Onilu
Wed, May 21
8PM
Categories
  • 25th Anniversary Celebration
  • Performance
Venue

Solar Myth
1131 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
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This is a seated show.

Program Info

$35 ADV / $40 DOS
21 & Over

Featuring

Onilu

  • Craig McIver – percussion
  • Kevin Diehl – percussion
  • Joe Chambers – percussion

Ars Nova Workshop presents the all-star percussion trio Onilu at Solar Myth on Wednesday, May 21.

Onilu is an all-percussionist trio utilizing the extensive family of drummed and tuned percussion instruments to deliver beautifully composed, arranged and executed small ensemble music. Nothing about this all-percussion band feels rarified, or missing anything musical. To the contrary, Onilu create a soundworld where nothing is missing, and everything is musical — defying the stereotype of modern percussion ensembles as esoteric or academic pursuits, reaffirming the powerful social and sacred musics made in African diasporic communities and across cultures by drum and percussion groups since the beginning of human time.

For this performance, Onilu features Kevin Diehl, leader of the enduring Philadelphia-based Afro-Cuban Yoruba free-jazz ensemble Sonic Liberation Front; Craig McIver, a keeper of Philadelphia’s rich musical spirit whose drumming has fueled the visions of Max Roach’s M’Boom, Odean Pope, Tyrone Brown, Khan Jamal, and countless others across the worlds of jazz and creative music; and living legend Joe Chambers, who began his illustrious career as the drummer on now-canonical early Blue Note recordings by Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter, and McCoy Tyner. A 1970 founding member of Max Roach’s path-breaking percussion ensemble M’Boom, Chambers continues to record percussion-centered music as a leader for Blue Note records.