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Wednesday 3rd December

7:30 PM

Recurring

Birmingham Improv Presents: Maestro

Birmingham Improv brings you ‘Maestro’, the exciting elimination improv game where anything can happen.

Friday 5th December

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Basil Hodge

Basil Hodge brings Jazz Africa, his new and exciting project to Birmingham. This all star band will perform a range of music from Africa so you will hear Jazz fused with Afrobeat

Friday 5th December

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents: Basil Hodge

Basil Hodge brings Jazz Africa, his new and exciting project to Birmingham

Saturday 6th December

8:00 PM

Recurring

1000 Trades Presents: Pitch Control

A night of deep, deeper and deepest from the world of upfront new electronic music

Monday 8th December

6:00 PM

Recurring

Broadbill Drink & Draw Life Drawing

Dust off your canvas, sharpen the pencils and raise a glass. Broadbill Life Drawing: Drink & Draw, every Monday from 6-8pm.

Tuesday 9th December

7:00 PM

Christmas Carols w/ Birmingham Choral Union

Members from the Birmingham Choral Union will be performing Christmas Carols & bringing Festive cheer to your ears. Join in or watch, bring joy and be merry.

Tuesday 9th December

6:30 PM

Recurring

Birmingham Entrepreneurs Meetup

Monthly opportunity to meet fellow entrepreneurs at different stages of business

Wednesday 10th December

7:30 PM

Recurring

Birmingham Improv Presents: Box of Frogs

Birmingham’s premier Improv Group, bring you a night of high-octane improvised comedy nonsense,

Friday 12th December

12:00 AM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Levy/Robson International Quartet

This musical partnership was formed in New York City in 2017 between the highly acclaimed US saxophonist Jed Levy and multi-award-winning UK born guitarist Phil Robson who was living in NYC at the time.

Friday 12th December

9:00 PM

Recurring

1000 Trades Presents: Eclectic Sessions

A night celebrating the diverse nature of dance music.

Sunday 14th December

6:00 PM

PsySoc Social Birmingham

Join The Psychedelic Society Social: Birmingham for curiosity-fuelled speed-friending

Saturday 13th December

12:00 AM

1000 Trades Presents: All Day Winter Party 2025

It’s that time of year again and we’re hunkering down for another 12 hour marathon DJ extravaganza spanning time and genre.

Tuesday 16th December

8:00 PM

Political Therapy: End of Year Review with Phil Tinline and James Ball

Join us for an evening of jollity and black humour as we run through the key moments of the year

Wednesday 17th December

7:30 PM

Recurring

Birmingham Improv Presents: Midlands Improv Night

Birmingham Improv brings you all the best improv from the Midlands!

Thursday 11th December

8:00 PM

Recurring

Kamikaze Club Open Mic

The Kamikaze Club return for another Open Mic comedy session

Saturday 20th December

9:00 PM

Recurring

1000 Trades Presents- Club Flamingo

Prince superfan brings you an eclectic selection of 80s and 90s club and soul classics,

Friday 26th December

9:00 PM

Recurring

1000 Trades Presents: Eclectic Sessions

A night celebrating the diverse nature of dance music.

Saturday 27th December

9:00 PM

Recurring

NowHam+ : A Night of Credible 80s

Bannish Banarama, Kybosh Kylie and Erase Europe ….our monthly night dedicated to proper music from the most underrated decade since the last one.

Wednesday 31st December

7:30 PM

Recurring

Birmingham Improv Presents: Comedy Jam

Birmingham Improv brings you our monthly Improv comedy Jam

Friday 9th January

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Mick Foster Quartet

Mick Foster is a saxophonist, woodwind player and composer, and is especially known as a baritone and bass saxophonist. Originally from Harrogate, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London and has since worked extensively in the fields of jazz, commercial and classical music

Saturday 10th January

9:00 PM

Recurring

1000 Trades Presents: Jazz in the House vs Downtempo Disco

Ever-popular bi-monthly bringing you the sweetest disco edits, soul cut-ups and cutting-edge deep house VS jazz-infused deep house

Friday 16th January

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Frank Harrison

After taking up a scholarship at Berklee School Of Music, Boston, Frank returned to the UK and became one of its leading jazz pianists.

Friday 23rd January

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Pete Hurt

Pete Hurt has quietly been part of the London jazz scene for almost four decades and has developed one of the most uniquely distinguishable sounds and styles.

Friday 30th January

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Julian Siegel Quartet

Julian studied Music at U.E.A. majoring in Saxophone and Clarinet. He also studied orchestral conducting directing the Student Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Choir

Friday 6th February

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Monsterosa

Monsterosa emerged from a lockdown project to write new songs and instrumentals for five jazz musicians based on Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo collection.

Friday 13th February

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Chris Batchelor’s Strange Meeting

The band cover a range of Frisell’s stylistically varied output, including pieces from the albums In Line, This Land, Good Dog Happy Man, but with a particular focus on repertoire from the 1996 album Quartet.

Friday 20th February

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Joe Steels

Joe Steels Group draws together some of the most exciting musicians from the North East to perform an eclectic array of music that fuses jazz with elements of folk, rock and more.

Friday 27th February

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Alex Clarke

As a finalist in the BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020, winner of the Rising Star category in the 2019 British Jazz Awards and three-time nominee in the Parliamentary Jazz Awards

Friday 6th March

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- ORGANIK

The trio draws inspiration from classic jazz organ/guitar trios of the 1960s, like those featuring Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Smith, Grant Green & Larry Young, and Wes Montgomery& Melvin Rhyne.

Friday 13th March

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Tony Brazier Sextet

The sextet perform original fusion/funk/afro beat/swing/latin inspired music and have an album Crisis Point to share too. Crisis Point boasts a stellar lineup of 6 talented Leeds and Bradford musicians.

Friday 20th March

7:45 AM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Mark Lockheart

A welcome return for Mark with his new trio project. Saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart first came to prominence in the mid 1980s with the influential big band Loose Tubes.

Friday 27th March

7:45 PM

Birmingham Jazz Presents- Tori Freestone Trio

Tori Freestone has been creating a stir in the UK and abroad in recent years winning prestigious awards including the Ivor Novello for jazz composition and receiving rave reviews including Guardian Jazz album of the month for her ‘El Mar de Nubes’ 2019 trio release.

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