Latin
Ran Kan Kan
Old Fire Station, Oxford
Saturday
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Raise the temperature by strutting your stuff to the sound of the irrepressible Ran Kan Kan. Oxford’s 20 piece Cubanista big band, blow away the winter chill with Son Montuno and mambo classics from Cuba’s Golden age, along with tunes made famous by Buena Vista Social Club.

They will be joined by DJ Si, playing African, Caribbean and Latin dance tunes. £1 of every ticket sold will go to the charity, Music Fund for Cuba.

Vocal
Blake
Cornerstone, Didcot
Tonight
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The dapper BRIT award-winning threesome call in to perform a selection of festive favourites – all in close harmony. Expect all the favourites from Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas to Frosty The Snowman.

The show follows the release of their single recorded with the great Dame Shirley Bassey, whose image will be projected onto a screen above the stage.

Indie rock
My Grey Horse
O2 Academy Oxford
Tomorrow
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Those tune-loving chaps at BBC Introducing are back with another showcase of local acts – this time under their new moniker Uprising. Top of the bill are the varied folk-pop/power pop melodies of My Grey Horse, with further loveliness from dapper blues-rockers Little Brother Eli, retro-pop act Tremorheat and alternative rock outfit The Fixation. 

Folk
St Agnes Fountain
St Mary’s Church, Banbury
Tuesday
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Fairport Convention fiddle player Chris Leslie, from Adderbury, guitarist David Hughes, Chris While and Julie Matthews reunite for festive fave. See Soundbites.

Pirate rock
Peerless Pirates
The Bullingdon, Oxford
Tomorrow
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Not content with staging the epic Oxford City Festival last month, Mark ‘Osprey’ O’Brien is back in action, celebrating Christmas with piratical flourish. Osprey’s Christmas Pirate Soiree features a set by those rum-swigging musical buccaneers the Peerless Pirates, along with The Ska Meisters and Chasing Daylight.

Expect to see Osprey on stage, guitar (and probably bottle of rum) in hand too.

If you need another fix of Piracy, catch the headliners in action on Saturday at The Cellar, Frewin Court, with support from Beware This Boy and Blackthorn. Arrrr!