Double Decker Music Series

I hope y’all are staying healthy, washing those hands, maintaining safe distances, and having solo dance parties to good tunes while staying at home. Here’s the wild night where we turned 21 episodes old back on July 28th 2019. Under the “(Darkly)” moniker, host Sebastian did a rare live tape-manipulation set letting radio waves bleed in as they might. Then Jaimie Branch ripped it up on trumpet, all pocketed and pedaled through. Video by the indefatigable Mr. Bob Sweeney is now UP HERE.

Ease those COVID 19 anxieties with some DDMS 20. Finally, HERE is Bob Sweeney’s video featuring Ursula Rucker and Madam Data from July 2019– a seemingly distant time when we felt comfortable sitting on a bus with our bare shoulders touching friends and strangers. The rough sound, born out of some technical difficulties, is sort of a blessing-in-disguise. It gives the home viewer a more “you’re almost there” experience than ever before, with all the sounds of the bus and the city bleeding in. You can almost smell the diesel fumes! And in these cooped up distanced times, it’s sort of refreshing.

Madam Data’s electronics are a meditation and Ursula Ruckers’s poem is a celebration of this flawed yet beautiful city, made up of so many of us.

We’re gonna make it through.

Keep loving. Keep fighting. And WASH YOUR HANDS.

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All 3 upcoming Double Decker Music Series shows are now sold out. Thanks, everyone! @bowerbird_philly @urucker @madamdata @jaimiebranch @rosalimusic @seriahnicole

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We’re teaming up again with Bowerbird to host a series of 3 Double Decker Music Series events this summer.

more info and tickets available here:

Sunday, June 16th: Ursula Rucker & Madam Data

SOLD OUT

(rain date June 17th)

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Sunday, July 28th: Jaimie Branch & Sebastian (Darkly) Petsu (special sound set)

SOLD OUT

(rain date July 29th)

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Sunday, August 25th: Rosali & Seraiah Nicole

SOLD OUT

(rain date August 26th)

Here’s one more breath of summer 2018 before we plunge into the new year. Come back with us to August to see Schuyler Thum create the most complex layered version of a kindergarten classic imaginable and see Birdie Busch’s triumphant return to the bus top. Bob Sweeney’s fabulous video is RIGHT HERE

See y’all in 2019

As the Northeast continues its descent into the darkest, coldest depths of winter, warm up with Bob Sweeney’s breezy footage from July RIGHT HERE

More great work by Bob Sweeney. Check it out here!

Thanks everyone who came out for our 3 sold-out bus shows this summer. Bob Sweeney’s great videos from them will be posted here in the coming weeks. In the meantime you can follow us on Instagram for “view from the bus” posts and throwback posts from past DDMS events.

We’ll see you in the future!

The bus is an HYY pick! I chatted with the station’s Jen Kinney and she wrote up this. Limited tickets remain for July’s show. The 6/24 and 8/26 DDMS events are now SOLD-OUT.

We’re teaming up again with Bowerbird to host a series of 3 Double Decker Music Series events this summer.

more info and tickets available here:

SOLD OUT Sunday, June 24th: Travis Johnson (of Grooms) & Hallowed Bells

(rain date June 25th)

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SOLD OUT Sunday, July 29th: Nick Millevoi/ Mike Kennedy duo & Apologist

(rain date July 30th)

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SOLD OUT Sunday, August 26th: Birdie Busch & Schuyler Thum

(rain date August 27th)