Dream Here Now: Jason Killinger, The Karen Smith Experience, & Ma Ja Ka

We invite you to join us on Friday, April 11th and Dream Here Now! A night of musical experimentation, jazz and spoken word inspirations, and mystical transfiguration.

Performers include:

Jason Killinger

The Karen Smith Experience

Marshall James Kavanaugh + Ma Ja Ka

Doors open at 7pm, Music starts at 7:30pm

Suggested $10-20 for performers paid at the door

This is a 21+ event.

Abyssinia Upstairs is located at 229 S. 45th Street. It is on the second floor, up a flight of stairs. Not wheelchair accessible, but with notice we can help.

Jason Killinger

@jasonkillinger

Spiritual dub and downtempo disco from the psychedelic junkyard of Jason Killinger (Birds of Maya, Spacin’, On Out In Festival)

The Karen Smith Experience

@karensmithdrums

Karen "Magic Fingaz" Smith, percussionist, playwright, director, poet, writer, curator, teaching artist and has contributed rhythms to various creative venues around Philadelphia and beyond as well as being named by the Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Sounds of Freedom". Recipient of several grants and awards, Karen also became a Pew Fellow in 2023 & in 2024 received Leeway Foundation, Illuminate the Arts and Germantown United CDC Micro Grants.

Marshall James Kavanaugh + Ma Ja Ka

@dreampoetforhire

Marshall James Kavanaugh is a Philadelphia-based dream laborer and performance poet. He has performed his poetry at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, Monument Lab, and the Philadelphia International Airport. As Dream Poet For Hire, Marshall creates stream-of-subconscious inspired poetry on demand for the general public. Accompanied by his trumpet-playing unicorn dream body named Ma Ja Ka, he will summon soundscapes of dreamlands to empower the surreal within us all.

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