Make your own music using nothing more than your voice on Tuesday 15 January – then and on every subsequent Tuesday night, New Road Baptist Church in central Oxford hosts a singing session run by the Oxford Sacred Harp Singers. Sacred Harp singing is “an American choral tradition of singing unaccompanied four-part harmony” – for these singing get-togethers, no prior experience is required!

2013’s first Upstairs in association with BBC Introducing in Oxford gig takes place on Saturday 19 January, and they’ve put together a corker of a line-up. The O2 Academy 2 in Oxford sees the majestic post-post-rock noisemerchants Tall Ships headlining, and there’s a tasting menu of fine Oxford talent supporting, with Listing Ships, My Grey Horse, Robots With Souls and The Sea The Sea.

‘Reins’ is a showcase of young musical talent from Oxford, taking place at Pegasus Theatre in Oxford on Saturday 19 January. Pulling together bands and musicians from Oxford Academy’s iROx project, St Gregory the Great School’s Rockschool, BG Records and Young Women’s Music Project, the age of performers at the event will range from 14 years old and up.

Oxford reggae and dancehall blog Sensible Dancehall is launching a new, regular club night on Thursday 24 January at The Cellar in Oxford. Pon De Floor promises to bring dancehall, soca, reggae, afrobeat, calypso and more, with music and dancing running into the early hours.

The meditative, graceful and rich guitar sounds of James Blackshaw can be found at Modern Art Oxford on Saturday 26 January: the musician is the latest presentation from Pindrop Performances, who have also lined up local support in the form of Huck (of Huck And The Handsome Fee and The Epstein) and My Crooked Teeth (the solo persona of Jack Olchawski, frontman of Americana popsters Toliesel).

Full details of these and loads more gigs can be found in the events calendar.

Tell us about gigs you’ll be checking out in the next two weeks in the comments!