Music For People
Music for People is a worldwide community dedicated to the belief that all people are inherently musical, creative, and capable of authentic, spontaneous expression. We enable holistic music making for people of all ages and levels of experience.
Our mission is to encourage an accessible and mindful approach to creative expression through improvisation in a safe, joyful, and nonjudgmental atmosphere.
We believe music made in this way is a powerful path to personal and social transformation, artistic freedom, and community building. Music improvisation focusing on play and inclusivity perpetuates acceptance and positive understanding between people.
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Group Motion
Participate in two hours of continuous dance/movement improvisation with live music. Leaders Manfred Fischbeck and Brigitta Herrmann guide the group through a series of movement meditations, improvisational structures, and games to inspire spontaneous self-expression and collective creation.
Join us every Friday from 8-10 PM
Flute Haven
Flute Haven offers a full week of workshops, recording, classes, performing and performances, presentations, and (most enjoyably) music-making and jamming.
SHALOM MOUNTAIN RETREAT & STUDY CENTER
For more than 40 years . . .
People from all walks of life have been coming to Shalom Mountain and experiencing transformation and healing in their journey of self-discovery.
Carol Tileston Guitar Studio
Carol Tileston teaches all styles and levels of guitar, including the Suzuki Method for children four and up. She teaches out of her home in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Arden In Motion
Enjoy a rejuvenating Sunday afternoon creative movement journey for the body, heart, and soul. Your workshop begins with guided relaxation and movement meditations, then expands into fun Group Motion improvisational structures and games that inspire spontaneous self-expression and collective group creation. Live music! Open to everyone!
Community Acupuncture of Mt. Airy
Community Acupuncture of Mt. Airy is wellness center that’s been serving the community for a dozen years. We specialize in acupuncture, offered on a sliding scale from $30-$45. We work on tables, not chairs, so we can treat the whole body, and each relaxed visit offers plenty of time to share your health concerns.
Inner Rhythms Music and Therapy Center
Inner Rhythms Music and Therapy Center provides music lessons, music therapy, and event and rehearsal space to musicians, therapists and artists in the Philadelphia area.
SpiritArts with Lynn Miller
SpiritArts is a method to dance your inner dance through music making, sound healing and visual art making. Come to Lynn Miller's Healing Arts Studio, in Phoenixville, PA for a SpiritArts session or workshop.
INTERCULTURAL JOURNEYS
Intercultural Journeys uses the arts to promote peace and greater understanding between people of diverse backgrounds, faiths, and cultures with the aim of catalyzing social change and awareness. Founded in 2002, Intercultural Journeys believes that performances, done for the purpose of bringing people together that might otherwise be in conflict, give us the opportunity to play a small part in contributing to world peace. ALEX SHAW - CURATOR
The Folk Factory
The Folk Factory, based at the Unitarian Church on Stenton Ave and Gorgas Lane in Mt. Airy, is a forum for people interested in music of all kinds and progressive social change. Open Stage / Open Circles are held on most "last Thursdays," and concerts are scheduled throughout the year.
Michael London
Michael London is a Philadelphia Area Singer-Songwriter known as a passionate interpreter of Rumi’s poetry, the great 13th century Sufi poet. He offers us a musical window into the ecstatic poems, which reveal and make tangible our connection with the self, humanity, nature and beyond.
Animus
Animus is a Philadelphia based World Fusion Music & Dance ensemble led by Bill Koutsouros. Their exciting original music melds the exotic musical traditions of the Middle East, Greece, India & Latin America with Jazz, Funk, Rock and beyond. Animus' spectacular belly dancers add an enchanting dimension at selected performances.
The Opa Band
The Opa Band performs the best Traditional Greek Music featuring Philadelphia's own John Koutsouros on Guitar and his son Bill on Bouzouki, Outi and Tsoumbaliki.
Spirit Fire World Music Circle
This circle meets quarterly to celebrate the annual equinoxes and solstices.
Feel the connectedness to nature and the spiritual beauty of this rich musical tradition. Beginners & experienced musicians are all welcome. Please bring any world music instruments you have (native flutes, drums, rattles, didgeridoo, rain sticks, dulcimers, ukuleles, etc.) Led by FRANK HENNINGER
WEAVERS WAY CO-OP
WEAVERS WAY is a local community co-op in Chestnut Hill, Mt Airy and Ambler PA.
Andrea Clearfield
Andrea Clearfield is an award-winning composer of music for orchestra, opera, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance, film and multi-media collaborations. Clearfield creates deep, emotive musical languages that build cultural and artistic bridges.
Amy Mermaid Isakov
Amy Mermaid Isakov – is a tech savvy and innovative dreamer passionate about connection, spirituality, music, ritual arts, and how the Divine can manifest in all its forms.
SHRUTI BOX.COM
Shruti Boxes provide a rich drone background that supports singing or playing almost any instrument. A Shruti Box is hand-pumped, so you can produce a slightly pulsating constant chord to support the right rhythm for the style of music you are playing.
PHILL LOVES DRUMS
A calendar of Afro-Latin music events in the Philadelphia, PA. area, created by LYNN LASSWELL.
WATSU & MASSAGE - JULIE ANGEL
Julie Angel has been gently guiding clients to a place of more joyful embodiment for over 25 years. She integrates the tools of MASSAGE, WATSU (aquatic bodywork), Process Healing (somatic therapy) and chakra psychology (the interface of energy between body, mind and spirit).
JOSH ROBINSON DRUMS
Drumming can be used as a tool to teach many life and coping skills, and can provide a positive and creative outlet while acting as a vehicle for self-expression and emotional release in a safe space.
JENNIFER BLAINE
Jennifer Blaine has been performing original one-woman shows for fifteen years. Jennifer specializes in comedy that delves into serious and socially relevant issues and provides audiences with the opportunity to unite in laughter.
LANCE ISAKOV - VILLAGE WELLNESS
VILLAGE WELLNESS with Lance Isakov is committed to enhancing wellness in our community by providing access to the best holistic medicine services. We also strive to enable our practitioners to thrive in a healthy and supportive environment.
AHA! Studio - KAREN DEHAVEN
Bucks County’s premier Therapeutic Arts and Counseling Center for the Heart … Mind … Body … Soul
AHA! Studio for Integrated Therapies provides individual and group counseling and psychotherapy services for children, families, adolescents and women, integrating both traditional and creative therapy techniques that lead to emotional and physical wellness.
JIM HAMILTON - RITTENHOUSE SOUNDWORKS
Philadelphia's premiere recording and film studio. Hub for community and international music and arts. Home of the MUSICIANS GATHERING performances, 3rd Sunday's of the month.
ROCKY WILSON
For nearly 20 years, Rocky Wilson, a poet, playwright, and substitute teacher in the city schools, has led Pizza and Poetry at A Slice of New York pizzeria in downtown Camden.
GERMANTOWN EXPRESSO BAR
The Germantown Espresso Bar at 26 Maplewood Mall, offers Coffee, Community, and Culture. Miles Butler & Jeff Podlogar have worked hard to create a comfy, cozy, creative, and safe, space for all, including their upstairs Listening Room.
SONGS IN THE KEY OF FREE
Challenging mass incarceration through collaborative arts practice & creating partnerships with inside artists through musicianship and songwriting.
DAVID DARLING
Cellist, David Darling's prolific collection of recordings and innovative performance style represent an eclectic variety of musical genres. His playful and unconventional teaching methods have helped open the world of music and improvisation to thousands of individuals.
PETUNIA'S CONSIGNMENT - DONNA HANDEL
Petunia's is a chic women's consignment clothing and accessory boutique and was created to meet the needs of fashion-conscious women who are looking to purchase designer label and better-brand items that are, generally, two years old and newer, and sold at a fraction of their full retail prices.
COMMUNITY DRUM PROJECT
Founded on January 1, 2012, the Philly Drum Project is a percussive collective dedicated to making drumming more accessible by helping drummers in our area share Gear, Lessons, and Beats.
MT AIRY ART GARAGE
Mt. Airy Art Garage (MAAG) is a nonprofit Arts Hub founded and driven by a dynamic group of professional artists. We provide communal space for creativity, collaboration, and self-actualization, while utilizing creative expression as an instrument for social change.
