Worshippers turning up at a city centre chapel may be surprised to find the sound of traditional hymns replaced by something altogether more exotic - the music of the Egyptian deserts.
On Friday, the Wesley Memorial Chapel, in New Inn Hall Street, Oxford, will resound to the rhythms of a bunch of musicians, dancers, poets, coffee grinders and singers.
And they plan to bring with them some unusual instruments - both ancient and modern.
The show, by the Bedouin Jerry Can Band, is being staged by Oxford's Big Village, an organisation dedicated to bringing authentic, high quality world music acts to the county.
The show is open to all.
The group is made up of nine semi-nomadic tribesmen and women, some from the oasis town of El Arish in the northern Sinai and some from a Sufi - or mystical Islamic - sect of the Suwarka tribe.
They will be joined by poet, Soliman Agman Mohamed Agmaan, who is well known in his home country.
Instruments include the simsimiyya (a five-string lyre), the one-string rababa (wolf skin fiddle) and the Ney (flute), with percussion including jerry cans and ammo boxes, left behind from Israel's occupation of the Sinai in the 1960s and 1970s.
A Bedouin dancer, singer and coffee maker complete the line-up - the coffee ritual of roasting, grinding and brewing being the root of Bedouin culture and often featuring in live perform- ances.
Tomorrow's show starts at 7.30pm with tickets at £13.50, or £10 for concessions. See www.bigvillage.org
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