Satellites Are Spinning: Sun Ra Celebration - Concert #5
Music. At Johnny Brenda's , 1201 Frankford Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19125, Philadelphia. United states.
Satellites Are Spinning: A Sizzling, Sonic Celebration of Sun Ra: A concert series. Featuring 8 concerts from December 2017 to June 2018 at some of the region's most important venues including; The Barnes Foundation, Ardmore Music Hall, Johnny Brenda's, The Planetarium of The Franklin Institute and World Cafe Live. Hosted by WRTI radio deejay, J. Michael Harrison.
Our band for Satellites #5 at the Johnny Brenda's will center around The Intersection with music director, drummer, Kim Pedro, bassist, Mitch Beer, guitarist, Dan Kaplowitz and percussionist, Malik Henry. They are joined by keyboardist, Adam Faulk,tenor saxophonist and Sun Ra Arkestra standby, Terry Lawson, trumpeter, Matthew Stewart; bassist, Matt Engle, violinists, Veronica Jurkiewicz and Carlos Santiago, as well as guest vocalists, Jakeya Sanders and V. Shayne Frederick, and rappers, Madd Matt Swayzie and Raphael Xavier.
The series will present a diverse, aggregation of regional Jazz, Rock, R&B, Experimental, Hiphop, EDM artists and poets. It will also feature special guest, performance artists, a percolating videoscape by video master: Gralin Hughes, as well as a broad range of musical selections from the catalogs of Sun Ra and former, Sun Ra Arkestra members, as well as otherworldly tunes by such diverse artists as Parliament/Funkadelic, Outkast, Benny Golson, Talking Heads, Earth, Wind & Fire, Albert King, Nona Hendryx, David Bowie, Return To Forever, John Coltrane & many more.