Harmonie Hall

Portrait Night: Everyone Draws Everyone!
2026-05-18 19:00 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
RSVP to harmoniehallmail@gmail.com
$5-10 Suggested (notaflof, pwyc)

We’ll be doing four-minute portraits on blank index cards, and everyone will get a stack of portraits of themselves at the end of the night! There are some logistics involved in getting everyone partnered up and moving correctly so if you’re coming:

1. RSVP!— reply to this email and tell me if you’re coming by 12pm the day of the event.
2. Please aim to arrive at 7:00! This will let everyone a chance to get settled. At 7:15 we’ll do some warm-ups and then at 7:30 we’ll dive into the portrait part of the evening. If you are going to be late text me at 484-995-7890
3. Send me a song or two you’d like on the playlist

What to bring:
– Your favorite drawing pens or pencils (I will provide paper)
– a snack or beverage if you’d like

Prudence Play
2026-05-01 00:00 - 2026-05-02 23:59 | PA
Written and performed by Caroline Dunn
Directed by Frances Rippy
May 1st-2nd
May 1 @7pm, May 2nd @2pm, May 2nd @7pm
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After a 5-star Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut and a sold out NYC extended run, writer and performer Caroline Dunn is bringing her one-woman-show PRUDENCE PLAY to Philly for only 3 shows!

Prudence Play (or Sister Prudence is Not Gay!) stars a young catholic nun having an identity (gay-as-hell) crisis. From her fever dream of tap dancing, or her hot and heavy thoughts during the Lenten fish fry, you understand…she’s having a moment. She’s waking up to feelings for a fellow sister, wrestling with her every belief, and confessing a lot (perhaps too much) to the order’s new priest. As memories from her past resurface and her dreams get more sinful, Prudence begins to question the voice in her head and is forced to confront her (horny) (gay) demons.

Prudence takes us on a beautifully human and hilarious journey into the mind of a young nun trapped by her own choices. Through humor and her surprising candor, the show explores queerness and lesbian identity, modern-day conservative catholicism, as well as the mental re-wiring it takes to free oneself of shame. As Prudence hits her breaking point, she welcomes the audience in with open arms, hilariously rambling freak-outs, and repressed memories. Just as she starts to question her reality, so will you. Plus, what would a repressed gay nun play be without a tap dancing dream sequence?
“…tender, funny, a warm embrace of queerness and imperfect self acceptance”
– Stephen Kearly, Hi! Drama (NYC Premiere 2026)
“With good humour, Caroline Dunn’s powerful, haunting script throws a spotlight on the mental conflict conservative religious teachings impose on gay people.”

★★★★★

-Counter Culture UK (World Premiere, Ed Fringe 2026)

“Dunn infuses Prudence with remarkable warmth and humanity…What begins as broad comedy deepens into something more profound. The play grows darker, more contemplative, as Prudence confronts the voices in her head.”

★★★★

The Nerd Party (World Premiere, Ed Fringe 2026)

“Iconic…funny…a tender exploration of a blossoming queer identity…an inspiring work…”

★★★★

Reviews by J (World Premiere, Ed Fringe 2026)

PRUDENCE PLAY

Written and performed by Caroline Dunn
Directed by Frances RippyCo-produced by Boyz with Apple & babygood
Tickets: boyzwithapple.com
Harmonie Hall
May 1st-2nd
May 1 @7pm, May 2nd @2pm, May 2nd @7pm

Keep up with Prudence & our artists on Instagram!
@prudenceplayig
@boyzwithapple
@babygoodmakes
@itscarolinedunn (Instagram & TikTok)

Collaborative Vocal Improv Lab
2026-04-23 11:00 - 13:00 | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
Join us on Thursday, April 23rd for the Collaborative Vocal Improv Lab facilitated by Tracy LJ Robertson. Doors at 10:30am, event 11:00am-1:00pm.

Buy tickets here!

Who:
You and perhaps a pal or two that you [would] love to sing / musically collaborate with

What:
Two hours of creativity and connection through a cumulative series of collaborative musical games and exercises.

When:
Doors at 10:30am for a 11am start on Thursday, April 23rd. Finding an ending by 1pm.

Where:
Harmonie Hall
Manayunk – Philly, PA

Why:
As musical creatives, there are fibers (patterns/”theory”, and preferences/inclinations) in the fabric of the music living in and expressing through us.
The more fluent we are in the ways these fibers weave, the more nuanced and true we can be to what we have to express ~ whether while in our own creative musical flow, or in the communication throughout a collaborative process with others.

How:
Join us in co-creating container for an individually and interpersonally generative experience, for connection and creative inspiration! We will be tilling and fertilizing with a cumulative series of games and exercises that bring ease and joy to spontaneous and collaborative composition.

Additional information:
• All experience welcome, no experience necessary
• Masks welcome, not required

*If you are feeling physically unwell, please honor your body and the wellbeing of fellow participants by waiting until the next session.

Facilitated by Tracy LJ Robertson.Gratitudes to Ilan Isakov for helping to make this event possible, Harmonie Hall for hosting, and Bobby McFerrin, Rhiannon, Joey Blake, Zuza Gonsalves of Musica do Circulo, and so many others for modeling such rich methods for welcoming forward songs of the soul.

The Philly Chili Spelling Bee
2026-04-18 14:00 - 17:00 | PA
Doors @ 1:30 pm
Spelling Bee @ 2pm
Hello and Welcome! We are pleased to announce the first-ever Harmonie Hall Spelling Bee, Chili Cook-Off, and Hands-Free Pie Eating contest. Below you will find two links: one for spelling Bee signup and another to compete in the chili cook-off.
Spelling Bee Sign-up Google Form
Important Information

Spelling Bee Rules
Bring yourself and a friendly competitive spirit
We ask for a ten dollar entry-fee; half of all proceeds will be donated to Juntos Philadelphia. The other half will be a cash prize for the champion!
Admission is NOTAFLOF (no one turned away for lack of funds), but limited to 50 participants, it is very important to us that individuals who sign up can commit to be at Harmonie Hall 04/18/2026 no later than 1:00pm and can stay the duration of the competition

Chili Cook-Off Sign-up Form
Important Information

Please arrive at Harmonie Hall (4372 Fleming St.) no later than 1:00pm 04/18/2026

Jeffrey Foucault
2026-04-11 19:30 - 21:00 | PA
*Please note this is an upstairs venue
Doors 7pm / Music 7:30
BYOB
About the artist:
In two decades on the road Jeffrey Foucault has become one of the most
distinctive voices in American music, refining a sound instantly recognizable
for its simplicity and emotional power. With a string of critically acclaimed
studio albums – “Stark, literate songs that are as wide open as the landscape
of his native Midwest” (The New Yorker), “Beat-up troubadour folk whittled to
dolorous perfection” (Uncut), “Songwriting Brilliance,” (Irish Times) – he’s built
a brick-and-mortar international touring career and a devoted following, one
that includes luminaries like Van Dyke Parks, Greil Marcus, and Don Henley.
In September of 2024 Jeffrey Foucault released THE UNIVERSAL FIRE
(Fluff & Gravy, 9/6/24), his first album of entirely new material since 2018. A
series of high-voltage performances cut live in one room, the album is both a
working wake – Foucault lost his best friend and drummer Billy Conway, to
cancer in 2021 – and a meditation on the nature of beauty, artifact, and loss.
Augmenting Foucault’s all-star band with members of Calexico and Bon Iver
(drummer John Convertino and producer/saxophonist Mike Lewis) THE
UNIVERSAL FIRE sets Conway’s death against the massive 2008 fire at the
Universal Studios lot in California that destroyed the master recordings of
some of our bedrock American music, to interrogate ideas about mortality,
legacy, meaning, and calling.
“Contemporary and timeless.” —The New York Times
“As a performer, Jeffrey Foucault has that enviable mix of great, unexpected songs and a warm and rugged stage presence that makes you feel alive and in awe all at once…’Salt as Wolves’ [is] his most satisfying record to date…it’s the record of a craftsman at the height of his powers.” —No Depression
“Pure songwriter… his songs are simple and powerful.” —NPR
Listen to the full album HERE

Stone Cold Grace (EP Release Show) w/ Taylor Kelly and Sammy Royer
2026-04-10 19:30 - 22:00 | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
$15 | Doors @7pm | Show @7:30pm | BYOB
Please note this is an upstairs venue

Stone Cold Grace is the indie folk solo project of Sara Johnson. Though it was born initially from her desire to write songs and connect with others, it has transformed into something much more all-encompassing. Stone Cold Grace has become a mythology; someone whose shoes Johnson steps into when playing and performing her deepest thoughts and feelings. Her new record, “To Die, To Come Back, To Die” is full of laments and diary entries reflecting the complexities and the compassion that surfaces when dealing with matters of the heart. The 6 song project, recorded at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia, will be yours April 8, 2026.
When she’s not making music for Stone Cold Grace, Johnson fronts Philly indie rock band Caring Less.

Sammy Royer is an East Coast born singer-songwriter living in Maryland. She primarily describes her music as having folk and pop influences, mixing dreamy production with beautiful and raw lyricism. Her debut album, ‘What A Joke Being Hopeful and Shameless’, is a love letter from a woman scorned.

Taylor Kelly —Born in Rochester, NY and now a staple of the Philadelphia music scene, Taylor Kelly crafts a deeply personal sound rooted in jazz, soul, and funk, layered with electronic and rock textures. Known for her smooth yet commanding voice and likened to artists Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote), Emily King and Olivia Dean, Kelly creates genre-blending music rich with intricate harmonies, melodic depth, and anthemic lyricism. She has released six albums and EPs, shared stages with artists like St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Dirty Loops, and Moonchild, and earned over 800k streams for her single “California.” Declared by LeFutureWave as a “musical spectacle” and Earmilk applauding her “gripping performance”, Kelly’s latest EP The Spins marks her most fully realized release to date – an empowering, immersive statement of self-expression that comes alive both on record and on stage.

The Fourth Annual International Brawl for Art: Poetry at the Speed of Sound with John S. Hall & Heinrich! (aka Rodney Anonymous)
2026-03-28 20:00 - 21:30 | PA
A night of poetry and 80’s German synth pop from the front men of King Missile and The Dead Milkmen
Please note this is an upstairs venue
DOORS @7:30 | SHOW @8PM
$10-15 Sliding scale | BYOB
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
John S. Hall
John S. Hall (wikipedia | instagram) is a poet/spoken word artist, musician and singer-songwriter. He has released numerous recordings, including nine albums with various incarnations of his band King Missile. A new album from the reunited first incarnation of the band, King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), is forthcoming. John has written at least a poem a day, every day, for over four years, and has appeared on Def Poetry Jam (HBO), The United States of Poetry (PBS) and Beavis and Butthead (MTV). He has performed in Europe, New Zealand, Canada, and all over the United States. He is the author of a collection of poetry (Jesus Was Way Cool) and a self-help parody (Daily Negations), both on Soft Skull Press, over 100 published children’s stories, and more than 40 kindle books of poetry, more than 25 of which have also been released as paperbacks. He served on the board of directors of the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in New York from 2005-2016 and was its president for three years. He performed a major retrospective of his work in 2021 at the Satanic Temple in Salem, MA and in 2022 performed as part of the Whitney Biennial in New York. He is currently in the process of attempting to write 10,000 poems in five years, a project he began in January of 2022. He is more than 4/5 through.

HEINRICH!
In 1981 minimalist synth pioneer HEINRICH! fled from East Berlin to West Berlin. This act of heroism is in no way diminished by the fact that, at the time, HEINRICH resided in Berlin, Pennsylvania
Rodney Anonymous (wikipedia | instagram)
Tickets and more info here: https://buytickets.at/harmoniehall/2126629

Pocket Moon, Paper Disk
2026-03-14 19:30 - 22:00 | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States

Nicole Saphos Band Album Release Show w/Erik Kramer Orchestra, Lunar Year
2026-03-13 19:00 - 22:00 | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
Doors 7pm / Show 7:30
Tickets: $15 adv / $20 at the door
About the artists:

NICOLE SAPHOS BAND
Operating in the Fiona Apple / Dirty Projectors sphere of the alternative music spectrum, Nicole Saphos Band is known for their harmonically bold and rhythmically driven original music. The Philly based band consists of Sean Markey (electric guitar/vocals), Ele Rubenstein (drums) and Saphos (songwriting, bass, vocals & occasional acoustic guitar).
Together, they have released two full length albums (“Takoma Sessions” 2020) (“Figure Eights” 2023) and are gearing up to release a third self titled album in March 2026.
Praise for “Figure Eights”:
“Everything from its genre-skipping nature, to its boundless creativity, to its off-kilter harmonies and structure feels intrinsically Nicole Saphos” – Kieran Rogers, CLOUT

“Dynamic, quality songwriting — swelling from quaint folk-friendly musings into an ardent rock styling, swapping with cohesive and melodic strengths throughout.” – Mike Mineo, Obscure Sound
website: nicolesaphosband.com
instagram: instagram.com/nicolesaphosband

ERIK KRAMER ORCHESTRA
Erik Kramer is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer best known for his bass playing as a sideman in a plethora of local and touring acts. His ever rotating ensemble features many of Philadelphia’s most exciting instrumentalists and songwriters and weaves together psychedelia, rock, funk, folk, and everywhere in between through the improvisational lense of a jazz combo. He put out his debut record “Missed the Boat” in 2017 and will be putting out the follow up in 2026. Recent WXPN Write-up
website: erikmusic.net
instagram: instagram.com/remarkire

The Lunar Year
The Lunar Year is the experimental solo project of The Poet KR Hackett. Their psychedelic, lyrical writing style emerges from a mystic philosophy of art through somatic practice. Hackett has been published in The Poets Row Anthology and has scored for film, having been featured at the London International Animation Festival, Viet Film Fest, and MAM Festival. Their compositions have been featured on podcasts and TV shows including Chris Gethard’s “New Jersey is the World,” and MTV’s Teen Mom/Teen Mom 2
website: thelunaryear.com
instagram: instagram.com/thelunaryearofficial

Evangeline Young, Dustin Lowman
2026-03-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
*Please note this is an upstairs venue
Doors 7:30 PM // Music 8pm
$15 Adv // $20 at the door
BYOB
About the artists:
Evangeline Young is a Brooklyn based indie singer-songwriter and actor originally from West Chester, PA (Go Birds). Growing up in a family of folk singers, Evangeline’s been singing and playing guitar since she was a kid. Her music moves between the bare, acoustic sounds of the folk songs she was raised on, and the harder edges of her indie-rock influences. Combined with lyrics that feature a kind of conversational poetry, her songs are aimed at personal revelation with a few laughs along the way. In 2022, Evangeline opened for Glen Hansard (The Swell Season) at the Beacon Theatre in New York City and The Anthem in Washington D.C. She is preparing to release her first full length solo record entitled It Wasn’t All That Bad.

Dustin Lowman writes antisensical songs: lyric-driven tunes that deconstruct the nonsense of living. He is a self-taught singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and lyricist who patterns his style on troubadour types — Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Mann, Adrianne Lenker, Cass McCombs. Based in Brooklyn, Dustin performs regularly at venues in the borough, and has also appeared at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, IL; The Bitter End in Manhattan, NY; and the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, CT.
Dustin has opened for Marcellus Hall (of Railroad Jerk), Will Dailey, and Ira Wolf, among others. He also hosts “His Back Pages,” a recurring Bob-Dylan-deep-cut-themed series at Cafe Wha? in Manhattan’s West Village. Of Dustin’s musical prospects, Livingston Taylor averred: “Dustin is on the path of a terrific musical career. His musical voice is waiting to be heard by those hungry for the next real thing.”
Originally from Westport, CT, Dustin began writing creatively in kindergarten. Sympathetic tales about Frankenstein and NFL-bound dragons (yes, really) in grade school gave way to confessional poetry and songs in high school. Now, Dustin’s songs straddle comedy and tragedy: A song entitled “Bankrupt & Crucified” may be his most optimistic, and “Rather Be Right” compares the merits of starting a religion and falling in love.

Community Yoga
2026-02-08 16:30 - 17:45 | Harmonie Hall, 4372 Fleming St, Philadelphia, PA, 19128, United States
Sundays 4:30-5:45pm
(Please check Instagram for updates and weather-related cancelations)

All levels
Bring your mat and props
Pay what feels harmonious with your current reality. No judgement

About your teacher:
Angella Irwin (Insta) began practicing yoga privately in 2003 as a way to stay active while traveling in countries where public exercise wasn’t easy for women. Years later she began to deepen her practice under the guidance of Sophie Simpson and Jake Miller. In 2017, she completed her 500-hour teacher training with Blue Banyan. Angella has continued to learn through classes and workshops in restorative yoga and sound meditation, but primarily her growth stems from being an active practitioner and teacher. She is devoted to the concept of practice, and loves the constant work of surrendering to it.
