Events for Saturday 7 March 2015
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7:00 pm
£13 (advance) / £15 (door)
Police Dog Hogan / Goat Roper Rodeo Band @ The Bullingdon, Oxford
Police Dog Hogan are a high-energy and eclectic seven-piece, combining fiddle, banjo, mandolin, drums and guitars with knockout four-part harmonies in an exuberant fusing of country, pop, folk, and rocking urban bluegrass. The Sunday Times has described them as “wonderful”; the Telegraph named them one of its “favourite new bands”; Radio 2 called them “a […] Find out more »
7:30 pm
£5
The Matt Edwards Band / Leper King / The Secret Kids @ The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
The Matt Edwards Band: Matt Edwards is an original blues rock musician from the south of England. His music is passionate, alternative blues, packed full of groove and power. Matt released his debut album Follow The Plan in 2012, writing and playing all of the instruments himself. Today Matt has recruited an exciting live band […] Find out more »
£15 / £10 (£10 / £5 students and under 18s)
Beethoven: ‘Appassionata’ – Victor Sangiorgio, piano @ St John The Evangelist Church, Oxford
A pupil of some of the great Italian teachers of the C20 and a champion of lesser-known works, Victor Sangiorgio is praised for his “poetic playing” and “delicate but crystalline tone colours”. The programme includes Cimarosa sonatas, Beethoven’s Appassionata and pieces by Liszt, Cage and Gershwin. Part of SJE Arts International Piano Series 2015. More […] Find out more »
£6 (advance) / £7 (door)
The Little Unsaid / Waltz In The Shallow End @ The Cellar, Oxford
The Little Unsaid is the project of multi-instrumentalist John Elliot. It swoons dark brooding alt-folk. There’s a Jeff Buckleyesque power to this full-bodied sound, and it’s not surprising that Oxford producer Graham Green – who’s worked with the likes of Jonny Greenwood on his film soundtracks – has been involved in the mixing of Fisher […] Find out more »
8:00 pm
£15 / £13.50 (concessions)
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner @ Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
Legendary folk fiddler Peter Knight, guitarist Roger Flack and conga and djembe player Vincent Salzfaas perform an exceptional evening of music, hailed by Songlines magazine as “another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool”. A bedrock of British traditional music flirts with Eastern European, French, Cajun, African and even Aboriginal influences, transporting audiences on a “blistering […] Find out more »
£8 (advance) / £10 (door)
Winter-Wilson / Pete Joshua @ Tiddy Hall, Ascott-under-Wychwood
Following the demise of folk-rock band Ragtrade in 1994, former members Kip Winter and Dave Wilson were asked to perform as a duo in their local (The Cross Keys in Upton, Notts, then a regular folk music venue). The success of that first evening led to the formation of Winter-Wilson, 17 years of part-time touring, […] Find out more »
9:00 pm
Free
Get Funky @ The Nightingale, Bicester
Party and funk classics – live and loud! More information at www.facebook.com/events/416974741794051 Find out more »
10:00 pm
£10
YoungOnes First Birthday with T Williams @ O2 Academy 2, Oxford
More information at www.o2academyoxford.co.uk/event/74998/youngones-first-birthday–tickets Find out more »
