The Best Bars in Central Seville For Live Music
With a variety of venues offering everything from indie rock to flamenco and blues to jazz, music lovers of every kind are catered for in the Andalusian capital of Seville. Read on for the best spots to head in this city’s beautiful historic centre for live music.
1. Fun Club
One of the most popular venues in the Alameda de Hercules area of Seville is the legendary Fun Club, a studenty hangout known for its indie rock concerts. Located on the expansive square itself, this is a late-night joint, opening its doors at half 9 every evening and not closing them until around 7am. It attracts well-known Spanish groups, whose concerts are often broadcast throughout the country on TV and, despite the high quality of the live music, drink prices are reasonable. The service is also highly praised, though be prepared to shout to make your order heard.
86 Calle Alameda de Hércules, Seville, Spain, +34 636 66 90 23
2. Habanilla Cafe
Cafe, Pub Grub
3. La Carboneria
Offering nightly flamenco shows by some of Andalusia’s finest artists, La Carboneria is for those who like their live music raw, up-close and personal. No videos or cameras are allowed during the performances, which you watch from shared benches so close to the dancers that their flounced dresses graze your face. It’s not a large venue, so if you want a decent seat you’ll have to turn up a good half an hour or so before showtime (9.30), but you won’t mind the wait as you chat to other music lovers at your table and enjoy their excellent tapas and wine. Not to be missed for any visitors who want to see “real” flamenco.
4. Casa Anselma
Along with La Carboneria, the other central Seville joint that flamenco enthusiasts visiting Seville need to know about is Casa Anselma. This tiny venue – the walls of which are plastered with flamenco memorabilia, including some beautiful old paintings – doesn’t open its doors until about midnight, and even then only according to a schedule that could be described as unpredictable, at best. If you do see it open, though, don’t miss out on what could be some of the most passionate music and dance you’re likely to hear and see in the Andalusian capital. Drinks are a little more pricey than in the other venues in this article, but entrance is free.
5. Cafe Jazz Naima
Cafe, Pub Grub
6. Plaza Alameda de Hercules
The spacious square of the Alameda de Hercules is often the stage for live performances of concert-hall quality, especially at the weekends, so it deserves to be on this list along with the bars that surround it. Local groups – as well as street entertainers of every description – simply set up somewhere in the middle and play for an hour or so, and their music can be enjoyed over drinks from any one of the dozens of terraces that line the east and west sides of the plaza. This is a great way of enjoying live music if you’re in Seville as a family, as there is plenty room for kids to play as you watch the bands.
7. La Bicicleteria
A legend on Seville’s underground scene, La Bicicleteria (which is closed Fridays and Saturdays) is situated on Calle Feria, arguably the city’s scruffiest, most bohemian street. Entry into this tiny and wonderfully odd drinking den is by knocking on a door that looks more like it leads into an abandoned building than somewhere you’d go to hear music. But every Tuesday, usually about 11pm, La Bicicleteria stages live performances by local musicians, who are improbably wedged in amongst the decorative clutter and their audience. Located in a parallel universe to the pijo Seville that surrounds it.
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