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The Festival Bar officially opens on First Friday, Sept. 3rd at 10 p.m., kicking off the Festival in style with music by Broadzilla DJs and visuals by VJ Yakov. Throughout the 16-day Festival, the bar will offer an environmental atmosphere that evolves nightly. Philadelphia barman Fergus Carey (proprietor of Fergie’s Pub, Monk’s, Grace Tavern, and The Belgian Café), will once again operate the bar, as visitors dance to a line-up of some of the city’s best DJs and enjoy visual art and media installations designed and programmed by Philadelphia Open Studios Tour and local artists. The Festival Bar offers free admission, is 21+ and cash only.
Each night, the bar will feature music spanning an array of genres. Guest DJs include some of the areas best party spinners – DJ Apt One, Broadzilla DJs, Ready Steady Eddie Austin and La La Cocco, DJ Ross of Love, the Jerks DJs and more.
This year, the Live Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome the ensemble Stew and The Negro Problem with Heidi Rodewald, the band behind the hit Broadway rock musical Passing Strange. To celebrate their Live Arts Festival performance, the Festival Bar will host a special screening of filmmaker Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed film Passing Strange, which looks at the musical, Thursday, Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. A dance party will follow the screening with DJ Foxx Boogie spinning classic and old school hip hop. Audiences can see The Negro Problem perform at the band’s Live Arts Festival presentation, Monday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. at World Café Live.
The Festival Bar will once again play host to live performance from theater, dance and interdisciplinary artists. Scott Johnston and Mike Cristaldi will bring the Late Night Cabaret to The Festival Bar Sept. 7 – 8 and Sept. 13 – 15. Philadelphia-based indie-rock band The Mural and the Mint will offer a live performance featuring Live Arts Festival dance choreographer
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Nichole Canuso on Sunday, Sept. 12. During the Festival, Nichole Canuso Dance Company presents TAKES, a genre-bending exploration of dance, video installation, and film exploring the full intensity of how remembered moments live within us, at Theater West at The Hub (626 N 5th Street) from Sept. 3 – 18.
Throughout the Festival Bar run, multimedia artist VJ Yakov will collaborate with DJs and project a combination of found footage, Super 8 films, home movies, 70s and 80s videos and more all over the Festival Bar walls and a network of screens. Yakov will create live improvised projections based on the music played by the DJs, offering an ongoing visual feast for the eyes.
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST), an official sponsor of the Festival Bar, has outfitted the bar with art installations straight from the studios of Philly artists. Featured artists in this year’s bar are Featured artists in this year’s bar are Katie Murken, Ellen Brooks, Part Time Studios (run by Adam Smith and Steven Speir).
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours organizes an annual event during the first two weekends in October (Oct. 2-3; Oct. 9-10), when hundreds of professional visual artists in every Philadelphia neighborhood open their studios to the public, free of charge, to share and sell artwork.
On Thursday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m., the Festival Bar will play host to the official POST kick-off party.
The Festival Bar will close on Saturday, Sept. 18, the final night of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. Closing night will feature a mammoth live set by Peter Dragontail with support from DJs Dave Tat and Mike Mesa and visuals by VJ Yakov.
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