Monday, May 11, 2026
May 17, 2026 12:00-6:00PM Festival of Many Colors at The Mummers Museum
The Mummers Museum will host the Festival of Many Colors, a free outdoor celebration highlighting three of Philadelphia’s cultural traditions, on Sunday, May 17, from noon to 6 p.m. outside the Mummers Museum.
The free festival brings together the Mummers, Philly Caribbean Carnival and Carnaval de Puebla en Philadelphia for an afternoon of music, dance and activities. Attendees can expect food trucks, craft vendors and family-friendly programming throughout the day.
Live performances will begin at noon with the Philadelphia Pan Stars Steel Orchestra. The lineup continues with Hueyxolotl Aztec Dancers at 1 p.m., the Quaker City String Band at 2 p.m., Trinidadian-American soca artist Anika Berry at 3 p.m., New Sound Brass Band at 4 p.m., and Banda La Poblanita with Danza Tonantzin at 5 p.m.
Organizers say the festival aims to highlight shared traditions across the three communities while bringing them together through music, dance and food.
Festival of Many Colors
Sunday, May 17 | Noon - 6 p.m.
Mummer's Museum
1100 S. 2nd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
Free to attend
May 17, 2026 3:00PM Dialogues 7: Charumathi Raghuraman & Anantha R Krishnan at The Rotunda
Dialogues 7: Charumathi Raghuraman & Anantha R Krishnan
Co-presented with Sruti The India Music & Dance Society - Celebrating 30 years of Sruti and 25 years of Fire Museum Presents!
Dialogues: A Conversation and Performance is a series of events in which we invite someone to discuss their creative process and present an aspect or aspects of their work. For the sixth edition we present Carnatic (South Indian classical) musicians Charumathi Raghuraman (violin) & Anantha R Krishnan (mridangam).
Charumathi Raghuraman is a young and vibrant violin virtuoso gifted with a refreshing candor of combining the elements of traditional music from India’s exalted Carnatic tradition, with modern performance. She belongs to a special pedigree of artists who search for the beauty in creating and sharing the art as a live experience. She started learning from her mother Smt. Rama Raghuraman, then continued formalized training with the respected Guru Smt. T.R. Balamani in Mumbai, and soon thereafter, at the suggestion of the iconic violinist of South India, Padma Bhushan Prof. T. N. Krishnan, Charumathi became his ardent disciple in 1995. She has also studied Carnatic vocal music with the renowned teacher Padma Bhushan Sri. P. S. Narayanaswami. She played her debut concert along side Prof. T. N. Krishnan in 1998 and since then has been performing regularly both as a soloist and accompanist. She is an ‘A grade’ artist of the All India Radio and Doordarshan.
A rare phenomenon in the world of music, Anantha R. Krishnan started his musical journey on the mridangam, the principle drum of the Carnatic tradition. The grandson and disciple of the great mridangam maestro, Shri. Palghat R. Raghu, he first learned the fundamentals of the mridangam under his uncle, Shri. R. Ramkumar and then began an official tutelage under his grandfather at the age of five. He performed his first concert at the age of seven and before the age of twenty performed alongside a rare generation of Indian classical musicians like, Dr. M. Balamuralikrishna, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Prof. T.N. Krishnan, Dr. KJ Yesudas, Mandolin Srinivas, among many others. He currently serves as faculty of percussion at A.R. Rahman’s KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India.
Tickets: Admission is free: donations are greatly appreciated
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, May 9, 2026
May 15, 2026 7:00PM Artcinia presents: Dancing in the Street with the Philly Pops Little Big Band at St. Luke and the Epiphany Church
Get ready to dance as the Philly Pops Little Big Band brings the sound of Motown to the streets!
Get ready to dance as the Philly Pops Little Big Band brings the sound of Motown to the streets. Featuring Philly Pops favorite Paula Holloway and led by Jeff Smith, this concert is packed with the hits that defined a generation — soulful, joyful, and made to make you move.
The Church of St. Luke and The Epiphany
330 S. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA
In case of rain, the performance will move indoors at the church.
Tickets: $12.51 adults
$ 7.18 seniors and students
$17.85 families with children
May 15, 2026 7:00PM East Kensington Spring Festival 2 at Philadelphia Brewing Company Courtyard
Friday May 15th starting at 7:00PM, it's the East Kensington Spring Festival 2 at the Philadelphia Brewing Company Courtyard at Frankford/Martha and Hagert with DOGO du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band (and so much more!) Please note that while the official address of PBC is on Frankford Ave, the courtyard is actually a half block away on Martha Street (near Hagert St). Event is outdoors and is wheelchair accessible but surface is Belgian blocks.
Join us & East Kensington Neighbors Association + East Kensington Arts Committee for the East Kensington Spring Festival 2 featuring DOGO du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band, Beach Cheetah, a night market and more!
Emerging from Lomé, Togo , Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band is a collective of top Togolese musicians led by Massama Dogo, aka Dogo du Togo, who are putting Togolese music on the map by blending psychedelic rock and afrobeat into a genre-defying sound Dogo calls the "Alagaa Beat."
Combining Togolese festive and ritual rhythms, hypnotic voodoo melodies, and lyrics that speak to a new generation of young Africans with a message that resonates globally, Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band embodies the heart and soul of modern Togo in its music.
The Alagaa beat (Alagaa means trance in Ewe) and Dogo's melodies are anchored in Togo’s rich cultural history, based on traditional rhythms and unique pentatonic scales known as Mina or Mami, derived from the music of the local Vodún religion and traditions that permeate everyday life in Togo.
There is also a performance by Beach Cheetah, along with food vendors, a flea market, light projections and more! The event is free to the public.
Join us & East Kensington Neighbors Association + East Kensington Arts Committee for the East Kensington Spring Festival 2 featuring DOGO du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band, Beach Cheetah, a night market and more!
Emerging from Lomé, Togo , Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band is a collective of top Togolese musicians led by Massama Dogo, aka Dogo du Togo, who are putting Togolese music on the map by blending psychedelic rock and afrobeat into a genre-defying sound Dogo calls the "Alagaa Beat."
Combining Togolese festive and ritual rhythms, hypnotic voodoo melodies, and lyrics that speak to a new generation of young Africans with a message that resonates globally, Dogo du Togo & The Alagaa Beat Band embodies the heart and soul of modern Togo in its music.
The Alagaa beat (Alagaa means trance in Ewe) and Dogo's melodies are anchored in Togo’s rich cultural history, based on traditional rhythms and unique pentatonic scales known as Mina or Mami, derived from the music of the local Vodún religion and traditions that permeate everyday life in Togo.
There is also a performance by Beach Cheetah, along with food vendors, a flea market, light projections and more! The event is free to the public.
Thursday, May 7, 2026
May 13, 2026 8:00-10:00PM Fire Museum Presents: Yeison Landero at The Rotunda
If you’re talking about cumbia royalty, there is no higher court than that of Andrés Landero — long considered the king of cumbia across the world for his contributions to the tropical genre. Yeison, his grandson, caught Andrés’ attention at the age of 7, when he displayed not just a raw talent for interpreting melodies, but also a pure love for the music — un corazón cumbiambero.
From the heart of the Montes de María region on Colombia's Caribbean coast, the birthplace of Cumbia, Yeison Landero has emerged as one of the genre's leading figures worldwide.
At the age of seven, he received his first accordion from his grandfather Andrés, becoming the only member of the family chosen to learn directly from him. Under his guidance, he inherited not only that musical treasure but also the soul of a minstrel and the virtuosity of the instrument. From then on, his path was marked by a clear mission: to preserve, innovate, and bring Cumbia to new audiences.
Yeison grew up surrounded by music. In his early years, his home was visited by musicians of the highest stature: Alfredo Gutiérrez, Lizandro Meza, Calixto Ochoa, Enríquez Díaz, Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto… innumerable distinguished folk figures performed around his kitchen table. The first band he performed in was with Andrés Landero himself — he and his sister were introduced as “los nietos de Andrés Landero”, performing cumbia at festivals, concerts, and fairs across Colombia. In 2025, he was nominated for a Latin Grammy with Los Kumbia Stars for the song "Baila Kolombia" in the Best Cumbia/Vallenato Album category, and in October of that year, he participated in the WOMEX showcase, the world's most important global music expo.
Yeison has dedicated his life to the genre and the instrument of his family legacy, in the spirit of Andrés, and he is rightly called the heir to cumbia. He lights up every stage he plays on.
The Rotunda
4014 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA
Tickets: $10., $15., or $20. plus fee of $1.28 to $2.07
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