City of Oxford Silver Band

Head down to Temple Road and you'll find yourself part of something genuinely rooted in Oxford's cultural fabric. The City of Oxford Silver Band isn't trying to be cool or reinvent itself—it's a brass band doing what it's done for over a century, and doing it well. Whether you catch them at their regular concerts or at one of the city's events, there's something rather lovely about experiencing live music from musicians who actually care about their craft. It's the sort of thing that reminds you Oxford's got layers beyond the colleges and tourists.