Tatsuya Nakatani: Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. He teaches master classes and lectures […]
Join us for an evening of chamber music with the Daedalus Quartet and pianist Matthew Bengtson, featuring works by PhD alumni in Composition Luke Carlson , Andrew Davis , and Joshua Hey . Fisher Bennett Hall, Room 419 – Rose Recital Hall
Trepanation Series at Century Bar 90eze Scott Verrastro 23 Shedu
Join us for a morning discussion exploring the preservation of sound and memory with legendary saxophonist Odean Pope alongside archivists and curators. Hosted by Ars Nova Workshop (ANW) and the Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP), these talks will share how musical legacies are archived and how you can become your own archivist. Conclude the morning with […]
Next Ghost Harmonics is April 10th!! Featuring two sets of live music from the phenomenal Untethered Trio (Paul Giess, Calvin Weston, and Matthew Little), and readings from Anselm Berrigan, Jericho Jennifer Nelson, Jonathon Todd, and Nikki Volpicelli.
n March of 2000, Ars Nova Workshop hosted the first of what would become hundreds of performances across Philadelphia, presenting saxophonist Chris Speed and his creative quartet yeah NO at Plays & Players Theater. Much has changed in the ensuing quarter century. Speed has returned to perform for ANW many times in the ensuing years, […]
Bowerbird is pleased to present Audra performing an evening of music for voice and saxophone, with repertoire including Meredith Monk’s Hocket for Two Voices, two moody folk-song arrangements by Karin Rehnqvist, and Cecilia McDowall’s dramatic White Fox Woman. Three pieces make up the center of this program: Thomas Kessler’s Is it?, Philippe Leroux Un lieu […]
Crystalline, minimal and dissonant, The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity is a new composition for sampled and live early flutes in 8-channel sound by Lea Bertucci. Steeped in folkloric influences, this work is a haunting contemplation of time, duration and memory that evokes the primeval and futuristic simultaneously. Written for master […]
Victor Vieira Branco – vibes Matt Engle – bass Ian McColm
TAKAAT: TAKAAT (pronounced tuh-cot), meaning “noise” in the Tuareg language Tamashek, for this tour is the duo of Ahmoudou Madassane & Mikey Coltun (joined by a blown out drum machine). Also known as the rhythm section of Mdou Moctar. TAKAAT is sonic chaos, improvisation, freedom of exploration, and the punk styles of bands such as […]
Composer, trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and bandleader Amir ElSaffar has been described in the New York Times as “the celebrated trumpeter and composer who explores vital connections between jazz and Arabic music.” ElSaffar leads a number of critically-acclaimed ensembles: The 17-piece Rivers of Sound Orchestra; Two Rivers, which combines the musical languages and instrumentation of […]
Alex Harding & Lucian Ban duo: The relationship between Alex Harding and Lucian Ban has been long and fruitful. Their combination of elements of improvisational music have helped the pair develop a unique musical language that transcends the expectations of the jazz genre. Pianist Lucian Ban arrived in New York City from Romania to study […]
Doors 6:30 Music 7:00
Trepanation Series at Century Bar Matt Engle solo Dave McDonnell’s 5th World
Suki Mourning Thugg @scodyxiao – violin @qohn – drums? @shitkicker9001 – guitar Snakeroot Cleans Blood- Aaron Pond- Daxophone/Voice @maxglazier – drums Albeedo @peter_sukeena – drums @bobbymcdevitt_ – guitar LN Celestine @ln_celestine – vocals/violin electronics
Folk musician Elizabeth LaPrelle (Doran, Anna & Elizabeth) and visual artist Erik Ruin (Justseeds) combine forces for an evening of ballads and crankies. From the mountains of Appalachia to the isolation wing of a German prison, the duo will explore haunting songs of love and loss, playful lullabies, passionate protests of the world as it is- and dreams of […]
an evening of lovely guitar tunes, brought to us by Jesse Sheppard Jagtime Millionaire (of Pairdown) is a fingerpicking guitarist based in Pittsburgh, PA who presents a variety of 19th and early 20th century piano ragtime on the steel-string acoustic guitar. Matt Geary Philly guitar sounds Danny Kamins Saxophone! Doors at 7, music at 8. byob, $10-15
Passages (Season 4 / Program 7) is an 18+ music event featuring live sets by Teddy Mars and Maria Ann Hedonia, plus a DJ set by Alex Tebbs Mitchell. There are also visual projections by Klip Collective. Located on the 2nd floor; there is no elevator.
Announcing the People’s Music Supply Recording Company (PMSRC) Founded to preserve, promote, and catalyze the work of The People’s Music Supply, the PMSRC will release a batch of high-quality recordings 3 times a year. Each project is specially selected to highlight a unique aspect of Philadelphia’s dynamic and unpredictable scene. Our first drop brings […]
Few artists have done more to both honor and reinvent the 2000-year history of the pipa than soloist, vocalist and composer Min Xiao-Fen. Classically trained in her native China, she served as a principal pipa soloist at Nanjing Traditional Music Orchestra and was an in-demand interpreter of traditional music before relocating to the United States […]
Biotic (Shawn Lovato/Ingrid Laubrock/Henry Mermer): Shawn Lovato is a New York-based bassist, composer, and improviser “with a distinctive compositional approach and a knack for finding the right partners to bring it to life” (All About Jazz). Growing up on the outskirts of New York City, Lovato was deeply influenced by its underground scenes, including hip hop, […]
Join us for an evening of fine music! Alexander is the solo project of guitarist and multi-instrumentalist David Shapiro (Kath Bloom, Josephine Foster, Center). Under the Alexander moniker he plays fingerstyle acoustic guitar and banjo music. He has shared bills with Mdou Moctar, Loren Connors, Susan Alcorn, and many more. His self-titled LP is distributed […]
Victo Vieira Branco – vibes John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums sets at 7:30 and 9:00
Chicago experimental music mainstay Olivia Block is an acclaimed media artist and composer whose discography spans nearly three decades. At any given concert she might be playing electronic instruments, piano, organ or amplified objects. Block composes for chamber ensemble, orchestra and pipe organ, and creates surround sound concerts, sound installations and scores. Her most recent […]
Paul Giess (trumpet) Timothy Ragsdale (bass) Rodrigo Pichardo (bass) G Calvin Weston (drums) Phil Cuttino Jr. (dancer) Jay ‘Rukkus’ Jao (dancer)
Takuya Kuroda is a highly respected trumpeter and arranger born in Kobe, Japan and based in New York City. Over the course of his seven albums to date, Kuroda has evolved a unique hybrid sound blending soulful jazz, funk, post-bop, fusion and hip hop. Kuroda moved to New York to study jazz and contemporary music […]
Please join Philly’s super collective of composers, improvisors and sonic healers as we celebrate our artistic heroes curated our hometown hero, TERRY LAWSON. Terry is a venerated Philly institution who has performed with the likes of Odean Pope’s Saxophone Choir, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Jymie Merritt’s Forerunners and many more. First Set: legacy heroes John Coltrane, Sunny […]
KAVI: Emergent Feedback Loops: Cybernetics and the Human Brain qGOO (Quantum Global Organoid Orchestra): q.GOO_ PhiladelphiaNeuroMusicAI/42026 Gene Coleman: EVOCARE (2026) for string quartet and neuro electronics Conjure Neuro Music Ensemble + Guests Adam Vidiksis, Neuro electronics Sam Wells, Neuro electronics Tom Kraines, Cello Gene Coleman (Composition and Direction) With special guests Melinda Rice and Molly […]
A concert of young dragons of improvised music. Kieran Daly from Chicago, in duet with Ben Bennett (guitar and perc), Chris Pitsiokos (sax) from Berlin and the duet of Jesse Kudler and Seqouyah Leaf (guitar and clarinet). Plus poetry by Thomas Delahaye. Chris Pitsiokos @chrispitsiokos Ben Bennett @bnbnntt Kieran Daly Jesse Kudler @jessekudler Seqouyah Leaf […]
Performers for the 4/25/26 show include Visiting Artists: Mia Zabelka (violin, Vienna, Austria), Al Margolis (electronics, Chester, NY), and Walter Wright (percussion and electronics, Charlottesville, VA) as well as Philadelphia-based Dancers Chloe Marie, Kayliani Sood, Kimya Imani Jackson, Loren Groenendaal, and Mauri Walton and Philadelphia-based Musicians Flandrew Fleisenberg (Percussion), Max Glazier (Percussion), and Abram Taber […]
We’re excited to showcase our very own @sbaileymusic in a fully electro acoustic program celebrating Relâche’s roots in improvisation, intermodal creative collaboration, and experimental musical design. Sean’s EP “GENERIC” will be featured, along with the world premiere of a new work for clarinet, flugelhorn, electronics and dance, with special guests @_posthumouslee and @the_saaaav
Peni Candra Rini with Shahzad Ismaily & Andy McGraw: Peni Candra Rini (b. 1983) is a renowned Javanese singer, educator, and composer fusing Javanese sufi poetry with contemporary composition for Indonesian and Western instruments. The Kronos Quartet has described her as “one of the world’s greatest singers.” She is a master of several traditional forms (primarily gamelan) and is regarded as […]
A Special Seated Show in the Side Chapel of the First Unitarian Church!
2 sets 7:30 and 9:00 Solar Myth Bar No cover
Victor Vieira Branco – vibes John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums sets at 7:30 and 9:00
Berlin-based Audrey Chen and Philadelphia’s Flandrew Fleisenberg have spent over a decade refining a singular, breathing tactile space. In a rare Philadelphia performance, Chen’s internally driven sonic language—a mix of voice and electronics—meets Fleisenberg’s “material conjuring” and obsession with physical phenomena. For Fleisenberg, drums are secondary to the hidden voices of mundane objects; he coaxes […]
Aaron Rosenblum (Portland, ME) experimental drone and soundscapes. His works employ active listening, archival practices, minimalism, and public engagement to explore the margins between man-made and natural sounds and to encourage reflection on global soundscapes and media. Jim Rats (Philly) will treat us to some ambient goth experimental noise. Doors at 7, music at 8. […]
Sam Prekop’s work over the last 30 years, whether created primarily on his guitar or on his modular synth, is consistent in its powerful melodicism, delicate arrangements and subtle evolution. Prekop’s singular blend of melody, impressionistic lyricism and quietly intricate rhythms are the core of the singular sound of his band The Sea and Cake. […]
Sun & Rain: Nathaniel Morgan – alto saxophone, Travis Laplante – tenor saxophone , Andrew Smiley – electric guitar & Jason Nazary – drums. Sun & Rain is a fully collaborative quartet that thus far has practiced a painstaking process of co-composing music together. Because of this extreme sense of collaboration and only working on the music when all four members were […]
Bowerbird is pleased to present a morning birdwalk at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum led by Tony Croasdale interspersed with two performances by Matt Engle and Juan Castrillón. M Please take note of the weather and dress accordingly with appropriate footwear. Meet at the Environmental Education Pavilion, to the right of […]
RECESS is a new immersive performance created by composer-performers Odean Pope and Immanuel Wilkins. Join us as we transform a North Philadelphia warehouse into a sculptural playground for sound. RECESS invites audiences inside a living model of improvisation, in an installation that is part bandstand, part score, part jungle gym—designed by Immanuel Wilkins and Rachael Elliott. […]
REONA is an artist who uses tap dance techniques to express her music. She is also a tap dancer, improviser, designer, choreographer, teacher, and composer. Based in Tokyo, Japan. To materialize the sounds in her head, she uses tap shoes and a wooden board, as well as metal sheets, chains, steel bowls, plastic bags, and […]
Join us for an evening of exploratory guitar music with: Guitar tunes from Dann Pell Improvisations from New York musicians Caroline Davis & Dustin Carlson Lower Mountains Doors at 6 / music at 7 – $10-15 cash, byob
YR KNIVES is the Chicago/Milwaukee based quartet of Douglas McCombs, Brian Sulpizio, Andrew Trim, and Quin Kirchner whose credits include Tortoise, Health & Beauty, Ryley Walker, Rob Mazurek, and many other ubiquitous players on the Chicago scene. Playing first will be the duo of Chris Forsyth and Victor Vieira-Branco, a first meeting.
Bill Nace & Sakina Abdou Ex-Locals Ken Brenninger
Ars Nova Workshop presents punk-jazz power trio The Messthetics, joined by fire-breathing saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, at Solar Myth on Friday, May 8, 2026. Drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally were the rhythm section for the iconic D.C. punk band Fugazi from its inception in 1987 until its hiatus in 2002, reuniting for the […]
Toshi Makihara, Henry Allen, Jonah Gelbart
RECESS is a new immersive performance created by Odean Pope and Immanuel Wilkins. Join us as we transform a North Philadelphia warehouse into a sculptural playground for sound! RECESS invites audiences inside a living model of improvisation, in an installation that is part bandstand, part score, part jungle gym—designed by Immanuel Wilkins and Rachael Elliott. […]
Neil Podgurski Chad Taylor Madison Rast
Best known as the drummer for the two-time Grammy winning, iconic rock band Living Colour, Will Calhoun has played with artists across a diverse range of styles, genres and traditions. He has recorded and/or toured with a staggering list of artists including B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Jaco Pastorious, Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Jack Dejohnette, Paul […]
Celebrating the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary and its unique place in the City of Philadelphia, this bravura program opens with a world premiere by Philly-based composer Tyshawn Sorey, commissioned by the Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and performed by the great pianist Aaron Diehl. The concert closes with Bruckner’s soaring, majestic, thrill ride of a symphony, his […]
Serving as the centerpiece for this program is Philadelphia composer Benjamin C.S. Boyle’s first Cantata: To One in Paradise. The poem “To One is Paradise” is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe dating from his mature poetic period that features many of the poet’s favorite themes: young love, divinity, and death. The Cantata – composed […]
Sun of Goldfinger builds upon an enticing web of relationships: David Torn and Tim Berne have worked together since the ‘90s, with the guitarist producing many of the saxophonist’s prolific releases; Ches Smith has worked with Berne in the latter’s quintet Snakeoil and other contexts. In this electrifying trio, Torn, Berne and Smith spontaneously weave […]
NYC-based nylon string picker and saxophone ripper Dylan Delgiudice meets local rhythm section Pete Dennis & Max Glazier. Scientific American generates acoustics drones from resonant bodies. Live debut of flute/harp duo Will Fredendall & Medgina Maitre. Curated by Max Glazier
Celebrating the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary and its unique place in the City of Philadelphia, this bravura program opens with a world premiere by Philly-based composer Tyshawn Sorey, commissioned by the Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and performed by the great pianist Aaron Diehl. The concert closes with Bruckner’s soaring, majestic, thrill ride of a symphony, his […]
Bowerbird is pleased to present the NakedEye Ensemble performing a concert of music by Ben Nobuto. PROGRAM Lucid (2020) for piano and electronics Tell Me Again (2022) for piano, electronics, and film trio (for ivy house) (2024) for flute, cello, piano & electronics Live at Leighton House (2023) for six players & electronics Joy Replica […]
Hailing from the musical hotbed of Houston, Texas, saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III developed under the wings of many of the music’s greats. Smith has been a member of several legendary groups, including the Roy Haynes Fountain of Youth Band, the Terence Blanchard Quintet, Eric Harland’s Voyager, the Bill Stewart Trio, Jason Moran’s In […]
With its roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, the collective ensemble Get Up With It has been exploring the electric music of Miles Davis since the late 90s. Best known as the drummer for the Grammy-winning, Philly-born rock band The War on Drugs, Charlie Hall is also a professed Miles Davis fanatic who formed […]
Marcia Bassett and Taralie Peterson Doors at 7pm, Music at 8pm – $10-20, cash only. BYOB
With its roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, the collective ensemble Get Up With It has been exploring the electric music of Miles Davis since the late 90s. Best known as the drummer for the Grammy-winning, Philly-born rock band The War on Drugs, Charlie Hall is also a professed Miles Davis fanatic who formed […]
Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist, writer, and composer based in Brooklyn. Their solo practice, exstatic resonances, explores phenomenological, material, and spatial expressivities of sound through richly noisy timbral actions. As the clarinetist of TAK Ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen) they have […]
@armandorosalesrivero is the 2nd artist in this years cohort. He is a sculptor and experimental percussionist whose work explores the intersections of the intimate, institutional and political. Through sculpture and installation , he examines materiality, sound, and questions how forces shaping behavior connect to the body as a site of learning and transformation. While at […]
With its roots in the San Francisco Bay Area, the collective ensemble Get Up With It has been exploring the electric music of Miles Davis since the late 90s. Best known as the drummer for the Grammy-winning, Philly-born rock band The War on Drugs, Charlie Hall is also a professed Miles Davis fanatic who formed […]
Paul Giess (trumpet/electronics) | Live improvised music inside Philadelphia’s oldest surviving pre-revolutionary tavern
Still traveling the spaceways after more than 100 years on the planet, the indefatigable Maestro Marshall Allen remains a brilliant imaginative force whose life has spanned nearly the entire history of jazz. A key member of the Sun Ra Arkestra for more than six decades and its dauntless leader for the last quarter century, Allen […]
Please join us on May 26th at 6:30pm for the inaugural Philly Electronic Music Club meetup at @thefidget_space ‼️ Bring a laptop and jam with us using Strudel! (https://strudel.cc/)
2 sets 7:30 and 9:00 no cover
Daniel Carter, Matt Lavelle, Julius Masri & Pete Dennis: Daniel Carter is an American experimental saxophone, flute, clarinet, and trumpet player active mainly in New York City since the early 1970s. One of the legendary masters of creative music. Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania in 1945. Carter is a prolific performer and has recorded or performed with William Parker, Federico Ughi, […]
THE GIANT IS AWKWARD is the new album by Victor Vieira-Branco’s Bark Culture. Victor Vieira-Branco on vibraphone John Moran on double bass Joey Sullivan on drums Sam Yulsman on piano Doors at 7:00 pm, music at 8pm. Show will be seated.
Co-presented with Clavius Productions: Mankwe Ndosi & Jamal R. Moore duo: Mankwe Ndosi is Vocalist, Composer, and Interdisciplinary Culture Maker who conjures sound, story, and movement into transformative experiences. A sonic shape-shifter, she bends melody and rhythm into a living practice that amplifies the resonance between people, land, and ancestral memory. Rooted in Black ritual legacies of music […]
Gates 6:30 Music 7:00
ZOSHA WARPEHA and CARLO COSTA hardanger fiddle and percussion PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH ENSEMBLE performing ‘Grid and Gradient’ by Morgan Evans-Weiler (Ann Adachi – Piano, Carlo Costa, Percussion, Jesse Kudler, Electronics, Geoff Mullen, Guitar, Morgan Evans-Weiler, Violin) EPISODIC MEMORIES Composition by Ann Adachi – Performed by: Ann Adachi, Flute/piano, Morgan Evans-Weiler, Violin, Aaron Igler, Electronics, Deven Carmichael, […]
Formed in 1996 by Nate Young, the corrosive and blistering Wolf Eyes has mutated through a number of different forms, built around the core duo of Young and John Olson. Known for their bizarre and otherworldly approach to music, Wolf Eyes conjures a sound that is both disturbing and hypnotic. With their intense and bizarre […]
In Re | PUBLIC, we’ll join the national celebration by revisiting some of our favorite repertoire from American composers. These are wonderfully innovative works, but we think that you’ll find them especially compelling in the context of America’s Big Party: Tuneful, evocative, ebullient… and downright fun!We commissioned Waiting in the Tall Grass from the wonderful […]
THE EARLY is Alex Lewis (guitars and synthesizers) and Jake Nussbaum (drums and electronics). Somewhere in the textural grandeur of post-rock, the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation, the patient grooves of minimalism, Chicago and Philadelphia. BENT LIGHT is the duo of Michael Slyne and Russell Linder. Two guitars. Millions of pedals. Busted tape machines sing too. Philly’s own […]
Please join Ars Nova Workshop on Thursday, June 4 at Solar Myth for Wonderful Sound 3 featuring Bobby Zankel, Cooper-Moore, and Chad Taylor. This trio brings together three highly respected figures in creative music, each with decades of experience shaping the field. Cooper-Moore is a foundational presence in the avant-garde, with long-standing collaborations alongside William […]
Bowerbird is pleased to present MSHR with opening set by Grace Villamil at The Rotunda. Curated by Eugene Lew, this performance brings together electronic sound artists who work with varied programs, hardware, and DIY lighting sensors to create electronic soundscapes dispersed over a quad speaker set up. Grace is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound, […]
Feldman’s “Three Voices” was written for the experimental vocalist and composer Joan LaBarbara in 1982. The original concept involved the live performer singing along with two pre-recorded parts projected through on-stage amplifiers, creating an effect of three individual “voices”, all with the same origin (Ms. LaBarbara). Three Voices is indeed a challenging and ground-breaking work, […]
2:00 pm Taji Ra’oof Nahl Calculating Banneker: The Work of Water An Installation Activation in Four Movements The Experience: A four-movement journey where the players seek the source. From the hive, discover how every drop sustains the collective. (See above for more detail.) 3:00 pm Eugene Lew Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate CENTAUR CLAUSE Aaron […]
Well, we tried to cook this up for May but it got so busy that we had to push it back to the beginning of June! But this one is a collaboration with @southfellini, and is outside at the fountain on Passyunk! Thanks to @eastpassyunk and @passyarc for helping to coordinate and allowing us to […]
PRISM Quartet presents a program of new music from an exceptional collection of composers, featuring the world premiere of a new work by clarinetist/saxophonist, composer, conceptualist, and Blue Note recording artist Don Byron, winner of the Rome Prize and a Pulitzer Prize finalist. The program includes additional premieres by DownBeat Critics Poll winner (rising star […]
Devin Carmichael Steph Davies Andrew Gioannetti Tom Kaines Andy Thierauf Sylvia Winch
Max Johnson Sextet: Composer, bassist, and improviser Max Johnson presents his brand new sextet in the premiere of “Without Fear,” a new concert-length work performed alongside Anna Webber (tenor saxophone, flute), Yuma Uesaka (soprano saxophone, clarinet), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Lester St. Louis (cello), Max Johnson (double bass), and Jeff Davis (drumset, vibraphone). The piece is a sprawling, style-blurring composition that explores the many musical worlds Johnson has inhabited […]
Paolo Angeli: Sardinian musician Paolo Angeli’s professional career was spent deep in the avant garde, exploring post-rock, experimental opera, and more. His style was influenced heavily by that of guitarist Giovanni Scanu, who was a major proponent of the classic Sardinian canto a chitarra style. The combination of inputs inspired Angeli to create his own instrument: an 18-stringed […]
A new take on the string quartet-featuring santour, kamenche, cello, and violin. Composted Improvisations and Improvised Compositions. $10-20 at the door.
Marisa Anderson’s music transcends borders. The topography of her work interrogates the intersections of artistry and expression with form and tradition. A singular guitarist and voracious musical collaborator, Anderson crafts pieces bursting with equal parts reverence and curiosity, contouring familiar shapes into work that is wholly her own. Anderson has spent decades mining the veins […]
Kalia Vandever is a Grammy Award-winning trombonist and composer based in Brooklyn. Their approach to the trombone is distinctive and defined by their sonorous tone and lyrical improvisational voice. They lean into the challenges of the instrument and allow patience and melody to guide their process. In their compositional practice, Vandever draws from their love […]
Shiraz Ensemble with special guest Bahar Badieitabar: Shiraz Ensemble are: Sepehr Pirasteh: alto kamancheh, tombak Sina Homaee: santoor, tombak, daf Parsa Ferdowsi: setar, tanbour For this performance they will be joined by: Bahar Badieitabar: oud Shiraz Ensemble is a contemporary music group that unites Iranian musicians performing traditional instruments in the United States. Built on the values […]
Please note, this is an outdoor performance. The scheduled performance is Saturday June 13, 7:00pm with a rain date of Sunday June 14, 7:00pm Bowerbird is pleased to co-present the Arcana New Music Ensemble performing music of Pauline Oliveros at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. Pauline Oliveros’ (1932-2016) life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was […]
Anthony Tidd is a creative musician, composer, producer, educator and curator who over a 30 year career has notably performed with, and produced songs on multi-platinum albums for, many artists including; The Roots, Steve Coleman, Meshell Ndegeocello, David Byrne, Macy Gray, Wayne Krantz, Zap Mama, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Orrin Evans, […]
Silver Mantis is a 50 minute instrumental electro-acoustic presentation, performed with software and sampling, theremin and audio objects. It is an immersive multi channel composition which allows for an elastic performance. The inspiration behind Silver Mantis was to create a work incorporating live re-composition and improvisation into its structure, one which could expand and contract […]
The Humanosity Project is an avant-garde and free-jazz improvisational quartet based in the Philadelphia and New York areas. Formed by guitarist Dave Ross and flugelhorn/clarinet player Matt Lavelle (alongside bassist Pete Dennis and drummer Julius Masri), the group is known for operating in the extreme, experimental regions of jazz. The quartet originally formed while playing […]
*All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 7 PM – Doors 8 PM – Show BASIC VICTOR VIEIRA BRANCO’S BARK CULTURE THE ER BAND
FUJI||||||||||TA is a Sound Artist living in Japan. His unique practice utilizes various natural phenomena that respond to his interest in wanting to hear unheard sounds and unknown sounds. Instead of playing a composed piece of music, he aims to go as far as possible towards his own unknown state of being, with an emphasis […]
Please note this is an outdoor performance. In case of rain, the performance will take place Sunday June 21st. Bowerbird is pleased to co-present Follow the Sound at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. This unique program blends a naturalist-led walk through the garden, with particular attention focused on birds, bugs and ‘the here and now’ of […]
Spirits Up! is a Philadelphia based wellness initiative founded by Sudan Green, providing safe, culturally competent yoga, meditation, and mindfulness sessions specifically designed to promote healing and collective liberation within the Black and Brown communities. Presented at The Yard on John Coltrane Street located in Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion, these series of Mindfullness sessions will […]
Ars Nova Workshop presents saxophonist and composer Alden Hellmuth, performing music from her new project Tether at Solar Myth on Saturday, June 20, 2026. Alden Hellmuth is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser based in New York City. A graduate of the Herbie Hancock Institute, Hellmuth received the 2025 German Jazz Prize for Debut Album of […]
Great Blue Heron Watson – Bass Clarinet Julius Masri – Percussion Tomatà Juice – Strings Connor Przybyszewski – Trombone (One more TBD) This special Solstice edition of the Great Blue Heron is intended as a force for drawing out the poison in us all; to turn it into nutrients for our mental health […]
Infra Dig is a new trio consisting of Bert Harris (bass), Rob Paul (percussion), and Thomas Patteson (alto saxophone). Opening set by Melinda Rice (violin and electronics).
Ars Nova Workshop is honored to present a meeting of two avant-garde legends, as percussionist Kahil El’Zabar and saxophonist David Murray join forces at Solar Myth on Sunday, June 21, 2026. Legendary percussionist and bandleader Kahil El’Zabar and saxophone icon David Murray have enjoyed a storied collaboration that has spanned more than four decades and […]
DoYeon Kim is an internationally acclaimed artist known for her expansive and pioneering performances and compositions and for introducing the gayageum, an ancient Korean zither, into contemporary music. Trained extensively in jazz and improvisation as well as in the canon of classical Korean music – including sanjo, jeongak, and modern gugak – Kim channels history, […]
Fred Frith: Fred Frith is a pioneer of the extended electric guitar. He learned to compose in Henry Cow, developed his song-writing skills in Art Bears, explored his multi- instrumentalism in Skeleton Crew, rocked the house with Massacre and is still doing all of those things, having been in one band or another continuously since […]
Chamber Music in multiple idioms. Tom Kraines features in this eclectic ensemble. $20 with drinks provided 🙂 Established in 2002, Matt Davis’ Aerial Photograph is a “wildly imaginative” (Jazziz Magazine”) ensemble that explores the intersection of jazz, contemporary classical and folk music, as well as social, cultural and historical observation through aural histories. Described as […]
For Location – Dm @spiritfurnace on Instagram. Yaffee Dresden Amen Our Mother of the Holy Mountain Spirit Furnace (solo) Drone music in a drain pipe. Directions: Getting to the pipe will involve navigating some rough terrain. The pipe is located off of a wooded path branching off from the Cynwyd Heritage / Manayunk Bridge […]
Fundraiser for harm reduction group Sol Collective. Expect noise. Virtuosity. Harps. Joy.
The preeminent Philadelphia DJ, Composer, Producer, Sound Designer and Music Experimentalist June Lopez will perform de/compostion: Native Trees, Sonic Roots, a set of genre-defying music and experimental soundscapes based on the inspiration of found sounds in Tookany/Tacony-Frankford (TTF) Watershed and Tacony Creek Park. de/compostion: Native Trees, Sonic Roots will be inspired by the field recordings and audio research […]
Ars Nova Workshop presents the Chicago and Detroit based creative music ensemble Teiku at Solar Myth on Sunday, June 28, 2026. Chicago pianist Josh Harlow and Detroit percussionist Jonathan Barahal founded Teiku on the foundation of the music they grew up singing: their Jewish-Ukranian ancestors’ Passover songs, unique to each respective family and passed down […]
2 sets 7:30 and 9:00 no cover
Ars Nova Workshop is thrilled to present the return of maverick trumpeter Steven Bernstein with his striking new acoustic trio at Solar Myth on Tuesday, June 30, 2026. Few artists exult in the joyous exhilaration and intrepid spirit of communal music-making with the fervor and vitality of visionary bandleader, trumpeter, composer and arranger Steven Bernstein. […]