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Best Brisbane Bars with Live Music

From jazz to rock'n'roll, country to r'n'b, folk and blues, here's 11 of the best Brisbane bars with live music:

Suzie Wong's Good Time Bar
It's Jam night on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday nights of the month at this Valley dive bar
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Brooklyn Standard
Brooklyn Standard Brisbane
Brooklyn Standard is Brisbane’s coolest basement bar - a dim-lit brick cellar accessed by a secret laneway door, where live music acts and bands play nightly to an eclectic crowd.
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Lefty's Music Hall
Seating booths, bar and hall inside Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall bar
Lefty's Music Hall is like a lavish honky tonk saloon meets bordello beamed up from the deep south of 19th century America
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The Triffid
The Triffid

An old war igloo was converted into a sensational bar and music venue that is one of Brisbane’s fave destinations with onsite 2-storey beer garden

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Black Bear Lodge
Black Bear Lodge Bar Fortitude Valley
Upstairs above the old Cosmo Coffee Shop is this Twin Peaks meets Blue Velvet bar
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Chattanooga Jazz Bar
Chattanooga Jazz Bar Fortitude Valley
An old school American-style jazz bar and eatery, like a secret slice of Chicago or New Orleans in the streets of the Valley
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The Sound Garden
The Sound Garden Fortitude Valley
The Sound Garden is a stunning, mammoth 2-storey atrium bar in the heart of Fortitude Valley
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Doo-Bop Bar
Doo Bop Bar Brisbane
Doo-Bop Bar brings live music to the streets of Brisbane, with a cool basement bar and upstairs Piano Bar
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The Junk Bar
The Skukum Lounge is Brisbane’s first bar within a bar – a tiny cabin located at the edge of the groovy alpine woods themed cocktail lounge beloved as The Junk Bar.
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Greaser Bar
Greaserbar Fortitude Valley
Greaser bar is a secret subterranean bar of retro American style cool found in the cellar of a 130 year old heritage Fortitude Valley building.
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It's Still a Secret
It's Still a Secret South Brisbane
An exquisite 1970's style vintage bar occupying the ground floor of 130 year old heritage-listed Coronation Hotel
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