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[email protected] PASSES FOR THIS YEAR’S OXFORD THE HOLLYBUSH IN WITNEY is set to re- PUNT are on now available. A limited number open as a live music venue from this month. of 100 all-venue passes, priced at £7, are on sale The Hollybush changed hands in August last online from oxfordmusic.net or in person from year and it was feared its Pit venue was closed Videosyncratic on Cowley Road and the QI for good but the new owners are keen to re- bookshop on Turl Street. launch the music nights. Any bands or acts, THIS YEAR’S OXFORD FOLK FESTIVAL The Oxford Punt, now in its tenth year, takes including folk, blues and soul artists, can send takes place over the last weekend of March place on the evening of Wednesday 9th May demos to George Boullin at 35 Corn Street, and features headline sets from Salsa Celtica across six venues in the city centre, featuring Witney, 0X28 6BT. (pictured), Eliza Carthy and John Spiers and nineteen of the best new unsigned acts in the Jon Boden. county. The event kicks off at Borders in BELARUS (pictured) have split up. The The festival, now in its fourth year, runs from Magdalen Street at 6pm and takes in the Purple Farringdon-based band who had built a large Friday 30th March through to Sunday 1st April Turtle, the Wheatsheaf, the Music Market, the local following and had, for the last couple of with live music, ceilidhs and workshops QI Club and the Cellar.