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Jazz club or a beach-bar stage

Cocoa Beach after dark.

Choose between a Heidi’s Jazz Club performance and Sandbar’s beach-bar music calendar, with the details for both before you leave.

Heidi’s gives you a jazz club with dinner service and a separate dining room with live piano. Sandbar pairs fish tacos, wings and casual seafood with a sports-bar setting and performers ranging from solo acts to full bands. Coconuts adds oceanfront food and drinks at the beach end of Minutemen Causeway.

Choose the mood before the route. Heidi’s and Coconuts are downtown Cocoa Beach choices, while Sandbar is farther north on Ocean Beach Boulevard. Coconuts publishes a 10 p.m. full-menu cutoff; Sandbar publishes a midnight kitchen close. That difference can decide whether to eat before or after your show.

The places behind the plan.

Put the evening together.

Step 1

Choose the sound

Read Heidi’s profile for a jazz-focused evening, or Sandbar’s for its published band and late-set calendar. Pick a dated performance rather than a general music-night promise.

Step 2

Match dinner to the show

Check the actual food-service window at your chosen venue. If dinner elsewhere fits better, schedule it before the set you came to hear.

Step 3

Plan the trip home

Agree on a pickup point before the show. A late finish can run into the next calendar day; our dated listings show that when the venue publishes it.

Venue facts and official sources are listed in each profile. This is a suggested evening plan, with venue information reviewed October 5, 2026.