With their driving beats and soulful melodies, the band have performed with classic artists including Wishbone Ash, 10cc, The Blockheads and The Yardbirds. "Like cruising in a Cadillac with Chris Rea at the wheel with Pink Floyd and the Allman Brothers in the back, and maybe some Eagles flying overhead". More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Gundula Stojanova Gruen has earned the epithet ‘Magic Violin’ and is an acknowledged expert on Macedonian & Romani music, considered among the first rank in this country. She’s also a great performer, as this lineup will simply but amply underline. A treat! More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Introducing our newest weekly music session at The Grapes: Tuesday night is Funk night! Spearheaded by local favourite Tom Berge and featuring some of the best musicians of the South West, this session is guaranteed to have you up and on your feet dancing. Come down, grab a drink and soak up the music.

For the Bath Fringe Festival these sessions will be featuring Nurdle, A crooked funk machine forging addictive hooks dipped in nostalgic beats, distorted dreamscapes and creating the soundtrack to your alter ego's taboo lifestyle.

Please note this is a closed session.
More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

An evolving project among a group of female writers & performers, headed who-knows-where but certainly having fun getting there. We’re hosting a series
of intimate sessions with the girls, but it’s them doing all the hard work, no question. No question of its quality either. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Led by a core group of amazing local musicians Tim Petherick, Jack Lecomber and friends. This is a lively night in the bar each Wednesday with improv featuring heavily in their repertoire. Expect the double bass, some stonking guitar and electrifying keyboard skills as an absolute minimum.
Please note this is a closed session. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Brian Madigan

Brian’s on a mission, taking songs and stories around the country by bicycle with a Special Preview at the OTR. As with Brian’s previous Fringe shows, boundaries will be blurred...is it a gig? Is it a show? Will there be a band.. a choir… or dancers? Come and find out. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Erin Bardwell ran one of the more original ska-and-soul-based-sound projects in the SouthWest for several years, but now post-lockdown the addition of some
jazzier flavours and tabla make for something still more ambitious, already scoring high. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Each Thursday from 8pm, the bar comes alive to the sounds of Trad Irish tunes from a talented bunch of local musicians, sometimes joined by friends on the circuit from further afield. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £5 / £3 concs
Start time: 20:00

The Jazz Social is a new jazz space for everyone interested in playing or listening to the best of contemporary jazz. Opening with the Jazz Social House Band and then inviting anyone who wants to perform, be it instrumentalists or vocalists. Backline is provided - instrumentalists please bring your own instruments. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £6.50
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Sam Eason

The Acoustic Mixtape is a collective of top South West musicians putting on amazing and unique acoustic shows themed on the music of a decade or genre. Expect the usual & the unusual, including the likes of Radiohead, Green Day, Prodigy, Spice Girls, Alanis Morissette, N-Trance and er... Ricky Martin?! More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £17.50 + booking fee
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

RMT Music Live presents...

Influenced by jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman and his free-spirited albums of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Get The Blessing will have you on the edge of your seat with their uncategorizable and thrilling world of post-jazz that has been proudly cultivated in the West Country over two decades. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £14
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

From rip-roaring klezmer and dynamic tango to their own gypsy jazz, they bring a trademark twist to whatever takes their fancy.
More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8 / £6.50 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Lawrie brings his unique musical stylings to The OTR, featuring foot-tapping tunes performed with panache, along with acoustic finger-pickers. Backed by top-class musicians - including Californian Keyboard player Dave Palmer (Air, Fiona Apple, Cake, Fleetwood Mac) and composer Jools Scott - this promises to be a dynamic and unforgettable evening. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

On the first Friday of the month, Jonny Melancholy and the Sad Cowboys bring their infectious brand of country classics to the bar. More info and booking...

Rondo Theatre

Price: £17.50 + booking fee
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

RMT Music Live presents...

Phantastes

Legendary singer-songwriter Nick Harper (son of Roy) performs his latest album ‘Phantastes’. Enter an ethereal realm inspired by the seminal C19th fantasy by George MacDonald and the beginnings of Nick's own love story from 1982… The album was recorded, and is performed live on solo electric guitar, simultaneously triggering percussive electronic soundscapes. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £13adv / £15 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Afrocuban Latin Salsa Jazz 8-piece combining dance rhythms such as Son, Danzón and Cha-Cha-Cha with a blend of Latin Jazz and Salsa
More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Plus supporting programme

Decades as the No.1 Bhangra attraction in the SouthWest have not blunted these boys’ appetite for a good time by the width of a single silk scarf - perhaps
because of all the other music the individual players are involved in and which feeds into the overall experience. Hoi! Hoi!! and indeed Hoi!!!

Free - but we will be taking a collection for Ukrainian causes More info and booking...

Radstock town centre

Price: Free
Start time: 11:00

Witness the finest theatrical acts, silly spectacle, quirky comedy and Bath's very own Natural Theatre at St Nicholas Church Field, Radstock. Take part or come and support our community stage showcasing the very best of our local talent. Plus local stalls, food and have a- go creative workshops. More info and booking...

Parade Gardens

Price: Free
Start time: 11:00

B&NES Council are happy to present a programme of local bands and musicians who will be performing on the bandstand in the glorious Parade Gardens to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
NB we were told about this event in advance and various B&NES pages refer to it, but we haven't seen or been sent any further details. Parade Gardens is nice anyway! More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

with the Westgate Allstar Collective

We love our vinyl here at The Grapes and Saturday afternoons, we ramp up the grooves with the Westgate AllStar Vinyl Collective – a funky group of local DJ’s bringing their own brand of turntabalism to the bar. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00

Plus supporting programme

This is arguably the best band in town at the moment: heavyweight musicianship from chaps with pro jobs in better-known outfits, playing a music [the jazz-tinged memories of early Jamaican originals] that they clearly dearly love and are getting a great feeling for. A classic Saturday Night in prospect.

Free - but we will be taking a collection for Ukrainian causes
More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £18 adv / £20 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Sarah Jane Morris

British soul, jazz and R&B singer pays homage to a musical maverick who influenced a generation.
More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Various prices - see Komedia web-site
Start time: 23:00

Guilty disco pleasures from the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

short More info and booking...

Bath City Centre

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Enjoy an energetic and fun filled performance from a brilliant Bristol based 6-piece Jazz band who will be joined by a marvellous swing dance duo. Catch them performing on New Bond Street, 1pm to 2.30pm and in Kingsmead Square 3pm to 4.30pm! Programmed by B&NES Council and Bath Carnival.
NB We haven't been able to find updated information about this event.
Bath Spa University's Sparkfest presents:
The Wave, Calf2Cow Theatre, 2pm [show runs 55 mins], Stall Street
...and we just might have a classic Bath Arts Workshop street piece roaming round town for the afternoon. Keep your eyes peeled! More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Free
Start time: 14:00

Live in Session at the Electric

Reuben Myles Tyghe, (aka Reuben’s Daughters) has been at the heart of the local independent scene for almost 2 decades. With his previous group Port Erin, he garnered a deep appreciation by fan and press alike. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

Joe Trudgeon on guitar and vocals with Tom Allen on double bass. This local duo are primed and ready to excite your ears and blow those sunday blues away with some old time classic Jazz. We can't wait to see them! More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 18:00

short More info and booking...

Komedia - The Electric Bar

Price: £12 / £10 concessions
Start time: 19:00

With Marysia Trembecka and Elizabeth Mee

Comedy Double Bill from two Funny Women Finalists. Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe sell-out "Singing Psychic" with spookily accurate (if bonkers) audience readings and 70s team games (including psychic jenga).
"Seven Aprons encapsulates women's zigzags through life in all the comedic glory. "An elegant performer, stylish gags pepper the set". Chortle

Extra info: Suitable for ages 18+

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £8
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Julie July Band

The band have built a substantial reputation with reinterpretations and arrangements of Sandy’s legacy of beautiful, haunting original and traditional compositions. Featuring superb vocals and forthright lyrics and delivered with skill, technique and conviction, the set includes songs from their own self-penned Albums 'Lady of the First Light' and 'Wonderland'. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Born in Dakar, Senegal, earned his spurs & learned his chops as bandleader with Alioune Mbaye Nder’s Le Setsima Group - back home superstars of the
contemporary generation of mbalax. There are a lot of chancers out there telling us they’re playing Afro-Jazz; exhibit A, an actual Afro-Jazz musician for
your delectation. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £5
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

In Aid of The We Hear You Charity

The WHY Tribe is a group of local musicians who play here, there and everywhere to support Frome-based charity “We Hear You” (WHY). It comprises an eclectic mix of four seasoned musicians who literally play all sorts of music including rock, blues soul, reggae and americana music that transcends generations. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Introducing our newest weekly music session at The Grapes: Tuesday night is Funk night! Spearheaded by local favourite Tom Berge and featuring some of the best musicians of the South West, this session is guaranteed to have you up and on your feet dancing. Come down, grab a drink and soak up the music.

For the Bath Fringe Festival these sessions will be featuring Nurdle, A crooked funk machine forging addictive hooks dipped in nostalgic beats, distorted dreamscapes and creating the soundtrack to your alter ego's taboo lifestyle.

Please note this is a closed session.
More info and booking...

St James Wine Vaults - The Vaults (Basement)

Price: £10.00 adv / £12 on door
Start time: 20:00

The 7 Hills Presents

This very special night at the newly revamped, legendary Bath venue will feature 3 local leading lights of the music scene, Matt Owens and his all-star band : The Delusionary Vanity Project, the sublime Jennifer Crook & The Broken Road, and the rocking Al O’Kane. Set in the intimate setting of the Vaults it’s one not to be missed, set to sell out early so get in there quick. More info and booking...

The Grapes - Pocock's Living Room

Price: Free
Start time: 19:00

Make some noise and celebrate live music, with a focus on old acoustic American folk, rock n’ roll and songs from the British Skiffle boom. Everyone is made most welcome – the group are all about enthusiasm over skill. To find out more and take a gander at the songbooks, head over to the Bath Skiffle website. More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £10 / £8 concs.
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bristol Shakespeare Festival presents

“Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy?”
Enjoy Shakespeare's spooky tragedy like never before, as six actors deploy wittily rewritten pop classics, uproariously silly comedy, and an array of highly questionable props to recount the rise and fall of Scotland's most murdery king! More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Led by a core group of amazing local musicians Tim Petherick, Jack Lecomber and friends. This is a lively night in the bar each Wednesday with improv featuring heavily in their repertoire. Expect the double bass, some stonking guitar and electrifying keyboard skills as an absolute minimum.
Please note this is a closed session. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £10 adv / £12 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Nick presents

This Event is now Cancelled

Bringing more than seven sets of fashion together, young, daring, student and ethical. Raising funds for Save The Children and Whale and Dolphin Conservation. This was always one of the most colourful events of the Fringe so we are reviving it to chase away the two dull Covid years. More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: Free
Start time: 20:30
Doors open: 19:30

A monthly acoustic music session, informal playing and singing songs and tunes from the Bluegrass (and wider) repertoire. All instruments, levels and repertoire are welcome. It’s an inclusive session, and we make sure that everyone gets a turn. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

6-piece brass-driven House/Soul from Cardiff, pressing the party button so hard it’s burst through to the other side and they got to feature on a notorious Netflix series. Still at the level of blowing the roof off grassroots small gigs now, but big festival stages are calling this summer and if you‘re in tonight you can tell the world you’ve been into them for ages... More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 19:00

Irish Folk Sesion PLUS

Make mine a double trouble!

Usual Folk session runs 7-9.30 and followed by a gig from
SLEEPY EYE SLIM
An extraordinary blend of blues-related styles from long-lost cult band helmed by, erm, the Landlord, John... More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £10 / £8 concs.
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bristol Shakespeare Festival presents

“Is this a real knife? Is this just fantasy?”
Enjoy Shakespeare's spooky tragedy like never before, as six actors deploy wittily rewritten pop classics, uproariously silly comedy, and an array of highly questionable props to recount the rise and fall of Scotland's most murdery king! More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £12 / £10 concs
Start time: 19:45
Doors open: 18:45

Former Thunderbridge Bluegrass Band frontman Nick Girone-Maddocks returns to the OTR with a new Trio. The show will include acoustic and electric sets of roots music, blues, country and original Americana, spanning Nick’s prominent 25-year songwriting career, including material from his new solo album ‘British Southwestern’. More info and booking...

Forum Coffee House

Price: £7.50
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Clarion Call Creative presents

With Paul Miché, John East & Jordan Calvert

Origin is a recently formed band who play original jazz fusion music. Paul Miché's improvisational and richly harmonic keyboard, along with John East's lyrical bass lines and Jordan Calvert's mix of sensitive but also driving rhythms will appeal to the modern jazz audience. Support: Rich Atkinson & The New Billionaires. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £15
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

‘A giant of the flamenco tradition’ - The Times. This supreme guitarist/composer plays and introduces his compositions.
More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £3
Start time: 18:00

Hosted by Jimmy Mc

The Greatest hits of the Greatest Divas, covered by your favourite local musicians - confirmed so far: Dave Selby and the Shonky Trio, Kitwhistle, Andy Burden, Lawrie Duckworth and Hodmadoddery. Hosted by Jimmy Mc. Plus best fancy dressed diva competition; drunken karaoke; prize roulette and raffle. All proceeds to Unicef

Extra info: Perfomance end TBC

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £7.50 / £5 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 18:30

Award-winning singer songwriters Greg Hancock and Alex Seel will be joined by well-known troubadour Bob Gallie to present their music in the form of a Songwriters Circle. This increasingly-popular style of performance allows the audience to enjoy the work of three individual performers, while comparing their style, technique and songwriting. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £8.00
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

BLUE EYED SOUL 2022

with Special Guests - Somewhere Over England

UK Soul artist Clyve brings his Blue Eyed Soul to Burdall’s Yard for the Fringe 2022. He has performed in front of thousands all over UK & USA, and his latest album features a blend of soul styles, vibes and influences from his life New York. Be prepared to dance!! More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £16 adv / £18 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

A tribute to The Traveling Wilburys.
Captures the style and sounds perfectly with an added sense of humour.
More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £8
Start time: 14:30
Doors open: 14:00

Bath University Student Musicals Society present

by Pasek and Paul and Peter Duchan

This beautiful and uplifting musical, from the writers of the Greatest Showman, takes audiences on a romantic, heartbreaking and comical journey that stays with you long after the performance. Discover how a celebration of freedom before war turns into an awkward yet charming love story. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 15:00

with the Westgate Allstar Collective

We love our vinyl here at The Grapes and Saturday afternoons, we ramp up the grooves with the Westgate AllStar Vinyl Collective – a funky group of local DJ’s bringing their own brand of turntabalism to the bar. More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £8
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath University Student Musicals Society present

by Pasek and Paul and Peter Duchan

This beautiful and uplifting musical, from the writers of the Greatest Showman, takes audiences on a romantic, heartbreaking and comical journey that stays with you long after the performance. Discover how a celebration of freedom before war turns into an awkward yet charming love story. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £6. Children are free
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

With the Afternoon Rocks Choir

Founded in October 2018, the Bath Tub Orchestra is a mixed ability community orchestra that plays all kinds of music from pop, jazz, blues, film soundtracks to classical favourites. Plus Corsham's Afternoon Rocks' choir. More info and booking...

The Old Theatre Royal

Price: £10 / £8 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

Harp-Guitar - Music of Dreams

For the first time at Bath Fringe, experimental guitarist Jon Pickard presents a unique and spellbinding journey through the magical New Worlds of the amazing 23-string Classical Harp-Guitar - the rarest of all the guitar family. Winner of Buxton Fringe 2021 ‘Best Solo Instrumental Performance’ award. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £20 adv / £22 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Featuring the rawest, wildest and
UNTAMED Burlesque and cabaret stars
from the South West and beyond!
More info and booking...

Komedia

Price: Various prices - see Komedia web-site
Start time: 23:00

Guilty disco pleasures from the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Fiddle & Banjo duo bridging US & Scotland in styles, living spaces and backgrounds: it’s all very well being told how these fit together but even better to be hearing it. Winning awards, plaudits, good jobs and collaborations on both sides of the pond. Bath’s a bit out of both orbits of course, but geography will bother neither them not us this afternoon... More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

Come and enjoy songs ranging from the 60's onward with two of Belfast's very own, Sean Kaluarachchi and Finbar Maginn.

Both growing up around music, Finbar and Sean have been steeped in varying styles of music. Their influences include blues, rock, soul, jazz, traditional folk, bluegrass and more.

Sean and Finbar will treat your soul with some strong vocals and tasty guitar licks to wind down your weekend. More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £8
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bath University Student Musicals Society present

by Pasek and Paul and Peter Duchan

This beautiful and uplifting musical, from the writers of the Greatest Showman, takes audiences on a romantic, heartbreaking and comical journey that stays with you long after the performance. Discover how a celebration of freedom before war turns into an awkward yet charming love story. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Could be a new favourite Bristol band, featuring Rachel from Gin Bowlers and
other familiar faces on 8 instruments between the 4 of them and a delicate and eclectic sound with echoes of early jazz, Euro-folk, and the unsettling worlds of silent cinema and symbolist short story... More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Syd’s a Canadian-Jamaican with a sweet sense of melody, acoustic guitar and
harmonica. His lyrical concerns are both urban and rural, and from both his
cultures, a gentle admonition to the righteous life. Sound! More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Wild electro-funk/guitar-psych collision who were going great guns before
everything shut down and are just now getting back into their stride. It’s
another one of those Wednesdays in The Bell that feels like a Saturday Night at
Boomtown or Pilton Pop... More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Ted Milton goes waay waay back in matters Walcot & Artistic, but the Blurt brand is his most enduring guise: equal parts art, jazz, post-punk, & poetry, and we ain’t just saying that. Formed 44 years ago up in Stroud and still absolutely going strong & ploughing his own furrow. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

Virtuosic String-driven Acoustic Americana trio with lovely harmonies - another of those bands we lost touch with in the Plague Year and are so so happy to welcome back. A bit of class in an overcrowded field! More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Our homeboy Pasha has been running our legendary Open Mic for the last year or so, and there’s a little bit of quite a lot going on here, folk, home-written, influences from around Europe. Ellipsis includes fiddle player Tom Connolly and other friends en passant. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

The Blues-based One Man Band - guitar, harp, foot percussion - goes right the way back to the roots of that music, and there must be hundreds of ‘em out there: but with Lil’ Jim we’ve found one that’s a cut above, with contemporary on-the-road attitude and a sense of humour. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

New band from one of Bath's reggae [and more] vocalists from back in the day - and NOW! More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late.

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £16 adv / £18 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

The greatest hits of ELO, Paul McCartney & Wings & The Beatles and more performed by ELO Beatles Beyond. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £8 Adv, incuding booking fee
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

an evening of psych-pop from the West Country.

plus Luna Lake, Joe Probert.

Reuben's Daughters are a seven-piece, psychedelic-pop mind-project, signed to French label, Microcultures Records.
Luna Lake are a four-piece formed in Bath, England 2018 brought together by their love of true song writing, self-production & all the sounds that create wonder.

Joe Probert is many things. Singer, songwriter, gardener, cowboy and drummer growing sweet soul-drenched funk pop fruits from his love next in Auckland, NZ. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Belfast's very own, Finbar and Sean grew up steeped in music - their influences include blues, rock, soul, jazz, folk, bluegrass and more. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £20 / £18 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:00

All Of The Above presents:

The mighty Le Vent du Nord! At the pinnacle of the genre!
All the energy and mirth of a Saturday night kitchen party,
infusing the fiery traditional music of old Québec
with a breath of fresh, cosmopolitan air. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £15 adv / £17 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Classic blues and jazz from the inter-war years with a selection of original songs and hand-picked covers. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

When did you last hear a band playing cajun? Yep, me neither, that’s why we jumped at this one: adept all-fem trio featuring players from great bands like The Rosinators & Horses Brawl - that’s seasoned performers bringing the cajun spice! More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

Bristol based musician Charlie writes original songs with beautifully haunting vocals, guitar and flute, drawing influence from the female folk artists of the 70’s. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Dan Tryani assembled this band of bandleaders, including Harriet Riley & Stevie Toddler, to work on the energies of a vocals/percussion/drone lineup. Anyone acquainted with the extraordinary San Salvador will know where some of this is going, but this most basic of palettes has infinite permutations, many of which are followed here. More info and booking...

44AD

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

Ron Hutt, Anna Novakov

The latest multi-sensory performance by Provisional Art Space (Ron Hutt / Anna Novakov) focuses on colours that form the inspiration for a series of provocative olfactory and musical compositions.

This event will take place in 44AD art space’s ground floor gallery, accessible via a small ramp. Unfortunately there is no step-free access to the basement gallery or toilets.
More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

Newark Works

Price: Free
Start time: 19:00

Live music + film screening + Q&A

An evening of music, a horror film and some tasty discussion. Finglebone’s musical performance will set the mood, ready for feature movie ‘Rewilding, a folk horror anthology’ by local film director Ric Rawlins, followed by a Q&A session. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Expect some groovy bass, stonking guitar and electrifying keyboard skills from amazing local songwriters and musicians Tom Wyeth & Tim Petherick and guests. More info and booking...

The Grapes - Pocock's Living Room

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

We love having these guys here and it’s always great hearing music drifting down from our living room. They’re always on the look out for more Uke players if you want to get involved. More info and booking...

Walcot House

Price: £12.00 / £10.00 concs
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Comedy presents

The musical satirist and comedian Melinda Hughes is hitched! Yes she’s finally tied the knot for the first time at fifty. Despite being in a dreamy bubble of love, she’s still got a wicked satirical take on life, love and politics. Expect an evening of raucous musical satire presented with pianist and comedian Jeremy Limb.

Extra info: All details still TBC

Burdall's Yard

Price: £12 (£10 in advance)
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Think of a Song Productions presents:

'2020 Vision' & 'Bike to The Future' double-header

A unique evening of story, song and dance. We’ve been locked down, dosed up, divided and misruled. Yet our impulse to connect and be creative is as strong as ever. No matter what this life throws at us we WILL make a song and dance about it.

Extra info: The show comprises two parts '2020 Vision' improvised dance and 'Bike to The Future' songs set. There will be an interval of approximately 20 minutes between

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Norwich-based folk duo. Acoustic at heart but experimental in nature.
‘Ethereal and understated’ - Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Motley crew originally defined by use of folk instruments, dressing up, and a sense of humour, have gone through a musical transformation, bringing in groove, electronic & psych influences, whilst retaining the eclecticism, and, luckily, the humour. You won’t find one of these anywhere else in this programme so better get to this one. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Trad Irish tunes from a talented bunch of local musicians, sometimes joined by friends on the circuit from further afield. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £15
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

UK entry for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest inspired by the likes of Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Billy Joel, and Carole King. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Jonny Melancholy and the Sad Cowboys bring their infectious brand of country classics to the bar. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £12 / £8 unwaged
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bill Smarme Presents

A Personal Perspective

Bill Smarme (international entertainer, bon viveur, builder) takes a light-hearted and irreverent look at the coming of rock'n'roll music to these shores in the 1950s; its energising impact on youth of the time and one impressionable teenager in particular. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £20
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

This unforgettable band whirls you through the decade of the British Explosion. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Hundreds of Ghosts are bringing you an eclectic line-up of the finest Alt, Grunge and Punk rock to the city in an evening of loud guitars, euphoric performances and good times. More info and booking...

The Assembly Inn - The Festival Room (downstairs)

Price: £5
Start time: 21:00

with DJ Tim Spinner

Electric Six, the Jim Jones Revue, The 5,6,7,8s, Le Tigre and loads more. Shave whatever part of your body needs it and wear yourself out to loud rhythm, verse, chorus and guitar solo. A night dedicated to and from the new and old breed of post millennium devil's music. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

Rondo Theatre

Price: £12 in advance
Start time: 19:30

Bath Fringe presents by arrangement with Outsider Artists..

n intimate evening of reading and song with one of the UK's most cherished artists.

Patrick Duff fronted the cult 90’s group Strangelove who signed to Parlophone/EMI and released three critically acclaimed albums. They found admiration in their contemporaries with Radiohead’s Ed O’Brien noting “We toured with them and changed quite a bit after. They were inspirational”.
More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: Adv £20 / Door £22
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Six piece band perform a non-stop, hit packed show that draws on all eras of Fleetwood Mac’s stellar 50+ year career. More info and booking...

St Nicholas Church Field

Price: Free
Start time: 11:00

Free Family Friendly Outdoor Arts Event with a Family Friendly Atmosphere

Come and enjoy some great street theatre, live music and spoken word from the very best local talent – along with activities and fun for all the family. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the closure of the last coal mine in Radstock and looking ahead to a sustainable future. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

That Bal Folk French dancing groove that everyone likes is given electric rhythms and jazz tinges by this bunch of enthusiasts from Exeter. Only at The Bell, Mesdames & Messieurs! More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

Lauren Bradford is an ethereal folk singer-songwriter hailing from San Francisco. Her clear voice and crisp picked acoustic guitar unfold her own poetic songs with soulful honesty and urgency. More info and booking...

The Mission Theatre - Main Auditorium

Price: £12
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:10

One country, 700 years of music, one hour...

with pianist Peter Adcock

A concert exploring the history of French classical singing from the late Medieval period to the 20th Century, all in one hour! More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Retro Organ Trio style funk - the stuff that’s been sampled to death for the simple perfection of the groove, the archetype of ‘rare’ - played with spirit and skill by Cardiff cutting crew. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

A space for songwriters to share their works in a supportive, collaborative, and safe space. All acoustic artists and performers are welcome. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

It's Irish for 'lefthanded', and unites melodic improvisers Fiona Barrow [fiddle] & Paul Bradley [guitar & toys]. This could go anywhere, tho' the Irish in the name suggests one of the destinations, and we can be confident neither of these uses simplistic bombast or extended dissonance to help them to the end. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Expect some groovy bass, stonking guitar and electrifying keyboard skills from amazing local songwriters and musicians Tom Wyeth & Tim Petherick and guests. More info and booking...

Komedia - The Electric Bar

Price: £7 adv / £10 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Tripslick Records presents

A Night of Pop, Soul and R'n'B

Join San Reetam for a night of original Pop, Soul and R'n'B music, featuring soulful vocals, super tight drums and keys plus stunning virtuoso tenor saxophone. Described by Bath Radio's Ollie Lewis as 'sublime', expect to hear catchy hooks, tight stops and pumping grooves that will have you singing and dancing!
San Reetam are joined by special guests Kololo. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Featuring Godfrey Green - a Bristol/Bath Rap pioneer if ever there was one, with Revelation 3 - addressing themselves to the ‘60s ska in the way it first caught on over here. Not just throwing a spotlight on the roots but writing new in the style and emphasising the multi-racial roots of that oft-misread [not least by its participants] crucial cultural moment. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Trad Irish tunes from a talented bunch of local musicians, sometimes joined by friends on the circuit from further afield. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £10
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Come and join us for an evening of wonderful uplifting music. Cavacante play Choro, once the official national music of Brazil. It is music packed full of intoxicating melodies and foot tapping rhythms, including samba, tango, waltz and maxixe. Performed using the classic Brazilian format of Guitar, Mandolin, Cavaquinho and Pandeiro. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £12 adv / £14 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Support from Ella Clayton

Bathonian songwriter Luke De-Sciscio is embarking on his first headline tour of UK theatres. His deeply introspective lyricism and elastic voice have garnered comparison to Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, yet eschew expectations. Luke De-Sciscio exudes a confidence and eccentricity which is uniquely his own. More info and booking...

Newark Works

Price: £5
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

The Trouble with Tribbles ARCC : It Came From Outer Bathwick

Hey revellers! After Professor Quatermass defeated the COVID virus threat from Alpha Centuri, finally it’s safe to venture out again. Where better than to see and listen to ARCC performing the latest episode in our continuing mission to seek out strange films and play along with our unique form of improvised soundtrack, thus changing the experience and message in subtle and not so subtle ways. Extracts from iconic and classic science fiction movies as you never imagined them. Expect, as always, the unexpected… and tribbles. More info and booking...

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

The Grapes - Pocock's Living Room

Price: £8 but pay more if you can, less if you need to.
Start time: 19:45

Troyka formed in 2008 and have been bringing soulful Balkan and Eastern European music to Bristol ever since. Re-interpreting both traditional and original songs with their love of intricate three part chamber-style arrangements, their music takes audiences on infectious rhythmical journeys of Balkan heart music and sumptuous grooves. More info and booking...

Widcombe Social Club

Price: £8 / £5 Adv, £10 on door
Start time: 20:00

Extinction Rebellion fundraiser

with DJ Tim Spinner

By consolidating the dynamite of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul and the gallant British activist and paralympic-cyclist James Brown, we are holding a 'Party to Protest' fundraising dance night. Extinction Rebellion usually do Samba and Discobedience for free, however we need money to motivate and complete activism. More info and booking...

New Oriel Hall

Price: £5 / £2 under 16
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Beautiful Experiences presents

A gorgeous voice and a beautiful person!
Eva Scott was spotted at Shambala Festival. Her music is in kinship with Lorde and Lana Del Rey. A silky voice and a captivating presence best describes this lady. Be prepared for stress to dissolve. Bring a cushion if you want to really chill. Chairs otherwise provided. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £10 adv / £12 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Energised and authentic soul-infused blues with an ear for the classic and an eye on the future from this 4 piece band. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Founder member of indie-folk band Noah and the Whale, Matt’s back with his eagerly anticipated 3rd album, Beer For The Horses, cut live with an all-star 7 piece-live band. More info and booking...

Walcot Methodist Chapel

Price: Suggested donation of £5 minimum
Start time: 12:00
Doors open: 11:30

FinchMusic presents

With local choirs from Bath

Over 20 Bath choirs are coming together to celebrate choir singing in Bath and raise money for charity with a 10 hour concert! Audience members should book their free tickets (event is split into 1 hour blocks) and then make a suggested donation of £5 or more on the door in aid of the DEC Turkey and Syria Earthquake Appeal

Extra info: Audience members are encouraged to donate a minimum of £5 (cash or via justgiving link)

St Swithins Church - In the garden

Price: £6
Start time: 12:30
Doors open: 12:00

DoDo Dramatics Presents

Monty Python meets Horrible Histories; a puppetry adventure.

DoDo Dramatics, the UK’s first zero-waste puppetry performance company, presents another award-winning, family-friendly musical. Queen of the East is a faraway Ancient Egyptian adventure of music, mythology, and misleading puppets. Join history’s most legendary leaders, Cleopatra VII, Julius Cesar, and Marc Antony, on a voyage of discovery, whose story can we trust, and whose lives must be lost?

Extra info: Outdoor performance/ Suitable for all ages

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £8 / £5 Student
Start time: 14:30
Doors open: 14:00

BUSMS presents

At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies to America's most renowned folk heroes. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, the legendary Frank Wildhorn’s show is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country. More info and booking...

St Swithins Church - In the garden

Price: £6
Start time: 14:30
Doors open: 14:00

DoDo Dramatics Presents

Monty Python meets Horrible Histories; a puppetry adventure.

DoDo Dramatics, the UK’s first zero-waste puppetry performance company, presents another award-winning, family-friendly musical. Queen of the East is a faraway Ancient Egyptian adventure of music, mythology, and misleading puppets. Join history’s most legendary leaders, Cleopatra VII, Julius Cesar, and Marc Antony, on a voyage of discovery, whose story can we trust, and whose lives must be lost?

Extra info: Outdoor performance/ Suitable for all ages

St Swithins Church - In the garden

Price: £6
Start time: 16:30
Doors open: 16:00

DoDo Dramatics Presents

Monty Python meets Horrible Histories; a puppetry adventure.

DoDo Dramatics, the UK’s first zero-waste puppetry performance company, presents another award-winning, family-friendly musical. Queen of the East is a faraway Ancient Egyptian adventure of music, mythology, and misleading puppets. Join history’s most legendary leaders, Cleopatra VII, Julius Cesar, and Marc Antony, on a voyage of discovery, whose story can we trust, and whose lives must be lost?

Extra info: Outdoor performance/ Suitable for all ages

Green Park Brasserie

Price: Free with dinner/bar reservation
Start time: 18:30

Enjoy live jazz/funk/soul year round at Green Park Brasserie, who celebrate 31 years of business this year. Visit greenparkbrasserie.com for further details.

Extra info: Bar open late

St. Michael's Church

Price: £6. Under 16s free
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Bathtub Orchestra presents

Join the Bathtub Orchestra for a musical journey through the world of film scores, featuring works from well known composers such as John Williams and Vangelis, to the more recent contributions of Hans Zimmer and Michael Nyman. More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £8 / £5 Student
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

BUSMS presents

At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies to America's most renowned folk heroes. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, the legendary Frank Wildhorn’s show is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country. More info and booking...

Magdalen Chapel

Price: £8 (+box office fee)
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

Magdalen Chapel presents

Jon Pickard, 'Harp-Guitar'

‘Best Instrumental Performance’ (Buxton 2021). Jon Pickard plays the incredible Harp Guitar. Concert 45min -"Music & Myth" musical folk tales from the Celtic Isles and beyond, inspired by timeless ancient legends. Short talk 15min - "The Hidden History of the Harp-Guitar" presenting 350+ years of this incredible instrument's history. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £8 Adv, incuding booking fee
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Fringe presents...

with support from Shoun Shoun

With five albums under their belts, the band has gained a reputation for awe-inspiring live shows across the European and UK art rock scenes. Their fifth album 'Donor Zone' will be released this Autumn by the heralded Bristol label, Stolen Body Records. More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 13:00

A new Bath folk trio featuring Rachel Cross, Fran Barrett and Marick Baxter, doing classic Irish tunes and some surprises with warmth and agility. More info and booking...

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 16:00

Hodmadoddery came together (and usually fell apart shortly afterwards) in a residency at a notorious local cider house here in Bath in the late 1980s. By the ‘90s we were actually getting quite good, the positive effects of switching to wine on the European Street Festival circuit. Nowadays we don’t run around quite as much as we used to, but that has allowed us to get some practice in and we have since clocked up 20-odd innings at Glastonbury. Folk circuit standards, Trad numbers, and the odd random who’d-ha’-thought-it ;-> More info and booking...

Walcot House

Price: £12.00 / £10.00 concs
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

A special event centred on the music of Pink Floyd, performed by acclaimed multi-instrumentalist singer/guitarist James Hollingsworth. More info and booking...

The Edge, University of Bath

Price: £8 / £5 Student
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

BUSMS presents

At the height of the Great Depression, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went from two small-town nobodies to America's most renowned folk heroes. Fearless, shameless, and alluring, the legendary Frank Wildhorn’s show is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country. More info and booking...

Chapel Arts Centre

Price: £15 adv / £17 on door
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

A cargo of raw, heart-wrenching flamenco - featuring ‘sizzling soloist’ La Joaquina and guitar virtuoso Chris Clavo. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: £15
Start time: 20:00
Doors open: 19:30

Bath Fringe by arrangement with Outsider Artists presents

Tempus Fugitive

Bath Fringe exclusive, first live preview of new material from Nick Harper's forthcoming album, Tempus Fugitive that will be released this September.
In a new, uniquely styled, acoustically driven album and tour, Nick explores the past, present and future in his own singular way.
The project follows up recent successful sojourns back in time in swinging 60s London (58 Fordwych Rd); 19th Century Fantasy literature (Phantastes) and an epic poem lost in time (A Wiltshire Tale). Will this be the one album to unite them all? Only time will tell... More info and booking...

The Barley Mow

Price: Free
Start time: 20:15

The Bath Bluegrass Session is a very inclusive session, and we welcome players of all acoustic instruments, levels and repertoire. Once we get going it’s hard to stop, we play many of the familiar pieces from the bluegrass canon and people also bring along their favourite songs and tunes. Please come and join us! More info and booking...

The Bell - Main bar

Price: Free
Start time: 21:00

Morning Star is Jesse D Vernon, he of Moonflowers, Praise Space Electric, and more recently Fantasy Orchestra and This Is The Kit association. Morningstar the band made lovely song-orientated albums from approximately 1999-2009, and now it's a band again. This is good news. Expect mild non-scary psych and seriously good vibes. More info and booking...

Burdall's Yard

Price: £12
Start time: 19:30
Doors open: 19:00

After their successful première at Burdall’s Yard last year, the Double Act of electronic/alternative quartet Resolute and singer-songwriter Patrick Roe & band will be back for an epic evening of live music.

Extra info: 19:30 Patrick Roe & Band; 21:00 Resolute

The Grapes

Price: Free
Start time: 20:00

Maniacal keyboard lines, booming bass and a flurry of furious guitar licks combine to create an experience that has been described as 'pretty darn spicy'. It's jazz... but louder, angrier and back with a vengeance. More info and booking...

The Bell - Back bar

Price: Pay what you want - suggested donation £5
Start time: 20:00