Friday, October 20:

Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College: Oxford Contemporary Music presentsThe Art of Improvisation featuring Evan Parker (sax), Eddie Prvost (percussion), John Tilbury (piano). 8pm. 01865 791355.

Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford: Wishbone Ash 30th anniversary tour. 01865 420042.

The Mill, Banbury: The Albion Band.

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Saturday, October 21:

Holywell Music Room: Geoffrey Hopkins (piano). Beethoven, Sonata in C major, op 2 no 3; Hopkins, Fantasy; Scriabin, Two Preludes op 16 and Etude in D sharp minor. op No 12. 7.30pm. 01865 798600. Jacqueline du Pr Music Building: Oxford Contemporary Music presents Paul Clarvis and Friends. Members of All the Saints jazz trio join the resident string quartet from Later with Jools Holland Solid Strings. 8pm. 01865 798600.

Iffley Church Hall: Iffley Music Society presents the Oxford debut of the London Piano Quartet. 7.30pm. 01865 777276.

Didcot Methodist Church: Concert for Childline. Wallingford Ringers with Wallingford Children's Choir. 7pm. 01235 813917.

Snell's Hall, East Hendred: John Kirkpatrick. 8pm. 01235 762644.

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Sunday, October 22:

St Mary's Church, Adderbury: Wakeford Trio. Debussy, Bax, Telemann, Trios; Britten, Elegy. 7.45pm.

Thame Parish Church: Adderbury Ensemble String Quartet. Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart. 7.45pm. 07901 602998.

Rose Revived, Newbridge: Derek Tatam Chicagoans,

Trout Inn, Lechlade: Seventh Avenue Express.

Swan Theatre, High Wycombe: The Manfreds. Plus guests Chris Farlowe, Alan Price and Cliff Bennett. 5 and 8pm. 01494 512000. _____________________

Monday, October 23:

Apollo Theatre: Rick Wakeman. 8pm. 0870 6063500.

Nettlebed Folk Song Club: Ralph McTell, 8pm, 01628 636620.

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Tuesday, October 24:

Trout Inn, Lechlade: Southern Syncopators.

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Wednesday, October 25:

Holywell Music Room: The Allegri Quartet. Wolf, Serenade in G (1887); Schubert, Quartet in G, D887; Schoenberg, Quartet No 2, in F sharp minor. 8pm. Talk on Schoenberg, by Prof Alexander Goehr at 5pm. 01865 798600.

Swan Theatre, High Wycombe: David Helfgott. Beethoven, Liszt, Rachmaninov. 8pm. 01494 512000.

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Thursday, October 26:

The Queen's College: Ross Winters (recorder) and Richard Leigh Harris (harpsichord). J S Bach, Telemann, Francois Couperin. 8pm.

The Spin, Wheatsheaf, off High Street, Oxford: Orphy Robinson. Off the Square, Eynsham: Lynn Harrison and Alan Berry. Jazz. 01865 881888.

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Friday, October 27

Wantage Civic Hall: Ralph McTell's Red Sky tour. 01235 762644.

Railway Inn, Culham: Dominic Alldis.

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Saturday, October 28

Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford: Oxford Contemporary Music presents Vanburgh String Quartet with artist Jean Duncan. Also exhibition of Jean Duncan's work and a video that is the Still Dancers project. 8pm. 01865 798600.

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Sunday, October 29

Wycombe Swan Theatre (01494 512000): Mozart by Candlelight.CHE