Festival
Wood
Braziers Park, Wallingford
Tomorrow-Sunday
Tickets £74 from gigantic.com/wood-festival-tickets

The first real festival of the year sees the likes of Treetop Flyers, Tunng, Songhoy Blues, CC Smugglers, Duotone, The Dreaming Spires and Spiro playing this lovely eco-friendly gathering in the Chilterns. See more in Soundbites.

Rock tribute
Novanna
O2 Academy, Oxford
Tomorrow (Friday)
Tickets from ticketweb.co.uk

Grungy classics from the premier tribute to Seattle’s finest. The band recreate the experience of seeing Nirvana at the height of Kurt Cobain’s popularity, right down to the looks, outfits, sound and theatrics.

Multi-instrumentalist
Jack Garratt
O2 Academy, Oxford
Saturday
Tickets from ticketweb.co.uk

The extravagantly-bearded, one-man-band continues his claim to be 2015’s hottest new thing, with a show to support the release of his The Synesthesiac EP. It will be a packed summer for the musician from Little Chalfont, with sets at the Great Escape and Reading and Leeds festivals.

Alternative-folk
Megan Henwood
Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Sunday
Tickets from meganhenwood.com

BBC Young Folk Award winner Megan has a beguiling voice and a knack for crafting a beautiful tune. For her second album, she has turned her back on pure folk and embraced pop, soul, blues and even hip-hop.

Pop
Chili and the Whalekillers
The Library, Cowley Road, Oxford
Wednesday
Pledge support at tigmus.com

The Vienna indie-pop five-piece bring their danceable folky, dreamy psychedelic take on Austrian surf-rock to East Oxford. SVÄVA, a Dutch four-piece dream-pop band, whose name is Swedish for floating, will support.