FREE SHOW: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

WIth special guests Bithday Girl and Light Beams

Join us for 3 free sets on Lamont Plaza! We've got avant-garde folk, we've got dance-punk, we've got alt-rock

Join us for a triple header Friday summer evening in the Plaza, presented by Secret Planet productions and the Friends of the Mt Pleasant Library! And, of course, your favorite librarians will be there to tell you all about the reopening of the Mt. Pleasant branch and to sign you up for your library cards. 

ORCHESTRE TOUT PUISSANT MARCEL DUCHAMP
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp is a perpetually evolving ‘orchestra’, loosely modelled on the great 20th-century African groups like Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou and tipping its hat to revolutionary French artist Marcel Duchamp.
The orchestra was comprised of an international cast of 12 musicians including many OTPMD regulars: Frenchman Gilles Poizat on bugle, lead vocalist Liz Moscarola, two marimba players (Aïda Diop and Elena Beder), two drummers (Gabriel Valtchev and Guillaume Lantonnet), guitarists (Romane Millet and Titi), a trombonist (Gif), a viola-player (Thomas Malnati-Levier), a cellist (Naomi Mabanda) and Bertholet on double bass. Every one of the musicians is a singer too, contributing to the glorious mass of vocals that gives OTPMD songs their emotional resonance and ritualistic power. They also worked with new vocalists: Mara Krastina (who will be more involved with the group in future) from Swiss band Massicot on Smiling Like A Flower and François Marry from French group Frànçois and the Atlas Mountains – you can hear the latter’s distinctively lilting tone on Tout Haut. Following the release of We’re Ok But We’re Lost Anyway also on Swiss label Bongo Joe, the group – a travelling party of 14 people, including two sound engineers – crossed numerous borders themselves, playing around 150 shows and touring in territories they’d never visited before: Canada, USA, the Balkans, Greece.

LIGHT BEAMS

Light Beams began in 2015 when Justin Moyer (Puff Pieces) -- influenced by 80s-era freestyle music and Sheila E. -- started playing sampler and timbales with Sam 'n', the longtime drummer of D.C. hip-hop mainstays the Cornel West Theory. With the addition of bassist Arthur Noll the result- 'n' polyrhythmic melange, sometimes called "zap-tone" or "block rock," reinvents late-20th century dance-pop using the tools of the 21st.

BIRTHDAY GIRL

DC-based alt-rock girl group, semi-spawn of Fugazi.

Birthday Girl & Light Beams will open starting at 6, Orchestre will perform afterwards. 

In case of rain we'll be moving indoors to our homies Haydee's at 3102 Mt. Pleasant St.