ABOUT US

Brackets & Jam 

One of Australia's best, oldest & longest running community arts events. 

Founded by a young saxophonist, Mark Elliot in 1980 at Nimbin in the Rainbow Cafe.

The first incarnation of B&J ran till 1982.

In 1988 it was relaunched in a warehouse in Alberta Street in Surry Hills, Sydney Australia. 

Held at various locations around Sydney & across the country 

over the last 43+ years & still going strong.
Always fantastic events full of wonderful entertainment & good people . Live Australian music, poetry, circus, theatre, dance and more. 

Brackets & Jam was founded as a volunteer based community arts organisation providing encouragement & assistance to artists.

The original B&J has also provided encouragement & assistance to other groups wishing to start a similar community organisation such as Brackets & Jam Central Coast, B&J New York City, B&J in LA, B&J Byron Bay, B&J Nimbin, B&J Blue Mountains, B&J Darwin & B&J Cairns.

 Brackets & Jam nurture, support & facilitate performing arts.

B&J encourage & support cultural diversity & community interaction. 

We support equality, equal opportunity & sustainability.

Were you ever a performer or friend of Brackets & Jam ?

During the early years Brackets & Jam Sydney were open every Monday night, 50 - 51 weeks a year for a first stint of 14 years.

Around 700 nights with say 14 different Brackets plus a long Jam to end.

In that first 14 years we had over 10,000 different performances with an average of 4 players per performance.

The live music audience average through B&J on any night was circa 160 people and sometimes many more.

160 people on 700 nights equals over 112,000 people who shared their love of the arts hanging out at Brackets & Jam in Sydney Australia.

If you were ever a performer or friend of Brackets & Jam please leave your email below so we can let you know about future events.

If you have old photos or footage or B&J stories, please let us know. 

We'd love to gather interesting material to fatten up this webpage.