EVENTS
ColaJazz offers A DYNAMIC CALENDAR OF EVENTS ALL YEAR
ColaJazz offers a diverse range of performances from intimate concerts and club engagements to outdoor festivals and special events. ColaJazz presents a wide variety of shows, including highlights such as performances by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis, Live in the Lobby concerts, our popular Loft Sessions, and the Main Street Jazz Fest, among many others.
Upcoming EVENTS
ColaJazz Jam Session
ColaJazz Foundation + Curiosity Coffee are teaming up for a Sunday Jazz Jam Series—live jazz, rotating food trucks, and a room full of good vibes.
Invigorate Cayce (NEW ORELANS) Jazz Series
The City of Cayce is excited to partner with ColaJazz and the Central Carolina Community Foundation to offer a series of free, live, jazz concerts across our Cayce River Arts District!
Jazz Night at Villa Tronco
Join us on Thursday, March 12, for an intimate, soulful evening dedicated to the great American Jazz songbook.
ColaJazz Jam Session
ColaJazz Foundation + Curiosity Coffee are teaming up for a Sunday Jazz Jam Series—live jazz, rotating food trucks, and a room full of good vibes.
LOFT SESSIONS: BERT LIGON QUARTET
Loft Session concerts are intimate, cool, unique and always gratifying. Live the music with ColaJazz!
JazzKeller: Bryson Borgstedt Group
World-class improvisation meets old-world brewing! Entry is FREE. Whether you’re a jazz purist or just looking for the city’s best happy hour, find your seat in the Biergarten.
JazzKeller: BEN EIDSON GROUP
World-class improvisation meets old-world brewing! Entry is FREE. Whether you’re a jazz purist or just looking for the city’s best happy hour, find your seat in the Biergarten.
JazzKeller: Nick Vlandis GROUP
World-class improvisation meets old-world brewing! Entry is FREE. Whether you’re a jazz purist or just looking for the city’s best happy hour, find your seat in the Biergarten.
ColaJazz Jam Session
ColaJazz Foundation + Curiosity Coffee are teaming up for a Sunday Jazz Jam Series—live jazz, rotating food trucks, and a room full of good vibes.
Alone Together: KeyS & Conversations featuring BERT LIGON
Step into an intimate, living-room-style concert where world-class jazz pianists perform just feet away.
SISTERS SINGING JAZZ: QUIANA PARLER
Sisters Singing Jazz - a soulful, listening room series at 701 Whaley.
JazzKeller: RODNEY FOSTER JR. & COMPANY
World-class improvisation meets old-world brewing! Entry is FREE. Whether you’re a jazz purist or just looking for the city’s best happy hour, find your seat in the Biergarten.
ColaJazz Jam Session
ColaJazz Foundation + Curiosity Coffee are teaming up for a Sunday Jazz Jam Series—live jazz, rotating food trucks, and a room full of good vibes.
Jazz Keller: Carolina Jazz Experience Big Band
World-class improvisation meets old-world brewing! Entry is FREE. Whether you’re a jazz purist or just looking for the city’s best happy hour, find your seat in the Biergarten.
Live in the Lobby: Mar Vilaseca
A graduate of The Juilliard School under the mentorship of Wynton Marsalis, Mar brings a sound that is both historically grounded and breathtakingly modern.
ColaJazz Jam Session
ColaJazz Foundation + Curiosity Coffee are teaming up for a Sunday Jazz Jam Series—live jazz, rotating food trucks, and a room full of good vibes.
Jazz Keller: SAM EDWARDS QUARTET
World-class improvisation meets old-world brewing! Entry is FREE. Whether you’re a jazz purist or just looking for the city’s best happy hour, find your seat in the Biergarten.
Alone Together: KeyS & Conversations featuring DEON BLUE
Step into an intimate, living-room-style concert where world-class jazz pianists perform just feet away.
LOFT SESSIONS: PETE NEIGHBOUR QUARTET
Loft Session concerts are intimate, cool, unique and always gratifying. Live the music with ColaJazz!
Alone Together: KeyS & Conversations featuring JOHN TECKLENBURG
Step into an intimate, living-room-style concert where world-class jazz pianists perform just feet away.
SISTERS SINGING JAZZ: NICOLE HENRY
Sisters Singing Jazz - a soulful, listening room series at 701 Whaley.
Alone Together: KeyS & Conversations featuring DEMETRIUS DOCTOR
Step into an intimate, living-room-style concert where world-class jazz pianists perform just feet away.
Invigorate Cayce (LATIN) Jazz Series
The City of Cayce is excited to partner with ColaJazz and the Central Carolina Community Foundation to offer a series of free, live, jazz concerts across our Cayce River Arts District!
Invigorate Cayce Jazz Series
The City of Cayce is excited to partner with ColaJazz and the Central Carolina Community Foundation to offer a series of free, live, jazz concerts across our Cayce River Arts District!
Jazz in the Park: VALENTINE Vibes
Free and open to the public, family friendly, jazz in the park! Come enjoy diverse jazz, food trucks and more…
Alone Together: Key & Conversations featuring NICK BREWER
Step into an intimate, living-room-style concert where world-class jazz pianists perform just feet away.
Jazz Night at Villa Tronco
Skip the frantic February 14th rush and join us on Thursday, February 12, for an intimate, soulful evening dedicated to the great American love song.
SISTERS SINGING JAZZ: BRITTANY TURNIPSEED
Sisters Singing Jazz - a soulful, listening room series at 701 Whaley.
Inside the Section: The Little Big Band Residency
Join the ColaJazz Little Big Band Residency with legend Bryson Borgstedt. 6 weeks of pro mentorship, ensemble skills, and sight-reading. Limited chairs. Reg now!
Live in the Lobby: Ashley Pezzotti
Ashley Pezzotti: Live in the Lobby. Opening the 2026 Season. February 5 | 7:30 PM.
LOFT SESSIONS:
Loft Session concerts are intimate, cool, unique and always gratifying. Live the music with ColaJazz!
Alone Together: Key & Conversations featuring Joe Davidian
Step into an intimate, living-room-style concert where world-class jazz pianists perform just feet away.
Loft Session: EVE OF THE EVE
Annual Eve of the Eve, a celebrated, super fun event with the ColaJazz Foundation
CHarlie Brown Christmas - FREE
A Charlie Brown Christmas concert by the Nick Vlandis Trio. Free. RSVPs required.
Jazz in the Park: Holiday Vibes
Free and open to the public, family friendly, jazz in the park! Come enjoy food trucks and vendors too.
The North Pole to the Big Easy
From the North Pole to the Big Easy: A Holiday Tale Like No Other!
Loft Session: CELEBRATE THE SEASON WITH THE EDWIN HAMILTON GROUP
Celebrate the season with the Edwin Hamilton Group!
PLink Rattle Toot Holiday Show
Bring the family for a special holiday jazz quartet edition of Plink, Rattle, Toot! Words Meet Music.
Santa’s Christmas Party
Santa has modernized! Help Young Yeti and Rudolph stop Madame Freezum from taking over the North Pole in this futuristic, musical celebration.
Grand Opening: 2 Story Studios
2 Story Studios brings artists, potters, and musicians together under one roof — a place to create, connect, and inspire.
Loft Session: DISNEY MEETS JAZZ with MARK RAPP
For one very special night, we proudly present award-winning trumpeter Mark Rapp and his quartet to bring to life their swinging and fun arrangements of beloved Disney classics.
BAND DIRECTOR ACADEMY
FREE, one-day training designed to help music teachers confidently bring jazz into their classrooms.
JAZZKELLER
Funky, cool and amazing live jazz at Columbia’s favorite riverfront brewery and biergarten. All free. All good.
Alone Together: Keys & ConversatioN (NICK VLANDIS)
The magic of solo jazz piano in an up-close and personal setting. Alone Together: Keys and Conversation is a new concert series showcasing the Southeast’s most accomplished jazz pianists.
Crescent City Voodoo – A New Orleans Masquerade
Crescent City Voodoo – A New Orleans Masquerade
From Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau to Lestat de Lioncourt, we’ll take you through the spooky tales of New Orleans through rhythm and song.
JAZZKELLER
Funky, cool and amazing live jazz at Columbia’s favorite riverfront brewery and biergarten. All free. All good.
JAZZKELLER
Funky, cool and amazing live jazz at Columbia’s favorite riverfront brewery and biergarten. All free. All good.
Loft Session: PETE NEIGHBOUR
Join ColaJazz on Oct 20 for an exciting Loft Session as esteemed clarinetist Pete Neighbour and his group play the swing of things!
JAZZKELLER
Funky, cool and amazing live jazz at Columbia’s favorite riverfront brewery and biergarten. All free. All good.
JAZZKELLER
Funky, cool and amazing live jazz at Columbia’s favorite riverfront brewery and biergarten. All free. All good.
Alone Together: Keys & ConversatioN (Nery Kim)
The magic of solo jazz piano in an up-close and personal setting. Alone Together: Keys and Conversation is a new concert series showcasing the Southeast’s most accomplished jazz pianists.
Concerts of all shapes and sizes.
We swing. We groove. We Jazz.
LOFT SESSIONS
ColaJazz Office Concerts
LIVE IN THE LOBBY
Community Concerts
MAIN STREET JAZZ FEST
Special Events
The driving beat in jazz performances
Notable artists include:
Wynton Marsalis, Chris Potter, Allison Miller, Patrick Bartley, Don Braden, Gotham Kings, Scotty Barnhart, Houston Person, Fred Wesley, Wycliffe Gordon, Don Vappie, Dr. Michael White, Jeremy Davenport, Wess Anderson, Charlton Singleton, Dr. Mitch Butler and many others
