Thursday 16 July: Free concert at The Radciffe Centre, Buckingham. Starts 8pm (Buckingham Music Festival event)
The OFG consists of over 20 fiddle players ranging from players with few years experience through to music teachers. Our performances are tight and always fun. We are keen to promote our own local musical heritage, so our repertoire includes tunes from Oxfordshire such as 'Old Tom of Oxford' and '(Abingdon) Princess Royal'. We also perform tunes from elsewhere in the UK - such as some great Scottish marches and reels. We also play some classic fiddle tunes from Ireland and The USA. Our tunes can be foot-tapping jigs and reels, or catchy hornpipes and marches, or beautiful slow airs and laments.
We have performed at various venues around Oxfordshire as well mini tours of West Cork in Ireland, and The Algarve in Portugal. OFG have also performed in Bonn, Germany and Grenoble, France.
Some players also play other instruments as well as the fiddle. So a typical line up for an OFG performance could include Celtic harp, double bass, guitar, mandolin, viola, cello and concertina. We have some singers in our ranks, so if you book the OFG you can be assured of evening of variety and of course the great sound of massed fiddles 'played with joy'.
If you would like to book the Oxford Fiddle Group to perform at your event click here.
The OFG's new CD 'Beyond the Spires' is now available! Click here for a list of the 13 tracks.
“I am blown away by the quality, enthusiasm and the sheer joy of their music”
Tom Leary (Feast of Fiddles)
Beyond the Spires: The Oxford Fiddle Group
The OFG CD 'Bonny Kate' sold out within 10 months! Now re-released with a bonus track. Click here for a list of the 14 tracks or here to listen to three of them.
“A wealth of popular tunes played with joy”
Chris Leslie (Fairport Convention)
Bonny Kate: The Oxford Fiddle Group
For enquiries or to buy your copy for just £10, click here.