Philadelphia’s own sacred jazz vocalist/composer, Ruth Naomi Floyd, makes her Penn Live Arts debut in Are We Yet Somehow Alive?, a moving world premiere that pairs jazz, blues and gospel with fine art projections to share compelling first-person accounts from enslaved Africans in America. At the intersection of despair, endurance and resistance, these narratives explore what it means to be human amidst the struggle for liberation and dehumanization. Praised for her distinctive sound and progressive jazz ensembles, Floyd uses her soaring mezzo-soprano voice to shine light and find defiant joy in our experience.
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Chicago Underground Duo | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
Spindrift - Lolina (Live) / Dekalb Works (Live) / Pontiac Streator (Live) / Great Area (Live) / Yumi (DJ) / Projections & Lighting: Yosuke VJ | 9:00pm | The Pottery Gym | All Ages |
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Social Distortion / Bad Religion | 7:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
Kamasi Washington | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
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Ligeti Quartet performs the Music of Wadada Leo Smith | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
La Perla / DJVspice | 8:00pm | The Maas Building | All Ages |
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Orchid | 7:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
Even Odds (Dan Weiss, Miguel Zenon, Matt Mitchell) | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
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Don Slepian / Saapato | 8:00pm | First Unitarian Church: Basement | All Ages |
Trauma Ray / Kraus / MX Lonely | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
The Asteroid No. 4 / Mahogany / Cigarettes for Breakfast | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
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Jim White & Marisa Anderson | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
West Philadelphia Orchestra | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
Time | Venue | Age | |
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Sheer Mag (Record Release) | 7:30pm | First Presbyterian Church | All Ages |
Polky / Medukha | 8:00pm | The Rotunda | All Ages |