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Jamboree

Down an alley off Gray's Inn Road, a room of rugs and lanterns booking jazz, klezmer and whatever else it fancies.

JazzLate

St Chad's Place is a dead-end cobbled alley behind King's Cross and Jamboree is most of the way down it, which is why people who know it are fond of telling you how to find it. Inside is low and cluttered - rugs, lamps, a stage at one end - and the booking is deliberately wide: jazz, gypsy swing, klezmer, Balkan brass, Latin, and dancing rather than sitting. It runs something most days, afternoons as well as nights, and a good deal of it is free or costs whatever you put in the bucket.

Where
6 St Chad's Place, King's Cross, WC1X 9HH
Nearest station
King's Cross St Pancras · 4 min walk

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Regular events

  • Afternoon showsWednesday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons · Free, or whatever you giveTJ Johnson takes Wednesdays with jazz, blues and gospel; Sundays are swing with the Prospective Collective; Saturdays rotate between a klezmer jam, a Balkan and Roma jam, a Cajun afternoon and a folk session, all of them open to anyone who brings an instrument.
  • Limehouse de ReverieThursdays, music at 20:30 · £9 to £22The Cable Street Rag Band are the resident players and the night is 1920s and 1930s jazz and swing. Lesta Woo runs a drop-in swing dance class from 19:00 beforehand, £7 on the door or booked with the gig.
  • Celtic SessionTuesdays, from 20:30 · FreeA weekly traditional session with established players from the London trad scene - mostly Irish tunes, some Scottish. To listen to rather than to join, unless you can keep up.
  • Sunday lunch with Ewan BleachSundays, 12:15 · £9 to £14Ewan Bleach and the Fleeting Paradise Orchestra play the lunch slot, in the pre-swing repertoire he specialises in.
  • Life drawingSaturday and Wednesday mornings, 11:00 to 13:00 · £15 on the doorRun by North London Life Drawing, board, paper and chalk provided, a new model each week. Wednesdays are the longer poses, for people working in slower media. Beginners welcome.
  • Bal ÉtoileSome Wednesdays · FreeFrench and Scandinavian folk dancing, played live.
  • Word SpaceSome Mondays · Whatever you giveSpoken word, alongside a separate poetry night hosted by Gabriel Moreno.

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