OXFORD: Taproom from the Tap Social Movement

Sunday 12th May, 2024

7:30pm

Event information

A joyful tapestry of musical traditions

Following several successes this year, we're thrilled that Starlings Sessions will be treating us to a fully-fledged set at one of our favourite hang-outs, the socially conscious brewery Tap Social Movement. This gig is a fundraiser to support the Starling Sessions, and your ticket purchase will help the project to continue.

The music will span everything from soulful, beautiful acapella ballads to raucous rousing bangers. It is a joyful tapestry of languages and musical traditions with threads running through that unite us across cultures.

Afterwards, DJ Bossaphonik Dan will continue the party until late!

Starling Sessions

Think local, folk global! Starling Sessions is a global folk community orchestra, exploring traditional music from around the world through the people of Oxford. Each member of the band brings a song with them to share and together they create a musical mosaic of Oxford. Like the common starling, which makes its home anywhere and has a knack for learning the songs of other birds around it, they learn to sing the songs that have made their home in Oxford.

DJ Bossaphonik Badger

DJ Bossaphonik Badger began as a first-time DJ at a fancy dress party wearing a badger suit in around 2002. Playing in a local samba band ignited a love of Brazilian music which later spread to include all kinds of Latin, African and Jazz Dance Sounds with a bit of New Orleans and Balkan thrown in. A resident DJ at Oxford's monthly live music night Bossaphonik since about 2007, and a regular headliner at Wood Festival in Oxfordshire, Badger plays a wide range of feet-friendly syncopated sounds for the dancefloor.

Presented by OCM, Tandem Collective and Tap Social Movement.

Starling Sessions is funded by Oxfordshire Community Foundation, Swan Mountain Trust, Stanton Ballard Trust, Asylum Welcome, and Oxford City Council, with support from Oxford Refugee Health Initiative and Old Fire Station. There will also be opportunities to support Starling Sessions on the night by buying some of their cool merch and/or making a donation.

OCM is supported using public funding by Arts Council England. OCM is a PRS Foundation Talent Development Partner supported by PPL. Supported with funding from Oxford City Council. Affiliate Organisation of Oxford Brookes University.

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The venue has wheelchair access. It is a mixed standing/seated venue. To discuss any other accessibility requirements, please contact sofia@ocmevents.org or call 07754460806 (Mon/Weds/Thu 11am-3pm).

Event Page Photo Credit: Mark Hemmings

Venue information

Curtis Industrial Estate
27
N Hinksey Ln
Oxford
OX2 0LX

www.tapsocialmovement.com/