King Of The Birds is a concert being held in celebration of the life and work of Kate Garrett, who passed away aged 37 in 2009. Garrett is a much-missed contributor to the Oxford music scene, having played in The Mystics in the 1990s before becoming a solo artist and fronting The Kate Garrett Band. She also founded the still-active Young Women’s Music Project nine years ago, an initiative running workshops, gigs and recording sessions based at the Ark-T Centre in Cowley.

This concert, being held at the North Wall Arts Centre in Oxford on 5 October, includes a rich selection of artists who were friends of Kate: Chris Wood, Duotone, Jon Fletcher, Helen Garrett, Claud & Will Gibson, Ellie Pavao, Jane Griffiths & Colin Fletcher, Matt Sage, Zoë Bicât, Justin Gibson, Rachel Hughes, Uneek, Trio Hysteria and Nick Gibson & Lisa Fitzgibbon. Doors are at 6.00 pm and tickets priced at £15. All proceeds from the concert will be donated to the Young Women’s Music Project.

For more information and to buy tickets, head on over to either OCM Events or The North Wall.

To end with a quote from musician James Grote: “She touched the lives of hundreds of young people and gave to each of them some very special gifts – the gift of music, the gift of creativity and the gift of believing in themselves.”