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About Cafe René
Cafe René is a grassroots music venue in City Centre, Gloucester with a standing capacity of approximately 100. Bring your own PA, mics and instruments.
Cafe René books Rock, Blues, Folk, Metal acts. Both original music and covers are welcome. This listing is part of the Gloucester venue directory.
Cafe Rene is a long-running, characterful pub, restaurant and live-music venue at 31 Southgate Street in the heart of Gloucester, and a champion of grassroots music for over two decades. There is live music every Wednesday and Friday, with further music on Saturdays often as a DJ, across a wide spread of genres - rock, blues, folk and metal among them. Downstairs is an underground 17th-century cellar bar opened up for live music events and available for private hire, and the venue runs the Cafe Rene Rhythm and Blues Festival every summer, with bands playing inside and outside the pub and performers drawn from around the globe. A PA is provided for performers in this intimate room of roughly 100 capacity.
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31 Southgate Street, City Centre, Gloucester, GL1 1TP
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Cafe René books Rock, Blues, Folk, Metal. Both original music and covers are welcome. Browse artist profiles by genre on GigXchange.
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Cafe René has a standing capacity of approximately 100, classed as a small venue. See all Gloucester venues for size comparisons.
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31 Southgate Street, City Centre, Gloucester, GL1 1TP. See the map below for directions. Browse more Gloucester venues nearby.
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