Building on the first ever COHESION festival last year Oxford Improvisers are pleased to announce a very strong line-up for the 2008 event…

Saturday 15 November 3pm : a given space
Twelve musicians and performers working out of many musical traditions and none. Small group and large group performance to make up "a given space"

Saturday 15 November 7.30pm:
Ken Vandermark / Barry Guy / Mark Sanders
& Oxford Improvisers Orchestra
Chicago based saxophonist Ken Vandermark is simply one of finest modern jazz players around; Barry Guy occupies a pivotal role in contemporary European music as both improviser and radical composer; drummer Mark Sanders is a master of polyrhythmic-into-free playing. This evenings concert is the culmination of their national tour including a performance in the London Jazz Festival.
Last years performance by the twenty strong Oxford Improvisers Orchestra was described in the Oxford Times as “like biting into a fresh watermelon on a hot day”

Sunday 16 November 7.30pm:
Philipp Wachsmann & Bead Records Present … The Barely Imaginable
A fascinating musical extravaganza focusing on the joys of small group interplay …
DUO Catherine Hope-Jones (artist) Michael Bunce (electro acoustics)
SOLO Alexander Hawkins (piano)
DUO Matthew Hutchinson (synthesizer) Dominic Lash (contrabass)
DUO Camilla Cancantata (trombone) David Stent (guitar)
TRIO Pete McPhail (saxophones & flutes) Malcolm Atkins (violin) Miles Doubleday (voice)
PLUS solos and ensembles from Jill Elliott (violin) Chris Stubbs (percussion) Bruno Guastalla (cello)