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  2026-01-16📍 University City

  In-person! Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage

  Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage Bowerbird is pleased to present percussionist Stuart Jackson performing Solo for Cymbal and Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics PROGRAM John Cage: Solo for Cymbal (1960) David Tudor: Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics (1991) This event is part of A VIEW FROM INSIDE: DAVID TUDOR AT 100 , an exhibition at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery from January 15 to March 21, 2026. Major support for A View from Inside has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage with additional support from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia . ABOUT THE ARTISTS Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia, currently based in Montréal, Canada. As a researcher, he specializes in reconstructing poorly documented and unpublished electroacoustic works from the 20th century. This project on reviving experimental compositions has received support from the Fonds de recherche du Quèbec and the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland. He has presented solo percussion concerts at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and Ausgang Plaza in Montréal, and performed as an uilleann pipe soloist with the Soho Rep Theatre and the Wordless Music Orchestra. With the Montréal percussion ensemble Sixtrum, he has performed at the Timespans Festival in New York City, Semaine du Neuf in Montréal, and the Musica Festival (with Les Percussions de Strasbourg) in Strasbourg, France. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal working with Jonathan Goldman and Guillaume Boutard. Admission is FREE/pay-what-you-wish

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  2026-01-17📍 University City

  In-person! Windz x Mr. B Eazy present Armageddon 2026 1v1 Open Style Dance Battle

  Windz x Mr. B Eazy present Armageddon 2026 1v1 Open Style Dance Battle Doors open 6pm. Event ends 10pm $500 Cash Prize! Judges: Gate, Sweet E, Nimbus Blaze DJs: DJ Windz, DJ Reezey Admission is $20

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  2026-01-20📍 University City

  In-person! Fire Museum Presents 25th Anniversary: Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury & Naren Budhakar

  Fire Museum Presents 25th Anniversary: Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury & Naren Budhakar 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. 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. Addtional Images

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  2026-01-21📍 University City

  In-person! Weekly improvised music drop-in jam session

  Weekly Improvised Music Session. All are welcome to come and jam if you like to play music with friends and/or strangers. Any genre/instrument/experience level welcome. Every Wednesday 12pm-2pm

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  2026-01-21📍 University City

  In-person! Fire Museum Presents 25th Anniversary: Iva Bittová & Antonin Fajt duo + The Other Side of a Dream

  Fire Museum Presents 25th Anniversary: Iva Bittová & Antonin Fajt duo + The Other Side of a Dream 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! Addtional Images

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