Miss Celie's

Miss Celie’s is an Ashfield, Sydney bar-and-kitchen venue with a publicly unlisted capacity and live music seven nights a week. Its distinguishing feature is its house approach: jazz and blues lead the program, while other styles also find a place. The result is a community-scale room where weekday players share the diary with weekend bands, backed by food, Inner West beer, wine and cocktails.

A 2020 opening, then a working-musician owner

Miss Celie’s began in 2020, about a month before COVID hit, as the project of Sydney musician and hospitality worker Paul Blasi. That timing placed a new bar and live-music room into the pandemic’s first shock, while published accounts record Blasi continuing as both owner and working bass player. Its founding purpose has stayed clear: local jazz and blues players, regular performance nights, and a bar built around Inner West beer, wine and cocktails. A useful snapshot came on March 15, 2026, when British guitarist Lee Jones returned with a quintet including Nish Manjunath, Casey Golden, Callum Eggins and Deva Permana. The program drew on Jones’s ensemble albums Swish, Songs from the 13th Hour and After the Pier, bringing jazz originals with blues-guitar inflections into the Ashfield room. In June 2026, Blasi appeared before a NSW parliamentary inquiry as owner of Miss Celie’s Live Music Venue and a working musician, evidence of a hands-on operator within the scene.

What the room offers now

Programming is open in spirit, though jazz and blues form the core; official copy welcomes other genres at times, and the calendar spans bands, trios and singer-led bills. Music runs seven nights per week, making Miss Celie’s useful for Tuesday sets as well as Friday and Saturday shows. Expect a bar-and-kitchen setting, with food alongside beer, wine and cocktails, plus an explicitly family-friendly welcome. Capacity remains publicly unlisted.