Festival
In the Garden
Manzil Way Garden, East Oxford
Saturday, from 5.30pm
Tickets are £7 advance (£9 on the door) from wegottickets.com

Big-hearted fundraiser for mental health organisation restore, featuring some of the city’s best bands, a gourmet barbecue, storytelling and crafts. Music, programmed by Skittle Alley music, comes courtesy of Huck and The Xander Band, Balloon Ascents, Bright Works, Family Machine, Julia Meijer and Dave Oakes and Friends.

Choir
Spooky Men’s Chorale
Sheldonian Theatre
Tonight
Tickets £15/£18/£28 from oxfordplayhouse.com

The hallowed space of the Sheldonian resounds to the sound of a male voice choir with a difference tonight, in the shape of the Spooky Men’s Chorale. 

Possessed of deep harmonies and impressive beards, the vocal ensemble were formed in the Blue Mountains of Australia, but take inspiration everywhere from Sweden to Georgia. Subjects range from tools to prehistoric animals, their own body parts, surfing, gluttony, and how to scare off hostile neighbouring tribes at 5.43am.

“We have been gleefully smashing up and reassembling the world of men’s singing since 2001,” says member Philip Read, who lives in Jericho, Oxford.  

“And we will continue our long, slow, global conquest with a sixth tour of the UK, tenderly brandishing our latest album Warm – a long requested idyll in a vast, bottomless, massively comforting musical sofa.”

Folk
Daria Kulesh and Kelly Oliver
Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford
Wednesday, from 7-9pm.
Tickets are £5 from events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk

Two Hertfordshire singers, each with stunning voices, follow up Oxford Folk Weekend success with a select gig at the city’s best known bookshop to promote their acclaimed debut albums – out on Folkstock Records.

Alternative-rock
A Silent Film
The Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford
Tonight
Tickets from wegottickets.com

One of the city’s greatest musical creations, return to their roots after conquering Stateside. Tonight’s show sees Rob Stevenson and Spencer Walker presenting their latest EP New Year - the follow up to 2012’s acclaimed Sand & Snow, and 2010’s The City That Sleeps – which spawned their killer single You Will Leave a Mark.