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This Week's Jazz and Blues (Oct 6 - 12)

At Freud this week, you can catch The Alex Hawkins Jazz Band, and Eddie Thompson on the Acoustic Guitar, and Stuart on Piano; The Bullingdon Arms is featuring The Jimmy Griswold Band from the USA (pictured) on their Famous Monday Night Blues, as well as the Tom Grey Quintet on their Tuesday Jazz Night; The Spin Jazz Club at the Wheatsheaf has The Dierdrie Cartwright Group featuring the Jazz Guitar; The Music Market has the Oxford Uni Jazz Society; The Old Parsonage has the Graham Harvey Trio - a piano led trio; Gee's Restaurant has the Mimiram Grey Trio - a vocals led trio; The Big Bang Restaurant has Zena James; Bar Milan has Desfinado; and lastly, Oxford Contemporary Music presents Dave Noble and Alice Russell - funk, jazz, soul, world music - at Modern Art Oxford.

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This Week's Classical Music (Oct 6 - 12)

This week's Coffee Concert at the Magdalen College Auditorium features Richard May & Olena Shvetsova.

The Holywell Music Room is hosting The 18th Century Concert Orchestra - Exquisite performances in full 18th century dress and on period instruments, America Over the Water featuring Shirley Collins, and the Oxford Chamber Music Society.

The Sheldonian Theatre is hosting Music at Oxford's Halle Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica's Schumann Series, and Messiah performed by the New College Choir.

Merton College Chapel has the Italian Stile Antico (pictured) performing Missa In Illo Tempore; and The Jacqueline du Pre Music Building has Anne Queffelec on Piano

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What's in the Theatre this week? (Oct 6 - 12)

The Oxford Playhouse is running Restoration and Thatcher the Musical; The Old Fire Station has Ed Byrne - Standing Up and Falling Down, Life's Not For Taking Seriously, and The Oxford Review in Boy Meets Girl; The Burton Taylor Theatre has The Cow Play; The New Theatre has the Kate Rusby Band, Imogen Heap, Charlie Landsborough, and The Hitmakers Tour: Martin Fry + Toyah WIllcox + Howard Jones + ABC; The Pegasus Theatre has the child-friendly The Emperoro's New Clothes; and finally The Theatre at Headington has Christina Jackson and her band, Perki and Mann are Spooked, and four nights of Greek Myths as told by renowned storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden - Icarus, Metamorphoses, The Iliad, The Odyssey .

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What's in the Cinema this week? (Oct 6 - 12)

It's a slow week for movie openings, with only one wide-release, and one limited. In wide release this week is Martin Scorcese's The Departed, with an all-star cast that includes Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. In Scorsese's new film, a gangster infiltrates the Massachusetts police force and a young cop infiltrates his Irish-American gang. When the paths of the two moles cross, violence and bloodshed prevail.. This film contains strong violence and very strong language. (18)

In limited release this week (Saturday and Sunday only) is the animated film Open Season, starring the voices of Ashton Kutcher, and Martin Lawrence. Just a few days before the hunting season begins, a domesticated grizzly bear gets stranded in the woods. He makes friends with some of the forest's other animals and takes on the hunters. This film contains mild threat and comic violence. (PG)

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