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All Shows Take Place at: The Cabaret: 829-51 N. American St.

Sample a range of innovative work by all kinds of musical artists - both from Philadelphia and from around the world. You can see one performance or all of them - and still have time for other Festival Shows, too.

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More Music at the Cabaret: Every night is a party at The Cabaret.

$10 • 60 minutes • SAT 9/11 6:00pm & SUN 9/12 3:00pm   Purchase Tickets Add to My Festivals

Exquisite mover Darla Stanley ("Jo") and pyrotechnical vocalist and Pew Fellow Toby Twining ("Eddy") begin their series of Family Portraits with Oedipus Wrecks, a dance-opera vignette that scrambles tragedy with hilarity - as inspired by Daniel Nussbaum's OEDIPUS DAKING, a retelling of Sophocles' play using California vanity license plates.

Award-winning composer and musical director Vince DiMura teams up with revered cabaret producer and performer Todd Waddington for a revue that spins the music of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison inside a highly macabre blender. The pair place familiar tunes in unusual landscapes (e.g., "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" read as a bedtime story) for an unsettling and irreverent result. This ain't Beatlemania.

$15 • 55 minutes • FRI 9/10 6:30pm & SUN 9/12 6:00pm   Add This Show to My Festivals

This intoxicating and intimate passion play of sound, song, movement, and video has been mesmerizing audiences across the United Kingdom. Matthew Sharp is a rare breed of performer: virtuoso cellist, opera singer, and actor. Pete M. Wyer is a guitarist and composer; his compositions span dance, concert hall, film, and theater. Together, Sharp and Wyer conjure the mythical from the everyday in this hypnotic odyssey - lyrical, haunting, and unlike anything you will have ever experienced. Adam's Apple connects these qualities into a unique live experience. "A spell-binding journey through the rhythm of life." Manchester Evening News

$15 • 90 minutes • SAT 9/11 - SUN 9/12 8:30pm   Add This Show to My Festivals

Longtime collaborators Andrea Clearfield and Manfred Fischbeck come together with guest artists for a program merging poetry, music, and movement into a series of expressive works. Clearfield is a prolific composer, who also performs with many ensembles, including Rélâche. Poet, musician, and choreographer, Fischbeck is the artistic and executive director of the 35-year-old Group Motion Dance Company.

Autopoiesis: the process whereby an organization produces itself. Clairaudient (Stephen Hastings-King and Brett Ian Balogh) and the windsleepers (Amira Hanafi and Laura Goldstein) use piano, electronics, percussion, voices, images, and texts to create an intense real-time "world." The effect is a three-dimensional poem, a visual experience, a bold and forceful musical experiment - or all of these at once.

$15 • 60 minutes • THU 9/9 8:00pm - FRI 9/10 8:30pm   Add This Show to My Festivals

Percussionist/composer and six-time Festival performer Douglas Ovens returns with his eclectic brand of music-making: virtuosic, dramatic, and occasionally goofy. This year, he presents selected works from his recent CD, Seven Improvisations, plus a new work designed for this concert. This performance will feature vibraphone, marimba, and MalletKat, a MIDI controller for percussionists.

Mogauwane Mahloele, now living in Philadelphia, was born in South Africa. A musician, sculptor, and painter, Mogauwane is accomplished in both the making and playing of a wide range of traditional instruments. From African to avante garde, his art is a unique style of world music. He will bring some of his most remarkable instruments, including the kora, the mbira, the ngoni, and the djembe drum. Mogauwane received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1999.