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DID YA HEAR? It’s the big music weekend!
I like to think you can find a way to satisfy all of the senses here at the Live Arts Festival, and this weekend we have some double bills as well as some full-length evenings that will be sure to perk your ears up. The Music Weekend is here and you can check it all out on pages 18 and 19 of the Festival Guide.
But don’t let the guide fool you… your first opportunity for some percussive perfection is actually listed as Show 4. That makes a sense of another sort since the two artists performing on the double bill will hardly give you what you expect either. Douglas Ovens returns to the Festival with Impossible Improvisations, which will include some works from his recent CD as well as a new work designed especially for the Festival. Ovens is an excellent percussionist and composer with a tendency towards the quirky. He is billed with South African-born Mogauwane Mahloele who has found a home here in Philadelphia. He has brought with him a unique style of world music that blends African and the avante garde. He’s also brought with him some pretty wild instruments including the kora, and kjembe drum. They kick off the music programming with a bang (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) at the Cabaret tonight at 8pm.
Cellist, Opera Singer, and Actor, Matthew Sharp (who put in some volunteer work at the office yesterday – thank you, Matthew) and pianist/composer Pete M. Wyer are Sharpwire and have traveled from London for a brief but generous stint at our fair Festival. Adam’s Apple; a multi-media song cycle, uses sound, song, movement, and video, to create a haunting experience. Two of your five senses are treated in this hypnotic odyssey and if your date smells good as well, you get three. Sharpwire is only here Friday and Sunday at 6pm.
Show 1:Music in Progress, is what I call music with promise! These two shows sound like a wildly fun ride. Oedipus Wrecks plays with a re-telling of Sophocles’ play using California vanity license plates. It’s a dance-opera vignette for heavens’ sake! And on the same bill, you get Cabaret Master, Todd Waddington turning Beatle’s music upside down with the award winning composer and musical director, Vince DiMura. It’s called dayinalife and you don’t want to miss it
The real beauty of the Music Programming at the Live Arts Festival this year, however, is that you don’t have to miss a thing! For example, Sunday alone you could see Music in Progress at 3pm, Adam’s Apple at 6 and then the always beautiful collaboration of Andrea Clearfield and Manfred Fishbeck at 8:30. They are performing their piece sometimes you can see your dreaming mind, on the same bill as Autopoiesis, a daring collection of musicians experimenting with piano, electronics, text, percussion and voice! And you never have to leave the Cabaret!
In fact, you might as well pitch a tent in Liberty Lands Park and camp out all weekend, cause it doesn’t end there. This weekend the Late Night Cabaret will be featuring Joshua Fried in Radio Wonderland. He’s played around with sound for artists like They Might Be Giants and Chaka Khan (yes Dito, Chaka Khan). His music making is as Live as it gets and incorporates electrified shoes, and FM radio boom box and a powerbook. The Late Night Cabaret will also be featuring local favorites like Wayward Wind, Brie Feingold Africa, M-Unit, PT Lovecraft… aw man, just check out page 51 ‘cause it’s ridiculous how much great music is going on up there in Northern Libs.
Question of the day: Can I attend four music events over the course of 8 hours?
Answer of the day: YES!
Your ex-administrator,
Lee Ann Etzold, Daily Diary Diva
I like to think you can find a way to satisfy all of the senses here at the Live Arts Festival, and this weekend we have some double bills as well as some full-length evenings that will be sure to perk your ears up. The Music Weekend is here and you can check it all out on pages 18 and 19 of the Festival Guide.
But don’t let the guide fool you… your first opportunity for some percussive perfection is actually listed as Show 4. That makes a sense of another sort since the two artists performing on the double bill will hardly give you what you expect either. Douglas Ovens returns to the Festival with Impossible Improvisations, which will include some works from his recent CD as well as a new work designed especially for the Festival. Ovens is an excellent percussionist and composer with a tendency towards the quirky. He is billed with South African-born Mogauwane Mahloele who has found a home here in Philadelphia. He has brought with him a unique style of world music that blends African and the avante garde. He’s also brought with him some pretty wild instruments including the kora, and kjembe drum. They kick off the music programming with a bang (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) at the Cabaret tonight at 8pm.
Cellist, Opera Singer, and Actor, Matthew Sharp (who put in some volunteer work at the office yesterday – thank you, Matthew) and pianist/composer Pete M. Wyer are Sharpwire and have traveled from London for a brief but generous stint at our fair Festival. Adam’s Apple; a multi-media song cycle, uses sound, song, movement, and video, to create a haunting experience. Two of your five senses are treated in this hypnotic odyssey and if your date smells good as well, you get three. Sharpwire is only here Friday and Sunday at 6pm.
Show 1:Music in Progress, is what I call music with promise! These two shows sound like a wildly fun ride. Oedipus Wrecks plays with a re-telling of Sophocles’ play using California vanity license plates. It’s a dance-opera vignette for heavens’ sake! And on the same bill, you get Cabaret Master, Todd Waddington turning Beatle’s music upside down with the award winning composer and musical director, Vince DiMura. It’s called dayinalife and you don’t want to miss it
The real beauty of the Music Programming at the Live Arts Festival this year, however, is that you don’t have to miss a thing! For example, Sunday alone you could see Music in Progress at 3pm, Adam’s Apple at 6 and then the always beautiful collaboration of Andrea Clearfield and Manfred Fishbeck at 8:30. They are performing their piece sometimes you can see your dreaming mind, on the same bill as Autopoiesis, a daring collection of musicians experimenting with piano, electronics, text, percussion and voice! And you never have to leave the Cabaret!
In fact, you might as well pitch a tent in Liberty Lands Park and camp out all weekend, cause it doesn’t end there. This weekend the Late Night Cabaret will be featuring Joshua Fried in Radio Wonderland. He’s played around with sound for artists like They Might Be Giants and Chaka Khan (yes Dito, Chaka Khan). His music making is as Live as it gets and incorporates electrified shoes, and FM radio boom box and a powerbook. The Late Night Cabaret will also be featuring local favorites like Wayward Wind, Brie Feingold Africa, M-Unit, PT Lovecraft… aw man, just check out page 51 ‘cause it’s ridiculous how much great music is going on up there in Northern Libs.
Question of the day: Can I attend four music events over the course of 8 hours?
Answer of the day: YES!
Your ex-administrator,
Lee Ann Etzold, Daily Diary Diva
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