There’s been no shortage of amazing shows/performances/events at this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe fest and there is another one to add to this mix. It’s called “Must Don’t Whip ‘Um” by New York-based singer and performance artist Cynthia Hopkins, who is a member of the band Gloria Deluxe. The show is a fictional story about Cameron Seymour, an obscure and almost totally forgotten pop star from the 1970′s whose financial, artistic, personal and political failures have brought her to the verge of a nervous breakdown, resulting in her desire to quit the entertainment industry and escape from the United States, in order to join a Sufi brotherhood in Morocco. The show follows Seymour’s “farewell concert” – a celebratory, ecstatic ‘last waltz’ during which she mysteriously disappears – presented by Ms. Seymour’s daughter, who is attempting to create a documentary about her mother’s disappearance. Hopkins returns with this production after her performance at the 2005 Live Arts Festival.

You can preview the performance here. The show runs tonight, Friday and Saturday. For the performance schedule and information click here.

Here’s a tune that you can download from the show.
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