Concerts and parties under €20 (November 2026)

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Concerts under €20

Laryssa Kim

For fans of: church-reverberated soundscapes, pre-work cultural gatherings, sipping tea from a thermos

Every first Friday of the month, Amsterdam music lovers huddle under blankets on the stone floor of the city’s oldest building, for a special morning concert. Autumn is the perfect time for these sleepy events, as the sunrise slowly fills the Oude Kerk with morning light. This month, Italian-Congolese artist Laryssa Kim presents her uniquely dreamy ambient soundscapes for this hour-long show. Just don’t forget to wrap up – and bring a hot drink!

Silence #73: Laryssa Kim | Friday 6 November | 08.00–09.00 | Oude Kerk | €19.50 or €12.50 with Museumkaart

Live at Our Place: Experimental Improv

For fans of: weirdo electro-acoustic, cosy cultural venues, multi-sensory dining

Treehouse is a creative community and “playground for artists” in Amsterdam’s post-industrial NDSM district, and these artistic experiments are sometimes open to the public. This concert marks the last of the year for series Live at Our Place, inviting two experimental improv artists, LASALTAS and MARUSKES, to showcase their unique blends of electronics, voice and acoustic instruments. Pay a little extra for a couple of bites inspired by the music.

LIVE AT OUR PLACE: EXPERIMENTAL IMPROV | Friday 6 November | 20.00–23.00 | Treehouse NDSM | €10–14 or €20 with bites

Space is the Place Festival

For fans of: Ceramic Dog, wonky jazz, intimate mini-festivals

Jazz and improvised music don’t always have to take place in elite venues or cocktail-soaked jazz bars. That’s why cultural foundation Space is the Place have, for over a decade now, been organising a huge variety of forward-thinking concerts to support and spotlight the region’s most adventurous acts. This festival brings five of those and “numerous improv sessions” all under one roof at the lively Cinetol complex for a cosy improv extravaganza.

SITP Festival | Saturday 14 November | 17.00 | Cinetol | €17.50 presale or €22.50 door sale

Eliana Glass

For fans of: Carla Bley, Annette Peacock, Smoky-voiced pianist-singers

You could say Eliana Glass is a great fit for BIMHUIS’s sophisticated space, but perhaps  she would be even better suited to a hotel lounge in a parallel universe. So haunting and timeless are this Australian singer-songwriters’s minimal pieces – delicate, weary compositions of her own and the jazz musicians she most admires. This team-up from Subbacultcha and The Rest Is Noise bring Glass for an intimate matinée that’s sure to inspire more than a few goosebumps.

Eliana Glass| Sunday 22 November | Doors 13.30, Starts 14.30 | BIMHUIS | €18 or €21 seated

Amsterdam Klezmer Band 30 years

For fans of: Balkan/klezmer fusion buffoonery, friendly international vibes, Mama Mezrab’s soup

Amsterdam Klezmer Band celebrate their 30th anniversary at regular haunt Mezrab after decades touring everywhere from Siberia to Brazil. Klezmer is an instrumental music derived from the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe, overlapping with Balkan, Greek, Turkish and other musical traditions. These are all touchstones for this band, also known to throw in shades of Motown, spoken word and rap too – whatever keeps the party alive. So sip your soup and strut your stuff over at the city’s cosiest living room.

Club Amsterdam Klezmer| Thursday 26 November | 20.00–23.45 | Mezrab | €10–15

Parties under €20

DJ Narciso, Honeydrip (live), Slimfit

For fans of: sweaty dancehall vibes, global breaks and bass, “Transmissions out the syncopation nation”

This triple lineup presents a united front of eclectic, international DJs with roots across at least four continents. Amsterdam’s own Slimfit represents with selections often drawing from her Chinese-Surinamese heritage, Lisbon’s DJ Narciso honours his Angolan roots with batida-heavy cuts, while Montreal’s Honeydrip presents a live set packed with Caribbean-influenced party music. Sure to be a stormer.

DJ Narciso, Honeydrip (live), Slimfit | Friday 13 November | 23.30–07.00 | Garage Noord | €10.50–20.50 

Kurashi: Super-Sonic Jazz Festival Afterparty

For fans of: hyped-up festivalgoer energy, rapid vibe shifts, everyone inside the place

One of Paradiso’s foremost events, Super-Sonic Jazz Festival returns this autumn with another lineup at the cutting edge of jazz, R&B, soul, hip-hop and electronic music. Whether or not you can make or afford the main events on Friday and Saturday, this afterparty is set to keep the energy flowing thanks to Amsterdam and Curaçao collective Kurashi – masters at switching up genre and tempo across vibrant global sounds.

Kurashi: Super-Sonic Jazz Festival Afterparty | Saturday 21 November | Paradiso | €19.70

Weirdo Fest

For fans of: live bands all night, wacko theatrical rock, the kids being (maybe) alright

Not your average night at Skatecafe: this mini-festival packs oodles of oddball live bands into its two main stages, alongside feminist punk collective Girls to the Front on decks. Acts span every shade of weird from freak folk and cabaret pop to death rock, punk sleaze and math hardcore. This is a place to be seen, and probably seen in the most garish outfit possible. So strap in and weird out.

Weirdo Fest | Saturday 21 November | 21.00-03.00 | Skatecafe | €11–16

Klub Krai

For fans of: close-knit community vibes, art-school bands, euro noise

The birthplace of both Community Kitchen and Testtafel (now at its “Central” location in Mediamatic), De Sering is a quirky, friendly backwater well worth a pilgrimage – especially when music is served alongside the food. This month, it hosts local event series Klub Krai, more often located at Garage Noord, with a mixture of eccentric live acts and DJs. Grab a cheap dinner, chill in the terrace between acts, and spot the edgiest outfit.

Klub Krai | Saturday 21 November | 22.00-03.00 | De Sering West | €10.50

Krackfree Soundsystem 10 Year Anniversary

For fans of: wondiferous woofers, beautific bass, crisp soundsystem carnage

Born in Eindhoven, Krackfree is a collective and physical system with crystal-clear sound – and soundsystem culture at its heart. The self-built high-tech system is breathtaking on its own, with the massive stack of wooden speakers producing an incredibly rich, detailed sonic experience. But this anniversary stop at Melkweg also puts some talent behind the controls, including Bristol reggae collective Gorgon Sound and multidisciplinary basshead Rider Shafique.

Krackfree Soundsystem - 10 Year Anniversary | Friday 27 November | 23.59–late | Melkweg | €10+ “pay what you want” + €4.50 membership