Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

Vice Versa comes to Philadelphia! Join Daniel Townsend, Asia Mielesko, and Lindsay Luna for an immersive, interdisciplinary, improvisatory performance unlike anything you've ever seen before. Vice Versa creates engaging and mesmerizing interdisciplinary collaborations, where performers from various artistic mediums exchange ideas, roles, and expressive elements equally over time. With a philosophy of "as for one, so for the other," Vice Versa is a platform for artists seeking equal exchange in process, product, and practice. Our Philadelphia production, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT brings music, visual art, and movement to an aesthetic meeting point. Tickets can be purchased Here.

The Community Stage is our creative take on an open mic—music, poetry, storytelling & more in a welcoming space. Formerly called Monthly Open Mic, it’s the same inspiring monthly gathering with a fresh name. Perform or just enjoy the show—everyone’s part of the community. Learn more here.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

A low-pressure, community oriented group of writers and creatives committed to growing our creative practice through support, accountability, practice, and encouragement. All are welcome. Facilitated by Olivia Broderick. Learn more here.

Drum Major Instinct is an experimental music duo from Asheville, North Carolina. Jeff Arnal plays (mostly) percussion and Curt Cloninger plays (mostly) modular synthesizer. The Wire describes Jeff’s drumming as a “highly original concept” having “a balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour;” and Byron Coley says Curt’s modular synthesis “moves like blocks of radioactive adobe being shifted around by architects in space suits.” But, of course, nothing is ever that straightforward. The resultant music is about waves of energy, patterns within patterns (within patterns), sounds from the natural world, and running the voodoo down. Their self-titled first release is on Mahakala Music (2022) and their latest 2025 LP (entitled "Almost Nothing") is on Haunted Apparatus.

Our second-annual, intimate post-Valentine’s day concert to soothe your heartbreak. For fans of: Joni Mitchell, Regina Spektor, Tori Amos, Brandi Carlise, Taylor Swift and Sarah Bareilles.

Drunk in love? Heartbreak hangover? Longing to feel something in the depths of a Philadelphia winter? We’ve got just the remedy! Come join therapists by day/singer songwriters by night Rachel Eve and Sarah Alexandra for a bespoke evening of original music centered on all things heartbreak and healing. 

Located in the heart of the vibrant East Kensington/Fishtown neighborhood, the Perch Music and Arts Center is a warm and cozy space that offers the perfect backdrop for an evening of being serenaded.

Ticket Link (or at door to capacity), Sliding Scale

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

A low-pressure, community oriented group of writers and creatives committed to growing our creative practice through support, accountability, practice, and encouragement. All are welcome. Facilitated by Olivia Broderick. Learn more here.

Get ready for a night of sultry vocals and captivating performances at Valentines and Vamps - a cabaret concert you won't want to miss!

Fall under the spell of Valentines & Vamps at The Perch in Fishtown on February 14, 2026—a sultry Valentine’s night where romance meets delicious darkness. This intimate, cabaret-style evening blends live vocals with live piano accompaniment, vintage glamour, and tantalizing tease, creating a gothic-romantic atmosphere for lovers, loners, and creatures of the night alike.

Siren songstress Lotte Von Bismarck (@lottevonbismarck) sets the mood with lush, evocative vocals, accompanied on piano by Matt DiMarino. The evening also features professional burlesque performers Ashantidoll (@ashantidoll), Raven Nightingale (@ravinnightingale.burlesque), and Rosa Darling (@missrosadarling), delivering a decadent mix of seduction, drama, and playful danger. Expect glittering costumes, smoldering performances, and a Valentine’s vibe that flirts with the forbidden. Doors open at 7:30 with the show starting at 8:30. It will run approximately 1.5 hours.

The Perch is a seated, intimate performance space with limited capacity, so be sure to purchase tickets in advance—and don’t forget cash to tip the performers!

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Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

The Community Stage is our creative take on an open mic—music, poetry, storytelling & more in a welcoming space. Formerly called Monthly Open Mic, it’s the same inspiring monthly gathering with a fresh name. Perform or just enjoy the show—everyone’s part of the community. Learn more here.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

A low-pressure, community oriented group of writers and creatives committed to growing our creative practice through support, accountability, practice, and encouragement. All are welcome. Facilitated by Olivia Broderick. Learn more here.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

John Vogel - A Philadelphia multimedia artist formerly of the band Grandchildren. John will be performing an abridged version of his live performance documentary Weird Music.

Buffalo Stance - Long-running solo project by Jamey Robinson, formerly of the bands Man Man and Need New Body.

ialive - Solo hip hop artist with a new album, Quietism. ialive works with a lot of other acts, including operating the backtracks and live music for Wave Generators shows and a production credit on the new Open Mike Eagle album.

Tidal Prism - A trio of sound artists Carolyn Snow (Tangent Universes), Eugene Lew (Hungry Monsters), and Aaron Igler (Sound Forager). The three incorporate modular synths, hydroponic microphones, and audio samplers to produce live soundscapes.

Schedule:

Tidal Prism - 7:00pm

ialive - 7:45pm

Buffalo Stance - 8:30pm

John Vogel - 9:15pm

$10-$20 suggested, NOTAFLOF

Distinguished composer-pianist Dave Burrell is an African-American performing artist of singular stature on the international contemporary music scene.

Standing out as a leading figure of the New York avant-garde scene in the second half of the '60s, Burrell quickly established himself as one of the most innovative pianists, collaborating with the emerging leaders in contemporary jazz and joining the groups of Marion Brown, Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp. He has played and recorded, among others, with Giuseppi Logan, Sunny Murray, Albert Ayler, Grahan Moncur III, Byard Lancaster, Sirone, Alan Silva, Clifford Thornton, Roscoe Mitchell. His dynamic compositions with blues and gospel roots recall the tradition of Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson and Duke Ellington, as well as avant garde composers Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane." Dave Burrell is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including National Endowment for the Arts, Vision Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Philadelphia Music Foundation, William J. Cooper Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Pennsylvania State Council on The Arts, MidAtlantic Foundation, John Garcia Gensel Award, and the Pew Fellowship in Jazz Composition.

Fire Museum Presents turns 25! Our first ever event took place on January 20th, 2001 in Berkeley, Ca. To celebrate we are hosting three events with series favorites, tonight we present the return of Dave Burrell!

We are proud to be working with The Perch Music & Arts Workshop to establish a space where performances, workshops and other community events can take root.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

Fire Museum Event. Ticket and info link here.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

A Fire Museum Event. Tickets and more info here.

RSVP Here

Monthly Open Mics are hosted by Creative Becoming, a community for the creatively intrigued. Open Mics take place on the first Friday of each month, and are open to any and all. Whether you want to perform or just listen, these are special events we have at the Perch each month that you’ll be glad you came out for.

Doors open at 7pm. Performances start at 7:30pm. Performers sign up at the door and receive 10-15 minutes of stage time. Late comers welcome, though not guaranteed to perform. All attendees need a PWYC ticket for entry, either in advance or at the door.

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Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

Jeff Zeigler, Zachariah Blackwell & Friends, and Strawberry Hands at the Perch. $10-20 sliding scale at the door.

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.

A Fire Museum event. Tickets and more info here

Chill Choir is a choir for adults 21+ looking for a place to chill, sing, meet new people, and have fun! We make choir “chill,” removing the barriers of a traditional choir and creating welcoming environment for all — even those who “can’t sing!”

Join us every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8pm at the Perch! Join in advance, or just show up to check it out!

Learn more and sign up.