The Festival Bar does not do cover charges. The Bar is 21+ and cash only. Unless otherwise noted, doors open at 9pm.

The Broadzilla DJs are a bunch of pals who like playing records together at parties and dancing to our records at our parties and drinking at our parties and throwing up at our parties all over our records and all over each other and in each other's mouths.

Broadzilla deejays monthly at Making Time and Kung Fu Necktie and are always interested in spinning parties at other spots including but not limited to: your basement, your high school locker room, your kid's bar/bat mitzvah, the Wachovia Spectrum, and Brooklyn.

They’ve performed with MIA, Robyn, Holy F*ck, Pilooski, These New Puritans, Cut Copy, The Black Kids, Bonde Do Role, Plastic Little, !!!( Chk-Chk-Chk), Data Rock, The Presets, Soulwax, Klaxons, The Faint, Voxtrot, Simian Mobile Disco, Finger on the Pulse, MisShapes, Los Campesinos, Digitalism, Erol Alkan, New Young Pony Club, Holy Ghost!, Pink Skull, Sal P (Liquid Liquid), The Rub, Boys Noize, The Teenagers, Crystal Castles, Health, Taxlo, Eric Duncan, Hot Chip, and Adam Sparkles. Sneak the sounds of Broadzilla here.

VJ YAKOV has been a Video Artist, VJ, Filmmaker since 2002. VJ YAKOV uses Avant-Garde films, Experimental films, Commericials, Stop Motion Animation, Abstract Imagery, Art Films, Home Movies, 70's and 80's videos, Found Films, Educational Films, Super 8 Films, and anything under the sun. He will be using this footage to create live improvised projections based on the music played by the DJ's. VJ Yaokov currently works with the NuVJ Midi controlled Arkoas program on MacBok Pro. He uses a Midi controller, that allows him to create video images as a Musician creates music. He will be improvising visuals to what the DJ's play, creating an ongoing visual feast for the eyes. If one watched long enough, you may even see footage of your Bar Mitzvah.

Ready Steady Eddie Austin and La La Cocco bring to you the floor fillers, the late nite boogaloo, in a word: jamz. We’re talkin’ doo-wop, boogaloo, reggae, get down funk and soul on 45s, the platters that matter. Saturday night, touch yo’ ass to the floor, it’s gonna feel alright.



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PASSING STRANGE (THE MOVIE) is the Spike Lee-directed film featuring the award-winning Broadway rock musical, Passing Strange. The Broadway show won the Tony Award in 2008 for Best Book of a Musical and in total received seven Tony nominations, including Best Musical. The show also won: Best Musical: Drama Desk Award; Best Musical: New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award; Best New American Theater Piece: Obie Award; and Best Ensemble Performance: Obie Award. The show was universally applauded for its originality, its deep emotional resonance, and its powerful, often high-octane, music. The highly acclaimed music doesn’t just comment on the action like a typical rock musical, but actually tells the story and advances the narrative through its lyrics.

PASSING STRANGE (THE MUSICAL) is the semi-autobiographical story of a young black man who leaves behind his middle-class, church-ruled upbringing in mid-1970s Los Angeles to travel to Europe in search of his artistic and personal identity, or what he calls “the real.” There he finds he can exploit his “South Central” persona, playing the cool black expatriate/musician who speaks for his people. Picaresque misadventures with sex, drugs, politics, and art find him in far-out Amsterdam and hypermilitant Berlin. In the end he finds complexity and even hypocrisy are not limited to middle-class black-American life, and that while to him art may be more real than life, only love is truly more than real.

DJ Apt One spins a blend of disco, club, classics, electro, house and rap from the clubs and block parties of Philly to the velvet ropes of Hollywood, the gritty dives of Detroit and beyond. With visuals by VJ Yakov.

DJ Apt One shared stages with some of the best talents of this generation, including The Rub, Diplo, Tittsworth, Juan Maclean, Treasure Fingers, Nick Catchdubs, Blaqstarr, DJ Sega, Cousin Cole, Sammy Bananas, Spank Rock, Dave Nada, Wale, South Rakkas Crew, Peanut Butter Wolf, De La Soul, !!!, Plastic Little, RJD2, Bonde do Role, DJ Neil Armstrong, Edan, The Budos Band, DJ Excel, The Flaming Lips, Flosstradamus and many, many more.


The Mural and the Mint are a Philly indie-rock band comprised of members Michael Kiley, Eliza Jones, Jebney Lewis, Joshua Ramey and Corey Duncan. The Mural and The Mint is dedicated to releasing all of their recordings for free, because they believe that this is the only way for them to be heard as music, and not as products in today’s culture.

The name for the project came from the city of Philadelphia, home to more murals than any other city in the country, and to the Franklin Mint. One rumor floating around as to why Philadelphia has more murals than anywhere else is that there is a city ordinance that requires there to be so many works of public art for so many square feet of business space. Turns out the rumor isn’t true (the real reason is that the Mural Arts Program is just incredibly proactive), but the spirit of it sticks with you. The making of money creates opportunity for the creation of art. It’s a nice dream.




Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST) organizes an annual event during the first two weekends in October, when hundreds of professional visual artists in every Philadelphia neighborhood open their studios to the public, free of charge, to share and sell artwork.

POST is a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, a nonprofit career development organization that creates opportunities for artists to reach their professional goals.

Philadelphia Open Studio Tours are also official sponsors of the Festival Bar connect Live Arts and Fringe with visual and installation artists. Featured artists in this year’s bar are Katie Murken, Ellen Brooks, and Part Time Studios. www.dearadamsmith.com, www.stevenspeir.com.


Peter Dragontail has a tale so long it would make Tolstoy jealous.

He is People Magazine’s “Most Interesting Person of the Future” and Time Magazine’s “Sexiest Thing to Ever Walk the Face of the Earth.” He has 7,000 Platinum albums all of which have been encrusted in diamonds, put into an indestructible time capsule, and shot into the core of the Earth where they will remain until the end of all time. He has written seventeen autobiographies all of which have been translated into forty-seven languages. Peter has won two Nobel Prizes; one for making Extravagant and Unwarranted Claims and the other For Innovative Use of Capitalization on AOL Instant Messenger Spurring the misCapitalization Craze of the early 90s.

When not working on the Large Hadron Super Collider under the Swiss-French border, Peter spends his time in Philadelphia, creating clandestine synth-pop, designing flyers and marketing collateral for local musicians, and trying his best not to let this massive amount of success go to his head.