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Sofar Sounds Philadelphia - 4th Anniversary Countdown #6 & #5

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Somehow Sofar Sounds : Philadelphia is hitting their 4th Anniversary. The now world-wide phenomenon was a few shy of twenty cities world-wide when Philadelphia joined the ranks. These days, the shows are all over the globe and it seems like there are just shy of twenty dates in NYC alone each month. It all started in London, back in 2009, and slowly spread during the next two years to New York, Paris, DC, Los Angeles, Pune India, Houston, Brighton, Seattle, New Dehli, Sydney, Madrid, Berlin, Toronto, Dallas-Forth Worth, and Glasgow before hitting the City of Brotherly Love.

 During the next 10 days I'm going to look back at four years of Sofar Sounds: Philadelphia trying to give my version of the best videos. Please comment and share what were your favorites.


#6 Ali Wadsworth - Long Hours

One of the most colorful artists to perform at Sofar Sounds: Philadelphia is Ms. Ali Wadsworth.  A chameleon of sorts (and not just due to her hair color) she can handle most styles ranging from full-on rock start to folk-singer.  She's even covered a wide variety of singer from Steven Tyler, to Eddie Vedder, to Robbie Grote (The Districts).  

For her Sofar Sounds set she chose a selection of tunes from her then yet to be released Ali Wadsworth.   Complete with a super-talented rhythm section consisting of Joe Bisirri and Kevin Killen, and singer Kate Bernhardt, Together they entertained the packed Northern Liberties condo.


Check out "Long Hours" from Ali Wadsworth




#5 Adam Taylor & Kate Seifarth- Chain

To truly enjoy #5 on this list, you have to appreciate the full set from Adam Taylor and his buddy Kate.  You see, to the majority in the room it seemed Kate was only helping out Adam with some backing vocals for his tunes.

While attendees don't know the line-ups until arriving at the Sofar Sounds shows.  Only a few in the room knew Katie Seifarth as super talented singer and drummer that she is.  So when Adam mentioned that the two of them wrote a song together, no one in the room had any idea of what to expect next.

Not to be cliché with standard click-bait verbiage, but what happened next was truly amazing

Check out the wonderful "Chain"
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