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.
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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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La Perla / DJVspice | 8:00pm | The Maas Building | All Ages |
Ligeti Quartet performs the Music of Wadada Leo Smith | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
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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 |
The Asteroid No. 4 / Mahogany / Cigarettes for Breakfast | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
Trauma Ray / Kraus / MX Lonely | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
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Jim White & Marisa Anderson | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
West Philadelphia Orchestra | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
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Sheer Mag (Record Release) | 7:30pm | First Presbyterian Church | All Ages |
Tarbaby (pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Nasheet Waits) + Ursula Rucker - NIGHT#1 | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
Erica Dawn Lyle / Eraser / Emily Robb - Bill Nace Duo | 8:00pm | Century | 21+ |
NDR Bigband & Kinan Azmeh | 8:00pm | Annenberg Center | All Ages |