Events

“A violinist who can do anything,” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Johnny Gandelsman’s This is America is an ever-growing collection of commissioned works by U.S. composers that reflect on society’s rupture and […]

Nomad War Machine is an improvised metal duo consisting of guitarist James Reichard and drummer Julius Masri.  In 2023, both musicians entered Baltimore’s Tempo House Recording studio with pedal steel luminary Susan Alcorn Lobato. […]

Sets 7:30 and 9:00   Victor Viera-Branco vibes John Moran – bass Joey Sullivan – drums

David Tudor is largely remembered for his performances of mid-twentieth-century avant-garde piano music and his close association with John Cage, but much less is known about his personal life or […]

Ars Nova Workshop presents Polish guitarist Raphael Rogiński, performing his transformative interpretations of the music of John Coltrane and the words of Langston Hughes at Solar Myth on Wednesday, February […]

John Truscinski @jskimegamix doing a solo drum set Tricia Holub (Phila, PA) @triciaholubmusic experimental keyboard and vocal delights! Doors at 7, music at 8. $10-15, BYOB

~ Live Sets by David Moore & Discovery Zone ~ DJ Set by RVNG Intl. founder Matt Werth ~ Visual Projections by Klip Collective ~ Beverages by Forin

Please join us for a very special discussion celebrating the release of the new book “Eternal Rhythm: Conversations and Travelations with Don Cherry.” Newly published by Ars Nova Workshop, the […]

Sets 7:30 and 9:00   Victor Viera-Branco vibes John Moran – bass Maliq Wynn – drums

Bowerbird is pleased to present an online conversation with John D. S. Adams, John David Fullemann, David Meschter, and Robert E. Miller, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin […]

Free Range Free Range is a monthly concert series providing artists with important resources in today’s content-driven music scene, and providing audiences with exceptional and affordable (even better than a […]

Please join Philly’s super collective of composers, improvisors and sonic healers as we celebrate the music of the late great Bern Nix. Matt Lavelle, Philly’s adopted son, Brooklyn transplant, player […]

In conjunction with The Living Temple, the ongoing exhibition celebrating the life and work of Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry, Ars Nova Workshop presents the Chad Taylor Quartet […]

Bobby Zankel, saxophone Sumi Tonooka, piano Shakour Hakeem, percussion Fabien Enger, trumpet

Drum Major Instinct with Katherine Young: Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer. […]

Ars Nova Workshop hosts the record release party for I Want To Be Ready, the latest from Philly-based post-rock experimentalists The Early, at Solar Myth on Sunday, March 1, 2026. […]

Sets 7:30 and 9:00 Victor Viera-Branco -vibes      plus ???

Trepanation Series kicks off Spring with a special one off @thefidget_space. Saxophonist Keefe Jackson will be on the road supporting his new album “A Gentle Reminder” These Things Happen Keefe […]

Live music in the bar at Solar Myth Tuesdays in March 3rd, 17th and 31st 2 sets 7:30 and 9:00 pm No Cover

Join us for the Experimental Music Ensemble Winter Concert at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery. This event is free and open to all, register for tickets here. Trough a grant from […]

Trepanation Series at Century Bar Elliot Levin Group w/ Matt Engle, Jan Jeffries, Dawn Webster Dave Fishkin Group

After nearly a decade away from recording as a leader, saxophonist Jason Rigby made his triumphant return in August 2025 with Mayhem, a groundbreaking duo album featuring renowned drummer Mark […]

Amy Williams is a composer of music that is “simultaneously demanding, rewarding and fascinating” (Buffalo News), “fresh, daring and incisive” (Fanfare). Her compositions have been presented at renowned contemporary music […]

Bowerbird is pleased to present pianist Amy Williams and a performance of David Tudor’s Forest Speech led by Phil Edelstein with additional performers to be announced. This concert celebrates David […]

Step into the electrifying universe of Dead Jazz, where metal, jazz, and eclectic improvisation collide in an audacious sonic journey. The Hollenberg, Spiker, Weston Trio delivers an instrumental tour de […]

In conjunction with The Living Temple, the ongoing exhibition celebrating the life and work of Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Ars Nova […]

Victor Viera-Branco – vibes       plus ??? sets 7:30 and 9:00

Still traveling the spaceways after 101 years on the planet, the indefatigable Maestro Marshall Allen remains a brilliant imaginative force whose life has spanned nearly the entire history of jazz. […]

At once a bass-forward string quartet and at times a downtown band, Owls challenge the way that meaningful concert experiences are conceived. Weaving new works together with original arrangements of […]

Lia Kohl: Lia Kohl is a cellist, composer, and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composition and performance, installation, improvisation, and collaboration. She tours nationally and internationally, […]

Trepanation Series at Century Bar   Skullcap –  Anthony Pirog / Janel Lepen / Mike Kuhl   Dave McDonnell Group – Chris Covotta / Matt Engle / Ian McColm

The Lepidopterans are a “supergroup” with Baltimore/Philadelphia long-time experimental scene players Toshi Makihara, Tom Borax, Jason Willett and John Dierker. Each member has decades of experience improvising and collaborating, having appeared in a dizzying list […]

Thom Nguyen (Asheville) + Anne Ishii (Philadelphia) and Alex Lewis + Matthew S Lee (Phila both) at Jerry’s On Front (2341 N Front St) March 12 2026 Thursday 8pm (Doors […]

All events are 21+ valid ID required for entry* 8 PM – Doors 9 PM – Show JOE LALLY, YANNI & JASON K. Joe Lally, Yanni and Jason K. is […]

“One of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene,” (The New York Times) Alarm Will Sound performs American Stories, a collection of bold, contemporary works that […]

08:30 Victor Viera-Branco – vibes    John Moran – bass    Sam Yulsman – piano 09:15 Bone Bag 10:00 Chemical

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 […]

Kresten Osgood x Gabriel Meyer Trio Kreston Osgood- Drums Gabriel Meyer- Trombone, Alto Saxophone Eli Pace- Bass Caleb Wheeler Curtis- Stritch, Sopranino, Trumpet FFMMAP! Flandrew Fleisenberg- ObjectsMason McAvoy- Voice, Trombone, […]

Victor Viera-Branco – vibes       plus ??? sets 7:30 and 9:00

Live music in the bar at Solar Myth Tuesdays in March 3rd, 17th and 31st 2 sets 7:30 and 9:00 pm No Cover

Bowerbird is pleased to present Composers Inside Electronics—Phil Edelstein, Ron Kuivila, and Michael Johnsen—performing works by David Tudor. Composers Inside Electronics (CIE), formed in 1973 with David Tudor, pioneered a […]

Kresten Osgood is an extraordinary drummer and improviser who, with the fullest respect to tradition, challenges it at any given moment of his creative endeavors. He has performed and/or recorded […]

Presented in collaboration with Philly Iranians Niloufar Shiri & Bahar Badieitabar: Kamancheh player and composer Niloufar Shiri began her musical journey at the Tehran Music Conservatory in Iran. She later immigrated to the […]

Drummer/composer John Hollenbeck is a composer of music uncategorizable beyond the fact of being always identifiably his: a conceptualist able to translate the traditions of jazz and new music into […]

Liam Grant, New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth, will be playing with Parsa Ferdowsi , an Iranian composer/performer/multi-instrumentalist and multi-media artist based in […]

Live sets ~ Earthen Sea | Sohme DJ set ~ Kiernan Laveaux Visual Projections ~ Klip Collective Beverages ~ Forin 

Flandrew Fleisenberg’s unretirement show! +id m theft able +Bhob Rainey +DJ Robo Rob   Doors open at 7:30 pm, music at 8 pm

For over 25 years, the Miró Quartet has performed on the world’s most prestigious stages, showcasing their “collective intelligence uncanny precision” (Musical America). Their program includes excerpts from master works […]

The Forest & The Zoo is a Philly music collective enjoying the exploration of improvisation, abstract composition, as well as straightforward notation and rhythm-based tunes. This year, The Forest & […]

  Six musicians in six different formations playing a continuous set. Melodies and minds, colliding and converging. If you have ears to hear, you will find us there… where pathways […]

Mariam Rezaei is a multi-award-winning composer, turntablist and performer working across experimental new music, free improvisation, mutant club music and hip-hop. Described by The Wire as “one of the most […]

Orcutt Shelley Miller is an avant-rock trio comprised of three highly celebrated figures of experimental music: Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) and Ethan Miller (Howlin Rain, Comets […]

Victor Vieira-Branco – vibes       plus ??? sets 7:30 and 9:00

Victoria Shen (A.K.A. Evicshen) is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco. Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship […]

  London-born Shabaka earned widespread renown as a saxophonist with his cosmically-oriented ensembles Shabaka and the Ancestors, Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming before taking an indefinite hiatus […]

  London-born Shabaka earned widespread renown as a saxophonist with his cosmically-oriented ensembles Shabaka and the Ancestors, Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming before taking an indefinite hiatus […]

Trepanation Series at Century Bar   June Bender   Jason Carr w/ Koof Ibi  

Ted Gordon presents his new book The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America (University of California Press, 2025), which examines how human musicians and their electronic musical instruments […]

Mariana Carvalho and Zach Hart, touring from Germany, are joined by Ben Bennett and Tether for a night of experimental sound making. Readings by poets Emily k. and Myene Yanu. […]

Caroline Davis: Alive with nurturing visions of simple sonic offerings to morph our present situation, Caroline Davis’ main reason for playing music is to connect with others, beckoning new vistas […]

Irreversible Entanglements are a liberation-oriented free jazz collective formed in early 2015 by saxophonist Keir Neuringer, poet Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother) and bassist Luke Stewart, who came together to […]

In conjunction with The Living Temple, the ongoing exhibition celebrating the life and work of Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry, Ars Nova Workshop presents a special conversation and […]

METER is a night of verbal, sonic, and kinetic experimentation. Local poets reading live. Musicians and dancers improvising performances in response. Crafted verse collides with spontaneous composition. METTER’s March 2026 Line […]

PROGRAM: Two Thoughts About the Piano Figment V for marimba Esprit Rude/Esprit Doux II Epigrams Enchanted Preludes Gra for clarinet Canon for 4 ARCANA NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: Anna Lim – […]

In conjunction with The Living Temple, the ongoing exhibition celebrating the life and work of Swedish visual artist and designer Moki Cherry, Ars Nova Workshop presents the Philadelphia-born free jazz […]

Welcome to town- Darja Goldberg (Accordion) and Cristopher Götzen (Guitar) all the way from Deutschland, joined in trio by Aaron Pond on Wagner Tuba. DM Hotep (of Sun Ra) dazzles […]

Pureply Sonali Singh Trio Shadowcatcher (Amherst, MA) SunRyze     Join us for an experimental daytime show at Walmart Pier! Pureply will play an hour long ambient set, followed by […]

2:00PM Ashé Mystics: The Ashé Mystics are Kevin Diehl, Julius Masri & Joshua Marquez. They create a world of sound with electronic circuitry, improv and percussive underpinnings. 2:50 PM The […]

Philadelphia-born and New Jersey-raised, Laraaji has pursued spiritual transcendence through music since the mid-1970s. After years of developing an aesthetic shaped by Eastern philosophies and transcendental research in his longtime […]

Victor Vieira-Branco – vibes Luke Stewart – bass John Moran- drums sets 7:30 and 9:00  

Live music in the bar at Solar Myth Tuesdays in March 3rd, 17th and 31st 2 sets 7:30 and 9:00 pm No Cover

Carlos Niño refers to himself musically, and in many aspects of his life, as a “communicator,” a role that encompasses his own work as well as his integral work on […]

Please join Ars Nova Workshop for a pop-up performance with the visionary producer, percussionist, composer and cosmic facilitator Carlos Niño in collaboration with rising Los Angeles saxophonist Aaron Shaw. The […]

Trepanation Series at Century Bar   Juan Castrillon & Grimaldi Baez Melinda Rice & Michael Quick

Carlos Niño refers to himself musically, and in many aspects of his life, as a “communicator,” a role that encompasses his own work as well as his integral work on […]

Penn State University’s 12-piece experimental music ensemble joins forces with composer-performer-producer Kory Reeder (Wandelweiser, Sawyer Editions, Saroyer Spaces) for a 3-hour interstellar meditation for mixed ensemble inspired by the 18th-century […]

Curtis New Music Ensemble celebrates composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery with a concert featuring works by the Grammy-winning composer, violinist, and educator. Praised as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” (Washington […]

Excited to host Overflowing Poetry’s first proper music gig, featuring dear pals from San Francisco The Lodestones (members of JOMF, among others), Philly/Omaha acid twanger Chevrolet Pile, and local legends […]

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For over 15 years, Cybersounds has brought the latest in electronic music and the digital arts to Philadelphia audiences. The Cybersounds concert series showcases electroacoustic works ranging from the historical […]

Victor Vieira Branco – vibes Sam Xiao Cody – violin John Moran – bass   sets at 7:30 and 9:00

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 […]

  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 , […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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). […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]