What's playing on local stages tonight & in the coming week

June 18, 2010|staff
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  • The group known as Three Friends is at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Sunday.
  • The group known as Three Friends is at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Sunday.
  • Esperanza Spalding is at the West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival.
  • fictional conjoined twins at TLA, tonight.
  • Angela Brown presents "Opera from a Sistah's Point of View," at Old Pine Street Church on Monday.
  • Austin-based trumpeter Erik Telford is at Chris' Jazz Café tonight.
  • Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey has two shows at Chris' Jazz Café tonight.

Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Tom Di Nardo, James Johnson, Sara Sherr and Jonathan Takiff.

POP . . . plus

Truth and Salvage Company: Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) has produced the eponymously named debut album from this vocal-harmony-heavy, rootsy rocking band spawned in the North Carolina mountains and now doing that L.A. country thing. Katy Perry (?!?) helped write one of their tunes. And Rolling Stone gave the jovial set 3 1/2 stars. Curious now? John Olmstead Band and Captive Kin open. North Star, 27th and Poplar streets, 9 tonight, $10, 215-787-0488, www.northstarbar.com.

Mary Fahl: Former front woman of the October Project offers a haunting voice and arty tunes to match. Tin Angel, 20 S. 2nd St., 7:30 tonight, 928-0978, www.tinangel.com.

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Summer Solstice: The longest day of the year sparks a 16-hour marathon in the multi-venue Kimmel Center, with daytime kid-friendly activities, then grownup performances and dance parties all night long. Among the later, indie rockers Toy Soldiers at 6 p.m., Munier Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra at 6:15 p.m., Miro Dance Theater at 6:30 p.m., Philadelphia Songwriters Project at 7:30 p.m., Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church Mass Choir at 8 p.m., Story Slam at 8 p.m., Brazilian drum troupe PhillyBloco at 9:30 p.m., jazz group Phillies L.X.G. at 10 p.m., Bob & Barbara's Drag Show at 10:30 p.m., Philadelphia Ukelele Orchestra at 11 p.m., rockers Stolen Rhodes at 11 and Tommy Conwell at 11:15 p.m., hip-hop icon Bahamadia at 11:30 p.m., electropop from the ReBel Yell at 12:45 a.m. and a dance party with spinners Rob Paine and DJ Rahsaan starting at 2 a.m. $10, 215-893-1999, www.kimmelcenter.org.

Danzig: Alt-metal masters bring on the pain, bring on the death. But wait, there's more, from Gorgeous Frankenstein (featuring Doyle of the Misfits) and Seventh Void. Trocadero, 10th and Arch streets, 7:30 p.m. tomorrow, $28 (all ages), 922-6888, www.thetroc.com.

Damien Jurardo: Baleful voiced balladeer comes off as a younger, "alt-Neil Young." With Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground. Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 7 p.m. tomorrow, $10/$12, www.johnnybrendas.com.

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