Garsington Opera

Garsington Opera’s popular spring concerts held in the Great Barn will feature the renowned Schubert Ensemble playing quintets by Martinů, Schubert and Fauré on Saturday 25 April, as well as an evening of Eastern European, Balkan and Klezmer music by the She’Koyokh Klezmer (more…)

iON Best Spring Sounds with Vera Bird

Madeleine Peyroux

French-American jazz-blues singer Madeleine Peyroux found success through cover versions of artists such as Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen. This beguiling and laid-back album sees Peyroux singing her own compositions, but it’s her langorous voice (often compared to Billie Holliday) which is the main attraction. (more…)

Here’s a Gig to Knock Your Socks Off!

Whether you have been into jazz for years and want to know the best gig in town at the Oxford end of your journey with Oxford Tube, or whether you are just looking for a new direction for your musical taste, you’ll find something hip and happening at (more…)

Oxford Brookes University 7th Annual Human Rights Film and Music Festival

Visions of our Common Humanity: Ten Awakenings

The 10-day Annual Human Rights Film and Music Festival, now in its 7th year, will begin on Friday 27 February 2009. Director of Liberty and respected human rights campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti will open the festival and introduce a screening of the South African (more…)

A new year, a new start

A new year, a new start. As we consider how our lives might change in 2009, here are a few suggestions for New Years’ Resolutions courtesy of iON’s music page:

1. Do something worthwhile before Sunday lunch. Whenever I’ve been able to get myself to (more…)

iON Best Winter Sounds with Vera Bird

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand (Domino) 26.1.09
Franz Ferdinand have been talking about introducing new Afrobeat influences for their long-awaited third album, but the similarities to their previous work are more apparent than the differences. (more…)

Oxford Club Reviews

Two promoters, Charlie McCreedy and Adam Marsh have recently done Oxford a big favour by doing a complete refurb on a notable Oxford landmark in the Art Deco style and turning the building into a great new club.

The building was originally the Regal Cinema and was designed by Robert Cromie (more…)

London Clubs Review

New Year’s Day spelled the end for a trio of  groovy clubs in the heart of  London’s King’s Cross.  The Key, The Cross and Canvas had shared a rather run-down space with some of the seedier Victoriana of the area for more than 15 years.

Among notable past (more…)

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