Join vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Amanda Ekery and her band for a songwriting workshop! This songwriting workshop will focus on using research and personal history to write music using techniques Ekery used to write Árabe, her new album. Árabe is about Syrian and Mexican shared culture and history, and covers everything from food, gambling, and evil eyes, to immigration law, biracial identity, and the fraught relationship between immigrant entrepreneurship and workers’ rights. Participants will leave the workshop with a short song they have created, along with tools and tips to continue songwriting.
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soul Blind / Split Chain / Downwawrd / Split Fatigue | 7:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |
| Moving Mandala, an Ecstatic Dance Journey: Wild Bloom | 7:00pm | Trinity Memorial Church | All Ages |
| Sex Mex / Hot Seat / Septic Bath / Monster Truck Fire Truck | 7:00pm | Ortlieb's | 21+ |
| Mama's Broke / Jude Brothers / Makeshift Hammer | 7:30pm | Kung Fu Necktie | 21+ |
| Lucy Bedroque | 7:30pm | PhilaMOCA | All Ages |
| Paisley Fields / The Lower Aetna | 7:30pm | Silk City | 21+ |
| Corrosion Of Conformity / Whores / Crobot | 7:30pm | Underground Arts | 21+ |
| Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble | 8:00pm | Zellerbach Theatre | All Ages |
| Donavan Woods | 8:00pm | Theatre of the Living Arts | 21+ |
| HOME FRONT / Bootlicker / Raw Distractions / Ex-Tradition | 8:00pm | Upper Darby American Legion Post 214 | All Ages |
| The Messthetics w/ James Brandon Lewis | 8:00pm | Solar Myth | 21+ |
| Sessa / Kolumbo | 9:00pm | Johnny Brenda's | 21+ |
| Kause / Hashland / DJ BM | 10:00pm | Milkboy Philly | 21+ |
| Time | Venue | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Prospective Podcast: El da Sensei (The Artifacts) | 1:00pm | Khyber Pass Pub | 21+ |
| FORT FEST 2026: Ogbert the Nerd / Heccra / Oolong / Precious Little Life / Elephant Jake / Armbite / Customer Service / Microgoblet | 4:00pm | Ukie Club | All Ages |