Find what is happening tonight, tomorrow, and this week across Seattle jazz rooms, restaurants, and community stages, with ticket status and neighborhood context first.
Doors: 5:00pm | Show: 5:30pm Suggested Donation: $20 Seating is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! Jazz Night School student ensembles perform what they have been working on this spring quarter. Three full days of music from students of all levels. Donations can be made the night of, at the door! https://www.facebook.com/jazznightschool/
Join us for a special Happy Hour (the Happiest Hour), with lovely music, good food & drink, marvelous ambience, and some of your very best friends. Happy Hour: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Ticket: FREE No cover, just great drinks and snacks The Casalini Trio has played happy hours at the Royal Room since 2019. They play laid-back, swinging versions of great tunes by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Hoagie Carmichael, Phillip Johnston, and other great American songwriters of the last 100 years. The happy hour usually lasts about an hour and a half. Good drinks, good people, good ambience, and there’s never a cover charge, although the band often encourages donations to local food banks and other worthy causes.
Doors: 5:30pm | Show: 6:00pm Suggested Donation: $20 Seating is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! Jazz Night School student ensembles perform what they have been working on this spring quarter. Three full days of music from students of all levels. Donations can be made the night of, at the door! https://www.facebook.com/jazznightschool/
Doors: 5:30pm | Show: 6:00pm Suggested Donation: $20 Seating is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! Jazz Night School student ensembles perform what they have been working on this spring quarter. Three full days of music from students of all levels. Donations can be made the night of, at the door! https://www.facebook.com/jazznightschool/
Doors: 6:30pm ⎮ Open Rehearsal: 7:00pm ⎮ Sets: 7:30pm & 8:30pm Admission: Donations to SHMP Encouraged Seating is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! Created in early 2026, The Wayne Horvitz Ensemble is a 10 piece chamber jazz orchestra with an emphasis on new compositions by Horvitz that focus on group improvisation and conduction. Stephanie Richards – Trumpet Ray Larsen – Trumpet Willem de Koch – Trombone Christian Pincock – Trombone James Falzone – Clarinet Kate Olson – Soprano Saxophone Neil Welch – Tenor Sax Greg Sinibaldi – Baritone Sax, Bass Clarinet Abbey Blackwell – Contrabass Evan Woodle – Drums Wayne Horvitz – Compositions, Conduction and Piano
Doors: 6:30 pm | Show 7:00 pm Tickets: $15 Seating is first come, first served. Please arrive early to be guaranteed a seat! The Royal Room is All Ages until 10pm They get up an hour early for school all year to hone their sound, and now these young student musicians are ready to swing and entertain you in their band’s 2026 culminating performance! Robert Eagle Staff Middle School is proud to present the premier band of its award-winning jazz program, Robert Eagle Staff Jazz 1. Directed by Patrick Gordon, the group performs all genres of jazz including big band, Latin jazz, and New Orleans style brass. Since their school’s founding in 2017, Eagle Staff’s Jazz 1 bands have been honored several times with the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival sweepstakes award and other first-place finishes. We invite you to celebrate all they’ve learned as this unique combination of students performs together one last time!
Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7:30pm RSVP in advance please Admission by donation We are now accepting reservations for diners! Please visit the Reservations page to book a table. Table reservations are only for guests who plan to dine at the Royal Room. We do not take reservations over the phone. Seating for non-diners is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! The Royal Room is All Ages until 10pm. South Hudson Music Project Presents Juneteenth, a Community Celebration! Winter in America is an homage highlighting Gil Scott-Heron’s and Brian Jackson’s inspirational music, poetry, and original spoken word. The show engages today’s audience with Scott-Heron’s and Jackson’s signature themes: the African-American experience and unity in the struggle for justice everywhere. Featuring some of the best artists in the Pacific Northwest, we aim to bring new life to this under-appreciated, yet vital music. The band features: Ayesha Brooks – vocals, Shakiah Danielson – poetry and rap vocals, Darrius Willrich keyboards and vocals, Ricardo Guity – percussion, Owuor Arunga – trumpet, Chris Patin – drum set, Darian Asplund – sax and flute, Dan Rapport – guitar, and Camilo Estrada – bass and bandleader Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/winterinamericaband Website: https://winterinamerica.webflow.io/
Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7:30pm Tickets: $20 advance, $25 doors Kids 12 & under – free Advance tickets can only be purchased online-we do not sell advance tickets at the venue. Refunds are not available within 48 hours of the event. Tickets do not guarantee seating during shows at the Royal Room. We are now accepting reservations for diners! After purchasing tickets, please visit the Reservations page to book a table. Table reservations require advance tickets, and are only for guests who plan to dine at the Royal Room. We do not take reservations over the phone. Seating for non-diners is first come, first served. Please arrive early to guarantee a seat! Built on a history starting in 1998, Rainbow City Jazz Band offers a place for LGBTQIA+ people to build community through music and promote visibility and equability of queer people in Jazz. They bring a wide diversity of musicians paired with the same in the charts they play from modern to classic, swing to funk, and more! Director: Kelly Clingan Saxophones: Daniel Purtha, Cindy Braunheim, Parker Schroeder, Michael Gorzelsky, Dominique DeRosa, June Lopez, Forest Thomas, Adam Brown Trumpets: Shelly Siegfried, Alex Fucso, Max Deibel, Eric Villa Trombones: Brendan Byron, Kathleen Grauman, Aria Blair, Trudy Lundgren, Gary Kleynen, Taizo Curry, Logan Selley, Jade Dever Matthews, Roz Powers Rhythm: Deb Farrar, Chris Hewett, KJ Lysen, Henry Moe, Brian Hodgson https://rainbowcity.org/about-rainbow-city-performing-arts/
