PRISONER'S SONG Erik Ruin, shadow puppets and projections Gelsey Bell, voice, metallophone, and sound design Rick Burkhardt, director ABOUT THE EVENT Prisoner's Song is a performance created by composer Gelsey Bell and visual artist Erik Ruin about the prison experience. Using shadow puppets and projections alongside a variety of musical idioms, the piece draws…
ABOUT GLENN JONES Glenn Jones is a master of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by John Fahey, whose traditional fingerpicking techniques and wide-ranging influences were used to create modern original compositions. Jones, who led the post-rock ensemble Cul de Sac, brings his own made-up tunings, the use of custom-crafted partial…
Bowerbird is pleased to present an encore screening of Philippe Garrel’s visually arresting silent film Le Révélateur, performed live with an original score by Philadelphia’s own Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler. Le Révélateur was one of the first films of the Zanzibar group (a coterie of mostly French artists and filmmakers who began making experimental…
Part of the Double Decker Music Series → Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Jesse Sparhawk and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday, May 22nd at 8:00 p.m. (rain date, May 23rd) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Before, between,…
Bowerbird is pleased to present the Philadelphia premiere of Pierluigi Billone’s “1+1=1”, an 80 minute exploration into the boundless terrain of two bass clarinets performed by the California based duo of Samuel Dunscombe and Curt Miller. A student of Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann, Billone’s music can sound elemental and primordial, yet at the same…
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird is excited to present flutist Christopher Schelb and pianist Michael Tan in an all Sciarrino program. Schelb will perform selections from "L'opera per Flauto, Vol. 1" and Tan will perform four of Sciarrino's Nocturnes. There is something very particular that characterizes the music of Salvatore Sciarrino: it leads to a different…
Bowerbird is excited to present the Philadelphia record release celebration of Bombogenic, a new album by Sonic Liberation 8 with the The Classical Revolution Trio & Oliver Lake. The album celebrates the 15 year anniversary of Sonic Liberation 8 with a new collection of compositions and arrangements showcasing a unique confluence of loft jazz, Afro…
ABOUT THE EVENT Bowerbird, in association with Pig Iron Theatre Company, is pleased to present Morton Feldman's Samuel Beckett, Words and Music. The concert will be performed by the Arcana New Music Ensemble with actors Jaime Maseda and Michael T. Williams in the magnificent sanctuary of the Fleisher Art Memorial. THE PERFORMERS Pig Iron…
Part of the Double Decker Music Series → Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Neil Feather and Nyfolt to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday, June 26th, at 8:00 p.m. (rain date, June 27th) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Before, between, and…
Part of the Double Decker Music Series → Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Vessna Scheff and Koofreh Umoren and JNPR to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday, August 28th, at 8:00 p.m. (rain date, August 29th) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus.…
Part of the Double Decker Music Series → Bowerbird and Sebastian Petsu are pleased to welcome Emily Bate and Kilamanzego to the Double Decker Music Series. Join us on Sunday, September 18th, at 8:00 p.m. (rain date, September 19th) for a unique and intimate mobile concert experience on an open-top double-decker bus. Before, between, and…
ABOUT THE EVENT The first installment of Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 is the premiere performance of Philadelphia Hearing Damage. This band of broken ears is a crowd-sourced creation of local Philadelphia artists. Fishkin worked with these musicians in the summer of 2016, teaching them how to play the Lady's Harp, and to apply its…
ABOUT THE EVENT The second installment of Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 consists of solos and duets between Ellen Fullman and Daniel Fishkin. Fullman is the inventor of the Long String Instrument, an 80 foot long string instrument consisting of stainless steel wires that she strokes with rosined fingertips. Fullman has used her instrument to…
ABOUT THE EVENT The third installment of Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2016 consists of compositions for and by Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, and Ron Shalom. Shalom, Schrey, and Fishkin are members of New Perplexity, a collective of new wartime composers and scholars. Schrey performs on the Hardanger Fiddle, a Norwegian folk instrument lined with sympathetic…
Bowerbird, in collaboration with Mike Bullock, is pleased to present the inauguration of "The Philadelphia Embassy of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland" (KREV). KREV, as described by the country's founders - Swedish artists Leif Elggren (King Leif I) and Carl Michael von Hausswolff (King Michael I) - is "the largest and most populous realm on Earth,…
Bowerbird is pleased to screen three documentary films marking the 50th anniversary of "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering". In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative dance, music and theater performances, "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering", held in October at the 69th…
Bowerbird is pleased to present a screening of Shirley Clarke's 1985 film "Ornette: Made in America". "Ornette: Made In America" captures Ornette's evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes, and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle…
BOWERBALL A 10th anniversary fundraiser and open house featuring A NIGHT OF BINGO hosted by Allen Crawford musical performances by Ashley Tini, Laura Baird, Bhob Rainey with great prizes, raffles, food and drink, and tunes from DJ Sebastian Petsu ABOUT THE EVENT It's time to dust off the ball cage and get out the daubers,…