The Spinning Leaves Gather at North Star Bar Aug. 3

Michael the Baker and B the Leaf (a.k.a. Michael Baker and Barbara Gettes), the founding members of the sprouting 7-piece gypsy band The Spinning Leaves, create road-weary tunes that are accented on their full length LOVE (Ropeadope) with flourishes from a flux of over 50 Philly music community members. They “invite you to become magic yourself and spin up and whiz and glow and take everyone with you in a spinning society change, a heart reaching, a LOVE revolution.”  Appropriately, their music pays respect to the all-powerful mother nature, with track names like “A Tale of the Northern Lights”, “Marigolds”, “FIRE”, and “Lonely Firefly”, a typical gypsy song in it’s a-typicality and hodgepodge of instruments (clapping, harmonica, banjo, etc) that crescendos into a chorus of, “FREEDOM!” They plan to travel the world so enjoy them while ya still got them Philly at the North Star tonight. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 9pm, $10, 21+ – Katie Bennett