Robin Grey and Three Cane Whale (Oxford)

An evening of wonderous acoustic music, doors 7pm with music starting at 7.30pm. We will finish around 9.30pm with one interval.

Three Cane Whale are a multi-instrumental acoustic chamber-folk trio based in Bristol, UK. As intricate as a team of watchmakers, as spare as a mountain stream, uplifting and elegiac in equal measure, their music encompasses both a cinematic sweep and an intimate delicacy, in which “the aroma of muddy leaves and old nettles is almost tangible” (The Observer).

The band is proud to announce the release in October 2024 of their new album "Hibernacula", recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of St George’s Bristol. "Hibernacula" refers to the places of refuge chosen by animals in which to hibernate and over-winter, and is inspired by some of the band’s
favourite sanctuaries and landscapes. Expect a stage strewn with upwards of a dozen instruments (some familiar, such as mandolin, harmonium, & acoustic guitar; some beguilingly unusual, including the eerie bowed psaltery, the baroque-esque Eb trumpet, & the delicate Finnish kantele), allowing for some striking multiple instrumental combinations and an overall soundworld unlike any other.

‘Mesmerising’ Q    ‘Wonderful’ fRoots   ‘Simply beautiful’ BBC Radio 2

Robin Grey is a musician and social historian based in Sheffield, best known for his cult history of land rights show 'Three Acres And A Cow'. He will be joined by Emmy Broughton on harp and flute, sharing his thoughtful and gently experimental folk music.

"The poetic mastery of Grey's folk tales is a joy to behold" Camden New Journal

Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW