Lisa Cortés’ Sundance opening night documentary LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richard’s complicated inner world, the film unspools the icon’s life story with all its switchbacks and contradictions. In interviews with family, musicians, and cutting-edge Black and queer scholars, the film reveals how Richard created an art form for ultimate self-expression, yet what he gave to the world he was never able to give to himself. Throughout his life, Richard careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, sex and rock n’ roll. The world tried to put him in a box, but Richard was an omni being who contained multitudes – he was unabashedly everything. Directed by Lisa Cortés
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Stiff Little Fingers | 8:00pm | Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia | All Ages |
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WKDU Supports: Owen | 7:00pm | Philadelphia Ethical Society | All Ages |
SPINOFF - andrea_andrea (live) / RP Coast (live) / DJ Furniture / DJ Papaya ambient B2B | 8:00pm - 11:00pm | Tiger Strikes Asteroid | All Ages |
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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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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 |
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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West Philadelphia Orchestra | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |