Love live music? Love homemade food and great beer? Then this new venue in Clifton is the place for you.

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On Wednesday, a new piano bar opened in Clifton with pianist Ruth Hammond and trumpeter Gary Alesbrook, who plays for Kasabian and has his own band in Bristol.

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Image by Summer Brooks

Every week from Wednesday until Saturday, the Rainbow Café will stay open and transform into a piano bar, inviting people to come along and listen to live music whilst enjoying some of their homemade sharing platters and a glass of wine.

Stella Harding has run the café for five years, and decided to do something a bit different by transforming the community café into a piano bar in the evening. “My daughter’s friends used to play at Browns on the triangle, and two or three of them just played for a couple of quid a night and would have a free meal and some free drinks and they

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really loved it; one of them got spotted by somebody famous there, so that’s what gave me the idea for it I suppose,” she says. “And we just love music; a lot of our clients and friends are musicians so it was a good way of combining my two interests.”

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You can get 10% off of everything, and getting 10% off makes it a cheap night out! “The food we’re providing will be sharing plates, so they’ll be cheap as chips. There will be a choice of vegetarian, fish, meat or cheese – a little bit like tapas but not tapas because we’re very traditional with the food we make at Rainbow.

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It’ll be good wholesome food that will fill you up without costing you a lot of money,” says Stella. All the food is homemade, so if you’re feeling sick of takeaways and ready meals this is the perfect remedy.

There will be a variety of genres throughout the week, ranging from classical to show bands meaning there will be something for everyone. If you’d like a chance to play, you can email Stella at stellaharding@blueyonder.co.uk. So grab your friends and head on down to the Rainbow Café for an evening of good food and great entertainment!

By Summer Brooks