City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It promises to be a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. It also serves as a home for many partnering artists and organizations in our own community. To view all of the events that are scheduled, visit the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City website.
Thomas Wendt Trio
Friday, April 21 at 8:00 pm
Get ready for a free evening of jazz with the Thomas Wendt Trio! This swinging trio features Thomas Wendt on drums, Sam Harris on bass and Clifford Barnes on piano. Thomas Wendt has been playing the drums professionally since the age of 14. A graduate of The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, he has studied with master drummers Roger Humphries, Joe Harris, and Kenny Washington. Thomas has been on the faculty at the Afro-American Music Institute in Homewood since 1998 and in 2014/15 taught drumset fundamentals at Duquesne University.
