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Blue Moon: Music and Words SOLD OUT

Norma Winstone, John Parricelli, Jeremy Robson and Amy Key

Thursday, 30 March 2023

6:00pm

1 hour 15 minutes

Worcester College: Provost’s Lodgings

£20

Singer Norma Winstone, guitarist John Parricelli, and acclaimed poets Jeremy Robson and Amy Key join forces for a joyous evening of music and words. The event will include songs from Joni Mitchell’s seminal album Blue, sung by Winstone, about whom The Times recently wrote: ‘There is no singer in the country to touch her’. The price includes a glass of wine.

Winstone will be accompanied by jazz guitarist Parricelli, a founding member of the British big band Loose Tubes. Famous for her jazz improvisations and her own compositions, to bridge the readings Norma Winstone will also sing various jazz classics, including numbers sparked off by the witty and moving poems Robson will be reading from his powerful new collection, Chagall’s Moon. Key will read from Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, in which she uses Joni Mitchell’s Blue to anchor her thoughts about the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. She will also read a few of her own poems.

Chagall’s Moon is Robson’s fourth collection in nine years. He is a former poetry critic of Tribune, edited several landmark anthologies, and instigated a series of 300 large-scale poetry and jazz concerts where he read alongside many leading poets and musicians.

‘Robson’s vision is both gentle and steely, and on top of his ability to touch one deeply is a marvellous, wry observation of the sweet, sour, and savoury in life’ Maureen Lipman

Key has written two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn’t Forever.

‘Her new collection, Isn’t Forever, is playful, surreal and enchanting but also rooted in brutal emotional honesty. She is writer of a rare and strange magic.’ Sarah Perry, The Guardian

This event last 1 hour 15 minutes

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The Feathers Hotel Woodstock festival hotel The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller International Literary Properties Supporters of the festival green room The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Cervantes Institute, London Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award BBC World Service International radio partner Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Netflix University of Oxford FT Weekend Title partner Marlene Hauser Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Jill Dunsmore David Isaac Carole and John Allen Lucian Hudson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Miles Young Emily Rose and James Marrow Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture George Warren Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture John Roberts Trinity College Trinity College St Cross College St Cross College Lincoln College Lincoln College Worcester College Worcester College New College Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies British Academy Royal Academy of Arts Project People Institute of Hospitality Thje Menu Partners Foodbuy Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Bantam Doubleday Doubleday Transworld TORVA Books which change you, your mind, your world Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Compassion in World Farming Pasture to Plate Oxford Brookes University Oxford University Images Oxford University Images The Sheldonian Theatre Critchleys Accountants to the festival CAV Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates Conference Oxford Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Paul Bloomfield Ltd Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner The Oxford Times Regional media partner Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography Ox in a Box OX magazine Siren Communications Siren Communications - corporate consultants Chêne Bleu Wines of Provence The Wild Geese James Currey Society Pusey House Confucius Institute Literature Ireland Flip through Flanders La Leccia