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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Lotus / Muscle Tough | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
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West Philly Orchestra | 8:00pm | Black Squirrel Club | 21+ |
Lotus / Cal Blac | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
Rid of Me / My Wife's An Angel / Sunburster / Born Losers DJs | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
NYE 2025 feat. DJ's Rob Paine / Francisco Collazo / John Raffaele / Keen / Firestone / Urbankowboi / Joshua Orange / low1ron / phreakwency / Kristian Cho / Shai FM | 9:00pm | Warehouse on Watts | 21+ |
The Menzingers / Captain We're Sinking / The Wild Ones | 9:30pm | Ardmore Music Hall | 21+ |
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Argo and the Violet Queens / Gloss / Wallace Tonight | 7:00pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
The Girls / Plastic Bitch / The Angies | 8:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
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Jim E. Brown / Matthew Danger Lippman / Manic Envy / Gavin Oswald | 8:00pm | Icebox Project Space | All Ages |
Stinking Lizaveta / Darsombra / Eye Flys | 8:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
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Darius Jones Trio | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
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PWRUP / Kmoy /Take Today / 13 Cavities | 7:00pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
Kiss Boom Bah / Cthulhu Martini / Crucial Device | 8:00pm | Century | 21+ |
The Elovaters / Surfer Girl / Beach Fly | 8:00pm | Union Transfer | All Ages |
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Zeta / Lobby Boxer / Skullpresser | 7:30pm | Foto Club | All Ages |