About the venue

Colbourne Ave is a listening venue, an acoustic venue, a place where you can hear the details in the music.  Jazz, with an emphasis on the piano.

Our address is 37-47 St Johns Rd Glebe - on the corner of St Johns Rd and Colbourne Ave (click to open in google maps) Catch any "Glebe Pt Rd" bus from the city, get off at Glebe Post Office, walk down St Johns Rd towards the city, there you are.  We don't pre-book or pre-pay (and we don't have a credit card machine).  Arrive early if you want the best lounge, but we never turn anyone away so if you're right on time you won't miss out.

We don't have a bar, which keeps the room quiet and cheap - it's BYO fine wine and great beer.  It is a very comfy room with relaxing lounges, soft lamps and candles, an excellent piano, great acoustics (that musicians love), eclectic programming and access for all ages.  We have one of the few legal spaces where you can  bring your own drinks and food - or order Thai food to be delivered.  We provide tea and coffee and wine glasses.

We only run on Thursday nights.  Barney books the musicians - we try to book only the sort of sounds we think work with the acoustics of the room, and when we can we try to organise around a theme each month.  If you would like to play at Colbourne Ave, the best thing to do is come down and talk to Barney.  We do this for free, and it's quite a lot of work, so we hope you'll understand if we don't get back to you very quickly, and if it sometimes looks like we're struggling to stay ahead.

The room actually is owned by a church, called Cafe Church, they meet on Sundays and let us use the room on Thursdays (thanks cafe church!)  Colbourne Ave shares more than a room with Cafe Church - if you like the idea of a church with the relaxed community and beautiful ambience of Colbourne Ave, you know where to look.

Katerina from around the corner made this video mid-2010:

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