This Week's Classical Music (Dec 15-21)

This week's Coffee Concert at the Holywell Music Room features the Adderbury Ensemble. The Holywell Music Room is also hosting Oxford Folk Festival's Martin Simpson and Magpie Lane, Moonrakers Celtic Music featuring harps, flute, mandola, fiddle, guitar, and female and male vocals, Oxford Opera Studio's A Victorian Christmas, and Opera Anywhere's Christmas Double Bill: The Little Sweep & Amahl & The Night Visitors.

The Sheldonian Theatre is hosting The Oxford Spezzati's Bach: Christmas Oratorio, Oxford Philomusica's Messiah, and Oxford Bach Choir's Carol Concert.

Christ Church Cathedral is hosting Music at Oxford's Carols from Christ Church, and The Cathedral Singers' A Victorian Christmas.

Exeter College Chapel will host Charivari Agreable's Christmas by Candlelight - Shepherd's Pipe Concerto, Sweet Silence, and Concerti Pastorali de Natale, as well as City of Oxford Orchestra's Christmas Concerto by Candlelight.

The University Church of St Mary's is hosting the University Church Choir's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in aid of Family Links.

And lastly, Keble College is hosting Oxford Pro Musica Singers - Concert of Christmas Music.

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This Week's Jazz and Blues (Dec 15-21)

The Backroom at the Bullingdon Arms features their Christmas Party with Never the Bride, as well as the Tom Grey Quintet on their Oxford Jazz Club Tuesdays; The Old Parsonage has the Frank Harrison Trio; Gee's has the Tim Dawes Trio; The Big Bang Restaurant has the Abi Strevens Quartet (pictured); and lastly, Bar Milano has Delicious Music Jazz Night with Kate Garrett.

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For music other than classical, jazz, and blues, check out our extensive gig guide

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Dec 15-21)

The Oxford Playhouse:
Dick Whittington - The Panto! - A capital pantomime for young and old, with rats, a cat and streets of gold! Christmas just isn't Christmas without an Oxford Playhouse pantomime, the purrfect treat this festive season with magic, sparkle and fun for all the family.

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Creation Theatre Company:
Arabian Nights - Celebrate the festive season with us as we whisk you away on a magic carpet ride to an unforgettable world of colourful characters, fantastical creatures and devious villains.

Suitable for children 5+

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Old Fire Station:

Winters Tale - Tomahawk returns with a story of love, jealousy and reconciliation. An action packed 2 hours with music, dance and song.

A Little Christmas Night Music - brings songs by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Noel Coward into an anthology which ranges from operatic hits to Victorian ballads and modern classics, - and all interspersed with some seasonally appropriate favourites.

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Burton Taylor Theatre:

Jali Fily Cissokho & Dave Noble - Jali Fily is a praise singer from southern Senegal and a virtuoso player of the kora, a 21 string African Harp. Expect to hear Oxfordshire based musician Fily fuse the traditional rhythms of Senegal with classical, afro, cuban, blues and jazz styles.

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New Theatre:

Cats - See the world's best loved musical and the memory will live forever. Enter the magical, musical world of Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's record breaking adaptation of T S Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. With an amazing musical score, spectacular set design, stunning costumes and breath taking choreography, Cats really is a uniquely magical musical.

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Abingdon Touring Theatre:

Aesop's Fables

Their third tour is a specially commissioned adaptation of Aesop's Fables. This tour has been written to be suitable for the entire family and will combine Aesop's stories with tales from his own life.

Showing this week at - the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon, Sparsholt Memorial Hall, Sunningwell Village Hall, and Filkins Village Hall

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What's in the Cinema this Week? (Dec 15-21)

Opening in Oxford this week is Deja Vu, starring Denzel Washington, Val Kilmer, James Caviezel, and Adam Goldberg. During an investigation into a bomb on a New Orleans ferry, an ATF agent played by Denzel Washington is led on a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people. The film contains moderate action violence. (12A)

Also opening this weekend is Eragon. Jeremy Irons and John Malkovich star in this fantasy adventure of a farm boy whose discovery of a dragon's egg leads him on a journey to defend his home against an evil king. The film contains mild fantasy violence and scary moments. (PG)

Opening only at the Vue Cinema this week is Black Christmas, starring Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Oliver Hudson. This latest remake of a 1970s teen slasher classic pits a psychotic killer against a house full of college sorority sisters in festive good cheer. Billy Lenz is a young boy who was traumatically abused by his mother whilst being forced to watch her shower his sister with love. Years later and the same house is occupied by a group of sorority sisters and their housemother over the Christmas period. The present swapping comes to an end when a mysterious phone caller makes disturbing threats... The film contains strong gore and language and moderate sex. (15)

At the Phoenix this week is Deep Water - a documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race. (PG)

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