1:00 PM – 5:00 PMPeople's Music Supply is proud to offer this workshop from living legend Joe Morris, an outstanding educator and world renowned musician. This workshop will last roughly 3-4 hours and will be followed in the evening by a concert featuring Joe and friends.

FROM JOE!In this workshop we will examine the non-harmony based materials that are consistently used and redefined by improvising musicians. Includes the study of four seminal methodologies, (Unit Structures, Harmolodics, Tri-Axiom Theory and European Free Improvisation), with the focus on how they inform individual and group improvisation. Students will perform compositions that reveal improvisational properties and use that material to improvise. Tickets will be available shortly, sliding scale $25 to $50. Ticket sales will be capped at 20, so please act fast. Workshop tickets include complimentary entrance for the concert. This program is presented with support from The Rotunda, Philly Music Factory, and Free Range concert series.

Joe Morris will be joined by former student and philly klezmer/experimental crossover star Dan Blacksberg. The always wily Carlos Santiago rounds out the trio. Their set will be played freely.

Joe Morris- Guitar

Dan Blacksberg- Trombone

Carlos Santiago- Violin

Inverse and Obverse is a quartet rooted in a phenomenological approach to creative music. like the great philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, we are examining the skin of the world, the very nature by which objects and sensations emerge from an interconnected web of being. It is this tenderness to the moment, and each other, which allows us to play poly-idiomatically.

Tickets are $5-20, no one turned away for lack of funds. This concert is sponsored by Philly Music Factory.

Bowerbird and Fire Museum present the duo of Iranian vocalist Kamyar Arsani (Faraway Ghost) and Indian-born percussionist/producer Ravish Momin (Sunken Cages) with an opening set by Savan DePaul aka Ishtar Sr. Their collaboration combines Persian poetry with Mumbai street rhythms, layered over intricate electronic soundscapes. Arsani’s mastery of Persian classical modes (dastgahs) and his evocative vocals merge seamlessly with Momin’s polyrhythmic live-looping and electronic drumming. Together, they create a unique sound described as “Digital Sufi Music.”

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ravish Momin (Sunken Cages)Ravish Momin is a drummer and electronic music producer whose work draws on Indian and Black music traditions as well as global underground dance music. He has performed internationally for over two decades, including appearances at the Kennedy Center, Big Ears Festival, and Le Guess Who? Festival. As Sunken Cages, Momin integrates live-looping and electronic drums into his performances. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists and is signed to Akuphone Records (France).

Kamyar Arsani (Faraway Ghost)Kamyar Arsani is an Iranian multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter based in Washington, D.C. A performer and teacher of the daf, Arsani’s music bridges classical Persian traditions with experimental electronic sounds. He has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress and is the lyricist and singer for the punk band Shadow Riot. Arsani’s work explores a diverse range of musical styles while remaining deeply rooted in Persian musical heritage.

Savan DePaul

Savan DePaul (they/them, she/her, dey/dem), who also goes by the future pop moniker Ishtar Sr., is a singer, rapper, producer, engineer, and visual artist living in West Philadelphia. DePaul’s music encompasses many styles, from abstract hip hop polemics to futuristic R&B experiences to dance pop anthems. The Ishtar Sr. project specifically consists of an Afrofuturistic blend of glitch pop and club/rave-centric R&B nestling various odes to Blackness, sexual autonomy, and queer revenge/retaliation. Ishtar released the “HOLYHOUSE b/w/ Fourth Planet Funk” single with Astro Nautico in 2020 and two projects with Grimalkin Records (the 2021 debut album Divine Ecdysis and the 2022 mixtape Ecdysis Incomplete) in addition to some self-released singles and EPs. She is currently working on her second and third studio albums.

Admission is FREE/pay-what-you-wish. Registration is not required but it is appreciated. Please register HERE