Bristol International Jazz and Blues Festival

The Bristol International Jazz & Blues Festival saw over 8,000 people descend on Colston Hall in March 2014 for an unforgettable weekend of jazz, blues and swing.

We’re back from Thursday, March 5 to Sunday, March 8 2015 with an incredible line-up of over 40 concerts, workshops and jam sessions including: The Big Band Swing Dance led by the 17-piece Bruce/Ilett Big Band; Cartoon Jazz, featuring your favourite Disney songs as you’ve never heard them before with the Big Buzzard Boogie Band and a HUGE chorus and The Louis Armstrong Story, a unique tribute to Satchmo himself.

On Sunday, March 8 Colston Hall will be transported across the Atlantic for the New Orleans Takeover with three specially curated concerts paying tribute to the spiritual home of jazz and blues.