Other Musical events

Saturday 3 October The Dung Beatles band, play ‘Beatles Years and Beyond’ at the Garsington Studio where “Strictly Come Dancing is staged.” If you’re keen to experience the new venue, or you just want a blisteringly good night of Beatles music get your tickets £20 + £2 per ticket booking fee from https://wegottickets.com/ Garsington Studios, Wallace Hill Farm, Stokenchurch, Bucks. HP14 3YF

Tuesday 13 October Free lunchtime concert in Thame St Mary’s by the Galliard Trio; Andrew Morris (flute and piccolo), Martin white (oboe and cor anglais) and

Alec Forshaw (bassoon, harpsichord and piano). Donations will go to a local charity, notified on the day. Concert starts at 12.30 for about 45 minutes. Attendees are free to come and go with their lunch, as they please.

Saturday 22 October Jive Talkin’ Live in Concert – a tribute to the Bee Gees. This brilliant show returns to the Elgiva Chesham for one night only. Tickets £29 (Seniors £27.50).

Sunday 15 November  Fistful of Spookies + Emma Salokoski Voices Back in the UK for the first time since 2021, the astoundingly lovely Finnish ensemble Emma Salokoski Voices join forces with A Fistful of Spookies for this special double bill. Doors open 19.30. Performance starts at 20.00 and finishes at 22.30. All seating is unreserved. Emma Salokoski Voices (Finland) is a vocal ensemble, choir and collective that makes music with curiosity and passion. The material consists of songs composed especially for ESV in Finnish, Swedish and English.

The artistic leader, Emma Salokoski, is an award-winning and well-known Finnish vocalist, composer and musical chameleon who has toured actively for twenty years and released ten albums with different jazz and pop groups.

On the 2026 English tour, Emma Salokoski Voices will present a combination of harrowing horror stories based on traditional Finnish poems, a few interesting pop songs in English, some compositions by the choristers themselves, and a few songs from their album “Juhlien jälkeen” (After the Party).

A Fistful of Spookies is composed of singers who have all toured with festival hits The Spooky Men’s Chorale, delivering their take on the complete Spooky canon of achingly beautiful and wonderfully daft songs. For newcomers to the Spooky phenomenon, they have redefined the whole notion of male singing, from anthems extolling the virtues of power tools to the joys of doing nothing (at all), alongside award-winning and unforgettably unique covers of Abba, Bowie, Prince, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Queen.

https://tickets.riversongcollective.co.uk/events/riversongcollective/2416438 Tickets £20