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The Gatherings Concert Series - The Series of Innovative Music
Passing its 15th year, The Gatherings Concert Series has grown in scope and stature, attracting enthusiastic and informed audiences to numerous compelling performances by the world's most innovative musicians. Events take place within the remarkable space of the church sanctuary at St. Mary's Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk on the Penn campus in West Philadelphia, PA. The 2010 Season includes concerts with Radio Massacre Int'l on 17 April, Robert Rich on 1 May, Spyra on 15 May and others.
For more about The Gatherings Concert Series, access: http://www.thegatherings.org
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Electro-Music - Conference
Electro-Music is a three-day conference/music festival held at a revolving list of venues every year. Their programs will include lectures, demos, jam sessions, and concerts by emerging musicians.
For more about Electro-Music, access: http://event.electro-music.com
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Art After 5 - Philadelphia Museum of Art
Art After 5 is presented weekly by The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26th Street & The Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Concerts performances from the jazz, world and innovative music realms run from 5pm to 8:45pm in the remarkable setting of the Museum's Great Stair Hall. There is no additional charge for performances after Museum admission. For information please call (215) 684-7506.
For more on the Art After 5 series, access: http://www.philamuseum.org
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The Sellersville Theater - Live Music
The Sellersville Theater is a home for arts and entertainment, and brings music, laughter and new vitality to the town of Sellersville and the region. The Sellersville Theater is located at Main & Temple Streets in Sellersville, PA. Tel: (215) 257-5808
For more about The Sellersville Theater, access: http://www.st94.com
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The Tin Angel - Music Pub & Cafe
Philadelphia's Tin Angel features a wide variety of top flight national and local attractions in an intimate candle lit cafe style setting. The Tin Angel is located at 20 S. 2nd Street in Philadelphia, PA. Tel: (215) 928-0770
For more about The Tin Angel, access: http://www.tinangel.com
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Gate to Moonbase AlphaThe Series of Experimental Music
Based in West Philadelphia on the Penn Campus and associated with the University of Pennsylvania through The Foundation and The Ambient Consortium, Gate to Moonbase Alpha is a monthly concert series presenting artists from the Ambient, Electronic, Techno, Experimental, Avant-Garde and Performance Art communities of Philadelphia and beyond. Events take place the third Friday of every month at The Rotunda, 4012 Walnut St. in Philadelphia and are free. Call: (215) 573-3234 or access the website for details.
For more about Gate to Moonbase Alpha, access: http://www.gatephilly.net
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The Slought Foundation - Exhibitions Events Concerts
The Slought Foundation is a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization located at 4017 Walnut Street that broadly encourages new futures for contemporary life through public programs with internationally renowned artists and theorists. Call:
(215) 222-9050 or access the website for details.
For more about The Slought Foundation, access: http://www.slought.org
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The Mendelssohn Club
Founded in 1874 in Philadelphia The Mendelssohn Club is one of this country's oldest choruses. Their mission is to challenge, enrich, serve and fulfill its singing members and audiences through the distinctive beauty and power of its performances. Call: (215) 735-9922 or access the website for details.
For more about The Mendelssohn Club, access: http://www.mcchorus.org
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Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly FringeAnnual Performance Arts Festival
...serves as a collective home for artists bringing their work to audiences in every conceivable form - in traditional and untraditional venues using new artistic form and established ones, breaking rules or refining them. At various venues around the city in the Fall. Call: (215) 413-1318 or access the website for details.
For more about Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, access: http://www.livearts-fringe.org
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The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts
...serves as a center for scientific, artistic, cultural and educational activities. It is the first of its kind complex in the country to use science as an entry to the arts and to house science, the performing arts and IMAX cinema arts under one roof. Located at 222 Market Street in downtown Harrisburg, PA. Call: (717) 214-ARTS or access the website for details.
For more about The Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, access: http://www.whitakercenter.org
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The Gordon Theater
Part of the Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, The Walter K. Gordon Theater is a 650-seat proscenium theater with state-of-the-art lighting, sound and video/multimedia capability, and brand-new luxurious seating with no obstructed views. Located at 3rd & Pearl Streets in Camden, NJ. Call: (856) 225-2700 or access the website for details.
For more about The Gordon Theater, access: http://www.gordontheater.com
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Orion Sound Studios - Progressive Showcases
The Baltimore Progressive Rock Showcase Series features the best in Progressive music from the mid-Atlantic region and from around the world. Along with what is more traditionally regarded as "progressive rock", the series also features Fusion, Space Rock, Ambient and other underground/indie genres. The performances are presented in the Showcase Room, an intimate space which is part of Orion Sound Studios, 2903 Whittington Ave in Baltimore, MD. Call :(410) 646-7334 or access the website for details.
For more about Orion Sound Studios, access: http://www.orionsound.com
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Relache - Presenting and Performing New Music
Based in Philadelphia since 1979, The Relache Ensemble is dedicated to the development and performance of music from the late 20th century. Recognized for its interpretive and technical skills, the Relache Ensemble performs works by composers from throughout the world, integrating state-of-the-art electronic and computer technologies with recent and avant-garde compositional techniques. Working directly with composers, Relache has created an extensive repertoire of works.
For more about Relache, access: http://www.relache.org
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The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra performs various works of modern and classical music throughout their season in Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Broad & Spruce in Philadelphia
For more on The Philadelphia Orchestra, access: http://www.philorch.org
| Community Education Center - Celebrating Everyone's Creativity
The Community Education Center is a non-profit, community based arts and education center whose mission is to strengthen the sense of shared community and culture among peoples of differing backgrounds and cultures through the arts. Dance and theater classes, special workshops and performance events are held at 3500 Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia, PA. Tel: (215) 387-1911
For more on The Community Education Center, access: http://www.cecarts.org
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Gaian Mind - Celebrating the Dance of Life
Gaian Mind Summer Festival is four-days of open air spiritual dancing, tribal drumming, lectures and workshops, yoga, sweat lodge, swimming, feasting, relaxation, all in a sylvan sanctuary.
For more about Gaian Mind Summer Festival, access: http://www.gaian-mind.com
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R5 Productions
R5 Productions is a "Do It Yourself" show promotions agency whose main goal is to provide the Philadelphia area with inexpensive, friendly, all ages shows in an intimate setting (often the First Unitarian Church at 2125 Chestnut Street). Shows are done in various small to medium sized unconventional locations: churches, galleries, halls, warehouses, basements, colleges and universities.
For more about R5 Productions, access: http://www.r5productions.com
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Yoga on Main - Live Music
Yoga On Main is a holistic center, that provides educational opportunities, services and products which support a healthy and spiritual lifestyle. Located at 4363 Main St. in
Manayunk, PA, the center occassionally hosts live concerts of World-Fusion, International and Contemporary Instrumental music. Call: (215) 482-7877 for details on events.
For more about Yoga on Main, access: http://www.yogaonmain.com
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World Cafe Live - Live Music
World Cafe Live opened in October 2004. Two concert stages make up the venue, the main stage, "Downstairs Live", holds up to 700 people for ticket-only concerts while "Upstairs Live", offering dinner and drinks, can handle about 100 people and presents almost daily free performances. WCL licenses the name of WXPN's nationally syndicated "World Cafe" program for the venue, and though it shares building space with the radio station, located at 3025 Walnut St. in Philadelphia, they operate independently. Call: (215) 222-1400 for info.
For more about World Cafe Live, access: http://www.worldcafelive.com
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Theater of the Living Arts
An intimate theater with an open floor plan, the Theater of the Living Arts hosts a range of touring national acts at 334 South Street in Philadelphia, PA Tel: (215) 922-1011
For more on the Theater of the Living Arts, access: http://www.TheaterOfLivingArts.net
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Prince Music Theater - New Music Theater
Presenting innovative works in cinema, theater, performance art and music. Located at 1412 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, PA.
For more on the Prince Music Theater, access: http://www.princemusictheater.org
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Allens Lane Art Center - Living Together Through the Arts
The Allens Lane Art Center brings together the residents of the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia to participate in and enjoy the arts. Residing in a former carriage house on seven acres in beautiful Fairmount Park, the center offers a variety of programs including alternative plays, visual and performing arts classes, local artist exhibitions and more. Located at Allens Lane & McCallum Street in Philadelphia, PA. Tel: (215) 248-0546
For more on The Allens Lane Art Center, access: http://www.allenslane.org
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The North East Art Rock Festival, or NEARfest, is an annual two-day event presenting art and progressive rock in Bethlehem, PA. Founded in the spring of 1998, NEARfest has grown to become the most prestigious progressive music festival in the world.
For more on NEARfest, access: http://www.nearfest.com
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Ricochet Dream - Annual Fan Based Gathering
A unique yearly event held in exotic places that allows electronic music fans to co-mingle and collaborate with musicians. The event title references concert, song and/or album titles of EM pioneers Tangerine Dream and allows fans and musicians to live in a communal setting for a few days to create and enjoy electronic music.
For more on Ricochet Dream, access: http://www.ricochetdream.com
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The Gathering Room - Home Concerts
A concert series held in the intimate setting of overtone singer Jim Cole's home in Glastonbury, CT, The Gathering Room presents artists in the Ambient, Space and World-Fusion genres. Reservations required.
For more on The Gathering Room, access: http://www.spectralvoices.com/gatheringroom.htm
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E-Live - The Netherlands
The annual E-Live one-day festival of electronic music will be held each Autumn in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
For more on E-Live, access: http://www.groove.nl/elive.html
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Hampshire Jam - England
The continuing Hampshire Jam one-day festival of electronic music held at Millenium Hall in Liphook, England. Past performers include: Redshift, Ian Boddy, Radio Massacre Int'l, AirSculpture, Free System Projekt and others.
For more on Hampshire Jam, access: http://www.hampshirejam.co.uk
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Awakenings - England
Awakenings is a series of live events showcasing new and established acts in the fields of ambient and electronic music.
For more on Awakenings, access: http://www.ambientlive.com/awakenings
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The Ambient Ping - Toronto
The Ambient Ping is a series featuring live performances by artists in the genre of chillout, ambient, space and experimental drift. Events are held in downtown Toronto, Ontario Canada.
For more on The Ambient Ping, access: http://www.theambientping.com
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Different Skies - FestivalDifferent Skies is an electronic Spacemusic festival as well as a workshop for artists in these and related experimental music genres. Held annually in Arcosanti, Arizona.
For more on the annual Different Skies Festival, access: http://www.differentskies.com
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Visual Music Festival of Lanzarote - Canary Islands Spain
The Visual Music Festival of Lanzarote is an annual international new music event. Every Autumn, two spectacular volcanic lava "bubbles" are converted into performance spaces.
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Groove Garden - Fairfax (Marin County), CALocated in an actual church just north of San Francisco, Grove Garden offers a safe, secure, alchohol and drug free environment creating a haven for dance as a celebration of self, spirit and community. Groove Garden also presents a substantial Chillroom as a refuge from the beats of The Dance Sanctuary and is a worthwhile destination in and of itself. This "ambient room" often hosts an hour of live music featuring the exotic idioms of the near and far east.
For more on Groove Garden, access: http://www.thegroovegarden.com
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