SATURDAY JULY 11, 9pm – MUSIC – $5 Cover – BYO
IAN O’BEIRNE SEXTET
Ian O’Beirne Sextet playing new music, featuring Philadelphia notables Victor North, Matt Mitchell, Ross Bellenoit, Ryan Kuhns and Anwar Marshall.
Ian O’Beirne Sextet playing new music, featuring Philadelphia notables Victor North, Matt Mitchell, Ross Bellenoit, Ryan Kuhns and Anwar Marshall.
FRIDAY JULY 10, Doors 8:30pm, Show 9:30pm – MUSIC – $10
LUCKY OLD SOULS Presents
EDGAR BATEMAN/JULIAN PRESSLEY DUO
and YOLANDA WISHER, with MARK PALACIO

EDGAR BATEMAN
JULIAN PRESSLEY DUO
Drummer EDGAR BATEMAN is a Philadelphia legend, having played with some of the all-time greats of jazz, including Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins. He’ll be joined tonight by alto saxophonist JULIAN PRESSLEY, who got is start in 1973 in a band led by Bateman. Pressley went on to play with Illinois Jacquet for several years and a variety of R&B groups, including the Four Tops, the Temptations, and the Stylistics. He is also a regular member of Odean Pope’s saxophone choir.
YOLANDA WISHER w/ MARK PALACIO
Representing North Wales, Belize City, Brooklyn, and Germantown, the husband and wife duo of YOLANDA WISHER and MARK PALACIO creates an intimate conversation between poetry and jazz. Wisher is a published poet; Palacio is a self-taught double-bassist. The couple organizes the Germantown Poetry Festival and hosts umüvme, an online poetry show on G-town Radio.
A Lucky Old Souls production…
Produced by Matthew “Feldie” Feldman
myspace.com/luckyoldsouls
Lucky Old Souls on gtownradio.com, Tuesdays, 2-4 P.M. EST
MONDAY JULY 6, 7pm – WORKSHOP
Philadelphia Stories Fiction Workshop
The current series is full but you can sign up for the next one.
An 8-week workshop from the area’s popular literary magazine that offers writing tips, assignments, and peer critique. The goal: To provide writing discussion and professional development to help you improve your writing and learn through the peer-critique process. Writers of all experience levels are welcome.
For more information please email: christine@philadelphiastories.org