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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Strawberry Guy / Johanna Samuels | 7:30pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
Fiona Moonchild | 8:00pm | Upstairs at Abyssinia | 21+ |
Honeythunder (Record Release) / Caring Less / Kulfi Girls | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
SHBTVG / Red King / Germ USA / Giant | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
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Bad Crime (from Milwaukee) \ Civil Rats \ Blank Chrome | 6:30pm | Creep Records | All Ages |
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Peter Hook & the Light | 7:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
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Oceanator / Bacchae | 6:00pm | Spruce Street Harbor | All Ages |
Amen Dunes / Mabe Fratti | 8:00pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
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Built to Spill | 8:00pm | Franklin Music Hall | All Ages |
Joanna & Tony Trov (album release show) | 8:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
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Waxahatchee / Tim Heidecker / Gladie (NIght #1) | 7:00pm | The Fillmore Philadelphia | All Ages |
DIY Playoffs: Fair Game / Skeever / Arm Bite / Beside Me / Bristoltooth | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
NMLSTYL / Zaku | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
BLK ODYSSY | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
Susan Alcorn & Simone Baron duo / Senso di Voce | 8:00pm | Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement (ELCA) | All Ages |