Considering plans for a rocking Philly New Year’s Eve.
While polishing my locator ring to spot local places for Christmas holiday mega-tree lighting and toasting ceremonies, this week, it hit me: a next wave or variant of Covid is on its way, and everyone currently out-and-about, now, is going to need to make a plan as to what they’ll do on the year’s last big night since it will probably double for their last big, physically intimate evening outdoors for a minute. Yeah, I know: doomy, right? That’s the B.1.1.529 Omicron scare. Deal with it.
So, tomorrow I will give you the run down on tree parties. Today though, here are a few live event New Year’s Eve Philly jams where you should start nabbing tickets.
The Disco Biscuits
Since their auspicious introduction to each other on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in 1995, Jon Gutwillig, Marc Brownstein, and Aron Magner, with Allen Aucoin, representing the totality of The Disco Biscuits, have always fashioned an inventive brand of electronic music, loosely knit jam band rock and delirious prog-jazz into one tight, danceable improvisational mélange. And along with their annual outdoor summer camping fest, Camp Bisco, they make the most mess out of New Year’s Eve as well as the Eve to New Year’s Eve. With that, the quartet close out the year with a two-night run at their unofficial clubhouse, The Fillmore Philadelphia on December 30 and 31. Expect the unexpected.
Dr. Dog
This will be a sad farewell: Philly’s rustic, yet, shiny pop rocks, Dr. Dog claim that the tour they are currently on will be their final go-round. Shame, that. The Dog has always made delicious, dynamic albums, but truly show off their powerful centrifugal force and intertwining complexity in a live setting. Say goodbye over two nights, December 30 and 31, at Union Transfer. Then run into them at the WaWa as they’ll probably just be hanging out in the area, taking that long deserved rest.
Gerald Veasley with Lawrence “Weas” Newton – Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble
South Jazz Parlor on North Broad Street welcomes a one-two jazz jam punch with divine Philly bassist Gerald Veasley hanging out with vocalist “Weas” Newton on December 30, and one of this city’s most forever-respected bands, the Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble on December 31.
Nothing and Mannequin Pussy
A strange local double bill and a benefit? This sounds pretty choice: for the love of Prevention Point Philadelphia, a local non-profit promoting health and safety for underserved communities jammed up by poverty and addictive drug use, our area’s crunchiest rockers, Mannequin Pussy, Philly’s densely shoegazing Nothing and DJ Sister Friend will hook up at Franklin Music Hall on New Year’s Eve. Bold.
Chelsea Reed and her Five Weather Five
Sansom Street’s jazz boite, Chris Jazz Café, moves from Philly programming in theory alone on New Year’s Eve so to feature smoldering soulful vocalist Chelsea Reed and her Five Weather Five, a Philly-based band from Boyer College of Music and Temple U’s jazz studies program who just happen to practice some hardcore New Orleans-inspired blues, jazz and R&B. Do it.
Kindred The Family Soul
See, this event works out nicely: Philly’s young, forever married godparents to the neo-soul movement, Fatin Dantzler and Aja Graydon not only work out the funk for two shows, 7 and 11, at City Winery Philadelphia. They have jams prepared for City Winery on January 1 at 5 pm so to truly welcome the New Year and hang out with revelers just getting done with the parade.
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