Following several successes this year, we're thrilled that Starlings Sessions will be treating us to a fully-fledged set at one of our favourite hang-outs, the socially conscious brewery Tap Social Movement.

The music will span everything from soulful, beautiful acapella ballads to raucous rousing bangers. It is a joyful tapestry of languages and musical traditions with threads running through that unite us across cultures.

Afterwards, DJ Bossaphonik will continue the party until late!

Starling Sessions

Think local, folk global! Starling Sessions is a global folk community orchestra, exploring traditional music from around the world through the people of Oxford. Each member of the band brings a song with them to share and together they create a musical mosaic of Oxford. Like the common starling, which makes its home anywhere and has a knack for learning the songs of other birds around it, they learn to sing the songs that have made their home in Oxford.

DJ Bossaphonik

DJ Dan Ofer is the founder and organiser of Oxford's legendary world-jazz dance music event, Bossaphonik, which this year celebrates its 20th Anniversary. In this time it has run monthly in a number of venues and has hosted around 130 superb live bands. Dan is resident DJ at Bossaphonik and his repertoire blends high energy live-based eclectic music including jazz funk - Afrobeat - soukous - Latin jazz - Brazilica - cumbia - Balkan beats - Arabian fusion - soul jazz - electro swing - nu jazz bizniz.

Uplifting, energising and inspiring sounds for the dancefloor!

Presented by OCM, Tandem Collective and Tap Social Movement.

Starling Sessions is funded by Oxfordshire Community Foundation, Swan Mountain Trust, Stanton Ballard Trust, Asylum Welcome, and Oxford City Council, with support from Oxford Refugee Health Initiative and Old Fire Station. This gig is a fundraiser to support the Starling Sessions, and your ticket purchase will help the project to continue. There will also be opportunities to support Starling Sessions on the night by buying some of their cool merch and/or making a donation.

Photo credit: Mark Hemmings

Wolfson College Music Society presents DAVID EARL

Programme –
Mozart - Piano Sonata in C minor K457
Schubert - Piano Sonata in A minor D845
Schumann - Faschingsschwank aus Wien Opus 26
David Earl - Metta Bhavana

5pm Sunday 2 June 2024

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD

Free Admission. Donations welcome.
All donations from the concert will go to The Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project (Long Mead Foundation)

Wolfson College Music Society presents Asaka Quartet

Programme -
Schubert - Quartettsatz
Beethoven - Opus 18, No. 2 in G major
Danish String Quartet - Unst Boat Song
Brahms - String Quartet No. 1 in C minor

5pm Sunday 5 May 2024

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD

£15 | £10 Wolfson Members | Students Free
Tickets available on the door of the event (cash only).

Abbey Chamber Concerts
Jacqueline Johnson - cello
Dominic Piers Smith - piano
Rachmaninov - Sonata in G minor Op 19
Mendelssohn - Sonata Op 45

Celebrating Australian Music (CAM) celebrates Fauré Anniversary

6.30-7pm Talk by Dr Roy Howat, ‘Rediscovering Fauré’
7.30-8.30pm Recital of music by Fauré and Australian composers

Programme –
Wendy Hiscocks – Explorer goes East
Peter Sculthorpe – Mountains
Peggy Glanville-Hicks – Prelude to a Pensive Pupil
Gabriel Fauré – Music for cello & piano, Madrigal & Pavane

Performers include, Wendy Hiscocks, Mark Underwood, Coral Lancaster, Roy Howat, and Amici della Voce.

Saturday 11 May 2024

The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD.

Free Admission. Seats can be reserved by visiting https://celebratingaustralianmusic.com

The Pirates of Penzance! - Scratch Opera!

Create an Opera in a Day - With Oxford Opera Company!

Yo ho ho!! Come aboard with Oxford Opera to set sail and join our Pirate Crew to create this hilarious operetta “The Pirates of Penzance” in a day! We will explore Gilbert and Sullivan’s flagship comedy to create our very own, unique interpretation to be shared with family and friends at the end of the day. The day will be a highly enjoyable journey looking at storytelling and stagecraft, as well as giving the Pirate Crew the opportunity to learn some of the music from the show. This is an ideal workshop for both young performers who are keen to hone their craft in a fun supportive environment and also for those dipping their toes into music and performing for the first time!

Suitable for Children aged 8-12
Sunday May 12th - 10am – 4.00pm.
Steeple Aston Village Hall, Fir Lane, OX25 4SF.
£39 per child for the day.

Full details on our website www.oxfordopera.uk or contact Catie - education@oxfordopera.uk

Wolfson College Music Society presents AMREF HEALTH AFRICA CONCERT.

Piano recital performed by Nima Farahmand Bafi.

Programme -
Nima Farahmand Bafi - Persian fantasy
Leoš Janáček - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905
Nima Farahmand Bafi - Jin - Jiyan – Azadi (Woman – Life – Freedom)
Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise Op. 53
Nima Farahmand Bafi - Poems without words
Ernest Bloch - Nigun from Baal Shem (arr. Nima Farahmand Bafi)
Nima Farahmand Bafi - Concert paraphrase on "Chahargah" by H. Kassai

5pm Sunday 21 April 2024

Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Linton Road, Oxford, OX2 6UD

Free Admission. Donations welcome (cash only).
All donations from the concert will go to Amref Health Africa

Bringing Oxfordshire's artists, activists, gardeners, growers, poets, potters, photographers, musicians and creatives of all kinds together for an evening of restoration and inspiration.

In this interactive workshop with Green Arts Oxfordshire Network, we will connect to explore tools that restore, inspire and motivate us to take action.

Bring a vegan dish if you're able to, to enjoy with the community alongside free food by Damascus Rose Kitchen.

Join us to sow and nurture the seeds of a better world…

This workshop is hosted by Green Arts Oxfordshire Network and The Old Fire Station, in collaboration with Modern Art Oxford, Community Action Groups (CAG) Oxfordshire and The Gardening Drawing Club.

With artists...

Dr JC Niala: Writer, historian, artist and multifaceted creative with a passion for heritage and storytelling. JC Niala makes art that encourages people to connect with nature.
Helen Edwards: Artist and Psychotherapist working with ecological art, movement and integrative arts psychotherapy.
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck: Painter, transdisciplinary artist, cultural practitioner and allotment plot holder from France now based in rural Oxfordshire. Founder ofThe Gardening Drawing Club.
Usha dapur Kar: Oxford based visual artist creating mixed media installations and paintings, to stimulate reflection and conversation about social & climate justice.

About Green Arts Oxfordshire Network (GAON): GAON unites Oxfordshire’s artists and cultural organisations in their work to tackle the climate & ecological emergency. We believe that a better future is possible, and that we as cultural leaders need to create the change we want to see in the world.

Accessibility: This event will be in the Old Fire Station's Theatre. Please enter the building at 40 George Street via the foyer. There is level entry into the foyer of the Old Fire Station, and step-free access to the Theatre via a lift. There is an accessible toilet on the same floor

Photograph by Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck