Roxborough Symphony Orchestra at VIPARC
2026-02-01 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Venice Island Performing Arts Center
Presents Brahms’ Symphony #3 and Brahm’s Violin Concerto
The Roxborough Orchestra is your community orchestra!
We are a symphony orchestra comprised of a diverse group of musicians living in Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. Our talented musicians and esteemed musical director Michael Ludwig bring classical works to life and serve as an integral part of the region’s cultural fabric.
As a non-profit organization, we rely on donations to fund our ongoing operations and to help keep our music accessible to all!

Open Mic at Wissahickon Brewing
2026-02-02 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-02-09 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-02-16 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-02-23 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-03-02 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-03-09 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-03-16 18:30 - 22:00, 2026-03-23 18:30 - 22:00 and 2 more dates | Wissahickon Brewing Company, 3705 W. Schoolhouse Lane, Philadelphia, PA, United States
What’s not to love about this?
1 – Open Mics are amazing. Like an epic journey into the human psyche. The community that gathers around a good open mic (like this one) is manna to the soul.
2 – The brewery is terrific. Top Notch Beer and a great selection of food trucks. Breakfast!
3 – You get to hear trains!

The Grape Open Jam
2026-02-04 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-02-11 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-02-18 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-02-25 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-03-04 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-03-11 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-03-18 20:00 - 22:30, 2026-03-25 20:00 - 22:30 and 1 more date | Grape Room, 105 Grape Street
Wednesday is a Grape signature – @thegrapeopenjam. A sorely missed staple and it’s cool to watch, and you can participate! Let’s get weird. BYO instrument unless you can’t! Drummers BYO sticks! It’s Free!

The Fallser Pressnts - African Friends: Bakithi Kumalo, Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, and Youba Cissokho
2026-02-06 20:00 - 22:00 | PA
African Friends: A chance meeting developed into a deep friendship and a beautiful musical partnership.
This five-piece band will warm your heart and get your feet moving.

Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa

Tanyaradzwa is a visionary leader committed to African liberation. She is a scholar, healer, composer, singer, and Zimbabwean gwenyambira (mbira player)
She holds a Doctorate of Music in Voice Performance, a Master of Music in Voice Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition (cum laude) with minors in Voice Performance and French.
Tanyaradzwa did her undergraduate studies at Princeton University and her graduate studies at the University of Kentucky. At both institutions, she was the first Zimbabwean in history to graduate with degrees in music.
She recently returned to Princeton University where she was awarded the prestigious Hodder Fellowship by the Lewis Center for the Arts. This is a creative fellowship that was previously awarded to Danai Gurira and Nora Chipaumire – two immensely gifted ZImbabwean artists who inspired her. It is such an honour to be following in their artistic footsteps.
She is now an inaugural START Fellow at Princeton University.
Growing up in Harare, Zimbabwe as the granddaughter of entrepreneur George Chirume Tawengwa – founder of the Mushandirapamwe Hotel, the first Black-owned hotel in Highfield, Harare (formerly Salisbury) – Tanyaradzwa was inspired by a spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration from a young age. She was also surrounded by music; her maternal great-grandfather had been a choral conductor, and both sides of her family enjoyed music-making.
“I perform for audiences all over the world, but my songs are for my people. When I call on the ancestral melodies that are held in our soil, our trees, our hearts, and our blood, I know that we are all healing – one note at a time. ”
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Bakithi Kumalo

Bassist Bakithi presents a joyful musical journey from the Roots and Rhythms of South Africa. Bakithi Kumalo always brings the most talented artists together for the ultimate musical experience that promises to move you in multiple ways. He has just completed a US tour with his lifelong friend, Paul Simon.
Found at the heart and soul of modern-day anthems that have shaped our sense of music and culture as we know it, award-winning, multi-instrumentalist Bakithi Kumalo (Bah-Gee-Tee Koo-Ma-Low) is ranked among the top 50 bass players in the world by Bass Player Magazine.
Born in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa, and surrounded by relatives who loved music and actively performed, with traditional African rhythms and acappella vocal groups all around him. Kumalo learned to follow the groove of the bass lines and developed licks based on the left-hand work of accordion players in the township bands. Landing his first job at the age of seven filling in for his uncle’s bass player, he continued to work as a session musician in South Africa during the 1970s and early 1980s and was soon recognized as a top session bassist, accompanying international performers during their South African tours.
Introduced to Paul Simon through producer Hendrick Lebone during recording sessions for the Graceland album in 1985, Kumalo traveled with Simon to New York to finish the record. Following accompaniment on the premier tour, he spent several years commuting between Soweto and New York City before permanently settling in the United States.
With a career spent touring alongside artists including Hugh Masekela, the Grateful Dead, Sting, Stevie Wonder, John Legend, Gloria Estefan, Derek Trucks, Miriam Makeba, and many others, his abilities extend to his solo work as a singer, percussionist, pianist, and songwriter—in addition to his bass playing—presenting a culmination of diverse influences from throughout his life. Touring regularly with Simon throughout his career, Kumalo has recorded with and performed alongside artists including Joan Baez, Cyndi Lauper, Hugh Masekela, Herbie Hancock, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Randy Brecker, Grover Washington Jr., Mickey Hart, and Disney’s The Lion King.
Best known for his groundbreaking bass line in “You Can Call Me Al,” pocket grooves from “Boy In The Bubble” and “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” and his overall big bass sound, Kumalo has also released several solo albums. His most recent project had him working alongside producer Maxfeld Gast and Militia Hill to create What You Hear Is What You See.

Youba Cissokho

YOUBA CISSOKHO plays the kora, a type of harp made from a calabash gourd. West African kings commissioned the kora to recount songs of folklore and love.
Youba fluently plays traditional Mandinka and Wolof music as well as a modern style made up of jazz, reggae, and Afro beats. His lilting sound and expansive range come from a lifelong exposure to rich musical diversity. His father is Issa Cissokho, the saxophone player for the legendary world music group Orchestra Baobab, which blended Latin and Caribbean music with West African styles.
Youba has performed solo all over Africa, Europe, and the United States including Paris, New York, and Dakar. He also joined Artist-In-Residence and LINES Ballet dancer Adji Cissoko on Center Stage at the Vail Dance Festival and frequently accompanies the Temple University ballet classes and orchestras. Youba has played at venues such as The Philadelphia Art Museum and World Cafe Live as well as on the main stages at Harmonic Earth Festival, Cisko Centre, and Odunde Festival, the largest African American street festival in the U.S. with over 500,000 attendees.
Youba currently resides in Philadelphia.

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Abou Lion Diarra

Abou “Lion” Diarra is a Malian musician known as a master of the n’goni, a traditional Malian harp-guitar, who blends traditional sounds with modern influences like blues, jazz, and reggae. He has also worked as a drummer, performing with notable musicians and creating music for theatre. His journey began in West Africa, traveling between cities like Abidjan and Bamako, and he is celebrated for his innovative playing style and his ability to use the n’goni as a guitar, bass, or even a drum.
Master Drummer, Music Producer, Teacher, Songwriter – Endorsed by Chicago Drum and Istanbul Mehmet Cymbals. High-energy live performer, having shared the stage with some of the greats, including jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd and jazz guitarist Leonel Loueké. He was the drummer on a South American tour with The Original Wailers!
Other tours have been with Times magazine’s African diva’ Angélique Kidjo, Leon and The People, Charanga Soleil, and Grammy award winner Charles Neville, ‘the horn man from the Neville Brothers’.
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Victor Gould

Born in Los Angeles and residing in New York City, Victor Gould began playing piano at the young age of four. Gould began his career as one of the first ever recipients of the Herbie Hancock Presidential Scholarship at Berklee College of Music. After completing his bachelor’s degree there, Gould studied at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at Loyola University, where he received a Master’s in Music.
Gould’s honors include the 2009 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award and 2006 semi-finalist in The Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition. Victor has performed and or recorded with Esperanza Spalding, Terence Blanchard, Branford Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Ralph Peterson, Wallace Roney, Donald Harrison, Buster Williams and many others.
Victor’s debut album, Clockwork was voted number 1 debut Jazz album in NPR Music’s 2016 Jazz Critics Poll. Gould followed up was his sophomore project Earthlings, and is set to release his third project Thoughts Become Things in spring 2019. Victor currently tours with Jazzmeia Horn and Jeremy Pelt and is set to begin touring his with trio following the release of Thoughts.
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RoxYunk Bluegrass Old Time Folk Jam
2026-02-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-03-15 15:00 - 17:00 | The Foodery on Ridge, 6148 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
Come to play or learn or watch.
Free!
All ages!
This is inclusive – no gatekeeping on what is or is not bluegrass or old time, just come and play some music. It’s friendly and helpful. If you’re not sure if you can do it, you can and we will help.

Freddy Berman’s Birthday Jam at Dawson St.
2026-02-20 20:00 - 23:00 | Dawson Street Pub, Philadelphia, PA, 19127, United States
A local legend. A man for our times. F. Rojo.

Reality Check, Floating (Album Release Show!), and Bears Have Hearts at the Grape
2026-02-28 20:00 - 23:30 | Grape Room, 105 Grape Street

Sing Along at The Foodery
2026-03-01 15:00 - 17:00 | The Foodery on Ridge, 6148 Ridge Ave, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
Come belt out some campfire favorites and have a beverage.
All levels welcome. We’ll have some song sheets and teach what you don’t know.
We will probably play Creep.
Not Sure About Wonderwall.

The Manayunk Homeboys and The Woodmeres
2026-03-07 20:00 - 23:00 | Dawson Street Pub, Philadelphia, PA, 19127, United States

Dervish at the Fallser
2026-03-10 19:30 - 21:30 | The Fallser Club, 3721 Midvale Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19129, United States
Dervish

At the end of 2019 Dervish received a prestigious lifetime achievement award from the BBC, a fitting tribute to the band after over 30 years of recording and performing all over the world. Described by the BBC as “an icon of Irish music”, the band have played at festivals from Rio to Glastonbury. They accompanied the Irish President on state visits to Latvia and Lithuania and Prime Minister of Ireland on a trade mission to China as Cultural Ambassadors taking time out to play an impromptu session on the Great Wall of China. Dervish have a line-up which includes some of Ireland’s finest traditional musicians, fronted by one of the country’s best-known singers, Cathy Jordan.
The Guardian newspaper commented: “Dervish are simply brilliant. . they carry Irish history with them.” Dervish are long-established as one of the biggest names in Irish music internationally. They’re renowned for live performances, which match dazzling sets of tunes with stunning interpretations of traditional songs. Their studio and live albums – 13 to date – make up one of the outstanding catalogues in Irish music.
They are regular visitors to the US, performing sell out shows from coast to coast. However, their fan base stretches across several continents, including Europe, Asia, and South America. They were the first Irish band to play the world’s biggest music festival, Rock in Rio, performing to an estimated 250,000 people. Over the years they’ve been on the same bill as artists such as James Brown, Neil Young, Sting and even Iron Maiden! In 2018 Dervish are still busy touring internationally and still making plans. The band are excited about signing for the renowned US roots label Rounder Records and will be releasing their first album on the label in 2018 featuring guest appearances by artists including Vince Gill, Steve Earl, David Gray and many others.
All six members of Dervish are steeped in the musical traditions of counties Sligo and Leitrim in north-west Ireland. It’s an area which matches Atlantic coastline with storied mountains and rural landscapes. It has inspired a host of musicians, artists and writers, including the Nobel Prize-winning poet W. B. Yeats.
In 2004 Dervish were given their home towns highest honour when they were given the freedom of Sligo City in a civic reception, an accolade they share with Yeats himself, Michael Flatley and Countess Markievicz. Dervish were formed in 1989 when four of the founding members met while playing informal sessions in the pubs of Sligo. – Shane Mitchell (accordion),Liam Kelly (flute/whistle), Brian McDonagh (mandola/mandolin) and Michael Holmes (bouzouki). They were soon joined by Roscommon born singer and bodhran (drum) player Cathy Jordan, and later by all Ireland Fiddle Champion Tom Morrow in 1998. It’s a remarkable and at times electric combination – “capable of playing with note-perfect accuracy and perfect control at nearly supersonic levels” (Irish Voice, New York).
But Dervish marry technical brilliance with a rare sensibility, born of an understanding of the music and many years of playing together. The Irish Times said their “integrity makes the group a formidable heir to the throne abandoned by The Bothy Band, if not a serious contender for The Chieftains’ international space.” The News Journal (Delaware) described Dervish as: “The most compelling, most soulful Irish traditional folk band playing today. If you ever find yourself in the beautiful town of Sligo on the wild Atlantic way, check out the music sessions that take place in many establishments. The members of Dervish enjoy playing tunes back where it all began.

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Vinyl Night at Dawson Street
2026-03-17 19:30 - 23:00 | Dawson Street Pub, Philadelphia, PA, 19127, United States
You like records? We love records!

Jump, Jive, and Jam at Roxborough Library
2026-04-04 10:30 - 12:00 | Roxborough Library, 6245 Ridge Avenue
Jump Jive & Jam’s mission is to introduce children under the age of 6 to the joys of music in a safe, fun, and educational environment, one that will be enjoyable for parents as well as kids. This program is designed for little ones ages 0 to 4 years old.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Roxborough Library, a volunteer organization.
