Hoagy Carmichael: Songs from the Lazy South

Nick Gill brings Hoagy Carmichael: Songs from the Lazy South to Wolvercote Mill Community Centre on Friday 30 October, with the music starting at 7pm. It's a dedicated evening of Carmichael's songwriting, performed by Gill in the community centre in Wolvercote.

Hoagy Carmichael was one of the great American songwriters of the early twentieth century, and Songs from the Lazy South draws on that particular stretch of his work. If you're not familiar with him, he's the man behind Stardust, one of the most recorded songs in the Great American Songbook, and Georgia on My Mind, which became a standard through Ray Charles. His writing sits in that space between jazz, pop, and the folk traditions of the American South, and that's the material Gill is working with here.

It's a focused programme rather than a broad survey, so the evening stays with Carmichael's songs rather than branching out. If you've got a fondness for that era of songwriting — the melodies and the particular kind of storytelling that came out of the US in the 1920s and 30s — this is exactly the kind of thing that fits. It's a night built around one songwriter's output, played by one performer.

It's at Wolvercote Mill Community Centre on Friday 30 October, starting at 7pm. If you're around Wolvercote that evening, it's a straightforward one to drop into.