Welcome to The Oxford Fiddle Group website. 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 as The Kilcrohane Music Festival in County Cork and a mini tour of the Algarve in Portugal. This autumn OFG performed in Bonn to mark 60 years of the Oxford-Bonn twinning links. OFG are also booked to perform at The Oxford Folk Festival in April.
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 CD 'Bonny Kate' sold out within 10 months! Now re-released with a bonus track contains over 50 minutes of tunes and songs. from the UK, Ireland and The USA. 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.