Doors 7:00 PM / Music 8:00 PM

General Admission: $15 Advance / $20 Door (plus fees)All ages show - Children under 12 free

VIP Seating: $25 (plus fees) LIMITEDEarly entrance: 6:30 PM, Artist Meet and Greet, Reserved Seats close to the stage, $5 Vending Voucher (food or crafts)

Student Discount: $5 off Advance Only – Use code “SD” at checkout (Must present student ID at door)

more info and tickets: HERE

Circle D Productions is excited to present the first annual Prog / Funk & Fusion Dance Party — a special evening of instrumental funk, jazz/rock blend, art rock, and experimental music at The Rotunda on the UPenn Campus. Headlining the night, Odyssey Lab brings their Philly-based instrumental funk and fusion dance party energy, while Guesstimate delivers experimental progressive rock drawing from the legends of 70s and 80s prog.

A special dual billing of two amazing local bands!

Odyssey Lab is a Philly-based instrumental funk, fusion, and dance party collective that brings high-energy performances blending jazz fusion grooves with funk-driven rhythms. Their sound creates an irresistible atmosphere that gets audiences moving while showcasing impressive musicianship.

Facebook: Official Band Page

YouTube Channel: @OdysseyLab

Guesstimate is a U.S. experimental progressive rock quartet based out of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Drawing inspiration from artists like Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, this four-piece brings the musical exploration of 1970s/80s progressive rock and jazz fusion to the modern world while maintaining a genuine and original sonic expression.

Bobby Shock (Bass/Synths/Vocals) • Andrew Friedman (Drums) • Taylor Garcia (Trumpet/Keys/Flute) • Chris Ruzicka (Guitar)

With three full-length albums and their fourth, Strange Gems, releasing December 5, 2025, Guesstimate continues pushing musical boundaries with complex rhythms and mind-bending sounds.

All Links: linktr.ee/guesstimatemusic

Spotify: Listen on Spotify

Facebook: Facebook Page

Instagram: Instagram Page

Bandcamp: Hear the Music

Tri-Axium Theory and You- Unlocking the Music of Anthony Braxton

12:00 PM 

Led by Erica Dicker, This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the compositional/improvisational systems of Anthony Braxton.

Led by tri-centric orchestra concertmaster Erica Dicker, This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the compositional/improvisational systems of NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton. As much as we are trying to faithfully approach the work of the maestro, we will use this music as a springboard to unlocking our own creativity and unique approaches. 

In the course of these 3 hours- participants will learn how to spontaneously arrange music utilize Braxton’s Language Music, and have the opportunity to ask burning questions about score interpretation. The last half of the workshop will be dedicated to practicing the scores as a collective ensemble. For those up for the adventure, they will then perform the scores in the concert to follow in the evening. This workshop is open to all instrumentalists, composers, and “friendly experiencers.” The ability to play notated music is useful but not necessary for the enjoyment of the workshop. Instrumentalists in the workshop are required to bring their own amplification to play in the concert. There will not be use of the PA. Vocalists should bring their own mic and make arrangements prior to the workshop.

Tickets are sliding scale $20-30, $30 Day of Show.

Bios

Violinist Erica Dicker works in a wide variety of musical settings, bridging the realms of notated and improvised music. Erica lends her creative voice to the Brandon Seabrook String Society, Blood Luxury, and her electro-acoustic trio Vaster Than Empires. Taking Auspices (Tubapede Records), her “knockout solo debut,” [Bandcamp Daily] features her own solo compositions for violin that explore extended techniques and alternate tunings, yielding music both familiar and strange. Erica is a founding member of the horn-trio Kylwyria. With hornist John Gattis and pianist Mabel Kwan, Kylwyria commissions adventurous chamber music for this unique instrumentation, enabling luminaries such as Eric Wubbels and Katherine Young to make invaluable contributions to the repertoire. Erica is, perhaps, best known for her work with composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton as a performer and collaborator as well as an educational ambassador for Braxton’s non-profit Tri-Centric Foundation. Erica writes about and curates performances of Braxton’s work, most recently coaching members of Tactus (Manhattan School of Music) in performance practice and lecturing on analytical approaches to Braxton’s music at Columbia University. Additionally, Erica has toured with Braxton internationally, appearing at festivals such as Berlin Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim Festival (Belgium), Jantar Festival (Poland), Akbank Festivali (Turkey), Skopje Jazz Festival (Macedonia), the Venice Biennale, and Warsaw Autumn Festival. Praised for her rich sound and stylistic versatility, Erica is an invaluable recording artist and colleague. With pianist Karl Larson, Erica performed Morton Feldman’s epic, 80-minute for John Cage at the Jewish Museum in 2022 and had the honor of performing Braxton’s Composition No. 222 with pianist Cory Smythe at the Library of Congress in March of 2025. Notable releases on which she is featured include David Lang’s opera Anatomy Theater (Cantaloupe Music), Durand Jones and the Indications’ Private Space (Dead Oceans). Recent recordings include Contemporary Chaos Practices (Intakt Records) by Ingrid Laubrock, Concrete & Void (New Focus Recordings) with Wavefield Ensemble, Anna Webber’s Idiom (Pi Recordings), and Modney’s Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic Records). As an orchestral performer, Erica served as associate concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony, held section positions in regional orchestras in the Midwestern United States, Germany, and continues to perform with the Grand Rapids Symphony and the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Erica also enjoys her role as an instructor at Lehigh University and member of the Frequency String Quartet - the faculty chamber ensemble there. A proponent of new music, Erica collaborates with nascent composers of all ages and particularly enjoys her roles as artist in residence at the Walden School Young Musicians Program and Mostly Modern Festival.  She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Minnesota and her doctoral degree from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. She also attributes a significant part of her early musical education to the Illinois Wesleyan University college radio station 88.1 WESN (Radio to the Far Left) FM, reaching her in her hometown of Normal, Illinois.

Vibrational Family- Braxton Composition 76 (For Trio)/Tri-Axium Workshop Performance

6:30 Doors, 7pm performance

Gabriel Meyer/Andrew Gioantti/Jonah Gelbart embark on a performance of Braxton's Composition 76. Performance by the Tri-axium theory workshop to follow.

Composition 76 by Anthony Braxton performed by Gabriel Meyer- Trombone, Alto Saxophone Andrew Gioanetti- Flute, Bb Clarinet, Alto and Soprano Sax Jonah Gelbart- Trumpet, Fluegal Horn, Shofar

Tri-Axium Workshop conducted by Erica Dicker with Special Guests TBA plus the ensemble!Free with donation suggested. 

Tri-Axium Theory and You- Unlocking the Music of Anthony Braxton

12:00 PM 

Led by Erica Dicker, This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the compositional/improvisational systems of Anthony Braxton.

Led by tri-centric orchestra concertmaster Erica Dicker, This workshop is dedicated to the exploration of the compositional/improvisational systems of NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton. As much as we are trying to faithfully approach the work of the maestro, we will use this music as a springboard to unlocking our own creativity and unique approaches. 

In the course of these 3 hours- participants will learn how to spontaneously arrange music utilize Braxton’s Language Music, and have the opportunity to ask burning questions about score interpretation. The last half of the workshop will be dedicated to practicing the scores as a collective ensemble. For those up for the adventure, they will then perform the scores in the concert to follow in the evening. This workshop is open to all instrumentalists, composers, and “friendly experiencers.” The ability to play notated music is useful but not necessary for the enjoyment of the workshop. Instrumentalists in the workshop are required to bring their own amplification to play in the concert. There will not be use of the PA. Vocalists should bring their own mic and make arrangements prior to the workshop.

Tickets are sliding scale $20-30, $30 Day of Show.

Bios

Violinist Erica Dicker works in a wide variety of musical settings, bridging the realms of notated and improvised music. Erica lends her creative voice to the Brandon Seabrook String Society, Blood Luxury, and her electro-acoustic trio Vaster Than Empires. Taking Auspices (Tubapede Records), her “knockout solo debut,” [Bandcamp Daily] features her own solo compositions for violin that explore extended techniques and alternate tunings, yielding music both familiar and strange. Erica is a founding member of the horn-trio Kylwyria. With hornist John Gattis and pianist Mabel Kwan, Kylwyria commissions adventurous chamber music for this unique instrumentation, enabling luminaries such as Eric Wubbels and Katherine Young to make invaluable contributions to the repertoire. Erica is, perhaps, best known for her work with composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton as a performer and collaborator as well as an educational ambassador for Braxton’s non-profit Tri-Centric Foundation. Erica writes about and curates performances of Braxton’s work, most recently coaching members of Tactus (Manhattan School of Music) in performance practice and lecturing on analytical approaches to Braxton’s music at Columbia University. Additionally, Erica has toured with Braxton internationally, appearing at festivals such as Berlin Jazz Festival, Jazz Middelheim Festival (Belgium), Jantar Festival (Poland), Akbank Festivali (Turkey), Skopje Jazz Festival (Macedonia), the Venice Biennale, and Warsaw Autumn Festival. Praised for her rich sound and stylistic versatility, Erica is an invaluable recording artist and colleague. With pianist Karl Larson, Erica performed Morton Feldman’s epic, 80-minute for John Cage at the Jewish Museum in 2022 and had the honor of performing Braxton’s Composition No. 222 with pianist Cory Smythe at the Library of Congress in March of 2025. Notable releases on which she is featured include David Lang’s opera Anatomy Theater (Cantaloupe Music), Durand Jones and the Indications’ Private Space (Dead Oceans). Recent recordings include Contemporary Chaos Practices (Intakt Records) by Ingrid Laubrock, Concrete & Void (New Focus Recordings) with Wavefield Ensemble, Anna Webber’s Idiom (Pi Recordings), and Modney’s Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic Records). As an orchestral performer, Erica served as associate concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony, held section positions in regional orchestras in the Midwestern United States, Germany, and continues to perform with the Grand Rapids Symphony and the New York City Ballet Orchestra. Erica also enjoys her role as an instructor at Lehigh University and member of the Frequency String Quartet - the faculty chamber ensemble there. A proponent of new music, Erica collaborates with nascent composers of all ages and particularly enjoys her roles as artist in residence at the Walden School Young Musicians Program and Mostly Modern Festival.  She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the University of Minnesota and her doctoral degree from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. She also attributes a significant part of her early musical education to the Illinois Wesleyan University college radio station 88.1 WESN (Radio to the Far Left) FM, reaching her in her hometown of Normal, Illinois.

Vibrational Family- Braxton Composition 76 (For Trio)/Tri-Axium Workshop Performance

6:30 Doors, 7pm performance

Gabriel Meyer/Andrew Gioantti/Jonah Gelbart embark on a performance of Braxton's Composition 76. Performance by the Tri-axium theory workshop to follow.

Composition 76 by Anthony Braxton performed by Gabriel Meyer- Trombone, Alto Saxophone Andrew Gioanetti- Flute, Bb Clarinet, Alto and Soprano Sax Jonah Gelbart- Trumpet, Fluegal Horn, Shofar

Tri-Axium Workshop conducted by Erica Dicker with Special Guests TBA plus the ensemble!Free with donation suggested. 

Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury:

Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury is an exponent of the Rampur Senia Gharana in the venerated lineage of, Pandit Birendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury and Pandit Subroto Roy Chowdhury. Primarily trained in the Veen-Kar style of Sitar which draws techniques and idioms of the Veena, Indrajit has been able to carve a niche for himself with his eclecticism and versatility. Indrajit strives for a fine balance of traditionalism coupled with innovation. Indrajit is based out of New York and maintains a rigorous tour schedule across the continents. As an international artist, Indrajit has performed in a range of distinguished venues, notably: Dover Lane Music Conference, Kolkata, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, The Lincoln Center, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Toronto National Convention Center, Berlin Indian Embassy, Concordia Arts Poznan, Poland, Chayanaut Auditorium, Dhaka and Ramakrishna Mission Cultural Centre, Kolkata.

Naren Budhakar:

Born into the music tradition of India, Naren Budhakar began performing at a young age. A disciple of Tabla Maestro Ustad Shabbir Nisar, Naren has played with prominent instrumentalists, vocalists and dancers including Pandit Birju Maharaj, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Pandit Jasraj and Shaed Parvez and has performed at prestigious venues in the U.S. and Europe. He has provided Tabla accompaniment for various musical genres and has played with La Monte Young and Bobby Mc Ferrin and recorded with Alicia Keys. Naren is co-director of the East-West School of Music and as a faculty member teaches and performs regularly.

Kuhokee Kumari Das:

Kuhokee Kumari Das, disciple of Guru Gargi Chattopadhyay, has trained in Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi since the age of six. After completing her Bharatanatyam arrangetram and Kuchipudi rangapravesham in 2011, Kuhokee has collaborated and worked with many talented artists across the globe, such as Kalyan Sen Barat and Padma Bhushan Manna Dey. She has performed in prestigious platforms such as the United Nations General Assembly, Lincoln Center, Ellis Island Medals of Honor, amongst other renowned venues. Apart from dance, Kuhokee is completing her Master’s degree in Biology at Queens College, where she also teaches as an Adjunct Lecturer for Anatomy & Physiology. She is also a published clinical researcher at New York Presbyterian-Queens, exploring better treatment options and helping to create a more compassionate approach to treating those who are terminally ill. In 2019, Kuhokee was awarded a New York City Council Citation for her contribution in Indian classical dance.

Fire Museum Presents turns 25 today! Our first ever event took place on January 20th, 2001 in Berkeley, Ca. To celebrate we are hosting three events with series favorites, first up is this evening of Hindustani music & Kuchipudi dance.

We cherish our long standing collaboration with The Rotunda and are glad to be hosting two of the events here!Admission is FREE. Donations are appreciated. 

Iva Bittová:

Hailing from the present-day Czech Republic, Iva Bittová is one of Europe's most innovative and celebrated artists. She began her career as an actor in the mid-1970s, appearing in several Czech and Slovak feature films. Born to famed Roma violinist Bittó Kálmán, she was playing violin and singing at a very early age. In 1987 Iva & percussionist Pavel Fajt released an album of original minimalist fusion of alternative rock music with Slavic and Roma motifs. Iva Bittova's first solo record ("Iva Bittova" - 1991) fully outlined her extraordinary complexity as an artist. She composed all of the 14 tracks on the album, except for Czech folk song "One Sister".

Bittova is one of those rare artists who know how to put all possible extremes of the emotional scale into one song: she laughs and cries, cackles as a hen, chirps as a bird, slaps her tongue, makes strange throat noises. Bittova's violin playing is as impressive as her vocal acrobatics, distilled from different techniques, constantly mixed. She might pluck her instrument as a ukulele or a banjo,or play with a bow or a wooden stick to get a rhythmical pattern from the string. Bittova uses everything she has, plays with her entire body, beats a rhythm with her feet.

In addition to her solo concerts Bittova has collaborated and performed with Jiri Stivin, Emil Viklicky, Fred Frith, Tom Cora, Chris Cutler, David Moss, Pavel Fajt and many others.

Antonin Fajt:

Antonin Fajt's music combines elements of folkloric traditions of Eastern Europe, jazz and classical composition. Toni grew up in Lelekovice, in the Moravian region of Czech Republic in a musical family. His mother, Iva Bittová is a singer, violinist and composer, and his father, Pavel Fajt is a drummer and composer. Antonín moved to the Hudson Valley, NY in 2007. He likes to work with preparations, folk materials, sampling, texture, and repetition. Toni holds a BA in music from Bard College ’14, where he studied under the mentorship of the composer Joan Tower.

Besides music, he likes to cook, work outside, make events, and pretend to know things. He's been fortunate to work with wonderful musicians such as Dean Sharp, Niloufar Shiri, Window Quartet, Andrei Kvapil, Henry Birdsey, George Mráz, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Michael Dessen, PUBLIQuartet, & the ICE ensemble. He can be heard with his group Mantis with Niloufar Shiri, in duo with Iva Bittová, or in improvised music scenes in New York and southern California. He holds an MA from the Integrative Composition, Improvisation and Technology program at UC Irvine where he is currently finishing his PhD dissertation and composing a larger musical work centered around the Hudson River and its two-way flow as a representation of time.

The Other Side Of A Dream:

Outsider jazz ensemble The Other Side Of A Dream was formed in 2021 by Jordan Burgis (Systolic Murmurs) as a pedal steel and analog synthesizer trio. After a few years of experimenting and recording at home, the project was resurrected in 2025 with a new focus on electro-acoustic piano improvisations. With fellow dreamers Darian Scatton (Song People) on analog synths and Mary Beth Ray (MB + MP) on processed electric guitars, the trio’s atmospheric music explores the space between daydreams and ecstatic visions, always posing the question: “Who will I be on the other side of a dream?”

Fire Museum Presents turns 25! Our first ever event took place on January 20th, 2001 in Berkeley, Ca. To celebrate we are hosting three events with series favorites, tonight with Iva Bittová in duo with Antonin Fajt and the exploratory sounds of The Other Side Of A Dream.

We cherish our long standing collaboration with The Rotunda and are glad to be hosting two of the events here!

Admission is FREE, donations are appreciated! 

FREE! Donations Appreciated

The People’s Music Supply Composers Orchestra is an ensemble dedicated to performing compositions written by its members.  It is a space for experimentation and expression.  Each member brings their own unique background and experience representing a wide variety of philosophies, techniques, and aesthetics.  It is an outlet for ideas, a workshop to test what is possible, and a meeting place for joyous creation.  

Directed by Sylvia Winch

Tentative Lineup:

Ann Adachi (flute),

Will Fredendall (flute),

Andrew Gioanetti (woodwinds),

Jonah Gelbart (trumpet),

Sylvia Winch (trombone),

Gabriel Meyer (trombone),

Alize Rozsnyai (voice),

Max Glazier (drums),

Julius Masri (drums, electronics),

Andy Theirauf (percussion),

Sephr Perisateh (kamancheh, violin, electronics),

Melinda Rice (violin),

Carlos Santiago (violin),

Tom Kraines (cello, guitar, accordion)More info HERE