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Announcing our Saturday night headline concert: Chris Wood with support from Bailey & Keely. 7pm, 12th April 2025, at the Old Fire Station, Oxford. Reflections on minor league football, empty nest syndrome, learning to swim, Cook-in Sauce and of course, the Gecko as a metaphor for contemporary society!
Tom Robinson and Chris Difford are fans while Stick In The Wheel and The Unthanks look to him as an influence. In a world of soundbites and distractions Chris Wood is a truth seeker. His writing is permeated with love and wry intelligence, uplifting and challenging as he celebrates the sheer one-thing-after-anotherness of life. Winner of 6 BBC Folk Awards, he's played with The Royal Shakespeare Company and was a key member of The Imagined Village along with Billy Bragg, Martin and Eliza Carthy. A wise and soulful craftsman, his concerts are a cliche free zone.
Together Radio 2 Folk Awards nominee and New Roots finalist Saul Bailey and Royal Academy of Music alumnus Mitch Keely form a new and unique musical force drawing upon a joint history of Morris dance and traditional music, hauling it into the modern age with a sensitive irreverence.Described as “extraordinary…storming and massively confident” (Bright Young Folk), their debut album “Atthomis” (2024) is crafted from reworked traditional English tunes, original compositions and improvisations, and is a testament to the way in which Bailey and Keely embrace the unknown and pull new musical possibilities from the weird and the wonky.
Tickets on sale now, find them in our linktree!
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Old Fire Station, Oxford, United Kingdom
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