Midsummer Music

   Bicester   

About   Bicester  where our live musicians perform

   Covering Party Bands, String Quartets, Barn Dance / Ceilidh and Jazz   

Towns, cities and regions, such as   Bicester  have an influence on the style of music, whether it is the 'English Countryside' feel of Vaughan Williams, the strength of Elgar's Victorian Malvern, or the skirl of Northumbrian Pipe tune.

About  Bicester   

Bicester is a town in the Cherwell district of north-eastern Oxfordshire in England, with a population of 28,672 It is currently one of the fastest growing towns in Oxfordshire. This growth has been favoured by its proximity to junction 9 of the M40 motorway linking it to Oxford, Birmingham and London. It is close to Banbury, Kidlington, Brackley, Buckingham, Oxford, and Witney. Bicester has a history going back to Saxon times, and was recorded in the Domesday book. The name Bicester, deriving from the earlier forms Berncestre, Burencestre, Burcester, Biciter and Bissiter, means "The Fort of the Warriors" (the John Speed map of 1610 shows no less than four alternative spellings). The ruins of the Roman settlement of Alchester and the remains of an Augustinian priory lie 1.5 miles south-west of Bicester. It is Bernecestre in Phillimore and Co Ltd translation of the Doomsday book. Bicester could also be translated quite literally from Latin to mean "The 2 forts" from Bi-cester.

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