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Sep 16, 2026
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Music16 - 19 September 2026 Ten Years Reimagined. Forty Years in the Making. The Soho Jazz Festival has grown year on year, with each September bringing more energy, more discovery, and more of Soho’s hidden corners thrown open to music. 2026 will be a landmark — ten years since the festival was reimagined by Soho Live Studios, and forty since it first began. To protect its intimate spirit, line-ups and venues will only be revealed at August Bank Holiday. Insiders can secure their place early with a £50 Supporters Reservation, which unlocks early access and doubles to £100 credit when the pass store opens. Refundable, limited, and reserved for those in the know. The Intimate Festival in a World of Overcrowding In a city where queues stretch down the street and every rooftop seems to have a ticketed event, the Soho Jazz Festival has always been different. It isn’t about drawing the biggest crowds or splashing the largest line-up poster across the Tube. It’s about creating rooms where music breathes, players connect, and audiences feel they’ve stumbled on something rare. The danger of popularity is that intimacy gets lost. Grassroots artists can be pushed aside as festivals scale up, replaced by safe names who’ll sell the most tickets. We refuse that path. Soho has never been about the safe choice — it’s about risk, edge, and discovery. A Festival That Feels Like Soho Every September, Soho comes alive with music in its most unexpected corners — a basement club here, a members’ lounge there, a hidden room you’ve walked past a hundred times. That’s the joy of the Soho Jazz Festival. It’s not about scale, it’s about closeness. Year on year, the buzz has grown, but the heartbeat has stayed the same: artists at the centre, audiences up close, and discovery in every room. Why We’re Doing Things Differently in 2026 Most festivals get bigger as they get older — more tents, more posters, more queues. But Europe’s grassroots jazz festival has chosen another path. To keep things exciting, surprising, and, most importantly, intimate, we’re holding the line-ups and venues back until August Bank Holiday. It’s our way of keeping the focus on the music, not the numbers. How to Be an Insider This is where the fun begins. A Supporters Reservation is your early ticket to the party. £50 now unlocks early access when the pass store opens — and doubles to £100 credit towards your All Access Pass. Fully refundable until August Bank Holiday, limited in number, and designed for those who know that Soho’s magic is best enjoyed up close. After that, a very small number of passes reach the public just a week before the festival begins, 16–19 September.