Festival
The Oxford Rabbit Hole Festival
The General Eliott, South Hinksey
Saturday, 1pm-midnight
Free
Follow Alice’s white rabbit down the hole for this last hurrah of the summer.
The event features 14 bands with sets coming from local Americana favourites The Epstein, buzz band Balloon Ascents, Brazilian bossa nova and samba kings The Illustrious Sambistas and the endlessly-talented Matt Winkworth.
Also playing are blues act The Howlin’ Taildraggers, The Great Western Years (featuring members of country-rock favourites Swindlestock), The String Project, The Matt Chanarin Band, Ben Avison, Charlie Leavy, Adam McMillan, Nick Higton, Gregog Owen, and, of course, the appropriately named The Wonder Rabbits.
Classical-rock
Nigel Kennedy Presents: Hendrix
The New Theatre, Oxford
Monday
Tickets £27.90-£42.90 from atgtickets.com
The violin virtuoso channels his rockier side with his fiddling tribute to the music of Jimi Hendrix. Expect such well-known classics as Purple Haze, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary, Crosstown Traffic and Foxy Lady.
These vintage tracks will be transformed by the maestro’s fluid violin. Kennedy presents acoustic and electric renditions with guitarist Doug Boyle, 18-year-old guitar prodigy Julian Buschberger, vibraphonist Orphy Robinson (a founding member of The Jazz Warriors), and rhythm section Tomasz Kupiec and Adam Czerwinski.
Drone-pop
Flights of Helios
The Bullingdon, Oxford
Tomorrow
Tickets are £6 in advance from WeGotTickets.com
Oxford’s finest purveyors of drone-pop, shoegaze and stratospheric folk, The Flights of Helios are joined by White Noise Sound and special guests The Manacles of Acid, for a evening of spacey sounds to soothe the heart and fire up the mind.
Country
Phil Brown and Dave Ashworth
The Cape of Good Hope, Oxford
Tonight
Free
Enjoy a blast of Americana – Nashville style – with this great night of acoustic guitar on The Plain. Dave is a respected musician who used to play alongside Charlie Coombes in his band The New Breed, and is about to release his debut EP.
Phil, meanwhile, has duetted with the talented Ace Freheley of Kiss and Steve Perry of Journey.
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