October 8, 2013 12:00 Noon Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra Concert at Jefferson Medical College

Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra is playing a free noontime concert this Tuesday, October 8th, at Jefferson Medical College in the plaza on Locust Street, just east of 11th Street. If it's raining, the concert will be inside The Hamilton Building just off the plaza. So it's going to happen, rain or shine, and trust me, you DO want to be there!

About Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra:

FOUR TRADITIONS, ONE VOICE

A high-energy celebration of polyphonic rhythms, Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra unifies four percussion batteries into one distinct voice: North Indian tabla, Afro Cuban bata, Brazilian samba and West African djembe. They link the past and the present, the sacred and the secular with a symphonically textured fusion of traditional and contemporary drumming and choral compositions. Spoken Hand is a two-time winner of Philadelphia City Paper’s “Best World Music/Roots Performance” and is nationally recognized for its collaboration with tabla master Zakir Hussain and hip-hop dance guru Rennie Harris in the “Flammable Contents” project, and more recently for “Skins and Songs,” their collaboration with Philip Hamilton's Voices.