Ruth Naomi Floyd

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 7:30pm

Age: 
All Ages

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.

Philly Haps

Monday, Oct 13, 2025
Time Venue Age
Goat Girl / Maria BC 8:00pm Johnny Brenda's 21+
Green Jellÿ / 96 Bitter Beings / The Convalescence 8:00pm Kung Fu Necktie 21+
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2025
Time Venue Age
South Arcade 7:30pm Kung Fu Necktie All Ages
Over-Kill II: Reloaded 7:30pm Underground Arts 21+
Wednesday, Oct 15, 2025
Time Venue Age
The Jazz Disciples 7:00pm Chris' Jazz Café All Ages
Deepak Kumar Pareek 7:30pm The Rotunda All Ages
The Oh Hellos 7:30pm Union Transfer All Ages
Katalyst Conversation 8:00pm Solar Myth 21+
Peel Dream Magazine 8:00pm Warehouse on Watts All Ages
Frog 8:00pm First Unitarian Church: Basement All Ages
Dead Tooth 8:00pm Milkboy Philly 21+
Katalyst Conversation 8:00pm Solar Myth 21+
Greg Mendez / 22º halo / Soup Dreams 8:00pm Johnny Brenda's 21+
Thursday, Oct 16, 2025
Time Venue Age
FULCI 7:00pm Kung Fu Necktie 21+
John Vanore's Abstract Truth 7:00pm Chris' Jazz Café All Ages