Also this issue: Nashville's Back Lot The Folk Alliance Showcase reveals the gears of the music-licensing machine. -Mary Armstrong Keep Moving The Secession Movement is a band with a plan. -Paul Burress Old Gods Alive Again The Choral Arts Society exhumes our musical lineage. -Peter Burwasser Aereogramme -John Vettese The Aislers Set -Sam Adams Lo-Hi -M.J. Fine TV Smith -Sam Adams Mary Timony -M.J. Fine

March 27-April 2, 2003

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Women's Music Project

What is the common note for a concert featuring folk music of Ghana, Cambodia and Eastern European Jewish traditions? The musicians, Nana Korantemaa Ayeboafo, Susan Watts and Leendavy Koung, are all local artists carrying on these traditions despite the discouragement that women face in choosing what they were told was a male path. Ayeboafo took her youthful enthusiasm for Africa to Ghana, returning after seven years to establish a traditional religious and musical circle in her native Philadelphia. Watts is another Philadelphian and a fourth-generation klezmer musician -- the only klezmer trumpeter alive to have inherited the music. Koung is one of many musical siblings to have escaped the Pol Pot regime. Over the past two years the Philadelphia Folklore Project has sponsored these women in residency to give them an opportunity to focus on their art and to share it with the community. Their joint concert -- which will be followed by a question-and-answer session -- is a closing celebration for Women's History Month.

Sun., March 30, 2 p.m., free, Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts, Broad and Fitzwater sts., 215-468-7871.

—Mary Armstrong