Weekend Warrior, August 24 – 26

I’m really excited to get a chance to chill out this Saturday, grab some brunch, visit the Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and swing by the 40th Street Summer Series with Adventuredrum, which seems quite appropriate since the first and last time the massive side project from Christopher Sean Powell (Need New Body/Man Man) performed was at PMA’s Art After 5. Pow Pow was surrounded by fellow Man Man bandmates Jamey Robinson and Matt Gibson, Chris Ward (Pattern Is Movement), Jason Kourkounis (Bardo Pond), Chris Wilson (Ted Leo & The Pharmacists), Ricardo Lagomasino (Many Arms), David Fishkin (Extreme Fishkin), Stephen Buono (Split Red), Koofreh Umoren (The Extraordinaires), Adam Hershberger (Bobby Zankel’s Warriors of the Wonderful Sound), Sam Belkowitz, Eugene Lew and Ellen Houle. I also saw that Arc in Round’s Matt Ricchini will be joining the group so it will be interesting to see who else Powell has recruited for this time around, but it’s guaranteed to be weird and funky and FREE so that’s all good in my book. Just hoping that the predicted isolated thunderstorms will hold off for their performance, but I’m guessing that they’ll be able to move it indoors at The Rotunda if things don’t go quite our way (though I’d obviously rather for it to be outside). Don’t miss out Adventuredrum tomorrow because who knows when you’ll get a chance to catch them again! 40th Street Summer Series, 40th & Walnut Sts., 6pm, Free All Ages (Photo by Joshua Camerote) – Q.D. Tran