Making some of the most exciting music in hip hop, Abstract Orchestra blend jazz orchestration with hip hop beats and MCs. The 18 piece, all star, big band create music that is both heavy and beautiful, pushing the boundaries of live hip hop. Abstract Orchestra explore original samples used in hip hop joints, orchestrated across the ensemble, masterfully reinterpreting the music of hip hop greats, such as J Dilla and MADVILLAIN.  The group have toured and recorded with the likes of MF DOOM, Slum Village, and Illa J and supported Yasiin Bey, Talib Kweli, and The Zulu Nation.

Taking influences from Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin, and David Shire, the arranger, Rob Mitchell sits somewhere between Madlib and Quincy Jones. With classic aspects of big band writing, a focus on improvisation, and mad respect for hip hop, this set is high-energy and high-octane head nods from start to finish.

Ticket on sale: Fri 28 May, 10am

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Giant Swan is the brainchild of Robin Stewart & Harry Wright; an acerbic marriage of energised, aggressive dance music, quaking bass, and hypnotic electronic noise. Steadily assembling an arsenal of heavy hitting EPs and their instant classic, self-titled, debut LP. In anticipation of this very rare DJ set, the band have this public service broadcast:

"When people think of a DJ set they perhaps think of the flawless anti-glowstick precision of a Jeff Mills all-nighter, or maybe a pre-now/post-then ironic DJ set from people who download most of their music from 'soundcloud2mp3.com'. Well, we’re pleased to announce that Giant Swan’s brand-new, earth-shattering DJ set will be somewhere in between the two. If you think discovering electronic music has wiped the slate clean of your indie rock tastes as a 13 year old, well think again and get ready to re-live the most traumatic years of your life through the medium of music. Don’t worry though, the rewards will come in the form of sick club bangers from mates, people we wanna be mates with and people who wanna be mates with us. For fans of: when the drunkest person at the afterparty has full reign over the Spotify playlist."

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Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 6 people.

This is a seated event as part of our Garden Sessions - featuring some of the best artists and promoters from Bristol and beyond, all playing in our new outdoor venue, set in the historic grounds of Trinity.

The Garden Session are supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

Empowering womxn, embracing different cultures, creating an environment with good vibes and a safe space for everyone; Booty Bass are here to shake things up. The collective of femxle/non-binary DJs play music that runs through your body and down to your booty, making it pump from the moment you walk in to the moment you twerk out. Afrobeats, Latin, bashment, UK funky, 90's, garage, grime, baile funk, trap, tribal, global bass music.

Line Up:
Adibah
Devolicious
Hannza
Ngaio
Bungzo

Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 6 people.

This is a seated event as part of our Garden Sessions - featuring some of the best artists and promoters from Bristol and beyond, all playing in our new outdoor venue, set in the historic grounds of Trinity.

The Garden Session are supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

The expansive, emotional visions of the early techno pioneers are reflected in Shanti Celeste's open take to her craft. Characterised as a contemporary UK take on the classic Motor City sound her work has a bouncy, swinging, and uplifting lilt that sets her apart from the crowd.

Hodge has quickly secured a unique position for himself in the UK's new school. Sitting on the edge of the more dystopian borders of techno, Hodge's productions and DJ sets boast an unremitting sense of forward thinking energy and excitement which cannot be missed.

Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 6 people.

This is a seated event as part of our Garden Sessions - featuring some of the best artists and promoters from Bristol and beyond, all playing in our new outdoor venue, set in the historic grounds of Trinity.

Daytime Session: 2-5pm

Evening Session: 6-9pm (SOLD OUT)

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The Garden Session are supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

Tickets on sale: May 14, 10am

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Faisal Salah, aka FaceSoul, is one of those rare artists whose words and sounds speak directly to your soul. The musical maverick is renown for ad-libbing performances. Looping melodies over beatboxing and freestyles, he creates music in the moment, letting it come to him in a raw, unfiltered, and emotionally authentic state. FaceSoul leaves audiences spellbound with honest experiences and learnings over immersive and atmospheric soundscapes.

Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 4 or 6 people.

This is a seated event as part of our Garden Sessions - featuring some of the best artists and promoters from Bristol and beyond, all playing in our new outdoor venue, set in the historic grounds of Trinity.

The Garden Session are supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

After an explosive 2019, Bristol-based, experimental three-piece My Octopus Mind are back with their second studio album ‘Faulty At Source’. The band have developed a wild form of experimental rock using Balkan rhythms, mixed with heavy psychedelic post-punk, wonky riffs and moments of haunting grace - all delivered with a subversive approach to songwriting at its heart.

Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 6 people.

This is a seated event as part of our Garden Sessions - featuring some of the best artists and promoters from Bristol and beyond, all playing in our new outdoor venue, set in the historic grounds of Trinity.

The Garden Session are supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

Both performances will be BLS interpreted

STANLÆY is the brain child and alter-ego of musician, producer, artist, and composer Bethany Clare Mistlebrook Stenning. Inspired by jazz and folk, and fuelled by collaboration, landscapes, cross-pollination, and the synergy between the organic and the synthetic, Bethany is an unstoppable force of nature.

Robbie & Mona craft erratic and psychedelic dream-pop. More influenced by film than music, the couple take full advantage of their freedom from a traditional band structure, finding a surreal creative outlet in making their scrap-book glitch pop together.

Food will be available throughout the event. Social distancing rules apply. Tickets are for tables of up to 6 people.

This is a seated event as part of our Garden Sessions - featuring some of the best artists and promoters from Bristol and beyond, all playing in our new outdoor venue, set in the historic grounds of Trinity.

The Garden Session are supported through the Cultural Recovery Fund #HereForCulture

A rapturous blend of post-rock and post-classical, Forever Blue smoulders with uncoiling melodies and haunted atmospheres, shifting from serenity to explosive drama, often within the same song.

With support from Penelope Trappes.

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Salute to the Sun is his first album as a leader since Into Forever (2015) and marks the debut of his new band. A hand-picked ensemble featuring some of Manchester’s finest young musicians. The album draws inspiration from themes and ideas that have inspired Halsall through the years (on albums such as Oneness, Fletcher Moss Park and When the World Was One) ideas of ecology, the environment and harmony with nature.

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Mercurial singer-songwriter Ben Howard will be performing stripped-back songs from his new album, ‘Collections From The Whiteout’, for the first time in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds & Kingston this September! An exclusive opportunity to see an arena-headlining artist in such an intimate setting.

Ticket options:
Ticket - £13.99
Ticket + CD - £17.99
Ticket + Vinyl - £29.99

Timings:
Matinee show: 6pm - 8pm - Sold Out
Evening show: 8.30pm - 10.30pm - Sold Out

All tickets remain valid, as purchased

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Her new album, Seeking Thrills, is a musically daring story of hedonism, self-discovery, and above all, the transcendental power of the dancefloor. Seeking Thrills fuses analogue club sounds with solid pop songwriting, and showcases the North West Londoner's lifelong love affair with the drums. As a session drummer, making her name playing and collaborating with Micachu, Kwes, and Kate Tempest, she used her technical knowledge to replicate set-ups from 80s house and techno.

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Löffler is known for a highly emotive sound blending wistful melodies, drum machines, and found sound to create slow-burn, warm, minimal techno. The sound and visuals combine to form a luminescent, immersive experience – enveloping the audience in a world of light and conjuring up the forces of nature.

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The choir brings together outstanding singers, all passionate about music and performance and dedicated to giving a great show. Directed by the seasoned powerhouse vocalist, ShezAr; HGC’s leaders have a history of working with choirs and have sessioned and toured with the likes of The Kooks, MNEK, Scissor Sisters, Wretch 32, Naughty Boy, Gorgon City, Stormzy and Labrinth – to name a few. House Choir shows are amped up even further by DJ Fonti, formerly of the legendary Heartless Crew, and his effortless mixing and blending of the biggest tunes House & Garage tunes. Percussion from Dezy Bongo and live keyboards by Stevie Mac combine with the troupe to create an authentic House meets Gospel sound that never fails to raise the roof.

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Byron Wallen is ‘one of the most innovative, exciting and original trumpet players alive’ (Jazzwise Magazine). Widely recognised as a seminal figure in world jazz, he is constantly travelling the world recording, teaching and performing.

Byron was raised in a musical environment and started learning the piano at an early age. He went on to study trumpet with Jimmy Owens, Donald Byrd and Jon Faddis in New York. His early music career was forged while he was studying for a degree in Psychology, Philosophy and Maths at Sussex University. During this period he recorded for Loose Ends and Cleveland Watkiss, and played trumpet with the likes of Mervyn Africa, The Style Council, Charles Earland, Courtney Pine and Jean Toussaint.

By the late 90s his work was receiving world-wide attention and his fluent trumpet, firmly rooted in the jazz tradition, could be heard performing with a myriad of artists including David Murray, Andrew Hill, Butch Morris, Billy Higgins, Hugh Masekela, Manu Dibango, Eddie Henderson, Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, William Orbit, Toumani Diabate, Ronnie Laws and Chaka Khan. One of the most versatile and dynamic voices on the British jazz scene, he has also performed with rap outfits such as The Roots, Digable Planets and Us3.

He has collaborated and recorded with Talvin Singh on the Mercury prize award-winning album OK for Island Records (2000); Craig David on the title track Slicker Than Your Average (2002); and Courtney Pine on the albums Back in the Day (2000) and Devotion (2003).

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