LATE NIGHTS: GRASS ROOTS
Grass Roots is a monthly late night event brought to you by Soulsa DJ and promoter Mr Boogie. Serving as a platform for young, up and coming bands to ‘polish […]
The Shape of Jazz To Come…
For Black History Month: Echo in the Bones 31 October 2020 The second installment of a three-part work composed by Renell Shaw. Music composed by Renell Shaw featuring Orphy Robinson MBE […]
Jazz Connective – an EU supported project
We are happy that the Vortex has been awarded a Creative Europe grant of just under €200,000 as part of a project called Jazz Connective. The other partners are in […]
Aurelie Freoua live event, 3 August
Here is a painting by Aurelie Freoua of her Resonances event last November at the Vortex. The musicians, Albert Palau (piano), Liran Donin (bass) and Simon Roth (drums), improvise to […]
Hire the Vortex
We have top quality facilities both upstairs and downstairs to make the club a great place to hire for rehearsals and recordings. For example, the club is used weekly […]
Vortex Outdoors 2014 – in pictures
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Vortex Summer School
A highly successful first-ever Vortex Summer School took place from 4th – 23rd August 2014, with 5 workshops attended by 32 enthusiastic musicians aged from 7 to 69! Below you can see […]
SoundsCreative Projects
SoundsCreative Projects Created and led by musician and workshop leader Tara Franks, SoundsCreative is an important partner for daytime workshops at the Vortex. Tots Tunes The very popular music […]
Gina Southgate – Artist Partnership
Gina Southgate – Artist Partnership Local artist Gina Southgate transforms the look of the Vortex with her unique live jazz paintings. Our long running partnership has seen live performance […]
Undercurrent
Undercurrent A chance for a group of young people from Hackney to learn group composition skills & perform at the Vortex alongside world class musicians. Led by workshop leader Detta Danford, […]
Gina Southgate Gallery
Local artist Gina Southgate transforms the look of the Vortex with her unique live jazz paintings. Our long running partnership has seen live performance painting take place at gigs, displays […]
Workshops
We like to encourage people not just to listen to great music, but to get involved and have a go as well! Find out about our different workshop opportunities for […]
Gillett Square
Gillett Square is a unique public space in Dalston, playing host to exciting outdoor events as well as providing a place for people to hang out in the heart of […]
The Space
Jazz is for the curious and intrepid LIVE Vortex takes you into the intimate Vortex Jazz Club with 3 concerts filmed before an audience. 14 episodes bring you extracts from […]