Members write us for a direct link to member tickets. Outdoor show bring a chair or blanket or just come and dance! https://youtu.be/cbejDGFiwOU

Explosive! Na Kozonga, the new album by Jupiter and his band Okwess is a blast of energy that bewitches the body and feeds the spirit. Since the beginning, the Rebel General and his fellow pyrotechnicians have been drawing the rhythms of the Congo out of obscurity to reveal their superpowers: the powers of rock and funk, ready for every kind of musical coupling and any kind of invitation! From Damon Albarn to Money Mark (Beastie Boys) via, on this new album, the samba of Rogê, the rap of Marcelo D2, the horns of New Orleans or the voice of the militant Chilean singer Ana Tijoux. Jupiter & Okwess have no fear of strange encounters, nor the craziest journeys. They’ve even managed to conquer Latin America, and are currently busy recreating the triangular trade, in sounds! No surprise from one who, on his first album, declared “Ich bin ein Congolese...The world is my land.” “We all have ancestors in Africa,” Jupiter reminds us, “and they also played music. And if Africa looks like a revolver, its trigger can be found...in the Congo!’ Ready, Steady, Go! Jupiter and his joyous pistoleros are giving us the go-ahead. A new world tour awaits them. It’s up to you to follow their incandescent star.

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Arden Concert Gild

Jupiter & Okwess at Shady Grove Stage

Jupiter & Okwess - Bengai Yo (feat. Damon Albarn)

Jupiter & Okwess - Na Kozonga

Jupiter & Okwess

Gigs

Wilmington

Arden Gild Hall

Shady Grove Music Fest returns on July 15th, 2023 with performances by Purling Hiss, SLOT, Wasted Arrows, Expo, LizDelise, , and more. Food trucks, beer and wine for sale. Bring a chair or blanket for seating. No pets, no BYOB.

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Arden Concerts' 2023 Shady Grove Music Fest

Purling Hiss - Yer All In My Dreams

Purling Hiss - Yer All in My Dreams

Purling Hiss

Lizdelise

Members write us for a special link. This is an outdoor general admission bring your chair or blanket or just dance event. Squirrel Flower opens the concert.

One of the reasons you started listening to music in the first place might have been in the hope of finding the kind of conviction and fierce rawness evident in Hurray for the Riff Raff’s, aka Alynda Segarra’s, “nature punk” manifesto about survival, LIFE ON EARTH. A visionary musician, Segarra (they/she) is an outsider in whose voice you might find echoes of your own. On her eighth full-length album, Segarra is creating music of honesty and portent.

On her most emotionally intense album yet, Segarra constructs an alternative reality—or, in their words after their recent temporary escape from New Orleans because of Hurricane Ida, “a soundtrack to evacuation.” It kicks off with the insistent call to action of “Wolves,” which recalls their teenage odyssey from New York, a song about disaster, survival, and running for your life.

“Rhododendron” is about being faced with your own toxic behaviors and patterns and actively choosing a new path. “Jupiter’s Dance” was inspired by the documentary Segarra watched about musician Jupiter Bokondji (appearing in Arden on July 1).

SQUIRREL FLOWER

Squirrel Flower’s heart-rending sophomore album Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a world entirely of artist Ella Williams’ making.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff at Shady Grove Stage

Hurray For The Riff Raff - RHODODENDRON

Bedouine, Hurray for the Riff Raff & Waxahatchee - Thirteen

Squirrel Flower

Hurray For The Riff Raff

Members please email us for a discount link, Outdoor show, bring a chair or blanket or just come and dance! Opener TBA

The Heavy Heavy create the kind of unfettered rock-and-roll that warps time and place, immediately pulling the audience into a euphoric fugue state with its own sun-soaked atmosphere. Led by lifelong musicians Will Turner and Georgie Fuller, the Brighton, UK-based band began with a shared ambition of “making records that sound like our favorite records ever,” and soon arrived at a reverb-drenched collision of psychedelia and blues, acid rock and sunshine pop. As revealed on their gloriously hazy debut EP Life and Life Only, The Heavy Heavy breathe an incandescent new energy into sounds from decades ago, transcending eras with a hypnotic ease.

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The Heavy Heavy at Shady Grove Stage

The Heavy Heavy - Miles And Miles - Single Version

The Heavy Heavy - Real Love Baby

The Heavy Heavy

This is a STANDING ROOM ONLY show, General Admission. Very limited ADA only seats are available at the door with ticket, but visibility for seating is not ideal.

Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum released a new record, False Lankum, on March 24, 2023 on Rough Trade Records. False Lankum is available on LP and CD,

False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that year’s RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Music’s Best Albums of the Year list. Drawing on traditional folk songs,

Lankum put their own dark, distinctive mark onto each, leaning into heavy drones and sonic distortion that imparts new intensity and beauty into each track. This record sees the band cement their breakout from the folk genre, creating bold, contemporary music that may be fashioned from traditional elements but is firmly new, sitting comfortably alongside Rough Trade labelmates like black midi and Gilla Band. False Lankum also features two original tracks, ‘Netta Perseus’ and ‘The Turn’, both penned by the group’s Daragh Lynch.

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Lankum

Lankum - Go Dig My Grave

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