Mysterious Traveler - Mike Kennedy

Mysterious Travelers 4: Further Investigations - a collaboration between The Free Library of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Jazz Project. Back by overwhelming popular demand! FREE concerts on Monday nights from September 2017 through May 2018; audiences will hear from veteran, as well as up-and-coming musicians who are shaping the future sounds of Philadelphia with a sharp ear to the legacies of our past. This season our artists will continue to celebrate the massive and amazing collections of the Free Library by exploring them as a source of inspiration for the creation of new musical works.

Mike Kennedy is a guitarist, composer, recording artist and music educator. Mike’s varied musical interests from journalism to creating film scores have shaped the sound of his music in unique ways. Fusing Jazz, Pop, Rock and Country music is something that has surfaced organically over the years. Mike Kennedy is currently the Guitar Department Chairperson at UARTS. Mike’s performance schedule over the past 20+ years has taken him to venues across the country, including The Mann Music Center, Center City Jazz Festival, Freedom Theater; The Kimmel Center, Arden Theater; Sellersville Theatre; Santander Performing Arts Center, The Patriot Theater, The Keswick Theatre, Longwood Gardens, Theatre of The Living Arts and the Collingswood Jazz Festival.

Guitarist and composer, Mike Kennedy will be our next guest artist in the Mysterious Traveler Concert Series. In his concert, Mike Kennedy will musically Compare & Contrast – The Writings of , Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde. Transforming words into sounds, Kennedy will compose sound paintings of works from these pioneering modernist writers' literary catalogs.

All events in this series are FREE.