Saturday 22 March, 12 pm - 12 am
Join Wood HQ in celebrating 10 years of Independent Oxford with a day of local music and activities for all the family.
There will be music from midday to midnight, PROOF pastries and pizza, Missing Bean coffee, Tap Social beer, and a whole load of good vibes and festival fun!
Wood HQ kicks off the event, bringing a little bit of the Wood Festival to the Tap Social in the shape of children's activities with Caper bookshop, a singing workshop with Elena Harris and musical performances by The Brickwork Lizards and our own Robin Bennett playing solo... and that's just for starters!
Independent Oxford have done great work over the last decade supporting and promoting independent businesses, not just in Oxford but across the whole of Oxfordshire, and we are are excited to be working with them, and with the other musical partners for the event, Divine Schism and YWMP. Get there promptly for our community singing workshop with Elena at midday!
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Saturday 3 May, 7:30 pm
We're presenting a series of live shows in partnership with Oxford Contemporary Music and supporting Oxford Health Charity. The first is with Masal, whose performances at both Wood and Septembersong last year were transcendental. This Essex-based harp and synth duo followed their acclaimed collaboration with Ride's Andy Bell with a new album, “The Galloping Cat” last year. The Galloping Cat finds this unlikely pair of “neurodiverse nature lovers” collaborating on six meandering tracks of psychedelic grooves, electronic weirdness and motorik basslines, mostly wordlessly exploring themes of self-discovery – and it’s stunning. Even more so, because, in theory, it’s a musical combination that shouldn’t work. Oz is a Turkish/English harpist, theremin player and vocalist whose middle eastern background is entwined with her western studies in classical music. Meanwhile, Alastair Johnson grew up in Hadleigh, Essex, relying on the library’s record collection for inspiration before he started making experimental electronic music as Alien and Weapon Eyes.
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Wednesday 25 June, 7:30 pm
This event is the second in a series of gigs co-presented with Oxford Contemporary Music and supports the work of the Oxford Health Charity.
Septembersong 2024 saw Lunatraktors cast a spell over us all and we can’t wait to be spellbound again! Lunatraktors is a collaboration between artist, choreographer and percussionist Carli Jefferson (she/her), and artist, vocalist and researcher Clair Le Couteur (they/them).Award-winning ‘broken folk’ experimentalists — Lunatraktors strip Anglo-Celtic traditionals to the bare bones of vocal harmony and percussive dance, expanding into weird, playful spaces with eclectic acoustic beats, accordion, whistles and deep drones. Ancient and contemporary, mournful and joyously deranged, Lunatraktors are ‘simply different’ (RTÉ Lyric FM). MOJO Top Ten Folk Albums 2019 & 2021.
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