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